CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRO-ASIAN AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE

• literary element - refers to components of a literary work
• literary devices - refers to a literary technique employed by the author to produce an effect
• settings - can be used to create a mood, as an integral part of the plot
• character - a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.
• Writers use characters to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.
• EXPOSITION - refers to the background plot information.
• Rising action - refers to the events that take place in a story

  between the exposition and climax.
• CONFLICT - Refers to the central problems of a text.
• Five primary conflicts

  • Man vs. man
  • Man vs. himself
  • Man vs. society
  • Man vs. technology
  • Man vs. mythical/paranormal force
• CLIMAX - is when the CONFLICT of the PLOT is resolved.
• falling action - is the action that occurs immediately after the big climax has taken place and the action shifts towards resolution instead of escalation.
• RESOLUTION - the conclusion of a story's plot.
• resolution is also known as: denouement
• POV - determines who tells the story, as well as the relationship that the narrator has to the characters in the story.
• Literary Theme - main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.
• Moral - the lesson that story teaches about how to behave in the world.
• Moral comes from the Latin word mores, for habits.
• Afro-Asian Literature - a term for novels or writings such as short stories and poems written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-Asian ethnicity.
• Afro-Asian Literature - mirrors not

  only the customs and traditions of African and

  Asian countries but also their philosophy oflife
• EUROPEAN LITERATURE - reflects the values and beliefs of the Western world.
• Afro-Asian - usually cared for their family first; then they are fond of their social

  values; and especially, their love for their own country.
• They are also active in celebrating festivals that

  reflect their own characteristics as an Asian.
• African Literature - often great emphasis on the history, culture and customs of a group of people when telling their stories
• Afro-Asian’s literary works were handed by mouth from generation to generation to entertain, educate and remind the people about their past, heroic deeds of their people, ancestry and culture.
• 3 Characteristics of European Literature

  • written in indo-european language
  • origins lie in graeco-roman tradition
  • reflects the values and beliefs of western or european world