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Orientation
- 3 categories of Western Literature: drama, fiction, poetry
- Genre /ˈʒɒnrəˈ/; /ˈdʒɒnrəˈ/
"kind" or "sort", literary type or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. - Lyre: a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later.
- Lyric poetry: typically express personal (often emotional) feelings and are traditionally spoken in the present tense.
- Epic poetry:
a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
-Classical epic continues to employ dactylic hexameter and centers its plots around the theme of a journey, either physical (e.g. the Odyssey) or mental (e.g. the Iliad) or both.
-Epyllion, a little epic, which is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme, e.g.Catullus 64
*dactylic hexameter: also known as "heroic hexameter", a line of verse consisting of six feet,the fifth of which is a dactyl, the first four dactyls or spondees, and the sixth a spondee or trochee. - Sappho of Lesbos: was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos
- Lesbian: is a female homosexual; a female who experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to other females.
Literature
What is literature?
Definition:
Definition:
- 14th century: polite learning through reading
- 18th century: practice and profession of writing
- 19th century: the high skill of writing in a special context of high imagination
- Robert Frost: performance in words
- Morden: imaginative, artistic, expressive, intellectual, emotional
Why we study literature?
- improve language proficiency
- enrich knowledge about the English culture
- give humanity, spiritual, psychological relief
How to study literature?
- Analytical Approach
- Thematic Approach
- Historical Approach
Syllable
- ori-→beginning
orientation /ˌɔr i ənˈteɪ ʃən/
Example: The program starts with an orientation and one-month introduction to basic business principles.
original /əˈrɪdʒ ə nl/
Example: Explore the original art town by the sea on a poster budget more. - di-→two
difference
Example: The differences between the two sites, though, are as important any putative similarities.
dilemma /dɪˈlɛm ə/
Example: I'm pretty new and want to really delve into this game but i have a dilemma. - sym-→together, same
sympathy
Example: If you can't get past your own psychological hangups, you don't get any sympathy from me for your abominable actions. - a-→not,without
apathy
Example: Try not to allow their apathy to affect your enthusiasm.
atheist
Example: He began describing his country as secular rather than atheist. - mono-→one
monotheism
Example: The liberals also commonly assert that monotheism is a late evolutionary religious development.
monopoly
Example: This has been a source of some ambiguity in discussions of natural monopoly. - omni-→all
omniscient
Example:No one is omniscient, there's a limit, so have some humility when presenting your case and maybe you'll find
more receptive ears. - -path-→feel
ex. sympathy, apathy