what are characteristics of american literature?
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They tend to reject authority and to emphasize democracy and the equality of people. They often celebrate nature and a sense of boundless space. Second, American writers have always had a strong tendency to break with literary tradition and to strike out their awn directions.
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['Complexity. Written language is relatively more complex than spoken language. ... ', 'Formality. Academic writing is relatively formal. ... ', 'Precision. In academic writing, facts and figures are given precisely. ... ', 'Objectivity. Written language is in general objective rather than personal. ... ', 'Explicitness. ... ', 'Accuracy. ... ', 'Hedging. ... ', 'Responsibility.']
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Characteristics of traditional English poetry include: Meter — usually in the form of a more or less regular rhythm. Rhyme — while not a requirement, most traditional English poems do rhyme. The major exception is blank verse.
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The six major elements of fiction are character, plot, point of view, setting, style, and theme.
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['Thought/Theme/Ideas. What the play means as opposed to what happens (the plot). ... ', 'Action/Plot. ... ', 'Characters. ... ', 'Language. ... ', 'Music. ... ', 'Spectacle.']
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The four characteristics are periodicity, universality, actuality and publicity. They are not justifiable elements of newspaper products, but of the purposes of society and history.
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['Theme. A theme is something important the story tries to tell us—something that might help us in our own lives. ... ', 'Plot. Plot is most often about a conflict or struggle that the main character goes through. ... ', 'Story Structure. At the beginning, jump right into the action. ... ', 'Characters. ... ', 'Setting. ... ', 'Style and Tone.']
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['Americans come in all colors, have all types of religions, and speak many languages from all over the world.', 'Americans believe in freedom of choice.', 'Americans need a lot of “elbow room”; they like personal space around them.', 'Americans and their police follow the law.']
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Characteristics of Culture. Culture has five basic characteristics: It is learned, shared, based on symbols, integrated, and dynamic. All cultures share these basic features. Culture is learned.
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['Characteristics of traditional English poetry include:', 'Meter — usually in the form of a more or less regular rhythm.', 'Rhyme — while not a requirement, most traditional English poems do rhyme. ... ', 'Form — traditional poems tend to take a certain form on the page that we recognize as poetry.']
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Features of style include the following: diction (word choice) • sentence structure and syntax • nature of figurative language • rhythm and component sounds • rhetorical patterns (e.g. narration, description, comparison-contrast, etc.)
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Characteristics of narrative writing include characters, plot, conflict, setting, and point of view.
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['Novel. More bigger, more better. ... ', "Narrative Detachment. Keep those characters at arms' length, Naturalists. ... ", "Determinism. People don't have much control over their fate in Naturalist fiction. ... ", 'Pessimism. The glass is totally half empty, guys. ... ', 'Social Environment. ... ', 'Heredity and Human Nature. ... ', 'Poverty. ... ', 'Survival.']
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They are Character, dialogue, foreshadowing, form, imagery, irony, juxtaposition, mood, pacing, the point of view, structure, symbolism, theme, and tone. Line by line elements of style in literature are alliteration, assonance, colloquialisms, diction, jargon, metaphor, repetition, and rhyme an rhythm.
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['Characteristic # 1. Simplicity:', 'Characteristic # 2. Clarity:', 'Characteristic # 3. Brevity:', 'Characteristic # 4. Positivity:', 'Characteristic # 5. Punctuation:', 'Characteristic # 6. Approach:', 'Characteristic # 7. Readability:', 'Characteristic # 8. Accuracy:']
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Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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['literary elements include story line (plot), character, story organization (beginning, middle, end), plot structures (rising action, turning point, falling action), conflict, suspense, theme, language, style, dialogue, monologue.', 'technical elements include scenery (set), costumes, props, lights, sound, music, makeup.']