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"What is a Protagonist in Cli-Fi?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature
How does climate change alter our understanding of individual protagonists, who are typically expected to resolve a story's conflict on their own? How can you spot these changes in cli-fi? In this short video, MA student Erika Stewart juxtaposes close readings of The Hunger Games series with two freely available cli-fi short stories--Helen Phillips' "The Disaster Store" and Adam Flynn and Andrew Hudson's "Sunshine State"--to answer these questions. The series is designed to help high school and college English students understand how common literary terms and literary devices change in our era of changing climate.
In early fall 2024, we will begin to debut free (OER) lesson plans tied to these videos designed for teachers and students who wish to join the conversation. Those resources will be housed here: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/media/swlf-media-channel
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In the comments section below, please feel free to suggest other terms that you would like us to cover in this new series. Liking, sharing, and commenting on these videos will help us to build a rich digital learning environment around this pressing problem of the 21st century.
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"What is a Narrative Arc in Cli-Fi?": The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature
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How does climate change alter our understanding of typical narrative arcs? How can you spot these changes in cli-fi? In this short video, MA student Jackson Cooper juxtaposes a close reading of the movie Shrek with Jenny Offill's cli-fi novel Weather to answer these questions. The series is designed to help high school and college English students understand how common literary terms and litera...
"What is Cli-Fi?": An Introduction to the Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature
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What does Cli-Fi mean? What are some examples of Cli-Fi? In this short video, MA student Georgia Wright uses the Childish Gambino song "Feels Like Summer" to introduce our new series The Oregon State Guide to Climate-Change Literature and to answer these questions. The series is designed to help high school and college English students understand how common literary terms and literary devices c...
Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Returning the Gift: the nature writer in a time of climate catastrophe"
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Best-selling author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer delivers the Stone Lecture at Oregon State. The Stone Award recognizes major American authors with bodies of critically acclaimed work that influence multiple generations of writers, readers, and thinkers. Past recipients include writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry in 2021, novelist Colson Whitehead in 2019, and poet Rita Dove in 2016. Kimmere...
"What is a Bildungsroman?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What is a Bildungsroman? What are its origins and characteristics? What are some common examples of the Bildungsroman? In this short lesson, Senior Lecturer Sam Schwartz answers these questions through popular examples and Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify examples of the Bildungsroman and analyze fea...
"What is Young Adult Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What is the Young Adult Literature? What are some of YA literature's common themes and characteristics? How does YA differ from adult or mainstream literatures? In this short lesson, MFA student Bec Ehlers answers these questions using examples taken from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl. The video is designed to help high school and college English student...
"What is a Climax?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What is the climax of a story? What are some examples of climaxes in literature? Why are climaxes important in literary essays? In this short lesson, Professor Raymond Malewitz answers these questions through an extended reading of Yiyun Li's "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers." The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify and analyze climaxes within and beyond...
"What Is (AND ISN'T) Standard Written English?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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We're used to seeing a particular form of language in public and academic arenas, but what impact does it have when we call it "standard" or "correct," and where does this notion come from? In this video, Dr. Ana Milena Ribero explores these questions, considering issues of both power and intelligibility. It is designed for high school and college students studying grammar, writing, or linguist...
"What is a Parody?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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How do you define parody? What are some examples of parodies? What is the difference between a parody and a satire or a parody and a pastiche? In this short lesson, Professor Ehren Pflugfelder answers these questions through brief examples from novels, songs, and other cultural objects. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify and analyze parodies within a...
"What is a Vignette?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What does vignette mean? How does it differ from flashbacks or anecdotes? What functions do vignettes serve in literature? What is an example of a vignette? In this short lesson, Senior Instructor Kristin Griffin answers these questions through brief examples from film and museum studies, and a longer reading of a vignette in Sandra Cisneros' novel The House on Mango Street. The video is design...
"What is Science Fiction?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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How is science fiction defined? Does SF predict the future or does it enhance our understanding of our present problems and opportunities? Is it simply a literary genre or is it a much larger cultural conversation? In this short lesson, Visiting Professor Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw) answers these questions by offering 5 different definitions of science fiction. The video is designed to ...
Celebrating 25K Subscribers: Goofy Outtakes from the Oregon State Guide to Literary Terms
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To thank all of our 25K subscribers (and nearly 3 million viewers!), we offer the following behind-the-scenes look at our recording process. As you'll see, learning to prepare, deliver, and edit our lessons has been quite a challenge! We're so grateful to all of you for watching our videos and joining the conversation when you have felt moved. Storytelling is such a fundamental component of the...
The Wonder and the Worry || Official Teaser Trailer
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The Wonder and the Worry is an environmental documentary film currently in production and slated to debut in Spring 2024. The film follows the careers of Chris Johns, former Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic and friend to SWLF's Applied Journalism program, and his daughter, photographer Louise Johns, as they both navigate the changing landscape of nature photography and environmental journ...
"What is Verisimilitude?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What is verisimilitude and how does it relate to literature? When should writers strive for verisimilitude and what are some examples of verisimilitude in stories? In this short lesson, Senior Lecturer Gilad Elbom answers these questions using examples from everyday life and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify ...
"What is an Elegy?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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What kind of poem is an elegy and how is it structured? What is the difference between an elegy and a eulogy? In this short lesson, Poet-in-Residence David Biespiel answers these questions using examples from John Milton and Stanley Plumly. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify and analyze this poetic form in their literature classes. Spanish subtitles ...
"What is an Ode?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is an Ode?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"What is an Idiom?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is an Idiom?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"What Is Mood in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"What Is Mood in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What Is Syntax in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"What Is Syntax in Grammar?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What is a Trope?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is a Trope?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"What Is a Comma Splice?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"What Is a Comma Splice?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"How to Use Apostrophes": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"How to Use Apostrophes": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What is the Difference Between Tone and Mood?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is the Difference Between Tone and Mood?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"How to Use a Colon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"How to Use a Colon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What is Close Reading?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is Close Reading?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"How to Use a Semicolon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"How to Use a Semicolon": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What is Tone in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is Tone in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"What is a Soliloquy?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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"What is a Soliloquy?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
"What Is Singular They?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"What Is Singular They?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar
"What Is Code-Meshing?" Oregon State Guide to Grammar
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"What Is Code-Meshing?" Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 14 годин тому

    Assonance and consonance both terms are associated with repetition- assonance is repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is repetition of consonant sound - but these terms ad they typically used differ in 3 important ways from pattering of rhyme . For example Jan likes to eat spam from can . Notice repetition of short vowel sound . For example Shakespeare his tender heir might bear his memory. Eh sound in tender , heir , bear memory assonance sound. Consonance is literally device that occurs when two words have same consonant sound following different vowel sounds. For example same and home have same and home have same m sound , but vowel sounds before are different. First long a and second long o . Example consonance hickory dickory dock . Another examples of poets hear mellow wedding bells by Edgar Allen Poe. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Stevie-J
    @Stevie-J 18 годин тому

    This is awesome, actually. A publicly available style guide to help the masses more effectively engage in psy-ops. This idea would fit perfectly in a cyberpunk story and it helps prime the audience for solarpunk ideas... it's so meta

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 11 годин тому

      Ha! We wouldn't exactly frame it in this way Stevie-J, but we do agree that the time is ripe for bringing the liberal arts (and in particular literary studies) into the climate conversation as we work to address the planetary crisis in which we find ourselves. Here's hoping we can all start imagining and telling better stories about how to get out of the mess we have made.

  • @ZhulNompo
    @ZhulNompo День тому

    Please tell the reference

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 20 годин тому

      We're a little unclear here on what you are asking, Zhul. The reference to what?

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 День тому

    There are comma ( eight basic uses ) use comma to separate independent clauses. Use comma after introductory clause or pharse . Use comma between all items in series . Use comma to set off appositives . Use comma to indicate direct addresses. Use comma to set off direct quotations . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 День тому

    Allusion in literature can be narrative technique, such as dream , vision or other device that misleads , confuses , or tricks character. Some common allusion example to my dog , our neighborhood park is garden of Edan . ( alludes to Christian bible ) Iam Juliet to your Romeo . Her hair was long , her foot was light , her eyes were wild . These lines are great example of how Keats uses illusion in this poem to encourage reader to analyze difference between reality and fantasy. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 День тому

    Climate fiction sometimes shortened ( ci - fi ) is literary that deals with climate change. Generally speculative in nature inspired by climate science, work of climate fiction may take place in the world as we know it in near future or fictional world experiencing climate change. Genre includes science fiction, and dystopian or utopian themes , impacts of climate change. Margaret Atwood explored subject in her dystopian trilogy oryx and crake ( 2003) , the year of flood ( 2009 ) , and madd Adam ( 2013) in oryx and crake , Atwood presents world where social equality, genetic technology and technology catastrophic climate change, has finally culminated in some apocalyptic event . The novel protagonist, jimmy lives in world spirit between corporate compounds gated communities that have grown into city states and pleeblands , which are unsafe , populous, polluted, or urban areas where working classes live. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      Thanks so much for commenting on our most recent video, Khatoon! We love Atwood's work, and her protagonist, Jimmy, very much fits this model of the limitations of what a single person can do in the face of climate change. Crake, on the other hand, does display a brutal kind of agency as he tries to "solve" the crisis--though his solution is (fittingly, given the dystopian nature of the trilogy) incredibly dark.

  • @user-hl8yk6ey5k
    @user-hl8yk6ey5k 2 дні тому

    Can she read any faster or with less meaning? There's more to life than increasing the speed. Please, slow down! I can't believe she believes what she says, only that she can speed read without mistakes. All I got from this was something about the Hunger Games!

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      Thanks for the comment, @user-hl8yk6ey5k. All of our videos contain subtitles, so if things so to fast here, you're welcome to turn them on. We want this channel to provide learning opportunities for all of us--viewers and presenters alike. We aren't perfect, but we're trying, and we are incredibly proud of our brave faculty and students who step in front of the camera to share their love of literature with the world.

  • @jeffreyhughes7107
    @jeffreyhughes7107 2 дні тому

    I’m a semi colon abuser. I find that I can add nuanced ideas without reverting to parentheses.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      Ha! The first step is admitting you have a problem. Our current addiction is the em-dash--we can't get enough of them!

    • @jeffreyhughes7107
      @jeffreyhughes7107 День тому

      @@SWLF Guilty as charged! I rely on that new fangled device too. Sigh - Thomas Jefferson would be disappointed.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      @@jeffreyhughes7107 Ha! But Emily Dickinson would be delighted!

  • @atharvsingh3410
    @atharvsingh3410 2 дні тому

    Thanks Erika✨

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      We're delighted to hear you enjoyed the lesson, Atharv!

  • @AliAli-h4r2n
    @AliAli-h4r2n 2 дні тому

    Is assonance in the Arabic language better?

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF День тому

      We're not sure, @AliAli-h4r2n. Is assonance common in Arabic poetry?

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 4 дні тому

    Blank verse is literally term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed , but metered lines always iambic pentameter. For example lippo lipp ( 1855) by Robert browning and second coming ( 1920) by w. B yeats . Blank verse is closely associated with free verse . However, latter has no meter . First blank verse appeared in 16 th century Italy during renaissance adaptation of unrhymed poetry, from Ancient Greece and Rome . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 4 дні тому

    Elegy is sad poem , usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead . For example o captain my captain by Walt Whitman . Stop all clocks and memory of w. B yeats by w. H Auden . Famous elegy in memoriam lord Alfred tennyson. Father of elegy is Thomas gray he was English poet. Elegy common subdivisions pastoral elegy , impersonal elegy , personal elegy . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @SWLF
    @SWLF 4 дні тому

    If you enjoyed this video, please give us a like, drop us a question about cli-fi, or let us know if your experiences with cli-fi protagonists match the model outlined here. Thanks for watching, everybody!

  • @afiqh9909
    @afiqh9909 5 днів тому

    So in a nutshell it is just a literary mechanism to compel the story to end in a better way that wasn’t part of the premise? I didn’t understand Deus Ex Machina but for some strong unknown force, UA-cam and your channel made me understand? 😂. Thanks for the wonderful video. TIL!

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      You got it, @afiqh9909 ! We're delighted some strong unknown force brought you to this lesson, and we hope you'll check out more of them if you have the time.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 5 днів тому

    Flashback is scene that takes place before story beings. Defined as interruption in present vivid memory set in past . Interrupts that chronological sequence from line action or ( present ) line of story to show reader scene unfolded in past . Flashback and flash forward in other ways in which narrative discourse. Story flashing back to earlier in story ( analepsis ) flashing forward. Types of flashback somatic and emotional. Starting flashback by telling readers memory , reveal backstory, and build tension. Flashbacks pull audience out of main story , create suspense by using past events to give audiences more information main characters. Flashbacks can influence stir up plot , dynamic layers to characters, reveal information.thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 6 днів тому

    Semicolon use to join two related independent clauses in place of common and coordinating conjunction. Semicolon is punctuation mark ( ;) used to join two independent clauses in sentences . For example my dad birthday is today ; however I haven’t bought present yet . Project is due tomorrow; therefore she has to work overtime. Semicolon has become symbol of hope for people who have battled depression, addiction, other mental health issues. Semicolon use to link single sentence, two independent clauses that are close through , or to separate two independent clause , that are connected by translational pharse or conjunction adverb . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 8 днів тому

    Persona definition refers to voice and perspective author adopts to tell story . Persona in literature are particularly distinctive when author uses first persona narrator , as storyteller. As clearly separate from author. Example our persona name is Emma . They have specific characteristics instead of range . Persona is image or personality that persona represents in public or in specific setting as opposed to their true self . Types of persona are fictional, role based , qualitative, anti persona . Persona technique is fictitious users / customers are created using statistics questioners. Persona in poem is dramatic character distinguished from poet , who is speaker of poem . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 8 днів тому

    Euphony and cacophony means sound patterns used in verse to achieve opposite effects. Euphony is pleasing and harmonious : cacophony is harsh and discordant. Euphony is achieved through use of vowel sounds in words of generally serene imagery . Example of Euphony words mist , mellow. Example of cacophony ooze , hiss . Writers use Euphony to make their language sound beautiful. Euphony in poem listen for muffled or soft consonant. Shakespeare used cacophony in lady Macbeth famous speech in tragedy Macbeth . Cacophony in drama is use of combination of words with loud , harsh sounds . Shakespeare language is good example of Euphony. Pleasant harmony as with tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow/ creeps in this petty pace from day to day .sentence of Euphony he awakened in warm morning to Euphony of bird song outside his window . Synonyms of cacophony roar , noise . Type of speech unharmonious or dissonant . Noun cacophony and adjective form of cacophonous refer to musicality’ of writing how sounds to reader when spoken aloud . Famous poem with Euphony is sonnet 18 of Shakespeare. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Lenny.262
    @Lenny.262 8 днів тому

    "We make up horrors to cope with the real ones." -Stephen King "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P. Lovecraft

  • @dheerajsinghnagdali
    @dheerajsinghnagdali 8 днів тому

    I use correct grammar, so no thanks.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 9 днів тому

    Juxtaposition is literally technique that places two distinct dissimilar things side by side to bring out their differences . Synonyms adjacent, adjoining, contiguous. For example all fair in love and war or making mountain out of molehill . Juxtaposition can help strengthen argument, create emotional response or otherwise add meaning . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 9 днів тому

    Round character is deep layered character in story . Round characters are interesting to audience because they feel like real people, audiences often feel invested in these characters goals , success, failure, strength, weaknesses. Flat characters are two dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and don’t change throughout course of work . By contrast round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise readers , flat and round characters. Round characters often shows emotional development and personality growth throughout story . For example walter white in breaking bad . Both round and dynamic character. Flat character is two dimensional character lacking real personality. Usually have just one or two perfunctory traits . For example flat character crush , turtle , crabbe , goyle in Harry Potter. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 10 днів тому

    Tragedy comes from Greek word literary song of goat . Ancient Athens where tragedy was first performed on stage . Tragedy is branch of drama that treats in serious sorrowful or , terrible events encountered or caused by heroic individuals. Types of tragedy are complex made up of peripheral and anagnorisis , second tragedy of suffering, third tragedy of character , fourth tragedy or spectacle. Aristotle argued that tragedy cleansed heart through pity and terror, purging us of our petty concerns and worries by making us aware that can be nobility in suffering. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 10 днів тому

    Predicate is part of sentence, or clause , that tells subject is doing or what subject is . Example cat is sleeping in sun . Clause sleeping in sun predicate, it dictation what cat is doing . Boy walks to school . Types of predicate are simple predicate main verb or single and auxiliaries. Complex verb plus all dependent. Compound predicate gives two or more detail about same subject and , has two or more verbs that joined by conjunction. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @MaryFroelich
    @MaryFroelich 11 днів тому

    Useful content.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Thanks, Mary! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 11 днів тому

    Vehicles and tenors is thing being described. Vehicle is figurative language you use to describe it . These terms are taken from famous rhetorician I A richards who wrote about these structures of metaphors way back in 1936 . Tenor and vehicle ground is things tenor and vehicle have in common. In literature vehicle is components of metaphor, with tenor referring to concept , object , person meant , and vehicle being image that Carries weight of comparison. For example tenor and vehicle in Macbeth play tenor Macbeth ambition to be king and vehicle is spur . Ground is that Shakespeare compares Macbeth desire to be king riding horse . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 11 днів тому

    Clause is group of words that contains both subject and predicate and functioning as member of complex entry , or compound . Example it rained they went inside . Consists of two clauses when it rained and they went inside . Types of clauses are independent , adverbial , noun , adjective, depent clause. Principal , coordinate clause . Non finite clause . Main clause is central idea of sentence . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 12 днів тому

    Metonymy is figure of speech in which word is replaced with another word closely associated with original concept . Metonymy often treated as subtype of metaphor, cognitive linguistic . Types of metonymy synecdoche and metalepsis . Best example pen is mightier than sword . Pen stands for written word and sword for military aggression. There are metonymy in poem ode to nightingale. Examples such as crown means monarch . Heart means passion or energy. Press means media publicity. Rags to riches means change in fortune from poverty to wealth . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 12 днів тому

    Frame story is narrative that frames or surrounds another story or set of stories . Example Chaucer Canterbury tales . Many framestories begin with theme introduced first act . Literary technique of frame story is introductory narrative is presented for purpose of setting stage for more emphasize, on narrative or set of shorter stories . Thank you for your educational channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 13 днів тому

    Oxymoron is figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meaning . For example deafening silence and working holiday are both oxymoron. In play Romeo and Juliet why then blowing love o loving hate . Paradox is rhetorical device or self traditionally statement that can actually be true . While oxymoron is figure of speech that pairs two opposing meanings . Famous has oxymoron easter 1016 ( terrible beauty). Oxymorons symbolize. Words or pharses that when placed together, create paradox or contradictions. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 13 днів тому

    Literary theme is main idea or underlying meaning writer explores in novel , short story or other literary work . Example of themes in literature love , forgiveness, coming of age , bravery, hardship. There are three types of theme ideational/ topical theme , textual , interpersonal theme . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 14 днів тому

    Trope is pharse , stop and smell roses and meaning we take from it . Example of trope . Derived from Greek word tropes which means turn , direction , way . Tropes are figures of speech that moves . Meaning of text from literal to figurative. Popular romance tropes for writers such as love triangle. Second chance. Enemies to lovers . Examples of tropes calling fool ass or , cunning person fox , he is snake . Personification is trope . There are four master tropes metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 14 днів тому

    Hyperbole is extreme specifically for literary or rhetorical effect . Like other statement simile , metaphor. Hyperbole is example of figurative language. Examples of hyperbole in every day speech he running faster than wind . That man as tall as house . Best example of hyperbole there are enough food on table to feed entire army . Iam hungry I could eat horse .thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 11 годин тому

      Thanks so much for the comment, Khatoon! It would be interesting to hear about some common examples of hyperbole in Arabic (following from your "heart of gold" comment on our metaphor video). We truly appreciate all of the work that you are putting in to ensure our comments section remains a thriving place for literary discussion.

  • @candyluna2929
    @candyluna2929 14 днів тому

    The second version for edgar Allen poe, sounds like the chorus for a good rap song.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 14 днів тому

      Ha! And the theme is fairly similar to Geto Boys "Mind Playing Tricks on Me."

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 15 днів тому

    Metaphor is figure of speech that describes object or action in way that isn’t literally true , but helps to explain idea or make comparison. Metaphor makes implicit comparison between two unlike things , usually by saying that one thing is another thing . Common metaphor examples time is thief . Eyes are windows to soul . This icing on cake . Hope is horizon . Life contains nothing but clear skies up ahead . He has heart of gold we say his heart made of gold in Arabic means ( he is very kind , supportive) . Her lovely voice was music to ears . America is melting pot . Metaphor about life are figure of speech that state that one thing is actually another thing . Personification is type of metaphor. Simile too is type of metaphor. Famous metaphor sun was toddler insisting refusing to go to bed it was past eight thirty and still light . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 11 годин тому

      Thanks so much for the comment, Khatoon! We are delighted to hear that the "heart of gold" metaphor operate sin Arabic as well as English!

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 15 днів тому

    Verb is word that indicates physical action ( drive ) , mental action ( think ) or state of being ( exist ) . Every sentence contains verb . Verbs are almost always used a long with noun or pronoun to describe what noun or pronoun is doing . Verb describes action such as break cru eat . Sentence pattern will be subject- action verb - rest of sentence ( noun, pronoun, noun pharse ) verb adjective adverb , noun , preposition, pharse . Thank you for your wonderful literary educational channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Great work here, Khatoon, but this definition departs from Prof. Bushnell's more functional definition of a word that shows tense. This is how verbs are defined in English, but I wonder if they have the same property in your native language of Arabic. Do verbs operate in a similar way as the only elements of language that express tense (past, present, or future) in Arabic?

    • @Khatoon170
      @Khatoon170 4 дні тому

      Yes we have verb tense ( past , present , future) , but we have many synonyms of every words . Not like as English language for example personal nouns , you say you for male , female or group , we have special for each one of them . Our language is beautiful but little bit difficult grammatically.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 16 днів тому

    Noun is word that represents person , thing , concept , place . Types of nouns are common , proper , abstract , collective , concrete . Examples of noun common city . Proper New York . Singular banana. Collective family . Compound ice cream. Concrete table . Abstract anger . There famous rule we taught at school uncountable noun unable to count as sugar , rice and countable noun as pens , spoons . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      We agree, Khatoon, though as Prof. Bushnell suggests, we also like the functional idea of a noun as a thing that can be made plural or possessive. This broader idea can help us to understand nouns less as things in the world than elements with specific properties within a sentence.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 16 днів тому

    Apostrophe is punctuation mark , sometimes diacritical mark in language that use Latin alphabets . I’m English apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: marking of omission of one or more letters contraction of “ do not “ to “ dont “ . Marking of possessive case of nouns as “ eagle of feathers “ “ in one mouth time “ , “ twin coats “ use single quotation mark . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Thanks so much for checking out more of our grammar videos, Khatoon!

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 17 днів тому

    Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorying event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. Ode often features smiles, metaphor, sometimes hyperbole. Traditional ode begins by naming subject of poem , typically preceded by word “ oh “. John Keats wrote five of his most odes included ode on Grecian , ode on indolence, ode on melancholy, ode to nightingale, ode to psyche . Sonnets are among popular forms of ode poetry. Ode written between three and five stanza. Ode created by poet Ancient Greek poet Pindar who lived during 5 th century bc , and is often created with creating ode poetic form . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Nice work here, Khatoon! We agree that sonnets can, strictly speaking, also be considered odes, though they are rarely labelled as such.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 17 днів тому

    Epic mythology English word epic from Latin which comes from Ancient Greek adjective word ( Epos ) “ word , story , poem “ . Definition of epic is long often book length , narrative in verse that retells heroic journey of single person or group of persons. Best definition of epic is long narrative poem written in elevated style , or in which heroes of great historical or legendary importance perform various deeds . Examples of epic such as Leo Tolstoy war and peace. There are two types of epic primary or oral epic and , secondary or literary epic . Characteristic of epic is presence of supernatural elements. Epic is long story about hero that serves organizing point of cultural or social identity. Themes of epic poem are bravery, strength, fighting for king and people, loyalty, revenge, honor , generosity, reputation. Famous writers of epic such as homer , Virgil, Ovid , Dante , Edmund Spenser ,Milton . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Thanks so much for expanding our list of epics, Khatoon!

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 18 днів тому

    Conflict in literature means it’s literary device that presents struggle between two sides due to disagreement in values , desires , motivations. There are seven types of conflict self person . Person , person . Society, person . Machine or technology person . Supernatural being person . Destiny or fate person . In story conflict means struggle that protagonist goes through in story . Conflict in fiction is problems are called conflict, which means opposing desire , endangered. Basically conflict when character wants something but something else gets in way . Conflict is driving force behind story . Conflict is major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in story by adding uncertainty as whether goal will be achieved. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Nice work here, Khatoon! Another kind of conflict that we enjoy is inner conflict within a character--wanting two things that are opposed to one another and having to make a choice, for example.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 18 днів тому

    Plain writing tips for comma using are don’t use comma between subject and verb of sentence . Don’t use comma when subject has two verbs . Use comma at end of date . Use comma after place names using states or counties. Use comma before “ end “when listing series . Comma should only go before word which in non - restrictive clause . Bad example of comma usage we hated meatloaf , cafeteria served every Friday. Incorrect: we hated meatloaf that cafeteria served every Friday. Comma splice occurs when only comma separates clauses that could each stand alone sentence. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Thanks for this lovely summary, Khatoon! The restrictive vs non-restrictive appositives certainly present problems for our students.

  • @aggabus
    @aggabus 18 днів тому

    0:12 silly. Articulate Pronunciation . Is not sili Is solo

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 11 днів тому

      Hmmm, we're a little unclear on what you mean here, @aggabus. Do you mean the pronunciation of soliloquy? That may vary by region, but the two ways we've heard it are "So-lil-o-kwi" and "si-lil-o-kwi." Both are quite common.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 19 днів тому

    Uncanny in particularly gothic literature is term used to describe familiar being unfamiliar . Example of uncanny wall paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman . Gilman feminist parable centers upon something that is very familiar wallpaper which evokes strange feelings and hallucinations in character. Stemming from fraudian psychology it described how something which is recognizable is I’m some way altered or placed in context that makes strange and unnerving. Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @Lenny.262
      @Lenny.262 8 днів тому

      You're describing what Freud called _das umheimliche,_ "the uncanny." Our horrors begin (and end) in our minds.

    • @Lenny.262
      @Lenny.262 8 днів тому

      Have you never experienced _umheimlich?_ It is most prevalent in Under the Skin (2013), Antichrist (2009), Hereditary (2018) and Crimes of the Future (2022).

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Indeed! Freud's theory is the basis of this lesson.

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 19 днів тому

    Comma splice occurs when you use comma to join two complete sentences without placing appropriate joining word between them . Comma splice definition when two independent clauses are smashed together in single sentence without adequate punctuation. Comma splice is important because it’s interferes with efficient transmission of thought from writer to reader. For example clouds were dark , we thought it would rain . I bought coat , however didn’t fit . Comma splice error occurs when sentences independent clauses are improperly connected by comma alone . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 5 днів тому

      Nice work here, Khatoon! We're happy to see you checking out our grammar series as well as our literary terms series, and we hope you'll check out our climate change series, which we'll be adding to throughout the summer.

  • @totalbabe666
    @totalbabe666 20 днів тому

    Excellent explanation! Very grateful. So helpful thank you :)

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 20 днів тому

    Enjambment is French word ( striding over ) it’s poetic term of continuation of sentence or pharse from one line of poetry to next . Enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at line break , so reader is carried smoothly and swiftly without interruption to next line poem . Effect of enjambment quickens pace of poem , creating sense or urgency or tension . Early Shakespeare as his style developed proportions of enjambment in his plays increased . Enjambment builds more complex narrative within poem , by fleeing our thought instead of confining to one line . Creates sense of drama in poem as readers are pulled beyond limitations of single line . Wordsworth used enjambment to break up sentence . Emily Dickinson used enjambment . Her creation of ambiguity because they shown numerous possible interpretation and they engage reader in process understanding varied meanings. Poets use enjambment because it’s quickens pace of poem by reducing break between sentences. Opposite of enjambment is end stopped line . Thank you for your wonderful literary educational channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 10 днів тому

      Nice work here, Khatoon! We agree (though our favorite example of enjambment might be William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheel Barrow"...

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 20 днів тому

    Zeugma definition is literary term for using one word to modify two other words in two different ways. For example zeugma she broke his car and his heart . Purpose of zeugma to surprise , delight , or confuse audiences. In poetic device zeugma is rhetorical device . It’s produces level of shock , create thoughtful effect to add emotions. I studied English both language and literature till second year and left college. It’s will of god not mine . As if Iam resuming study again . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 10 днів тому

      Excellent example here, Khatoon! Thanks so much for adding to the conversation!

  • @gut9941
    @gut9941 20 днів тому

    i think it's so cool that M.A students are doing the videos of this new series :) whis my university did something like this

    • @SWLF
      @SWLF 20 днів тому

      Thanks, @gut9941 ! We are incredibly proud of all of our M.A. students' work on this project and can't wait to get the other videos edited and out into the world later this summer!