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What Is Literature? A paraphrase, summary, and adaptation of the opening chapter of Terry Eagleton's Introduction to Literary Theory. Species fact or fiction? Are news reports fact or fiction? (2) What is clearly imaginative writing is often not considered literature.
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An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases. This is also called a figure of speech. It is a departure from the usual from of expression for the purpose of making the meaning clearer, more forceful, or more beautiful.
Alphabetical Listing of Every Literary Technique You’ll Ever Need for Stage 6 (and Many More You Won’t) All definitions from Cuddon, JA 1998, Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory, 4th edn, Penguin Group, Great Britain. Prepared by Damian Morris . Accumulation – A listing of words embodying similar qualities
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Jan 1, 1997 · Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined.
Historical Fiction: A made-up story that is based on a real time and place in history, so fact is mixed with fiction. Myth: A traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine, or cultural belief. The gods and goddesses of mythology have supernatural powers, but the human characters usually do not.
: a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. Syntax: sentence structure (see handout). Theme: the central idea in a literary work. The theme is usually an idea about life or about people. Writers sometimes state the story’s theme outright, but more often they simply tell the story and let the
Guidelines for Writing a Summary • The summary condenses the main ideas of a text so that its readers will understand the gist of the original work. • The summary is written in its author’s own words, but it very carefully retains the intent, tone, and key ideas of the writer of the original work.
