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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.
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Why do people write?
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stands through the ages and still open new world of meaning and experience
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appeals to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It’s forever relevant.
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appeals to the aesthetic sense or sense of beauty
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stimulates our thoughts
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inspires and brings out moral values making us better persons
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presents peculiar way in which the writer sees the life, forms his/her ideas, and expresses them distinctly.
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appeals to emotions, stirs imagination, feelings, moves deeply and evokes emotions
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TWO MAIN DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE
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is discourse that follows the usual flow of conversation which uses sentences forming paragraphs to express ideas, feelings and actions.
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is a literary work which is a result of the author’s imagination.
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is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot, and one single impression.
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is a true-to-life story divided into chapters where many characters are involved and spans long period of time.
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is a scripted story executed on stage.
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is a narrative about the origin of man, place, event and happenings.
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is a narrative where the characters are animals and inanimate objects that speak and act like people.
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is a literary work which is based on facts and reality
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is an attempt to express the viewpoint and opinion of the writer on a particular problem or event.
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is a formal treatment of the subject and intended to be spoken before a crowd
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is a literary work that gives the life account of a person written by another person.
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is a literary work where the author writes his own life account.
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is a report of expected and unexpected events in society and government, etc.
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tells stories and has two forms:
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are long poems that exemplify the adventures of epic heroes and divine forces.
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are narrative poems intended to be sung. They are shorter than the epics and they usually tell stories about a particular person.
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tells stories but one or more characters act out the poem. There are plays that are written as dramatic poetry.
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the most common of the three, is a short poem that expresses the poet’s thoughts and feeling.
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is a poem of meditation on life and death. Many elegies mourn the death of a famous person or a close friend.
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is a 14-line lyric poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm.
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is a lyric poem intended to be sung.
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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.
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is a serious elaborate lyric poem full of high praises and noble feelings. Example: “Ode to Evening” by William Collins (1721-1759)
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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.
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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.
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comparison between two things of different classes using ‘as’ or ‘like’. (FIGURE OF SPEECH)
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes. The comparison does not use the expression like or as.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.
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(FIGUE OF SPEECH) involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.
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(FIGURE OS SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote..
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as” tongue twister”.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is the repetition of the middle vowel sound.
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(FIGURE OF SPEECH) is sometimes called “slant” rhyme. Both consonants occur NOT at the beginning of the word.
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