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LIT 101 - World Literature Detailed Questions And Expert Answers 2024
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LIT 101 - World Literature Detailed QuestionsAnd Expert Answers 2024
Litera - ANS Greek word for the ability to read and write
What is literature - ANS - expressed in written and oral form
- the conceptualization of language
- a creative expression
Types of creative expression - ANS - fiction
- imagination
- appeals to human senses
- seeing the gaps
- reading between the lines
- from human experiences and conditions
Contains Idealogy - ANS Literature is Powerful
Two genres - ANS Prose and Poetry
Prose - ANS Written in paragraphs
Types of Fiction - ANS 1) Novels
2) Short Stories
Types of Non-Fiction - ANS 1) Biography
2) Auto biography (self)
3) Memoir
4) Based on facts or truths
, Poetry - ANS a MENTAL PICTURE expressed in best WORDS in best ORDER
can be in stanzas or verses
Persona - ANS Person talking in the poem
Poeisis - ANS Latin, to make
DEF: poetry; to make or create something, as poets, dancers, actors do;
artistic purpose;
Epistle - ANS a letter or literary composition in letter form (ie. written in
prose form)
Text Oriented Approach - ANS no meaning outside of text
(looks at the language, form, structure, and literary device used)
Issues of literature as Power - ANS literature is an elite subject
Canon - ANS an established set of principles, standards, or code of laws
Awards in Literature - ANS 1) Nobel
2) Pulitzer
3) Manbooker Award
4) Man Booker Asia
5) S.E.A. Write
Ode - ANS a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject,
often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
Elegy - ANS a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Dirge - ANS a funeral hymn or mournful speech
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