Basic Literary Forms and Devices

1. Basic LiteraryForms and Devices

2. 3 Forms of Literature Literature Prose Poetry Drama

3. Prose The North's verbal attack Wednesday didn't reach the ominous levels of its saber rattling this time last year, which included threats of preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States and South Korea. In her efforts to care for Don and rebuild his life, American Anne Marie gives up career, country and family to move to the England of his youth, and in so doing loses sight of her own desires and aspirations and, ultimately, her identity. A New Jersey high school senior sued her parents, accusing them of tossing her out of the family home when she turned 18 and refusing to pay for her private high school and college education. On November 22, 1963, Lee Bowers, Jr. became a key witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Less than three years later, he was killed in a one-car accident southwest of Midlothian, Texas under mysterious circumstances.

4. ProseCharacteristics • Proseiswrittenmuchlikehowwespeak. • Ideas are organizedintoparagraphs, made up of sentencesthatsupportthe idea. • Proseusuallycontains a titleor a themetothework. • Most of literatureisProse

5. Poetry Forget not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant My great travail so gladly spent Forget not yet. Out of this world thou hast driven courtesy, And virtue, dearly prized in womanhood;And out of youth’s gay moodThe lovely lightness is quite gone through thee. After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship. Remember me when I am gone away,Gone far away into the silent land;When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. On the shore stood Hiawatha, Turned and waved his hand at parting; On the clear and luminous water Launched his birch canoe for sailing, From the pebbles of the margin Shoved it forth into the water;  Whispered to it, "Westward! westward!

6. PoetryCharacteristics • Poetryoftenreliesonrhyme • Poetry can use rhythmtoconveymeaning • Symbolismisverycommon • Poetryisverydiverse

7. Drama ROMEO Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that. BENVOLIO For what, I pray thee? ROMEO For your broken shin. BENVOLIO Why, Romeo, art thou mad? LUKA. But why, Anton Antonovich,[2] why is it ? Why should we have an Inspector? GOVERNOR (sighing). Oh, it's fate, I suppose ! (Sighs again.) Till now, thank goodness, they've pried into other towns; but now our time has come. JUDGE. It's my opinion, Anton Antonovich, that it's a deep political move, and it means—let me see that—Russia . . . yes, that's it ... Russia wants to make war, and the Government has surreptitiously sent an official to see if there's any disaffection anywhere.

8. Drama Characteristics • Drama requires dialogue • Beingdesignedfor a visual play, there are instructionsforscenes and performances • Dramas generallyfollowa specificgenre, such as TragedyorComedy.

9. Whatis a LiteraryDevice? • Devices are methodsusedtoconvey a message. • There are manydevices, some can be used in anyform, others are form-specific. • E.g: Alliteration: Repeatingthesameinitialsound of a wordmultiple times.