Literature English Skills Rhetorical Analysis


Literature definition

  • by definition, anything in writing
  • more particularly, literature refers to writing of artistic merit or value


Literature

Types

inscriptions

pamphlets

poetry

prose

Ancient texts

Biblical

Chinese

Greek

English literature

Old English

Middle English

American literature

  • "Moby Dick” by Melville
  • "Huck Finn” by Twain
  • Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald

American high school literature

Discussed the American Canon:


General works taught in American high schools:

  • Hamlet / Julius Caesar
  • Gatsby
  • Lord of the Flies
  • F451
  • Things Fall Apart
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • The Crucible
  • Beloved
  • House on Mango Street


Modern literature

Magical Realism

International literature (modern periods)

French

Spanish

Russian