UCSPOL UNIT 1

is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings taking its origin from emotion”

POETRY

is the total preserved writings belonging to a given language or people.

LITERATURE

is used to describe the tradition in written civilizations in which certain genres are transmitted by word of mouth.

ORAL LITERATURE

is one that gets its form from the use of the pen by literary genius.

WRITTEN LITERATURE Signup and view all the answers

Why do people write?

For self expression, To spread knowledge and information, To pass on ideas and values, To impart truth, accuracy and evaluation Signup and view all the answers

stands through the ages and still open new world of meaning and experience

PERMANENCE Signup and view all the answers

appeals to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s forever relevant.

UNIVERSALITY Signup and view all the answers

appeals to the aesthetic sense or sense of beauty

ARTISTRY Signup and view all the answers

stimulates our thoughts

INTELLECTUAL VALUE Signup and view all the answers

inspires and brings out moral values making us better persons

SPIRITUAL VALUE Signup and view all the answers

presents peculiar way in which the writer sees the life, forms his/her ideas, and expresses them distinctly.

STYLE Signup and view all the answers

appeals to emotions, stirs imagination, feelings, moves deeply and evokes emotions

SUGGESTIVENESS Signup and view all the answers

TWO MAIN DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE

PROSE AND POETRY Signup and view all the answers

is discourse that follows the usual flow of conversation which uses sentences forming paragraphs to express ideas, feelings and actions.

PROSE Signup and view all the answers

is a literary work which is a result of the author’s imagination.

FICTION Signup and view all the answers

is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot, and one single impression.

SHORT STORY Signup and view all the answers

is a true-to-life story divided into chapters where many characters are involved and spans long period of time.

NOVEL Signup and view all the answers

is a scripted story executed on stage.

PLAY Signup and view all the answers

is a narrative about the origin of man, place, event and happenings.

LEGEND Signup and view all the answers

is a narrative where the characters are animals and inanimate objects that speak and act like people.

FABLE Signup and view all the answers

is a literary work which is based on facts and reality

NON-FICTION Signup and view all the answers

is an attempt to express the viewpoint and opinion of the writer on a particular problem or event.

ESSAY Signup and view all the answers

is a formal treatment of the subject and intended to be spoken before a crowd

ORATION Signup and view all the answers

is a literary work that gives the life account of a person written by another person.

BIOGRAPHY Signup and view all the answers

is a literary work where the author writes his own life account.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY Signup and view all the answers

is a report of expected and unexpected events in society and government, etc.

NEWS Signup and view all the answers

tells stories and has two forms:

NARRATIVE POETRY Signup and view all the answers

are long poems that exemplify the adventures of epic heroes and divine forces.

EPICS Signup and view all the answers

are narrative poems intended to be sung. They are shorter than the epics and they usually tell stories about a particular person.

BALLADS Signup and view all the answers

tells stories but one or more characters act out the poem. There are plays that are written as dramatic poetry.

DRAMATIC POETRY Signup and view all the answers

the most common of the three, is a short poem that expresses the poet’s thoughts and feeling.

LYRIC POETRY Signup and view all the answers

is a poem of meditation on life and death. Many elegies mourn the death of a famous person or a close friend.

ELEGY Signup and view all the answers

is a 14-line lyric poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm.

SONNET Signup and view all the answers

is a lyric poem intended to be sung.

SONG Signup and view all the answers

is one of the shortest lyric poems, is a Japanese verse of 17 syllables arranged in three lines, the first line has 5, the second 7 and the third 5.

HAIKU Signup and view all the answers

is a serious elaborate lyric poem full of high praises and noble feelings. Example: “Ode to Evening” by William Collins (1721-1759)

ODE Signup and view all the answers

refers to the sensation that language creates in the mind. Images are words and phrases that appeal to the senses. These sensations or images are not only limited to visual sensations. They also appeal to the senses of taste, touch, hearing and smell.

IMAGERY Signup and view all the answers

makes language more colorful, suggestive, powerful and therefore exciting. It also means the use of word or phrase which refers to something familiar in our experience to stand for the idea, feeling or attitude we wish to communicate.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Signup and view all the answers

comparison between two things of different classes using ‘as’ or ‘like’. (FIGURE OF SPEECH)

SIMILE Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes. The comparison does not use the expression like or as.

METAPHOR Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

PERSONIFICATION Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.

SYNECDOCHE Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.

METONYMY Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

HYPERBOLE Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.

OXYMORON Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.

PARADOX Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.

ALLUSION Signup and view all the answers

(FIGUE OF SPEECH) involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.

IRONY Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OS SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote.

ONOMATOPOEIA Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote..

LITOTES Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

APOSTROPHE Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.

ALLITERATION Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.

ALLITERATION Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the middle vowel sound.

ASSONANCE Signup and view all the answers

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is sometimes called “slant” rhyme. Both consonants occur NOT at the beginning of the word.

CONSONANCE Signup and view all the answers

UCSPOL UNIT 1

Questions and Answers

is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings taking its origin from emotion”

is the total preserved writings belonging to a given language or people.

is used to describe the tradition in written civilizations in which certain genres are transmitted by word of mouth.

is one that gets its form from the use of the pen by literary genius.

Why do people write?

stands through the ages and still open new world of meaning and experience

appeals to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s forever relevant.

appeals to the aesthetic sense or sense of beauty

stimulates our thoughts

inspires and brings out moral values making us better persons

presents peculiar way in which the writer sees the life, forms his/her ideas, and expresses them distinctly.

appeals to emotions, stirs imagination, feelings, moves deeply and evokes emotions

TWO MAIN DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE

is discourse that follows the usual flow of conversation which uses sentences forming paragraphs to express ideas, feelings and actions.

is a literary work which is a result of the author’s imagination.

is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot, and one single impression.

is a true-to-life story divided into chapters where many characters are involved and spans long period of time.

is a scripted story executed on stage.

is a narrative about the origin of man, place, event and happenings.

is a narrative where the characters are animals and inanimate objects that speak and act like people.

is a literary work which is based on facts and reality

is an attempt to express the viewpoint and opinion of the writer on a particular problem or event.

is a formal treatment of the subject and intended to be spoken before a crowd

is a literary work that gives the life account of a person written by another person.

is a literary work where the author writes his own life account.

is a report of expected and unexpected events in society and government, etc.

tells stories and has two forms:

are long poems that exemplify the adventures of epic heroes and divine forces.

are narrative poems intended to be sung. They are shorter than the epics and they usually tell stories about a particular person.

tells stories but one or more characters act out the poem. There are plays that are written as dramatic poetry.

the most common of the three, is a short poem that expresses the poet’s thoughts and feeling.

is a poem of meditation on life and death. Many elegies mourn the death of a famous person or a close friend.

is a 14-line lyric poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm.

is a lyric poem intended to be sung.

is one of the shortest lyric poems, is a Japanese verse of 17 syllables arranged in three lines, the first line has 5, the second 7 and the third 5.

is a serious elaborate lyric poem full of high praises and noble feelings. Example: “Ode to Evening” by William Collins (1721-1759)

refers to the sensation that language creates in the mind. Images are words and phrases that appeal to the senses. These sensations or images are not only limited to visual sensations. They also appeal to the senses of taste, touch, hearing and smell.

makes language more colorful, suggestive, powerful and therefore exciting. It also means the use of word or phrase which refers to something familiar in our experience to stand for the idea, feeling or attitude we wish to communicate.

comparison between two things of different classes using ‘as’ or ‘like’. (FIGURE OF SPEECH)

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes. The comparison does not use the expression like or as.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.

(FIGUE OF SPEECH) involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.

(FIGURE OS SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote..

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the middle vowel sound.

(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is sometimes called “slant” rhyme. Both consonants occur NOT at the beginning of the word.

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