- •1) What are the main purposes and objectives of the course “Introduction to Literary Study”?
- •2) What studies discipline "Literary Study"?
- •3) What are the components of literary phenomenon?
- •4) What are the supportive disciplines to Literary Study?
- •5) The main disciplines of Literary Study, their fields of study.
- •6) What is the specificity of literary creative process as a particular kind of spiritual activity of a man?
- •7) Specificity of literature as an art form.
- •8) Artistic literature as a form of social consciousness.
- •9) What is the subject of art? The main purpose of art, kinds of arts.
- •10) The basic functions of artistic literature.
- •11) Beautiful is the central category of aesthetics, its connection with literature.
- •12) What is literary artistic work? Form and content of a literary work.
- •13) What are the elements of composition of a literary work?
- •14) What is pathos of a literary work?
- •15) What is a literary personage? Give the general characteristics to psychologism, portrait, landscape, things, time and space.
- •16) What is image? The main components of image. The types of images.
- •17) Prototype. Methods of imagination.
- •18) The figurative and expressive methods of imagination: accentuation and combining.
- •19) The artistic image /character/type. Give characteristics.
- •20) What is an artistic detail? Types of details.
- •21) Character and personage in a literary work. The differences.
- •22) Literary analysis of artistic image.
- •23) What is theme of a literary work?
- •24) What is motif of a literary work? Types of motifs.
- •25) The variety of themes. Types of themes.
- •26) What is the main idea in a literary work?
- •27) What is the problem in a literary work?
- •28) Conceptions about sujet and fabula.
- •29) What is linear plot? (Freytag's pyramid, its main components.)
- •30) What is climax in a literary work?
- •31) Optional elements of plot.
- •32) The types of plot.
- •33) Frame and frame elements of a literary work
- •34) What is the definition of language in Literary Study?
- •35) What is Poetic language?
- •36) What are the resources of poetic language?
- •37) Morphological variations of words in the language of a literary work.
- •38) Tropes or figures of speech in the language of a literary work.
- •39) Aristic speech, its characteristics. Composition of aritstic speech.
- •40) The speech of author and the speech of personage (speaking man).
- •41) The definitions of poetry and prose. The similarities and differences.
- •42) What is the system of versification? General definition. The main types of versification.
- •43) Literature and folklore. The differences.
- •44) What is the literary process? Definition of term.
- •45) What studies comparative literary study?
- •47) What is World literature? Give the definition.
- •48) What are the literary interactions? Give your examples.
- •49) The definition of Literary tradition. Give your example.
- •50) Literary innovations. Give your examples.
- •51) The main stages of literary development.
- •52) Give characteristics of ancient stage in the literary process.
- •53) What are the main characteristics of Renaissance literature?
- •54) What are the main characteristics of Baroque stage in the development of literature?
- •55) What are the main characteristics of Enlightenment stage in the development of literature?
- •56) What are the main characteristics of the XIX-xXcc. Realism stage in the development of literature?
- •57) The conception of artistic method.
38) Tropes or figures of speech in the language of a literary work.
Literal and Figurative meaning of a word is caused that the word acts in two forms – in author’s speech and in personage’s speech. The purpose of individualization of an image forces an author to use trope or figures of speech. A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning. In poetic speech there is transformation of normative (literal) usage of words. The center of gravity moves from communicative function to aesthetical one that is the main quality of poetic speech. Figurative language is also sometimes called imagery because it presents an image to the mind. Consider the following sentences: The leaves blew across the lawn. (Literal language) The leaves danced across the lawn. (Figurative language)
39) Aristic speech, its characteristics. Composition of aritstic speech.
Artistic speech interconnected with many forms of speech activity. For many centuries writers and poets were influenced by: public speaking or declamatory art the art of rhetoric. The composition of artistic speech is heterogeneous and diverse. It includes lexical and phraseological means, morphological phenomena of language, speech semantics that is the tropes. Besides, in modern poetry the boundaries between the literal and figurative meanings of the word erased. Artistic speech includes intonational, syntactic, phonetic, rhythmic layers that are appeal to inner ears of readers.
40) The speech of author and the speech of personage (speaking man).
The artistic speech shows the variety of narrative-speech manners. The ways or manners of speaking are often in the center of a literary work. “The speaking man” appeares in such forms of speech as dialogue and monologue. Dialogue is equal to conversation and monologue is equal to speech. These forms of speech reveal and underline the identity of a character.
41) The definitions of poetry and prose. The similarities and differences.
Prose is considered one of the two major literary structures, with the other being poetry. The word 'prose' is derived from the Latin prōsa, which literally translates as 'straight-forward or direct, speech.' In literature, prose is the usual mode of expression in such forms as the novel, short story, essay, letter (epistle), history, biography, sermon, and oration. Prose lacks the more formal metrical structure of verse that is almost always found in traditional poetry. Poems often involve a meter and/or rhyme scheme. Prose, instead, comprises full, grammatical sentences, which then constitute paragraphs and overlook aesthetic appeal. Shortly, prose is an ordinary language people use in speaking or writing, distinguished from the language of poetry primarily in that the line is not treated as a formal unit and it has no repetitive pattern of rhythm or meter. Poetry (from the Latin poeta, a poet) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and expressive qualities in addition to its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, lyrics, or prose poetry. It is published in poetic collections and wider anthologies.