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