WHAT IS LITERATURE?

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Why study literature?

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GENRES OF

LITERATURE

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Literature is studied

under two categories:

eg

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BASIC

LITERARY TERMS

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a lengthy fictitious prose narrative portraying characters and presenting an organized series of events and settings

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the way in which the narrative events are arranged.(the sequence of events)

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a fictional representation of a person (or animal).

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the angle from which a story is told 

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the way a writer selects and arranges words to express ideas

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the leading character of a drama, novel, etc. This is not always the hero, but is always the principal and central character whose rival is the antagonist.

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a struggle between two opposing forces

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the state of feeling created by a work of literature.

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the time and place of the action

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the central message or insight into life

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the attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject matter

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a fictional narrative generally centering on one event and usually developing only a single character in depth

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person, place or object that has a literal meaning, but stands for something else

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