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※poetry

→lyric poetry:express personal feeling and traditionally spoken in present tense.

e.g.Greek lyric poetry

→narrative poetry:tell a story,often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well.

e.g.the Iliad, the Odyssey

※Intro to American literature

Definition of 14th----》a man of literature

                  18th----》practice and profession of writing

                  19th----》high skill in writing in special context

Robert Frost----》performance in words

modern definition----》literature is beauty,imagination,emotional

※Benefits of studying literature

1.improve language proficiency

2.enrich knowledge

3.explore the nature of human

spiritual,human,psychology relief

※How to study literature

1.analytical

2.thematic

3.historical

Di-:2

distinguish:mark as different  e.g.We distinguish several kind og maples.

dilemma:problem,state of uncertainty or perplexitye.g.Mary is facing the dilemma of obeying her father or marrying the man she loves.

dialogue:a conversation between two personse.g.The stubborn mayor finally consented to a dialogue with the strike leaders.

Sym-same

symbol:something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible.  e.g.The eagle is a symbol of the Unite States.

sympathy:sharing the feelings of others(especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)  e.g.I have great sympathy for people in affliction.

symphony:a large orchestra  e.g.He conduct a symphony.

Ori-:begin

origin:the place where something beginse.g.Jupiter was the origin of the radiation.

Orient:the countries of Asiae.g.The Orient has been playing an active role in the world economy.

orientation:students join in the first week of a university yeare.g.We  participated in the orientation in our university.

pathy-:feeling

apathy:an absence of emotion or enthusiasme.g.The apathy of the people towards the war worried the government.

antipathy:a feeling of intense dislikee.g.He felt a strong antipathy towards them.

pathetic:deserving or inciting pitye.g.I never heard anything that sounded so pathetic.

the-:god

atheist:someone who denies the existence of gode.g.There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

monotheism:belief in a single Gode.g.Judaism came into being in accordance with monotheism.

生字

◎lyre----》string instrument

◎Genre----》''kind"or"sort"from Latin,genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature

◎atheism----》originate from Greek,meaning"without god"

◎monotheism----》as belief in the oneness God

◎polytheism----》the worship of or belief in multiple gods

◎rhetoric----》using language effectively to please or persuade

◎arbitrary----》based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice

◎capricious----》changeable

◎cuneiform----》an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia