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lit. room: Analysing Literature: LITERARY DEVICES
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literature is invention.. so
sastera adalah rekaan..
correct..what i wrote
before...
fiction=stories or novels about imaginary people
and events, as compared to other sorts of literature
like history or poetry...
[ Last edited by seribulan on 29-10-2003 at 02:23 PM ] |
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A Glossary of Literary Terms
Robert Harris
Version Date: January 4, 2002
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Adventure novel. A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme. Examples:
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Allegory. A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. In The Faerie Queene, for example, Red Cross Knight is a heroic knight in the literal narrative, but also a figure representing Everyman in the Christian journey. Many works contain allegories or are allegorical in part, but not many are entirely allegorical. A good example of a fully allegorical work is
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Apologue. A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects which act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition. Often, the apologue highlights the irrationality of mankind. The beast fable, and the fables of Aesop are examples. Some critics have called Samuel Johnson's Rasselas an apologue rather than a novel because it is more concerned with moral philosophy than with character or plot. Examples:
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
Autobiographical novel. A novel based on the author's life experience. Many novelists include in their books people and events from their own lives because remembrance is easier than creation from scratch. Examples:
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Blank Verse. Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Burlesque. A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that is, with mock dignity). Burlesque concentrates on derisive imitation, usually in exaggerated terms. Literary genres (like the tragic drama) can be burlesqued, as can styles of sculpture, philosophical movements, schools of art, and so forth. See Parody, Travesty.
Caesura. A pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry. The pause may or may not be typographically indicated.
Canon. In relation to literature, this term is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones. A battle is now being fought to change or throw out the canon for three reasons. First, the list of great books is thoroughly dominated by DWEM's (dead, white, European males), and the accusation is that women and minorities and non-Western cultural writers have been ignored. Second, there is pressure in the literary community to throw out all standards as the nihilism of the late 20th century makes itself felt in the literature departments of the universities. Scholars and professors want to choose the books they like or which reflect their own ideas, without worrying about canonicity. Third, the canon has always been determined at least in part by political considerations and personal philosophical biases. Books are much more likely to be called "great" if they reflect the philosophical ideas of the critic.
Children's novel. A novel written for children and discerned by one or more of these: (1) a child character or a character a child can identify with, (2) a theme or themes (often didactic) aimed at children, (3) vocabulary and sentence structure available to a young reader. Many "adult" novels, such as Gulliver's Travels, are read by children. The test is that the book be interesting to and--at some level--accessible by children. Examples:
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Christian novel. A novel either explicitly or implicitly informed by Christian faith and often containing a plot revolving around the Christian life, evangelism, or conversion stories. Sometimes the plots are directly religious, and sometimes they are allegorical or symbolic. Traditionally, most Christian novels have been viewed as having less literary quality than the "great" novels of Western literature. Examples:
Charles Sheldon, In His Steps
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas
Catherine Marshall, Christy
C. S. Lewis, Perelandra
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday
Bodie Thoene, In My Father's House
Coming-of-age story. A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment. Understanding comes after the dropping of preconceptions, a destruction of a false sense of security, or in some way the loss of innocence. Some of the shifts that take place are these:
ignorance to knowledge
innocence to experience
false view of world to correct view
idealism to realism
immature responses to mature responses
Example:
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey
Conceit. An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor in which, say a beloved is compared to a ship, planet, etc. The comparison may be brief or extended. See Petrarchan Conceit. (Conceit is an old word for concept.) See John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," for example: "Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, / The Intelligence that moves, devotion is."
Detective novel. A novel focusing on the solving of a crime, often by a brilliant detective, and usually employing the elements of mystery and suspense. Examples:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison
Dystopian novel. An anti-utopian novel where, instead of a paradise, everything has gone wrong in the attempt to create a perfect society. See utopian novel. Examples:
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
End-stopped. A line that has a natural pause at the end (period, comma, etc.). For example, these lines are end stopped:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Coral is far more red than her lips red. --Shakespeare
Enjambed. The running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line. For example, the first two lines here are enjambed:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove. . . . --Shakespeare
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Bulan Kata:
literature is invention.. so
sastera adalah rekaan..
correct..what i wrote
before...
fiction=stories or novels about imaginary people
and events, as compared to other sorts of literature
like history or poetry...
Kesimpulan: Sastera = menipu ?????? |
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don't put it
as crudely as that... |
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Bukan aku yang kata. Itu cabaran Plato kepada para seniman... kata Plato, aku jumpa dia masa sahur tadi "hang cakap kat seniman-seniman semua, keluar dari republik aku. Depa semua tu penipu besaq!"...
M- |
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nanti bulan jumpa dier
berbuka..hantuk ngan
lesung batu..kasik betoi sket
kepala dier... |
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Encik2 moderators, tolong pindahkan thread ni ke Book and Literature
TQ |
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wat perr..syok dok sini perr...
kurang traffic jam..bersih, indah
damai..BANGKANG...heheheh... |
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Saya bangkang bangkangan bulan... |
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bangkang bangkangan
marquez bangkang
bangkangan bulan..poning
jap... |
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English Literature Resources
These links are intended to provide a useful resource for students of English Literature and anyone else interested in English Literature.
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course offered by USM
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES)
[B.A.(HONS.)]
The 130 units degree course in English Language and Literature Studies (ELLS) is a four-year academic programme offered by the Centre for Languages and Translation. The ELLS programme consists of:
Foundation courses (exempt for Dip. in ELLS students) that teach basic English Language and Literature in English
Major courses which involve in-depth study of English Language and Literature in English
Minor courses in related disciplines such as translation, communication etc. from the second year onwards
Electives (6 courses) in such diverse fields as:
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Philosophical Analysis of Major Ideological Movements
Report Writing and Editing
Remedial Teaching Strategies
Odes and Sonnets
African Literature in English
Universitiy courses in Bahasa Malaysia and selected options
In the Foundation and Major courses learning and teaching theories are emphasized. |
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Boring gila course USM ni... |
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salam.... nak nyampuk skit.....
tau tak cam mana nak carik idea utk assigmnet Creative Writing...
ada tak url yg best2? |
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Originally posted by seribulan at 23-11-2003 04:11 PM:
try teh above, gorgy..hope
it can help you...
i got A- for my creative writing...
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tnx...
n congrat...
pray that i 'll got A too.. i got an Indian lecturer... so far ok... |
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Originally posted by seribulan at 23-11-2003 04:11 PM:
.he asked me to publish my stories..
nah..too lazy..don't like the
glamor..heheheheh...maybe
one day...n might write a... ...
cuba try anta ker ... SILVERFISH
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baru nih ada citer
lord of the flies...
tuh antara literary
novel yg dipelajari
biasanya...
memang sadis
sungguh citernya... |
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Category: Belia & Informasi
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Post time 1-11-2003 10:00 AM
