LITERATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA I DHG/2019

IES 28 INGLÉS 2º 3ª

READING FICTION
1) Author and Work
Author:
 Life
 Literary movements
 Works
Work:
 Composition and publication
 Relation to the rest of his literary production
 Criticism and reception

2) This work
 Length and kind
 General plan and divisions
 Title
 Plot:
o Major source of conflict
o Action
o Subplots
o Treatment of time
 Setting
o Physical features
o Everyday life of characters
o Time / period in which the action takes place
o General environment of the characters (religious, mental, moral, social,
emotional conditions)
 Characters
o Characterization
 Exposition
 Action
 Introspection
o Description
 Round / flat
 Static / dynamic
 Major / minor
 Protagonist / antagonist
 Type / Stereotype
o Development
 Point of view
o Omniscient
o Limited
o Interior monologue
o First person
o Naïve narrator
o Reliable / unreliable narrator
o Intrusive / unintrusive narrator
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 LITERATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA I DHG/2019
IES 28 INGLÉS 2º 3ª

o Presentation of material
 Panoramic method
 Scenic method

o Persona

 Style
o Personal detail
o Diction: vocabulary (choice of words, lexical fields, connotation), syntax
o Sentence structure and variety
o Figures of speech
o Imagery
o Symbols
o Rhythm
o Repetition
o Coherence
o Emphasis
o Arrangement of ideas
o Other devices / techniques
 Theme
 Tone (author towards the audience)
 Mood (author towards the subject)
 Effect
 Interpretation and personal evaluation