Literature in English language
Literary Analysis
Complexity
Sensation, imagination, significant, symbols, etc.
Quality
Language resourses
Depth
Importance of physical sense
Literary Approaches
Biographical: Author's work.
Historical: Author's work into the background.
Formalistic: Focused on forms.
Archetypal: Connection to other literature.
Psychological: Inner motivation of the characters.
Sociological: Man's connection with the society, politics, religion and bussiness.
Feminist: Focused on a woman's image and concepts about feminine in literature.
Literary Genres
Fiction
An imaginary story
Fantasy
It is an imaginary and invented world with different laws for the nature.
Horror
This kind of story proposed to scare or intimidate the public.
Adventure
The stories are filled with risks, suspenseful scenes, and thrilling moments.
Science fiction
Fiction that lies between realistic ficiton and pure fantasy.
Folk-Tale
Fairy tales, fables, tall tales, and myths are different types of folk tales.
Mistery
Fiction that involves a suspenseful event, often a crime of some type.
Thriller
There can be legal, crime, psychological,spy, or natural disaster thrillers.
Non-fiction
It includes essays, articles, textbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, etc.
Biography.
It is a person's life story but is written by another person.
Autobiography.
It accounts of a person's life written by that person.
Drama
Most dramas can be classified as comedies or tragedies
Humor
Literary Elements
Theme: It is a central idea of a story.
Dialogue: Where characters of a narrative speak to one another.
Plot: It is the logical sequence of events that develops a story.
Mood: Ageneral idea of a narrative.
Protagonist: It is the main character of story, novel or a play.
Narrator: A person who tells the story.
Mimesis
It is the process where art reflects the world.
Brhavioral Mimesis and Impersonation
Vocal Mimesis ans Metaphorical Mimesis
Literary Devices
Imagery
Figurative language to represent ideas, actions, objects, in a way that appeals to our physical senses.
Symbol
Person, place, thing that represents something.
Dialect
Pronunciation, vocabulary, typical grammar of a region.
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work.
Irony
Technique that involves surprising, interesting, or contradictions.
Suspense
A feeling or expectation about what will happen.
Foreshadowing
Hints that the author leaves to anticipate to the reader what is going to happen.
Flashback
Interruption of a cronological order in a story.
Alliteration
It is used in poetry to emphasize and link words.
Satire
Humorous comments about human flaws, ideas,etc.