LITERATURE

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LITERATURE

• Basic Elements of Literature
• By Janet Mbewe
• Munali Boys High School

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Theme

• The dominating idea or thought which runs through
  a piece of writing. It is not a long story or
  explanation.
• The commonest themes are those of love, life and
  death.

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Love
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Life
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Death
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2.Content

• Refers to what is in the passage, that is, the
  summary of the passage in your own words in clear
  and simple words.

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Style

• It is the way and manner in which the writer
  handles his topic.
• Aspects of style
• Attitude e.g. humour, sarcasm, irony, plain and
  straightforward writing etc.
• Narrative view point.
• Arrangement of incidents.
• language

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4. Appeals

• Certain effects a story has on the reader if the
  reader has understood it very well.
• Sometimes you read a passage and you laugh, cry
  or hiss for hate and disgust.
• Four types of appeals
• Auditory, Emotional, Intellectual and Gustatory

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Auditory appeal

• An appeal to your sense of hearing e.g. when a
  poem is read aloud to you, the effects of the end
  rhymes, assonance give an auditory appeal.

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Emotional appeal

• Has to do totally with feelings e.g. crying,
  hissing out anger, burst out laughing.
• Emotional effects are also very much alive in
  watching films and plays.

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Intellectual appeal

• A passage may make you think of things and ideas
  which have never come to your mind. It may make
  meanings, problems and prospects of life clear to
  you.
• Intellectual appeal also sets your mind in motion
  long after you have read a story or seen a play.

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Gustatory appeal

• An appeal to the sense of smell e.g. you read a
  passage and the odour of some stinking things or
  aroma of sweet flower are brought to your nose.
• Ayi Kwei Armah-Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
  The description of the saliva of the sleeping
  conductor. It makes one feel sick.