★ Must-know
📌 Literary fiction is examined in relation to reality, truth, and life.
📌 Denotation and connotation are studied as language resources that can create wonder and incitement in reading.
Further detail
Reality and fiction are distinct anchors that literature brings into relation.
★ Must-know
Literary texts have a communicative function that is examined in different contexts.
Literary language uses resources that affect expression.
Further detail
Literature has artistic and ideological dimensions, and literary texts can reflect ideas, beliefs, and values.
Literature is studied in relation to social contexts and cultural transmission.
1. How should the relationship between literary fiction and reality be understood?
2. A writer chooses words for both their literal reference and the associations they evoke, aiming to create wonder and prompt a response in readers. Which language resources are at work?
3. What aspect of literary texts is examined by considering how they communicate in different contexts?
What does literary fiction examine in relation to reality?
Truth and life.
What language resources can create wonder and incitement in reading?
Denotation and connotation.
What function of literary texts is examined in different contexts?
A communicative function.
What do resources in literary language affect?
Expression.
Which four aspects guide the study of epic literature?
Literary intention, narrator, narrative time, and setting.
What distinction does the course make within epic?
It distinguishes traditional epic from learned epic.
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