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Literary Aspects

Literary Aspects. Focusing your attention while reading literature. Principles of Literature. MEANING. Meaning What is the work about? What is its theme? What effect or impression does the reader have ? What is the argument or summary of the work? What is the writer’s intent or purpose?.

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Literary Aspects

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  1. Literary Aspects Focusing your attention while reading literature.

  2. Principles of Literature MEANING Meaning What is the work about? What is its theme? What effect or impression does the reader have ? What is the argument or summary of the work? What is the writer’s intent or purpose?

  3. Principles of Literaature • Form • How is the work organized to achieve effect or express meaning? • How is the work structured or planned? (Prose or poetry? Topics or Scenes? Long narratives or episodes?) • Into what genre could the work be placed? FORM

  4. Principles of Literature • Voice and Tone • Who is telling the story? • How is the speaker or narrator characterized (revealed)? By action or description? Expressed or implied? • From what perspective is the story told? • Is the speaker and the author of the work the same person? • What is the author’s attitude toward the theme or subject? • What is the tone of the work? Serious, angry, formal, pleading, joyful? • What is the atmosphere of the work (the way in which the mood, setting, and feeling blend together to convey the prevailing tone)? • Is the narrator reliable? VOICE AND TONE

  5. Principles of Literature • Characterization • Who are the people in the work? • How do dialogue and action reveal a character’s personality traits? • Is there a principal character? • What is the character’s motivation? • Is the character’s personality revealed directly by the speaker telling the reader or indirectly by the character’s own words and deeds (requiring the reader to come to conclusions about the character based on dialogue and action)? CHARACTERIZATION

  6. Principles of Literature • Language (uses and meanings) • Does the selection include any imagery? • What literary devices does the author use, and what effect do they have on the meaning of the selection? • How does the writer use diction (word choice) to convey meaning? • What is the meaning of the words, phrases, and lines as they are used in the selection? • Are words used literally (denotation) or figuratively (connotation)? LANGUAGE

  7. Characterization • Direct Characterization • Indirect Characterization • Physical Attributes • Mental Attributes • Round/Flat/Functional • Dynamic/Static • Agency

  8. Setting • Time Period • Immediate Time • Locale • Historical/Social Setting

  9. Conflict • Internal • External • Climax • Resolution

  10. Diction • Specific Word Choice • Specific Phrasing • (directly related to tone and mood)

  11. Tone and Mood • Diction = Word Choice • Tone = The authors meaning or feeling as it is conveyed through the words • Mood = The audience’s emotional response or reaction to the words • Diction = Text • Tone = Author • Mood = Audience

  12. Style • Literary devices - any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze.

  13. Style Devices • Imagery • Metaphor • Simile • Personification • Symbolism • Parallelism • Foreshadowing • Irony • Allusion • Allegory • Hyperbole • Repetition Homework: Define these words – submit to tii.com Monday at 8AM and bring HC to class!

  14. Structure • Organization • Prose/Poetry • Chapter/Episode

  15. Point of View • Perspective • 1st Person – limited • 3rd Person – limited • Omniscient – All Knowing

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