Literature
- Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most...
- Elements Of Literature
PLOT: In literature,it is the interplay and sequence of events in a story,play or novel which are artfully arranged so that the author may attain the desired aesthetic or artistic effect. SETTING:It is the time,location,and circumstances in which the...
- Deal Me In Challenge: The Passenger By Vladimir Nabokov
Card Drawn: 7 of Diamonds. What a brilliant piece of meta-fiction! Lolita is one of my favorite novels but I had yet to read anything else by Vladimir Nabokov...until now. The Passenger is such an intelligent and clever short-story that plays with the...
- The Comforters By Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark's debut novel The Comforters is an utterly bizarre and whimsically ambitious meta-fiction that is structured around the literary equivalent of the Chinese box technique: a novel within a novel, within a novel. Paradoxically, Spark is...
- Make Your Characters Come Alive! (tips)
Fiction writing is an attempt to replicate the real world. The writer observes his environment and tries to recreate it in accordance with his perception of the realities therein, bearing in mind the basic characteristics of the world of reality. The...
Literature
Literature assignment
Forms of Prose Fiction
Novels: full-length work of fiction.
Novellas: a piece of fiction longer than short story but shorter then a novel.
Short Stories: piece of fiction that is shorter and usually less complicated in plot than a novel.
Elements of Prose Fiction
Narrative Techniques: the style of telling a story.
Point-of-View: an attitude of set of beliefs.
Characterization: the way in which a writer creates characters in a narrative so as to attract or repel sympathy.
Setting: a background, scene, surrounding or environment in which the story takes place.
Theme: the subject of which a person speaks, writes or thinks.
Plot: the plan of a literary work, especially, of dramas and novels.
Style: the way something is done, said or written.
Literary Devices
Imagery: the writer or speakers use of words to produce pictures in the viewers mind.
Symbol: something which represents something else by analogy or association
Irony: saying the opposite of what you mean in order to emphasize it.
Satire: using humour of exaggeration to show what is bad or weak about a person or thing.
Allusion: a passing reference in a work of literature to something outside itself.
Structural Devices
Stream of consciousness: the attempt to convey all the contents of characters mind-memory sense, perceptions, feelings and thoughts.
Interior Monologue: An attempt to convey in words the process of consciousness or thought.
Flashback: going back in a story to something that happened earlier
Foreshadowing: a sign of something that is to come
Timeframe: a given interval of time especially in relation to a particular event or process
Motif: aspect of literature (a type of character or theme) which recurs frequently.
Juxtaposition: side by side or close together.
Types of Fiction
Novels: full length work of fiction
Short stories: a piece of fiction that is shorter and usually less complicated in plot than a novel.
Fables: a brief story that is meant to impact a moral lesson.
Fairy Tales: any far-fetched story.
Plays: literature written by a playwright, consisting of scripted dialogue between characters intended for the theatrical performance.
Poetry: literary work in metrical form.
Vignette: is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting.
Anti-story: a narrative of short story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignore structural conventions and character motivation- Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most...
- Elements Of Literature
PLOT: In literature,it is the interplay and sequence of events in a story,play or novel which are artfully arranged so that the author may attain the desired aesthetic or artistic effect. SETTING:It is the time,location,and circumstances in which the...
- Deal Me In Challenge: The Passenger By Vladimir Nabokov
Card Drawn: 7 of Diamonds. What a brilliant piece of meta-fiction! Lolita is one of my favorite novels but I had yet to read anything else by Vladimir Nabokov...until now. The Passenger is such an intelligent and clever short-story that plays with the...
- The Comforters By Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark's debut novel The Comforters is an utterly bizarre and whimsically ambitious meta-fiction that is structured around the literary equivalent of the Chinese box technique: a novel within a novel, within a novel. Paradoxically, Spark is...
- Make Your Characters Come Alive! (tips)
Fiction writing is an attempt to replicate the real world. The writer observes his environment and tries to recreate it in accordance with his perception of the realities therein, bearing in mind the basic characteristics of the world of reality. The...