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English Literature Essentials

The document defines various terms related to English literature such as genres of poetry (epic, ballad, legend), types of characters (protagonist, foil), elements of fiction (setting, conflict), and authors (Shakespeare, Balagtas). It provides examples of specific works like Hamlet, Beowulf, Florante at Laura to illustrate different literary concepts and discusses features of plots, characters, and point of view. Key terms covered include prose, tragedy, comedy, sonnet, novel, short story, and plays.

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English Literature Essentials

The document defines various terms related to English literature such as genres of poetry (epic, ballad, legend), types of characters (protagonist, foil), elements of fiction (setting, conflict), and authors (Shakespeare, Balagtas). It provides examples of specific works like Hamlet, Beowulf, Florante at Laura to illustrate different literary concepts and discusses features of plots, characters, and point of view. Key terms covered include prose, tragedy, comedy, sonnet, novel, short story, and plays.

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  • English Literature Concepts
  • Types of Literary Works

ODB- ENGLISH LITERATURE

 The author of ETHICS, POLITICS AND POETICS is ARISTOTLE.


 The vantage where the story is narrated refers to POINT OF VIEW.
 One of the major types of character where the central and the story revolves
is PROTAGONIST.
 The types of poetry are PROSE and POETRY.
 Among the following tales, ballad, legends and epic, LEGEND is not classified
as narrative poetry.
 An exaggerated comedy which seeks to arouse mirth by loveable lines,
situations are too ridiculous to be true is FORCE.
 Hamlet is written by William Shakespeare and an example of Tragedy
Dramatic Comedy.
 The porpose of COMEDY is for amusement or happy ending.
 Beowulf is an epic from ENGLAND.
 The CORRIDO is composed of 8 syllables while AWIT is composed of 12
syllables.
 A short poem that is intended to be sung is called Folk Song (Awiting Bayan).
 An example of awit is Florante at Laura.
 The Ode is a poem of a noble felling, expressed with dignity on a certain object.
 Ibong Adarna is an example of Corrido which is written by Francisco Balagtas
Baltazar
 Songs praising God containing a philosophy of life is Psalms.
 Tragedy is where the hero struggles mighty against dynamic forces until he
meets death.
 The types of fiction are Short Story, Novel, Drama and Allegory.
 The opposite traits of main character is called Foil.
 The two kinds of characters are round and flat.
 When the character was able to undergo changes it is called ROUND
CHARACTERS.
 Elegy is poem for the dead.
 A lyric poetry that composed of 14 lines is Sonnet.
 The BIDASARI is an epic from Mindanao.
 A type of prose that usually about origin is LEGENDS.
 Short Story is a narration involving one or more characters in one plot and one
single impression.
 A long narration divided into chapters is NOVEL.
 Plays are a narrative poetry that is usually presented in stage and divided into
acts.
 A creation of the writer’s imagination and the main purpose is to bring out
lesson to the readers is ANECDOTES.
 The three elements of setting are time, place and atmosphere.
 Time sets the duration of the events. Place, locality of the events. Atmosphere
refers to the emotion or the mood.
 When there are two or more source of conflicts it is Episodic
 When the story is just sprouted from just one conflict it is Organic.
 The order of events that is organized according to suspense is called CLIMAX.
 Man vs. self is called Psychological Conflict.
 Man vs. nature is Physical Conflict.
 Omniscient point of view where he narrator is an all-knowing maker is under
Third person point of view.
 Confidant serves as a friend of a protagonist.
 When it is not closely related to the protagonist it is called Background
Characters.
 The author of The Republic is Plato.
 Mahabharata is written by Vyasa.
 Confessions, the Social Contact is written by Jean Jacques Rosseau.
 LEONA FLORENTINO the first poetess in the Philippines wrote the Poems in
Spanish and Ilocano.
 Dead star, Stepping Stone and Half a life is written by Paz Marquez Benitez.
 What is an educated Filipino? is written by Francisco Benitez.

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