DEFINITION

LITERATURE LITERARY
FIGURES
Set of works that deal with an
art or science.
LITERARY
UNIVERSAL LITERATURE
GENRES Used by the writer to recreate
and intensify the language
seeking a figurative effect.

17th century “literature” is

In ancient times it has exerted an extraordinary influence on
designated as poetry or eloquence.
Western literature.
Ancient Greek literature is the only European literature that They group works by their
has formed its own social and cultural institutions. common characteristics.
Latin literature and Western literature are literature derived They use these categories to
from Greek literature. systematize the multiplicity of the ANAPHORA
Spanish Golden Age, poetry is works.
understood as literary invention,
belonging to genre and not verse.
It consists of repeating
EPIC GENRE. -
TRAINING NATURE one or more words at the
-Narrative
TRAGEDY beginning of each verse or
-Objective narrator
In the 18th century, “literature” was used sentence.
-Description of place and object.
to refer to the set of activities, writing as "How high his reason."
(The Iliad – The Odyssey)
an expression. EPIC Dithyramb Song of the goat

EPITHET
Heroism I sing to the god Compassion Fear DRAMA. -
From ¨literature¨ and ¨literary¨, the Intervention of -Representation of actions through
discipline of Literary Theory arises.
Dionysus.
God dialogue and movement.
-Designed for theatrical
Adjective or participle
performance. (King Oedipus)
Poetics (catharsis) whose purpose is to
EPOPIES
Literature comes from the Latin characterize. It comes
24 songs ARISTOTLE
litterae, referring to the knowledge to before the noun.
6 exams Odysseus skilled in tricks.
write and read correctly. Fl- epithet LYRIC. -
SOPHOCLE -Expresses personal emotion.
AESCHYL S -The author expresses his
US inner world.
It is related to the art of -Subjective and personal
grammar, rhetoric and AEDA gender. HYPERBATON
Father of Greek 3 actors
poetics. (Trilce)
HOMER tragedy. +action
2 actors +personality
+Dialogue Motivation in heroes.
} Alteration of the normal
In the Prague Circle the concept of ILIAD
literature first emerged. syntactic order in the sentence.
MEAPHORA The icy wind will wither the
King Oedipus rose. For ´´The frozen wind will
Oresteia wither the rose¨.
ODYSSEY
Wrath of Achilles
In a dictionary we would find that literature is and his fatalities. It consists of changing the
Human limitation in HYPERBOLE
the art of expressing an oral tradition through meaning of one word for
controlling destiny.
written or spoken words. For the dictionary of Trilogy another
the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), it is an Trip=difficult trip (revenge and justice)
activity with artistic roots, as a means of Exaggeration increasing
expression to language. or decreasing what is
RELATIONSHIP EQUALITY being talked about. I
1, Agamemnon ¨a¨ Replaces ¨b¨ ¨a¨ is a ¨b¨. haven't seen you in a
Odysseus's return Reason vs Mercy 2. The coephoras The pearls of your The stones are pink. century.
to Ithaca. 3. The Eumenides mouth.
(pearls replace teeth)