LIT 101 – World Literature – Flashcards

Greek word for the ability to read and write

- expressed in written and oral form - the conceptualization of language - a creative expression

- fiction - imagination - appeals to human senses - seeing the gaps - reading between the lines - from human experiences and conditions

Literature is Powerful

Prose and Poetry

Written in paragraphs

1) Novels 2) Short Stories

1) Biography 2) Auto biography (self) 3) Memoir 4) Based on facts or truths

a MENTAL PICTURE expressed in best WORDS in best ORDER can be in stanzas or verses

Person talking in the poem

Latin, to make DEF: poetry; to make or create something, as poets, dancers, actors do; artistic purpose;

a letter or literary composition in letter form (ie. written in prose form)

no meaning outside of text (looks at the language, form, structure, and literary device used)

literature is an elite subject

an established set of principles, standards, or code of laws

1) Nobel 2) Pulitzer 3) Manbooker Award 4) Man Booker Asia 5) S.E.A. Write

a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

a funeral hymn or mournful speech

A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone

14 line poem written in iambic pentameter

A love type of sonnets, composed of an octave with abba abba rhyme scheme and ending in a sestet with cde cde rhyme scheme; also called an Italian sonnet

a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza

A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern

Nile, euphrates, Congo

Draws from Human experience or senses

A persian short lyric poem composed of a series of about 5 to 15 couplets, each of which stands independently on its own as a ROMANTIC thought.

Nile, euphrates, Congo

Device used to create poetic sound

Draws from Human experience or senses

A Japanese lyric poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables; traditionally the topic of nature or the seasons

5 lines, 5-7-5-7-7 (31) syllables which frames the moment but rhyming

one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables - the same structure as a haiku. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line.

A tiger doesn't proclaim it's tiger Ness, it jumps on its prey.

A policy in 1940 to 1948 to segregate the black community in South africa

a Philippine poem with 4 lines and 7 syllables which focuses on giving moral lessons

a Philippine LOVE poem with 3 lines and 7 syllables

Written by Archibald Macleish -Art of Poetry -poem within a poem

1) Sense of hearing - it's wordless in a flight of birds/silence is a language 2) Motionless in time - universal and transcends time 3) Should not mean but be - we give poetry meaning; where a poem is just a poem

• projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. • journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air. • series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. • search for syllables to shoot at barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. • theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring • the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. • the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. • a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. • the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. • the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

A tiger doesn't proclaim it's tiger Ness, it jumps on its prey.

A policy in 1940 to 1948 to segregate the black community in South africa