GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mock-Heroic, Dramatic Structure, Euphemism
Document Summary
Is the art of written works: literary studies: criticism, theory and history. Encoded information: signs encoded historical and social information, before writing texts were passed on orally, cave paintings hold encoded information in the form of visual signs, literary criticism = literaturwissenschaft, literary critique = literaturkritik. Appeal to the ear and the imagination. Function: the oldest form of travel writing, takes us to places we can only imagine, source of comfort, concrete expressions. Metonymy: stays within one conceptual domain, but is not a physical part of it (crown) Personification: attributes humen qualities to objects or animals. Emphasis: highlighted by an unusual position of a word in a line. Anaphora: repeats words at the beginning of the line. Epiphora: repeats words at the end of lines. Polysyndenton: excessive use of conjunctions in close succession. Paradox: statement that seems to be contradictory and true at the same time. Franz stanzel (three narrative situations: mode, perspective, person.
