Literary Terms
-What are literary terms?
Well, they’re terms that deal with literature. In the beginning of the year we started learning and reviewing said literary terms. We learned words from multiple categories of literature such as Drama, Poetry, Analysis of Rhetoric, and other miscellaneous terms.
-Why do these terms matter?
If we’re honest, they don’t really. If we can define them, which we can, then we could describe them, or use synonyms to get our point across. But we’ve entered the world of literature now, and it has its own language. Now that we’re in the world of literature, using the lingo is so much easier than attempting to make an argument without the lingo. For example, instead of repeating “fatal flaw” over and over again in an essay we can say “hamartia” now, and be done with it. Another reason to use the literary terms is that on the essays for the AP Exam the terms will look impressive; thereby making our arguments look more valid, whether or not they actually are.
Don't forget that using literary terms within Open Prompts can really enhance your general understanding of not only the prompt, but the piece(s) you read and how it can somehow connect back to DIDLS to enhance your writing.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't entirely useless because knowing the terms also gives you a list of important things that you can look for. If you have no idea what to write you could pick a term you know and search for that, and make an argument based on your findings.
ReplyDeleteThis entry made me laugh =) I'd also like to have seen some info about critical theory, but otherwise this was pretty thorough work!
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