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Reading List
 Reading list - Form 5/6
Doodle Poll, 6d
Doodle Poll, 6e
Doodle Poll, 5e
Literature
Literature 'defined'
What's fiction?... literature?... poetry?
Literature - important points
Literature - a very brief introduction
Talking about literature
Writing about literature
Some principles when writing a paper
Style sheet (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Important Terms
Alliteration
Analogy: simile, metaphor, allegory
Antithesis and oxymoron
Blank verse
Chiasmus
Flashback
Flat and round characters
Foreshadowing
Irony; verbal, situational and dramatic
Leitmotif
Motif
Narrator
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Pleonasm
Protagonist and antagonist
Sarcasm
Theme
Poetry
The script used in class is not available online.
Poetry - a very brief summary
Narrative poem (epic): Beowulf (8th c.)
Alliterative verse: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1380)
Gerald Fitzgerald - Speak not ill of womankind (14th c.)
Lyrical poem: Clare, John. The Secret (1815)
Additional texts of interest:
Eros in Erin: Ireland's ten greatest love poems (Irish Echo)
Oral Literature Exams
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden..
Ellis, Deborah. Looking for X.
Greene, Graham. The Third Man.
Gunn, Kirsty. Rain.
Joyce, James. Eveline.
Lewis, C.S. The Magician's Nephew. (Chapters 1-7)
McEwan, Ian. The Cement Garden.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Spark. Muriel. The Girl I Left Behind Me.
Spark. Muriel. You Should Have Seen the Mess.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl.
Wilde, Oscar. The Nightingale and the Rose.
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