Elements of Poetry
Figure of Speech: simile, metaphor, personification, Speech: paradox, ambiguity, onomatopoeia; Tone: Tone: mood, voice, attitude and outlook of a poet (eg. cold, eager, uncertain, boastful, protecting…) Image: Image: sense impressions (trees….) to create atmosphere, to focus an idea… Theme: emotionTheme: emotion-arousing (a novel is always thoughtthought-provoking)
Definition of Literature
Literature
(From Latin littera letter), is the art of written works. In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction. Fiction refers to the creative and nonfiction. figurative use of langrage under which, there are four genres: novels, novels, short stories, plays and poems. Non-fiction is called a stories, poems. Nonliteral expression of life or discursive writing. Another term for non-fiction is essay, which is traditionally classified into nonessay, four categories: description, narration, exposition, and description, narration, exposition, argumentation. argumentation. In fiction, the four genres are rarely combined, but in essays, the four types rarely appear alone.
Gothic Novel
Gothic novel as one branch of the English literature and the father of horror movies origins from The Castle of Otranto(1764). Otranto(1764). More importantly, it leads habitually with darkness and horror. Gothic elements include horror, mystery, supernatural phenomenon, misfortune,death,haunted houses, and family curses.
Guidelines for Reading Fiction
Read through the story for enjoyment Consider the story from the standpoint of the elements Try to interpret it according to your own understanding Write formally about it
and elements of each type Main periods of English literature, writers of each period and their major works
Requirements of the Course
Course Title: History and Anthology of English Title: Literature Assessment: Assessment: Final Score= 60% Final Exam+20% MidMid-exam (or Course Paper)+20% Class Performance Class Performance will be assessed mainly according to your class attendance and class involvement. Course Paper is the main form of Mid-term exam, Midwhich requires you to write formally about some literary works.
Main Forms\Genres of Literature Forms\
Fiction: Fiction: BY LENGTH: short story; short novel; full-length fullnovel; Trilogy; Tetralogy. BY SUBJECT MATTER: picaresque novel(传奇小说, 传奇小说, 以流浪汉[歹徒]等的冒险事迹为题材的); 以流浪汉[歹徒]等的冒险事迹为题材的); gothic novel;; psychological novel; sociological novel (thesis novel); proletariat novel; romance. Poetry: Poetry: ballad; lyric; narrative poem; epic; sonnet; ode; elegy; pastoral; blank verse; free verse Drama: Drama: comedy; tragedy (Film)
Requirements of the Course
Course Paper Guidance: Special Notice!!! Write your own paper. All ideas and phrases that are not your own, whether they are derived from printed sources, resources on the internet, or lectures, must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge your sources will result in partial or total loss of marks for that piece of work. In more serious cases it will result in failure in the unit of study. Students who allow their work to be copied and passed off as the work of another student will be regarded as complicit in an act of plagiarism.
Elements of Fiction
Theme: Theme: controlling idea or central insight; Plot and Structure: how is the story told, a complete phase of a plot includes exposition, conflict, climax, denouement. Character: Character: persons invented, protagonist. Setting: Setting: a particular time and place; Point of View: outlook and attitude of a narrator, a View: standpoint, the first-person narrative and the thirdfirstthirdperson narrative Tone and Style: ironic, abstract, concrete… Style:
ents of Poetry
Rhyme: Rhyme: the repetition of the stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds; most obvious characteristic of a poem; rhyme scheme (eg. ababc); Rhythm : the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables; meter 节拍,格律(iamb抑扬格, trochee扬抑 节拍,格律(iamb抑扬格, trochee扬抑 格…) foot音步 (monometer单音步,… pentameter五 foot音步 (monometer单音步,… pentameter五 音步…). 音步…). Stanzaic Forms: a verse paragraph, a rhythmical unit Forms: (couplet, heroic couplet, triplet, quatrain, sonnet)
哥特小说，属于英语文学派别，是西方通俗文 学中惊险神秘小说的一种。一般被认为随着贺 瑞斯·华尔波尔的《奥特朗图堡》 瑞斯·华尔波尔的《奥特朗图堡》而产生。哥特 小说可以说是恐怖电影的鼻祖，更重要的是， 它使我们今天习惯地将哥特式与黑暗、恐怖联 系在一起。 显著的哥特小说元素包括恐怖，神 秘，超自然，厄运，死亡，颓废，住着幽灵的 老房子，癫狂，家族诅咒等。