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WorksheetsLiterature 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
It tells us about facts, explanations, history, real ‘great’ life figure, etc.
Informative literature
Imaginative literature
THE IMITATIVE OR ‘MIMETIC’ THEORY
In this type of literature, the author expresses his ideas, his feelings, his attitude, etc. He wants to communicate feelings, not facts; emotion, not information only.
(a)
Literature is generally divided into tree groups,
prose
Expressive
Drama
Imaginative
poetry
This is defined as a piece of information about a circumstance that existed or events that have really occurred like in a biography.
(a)
It is an imaginative situation like in a novel or a story.
(a)
Most theories of literature in the world can be put into these three classifications which can be called..
fictional
imitative
realistic
expressive
affective
This theory holds that art is an imitation of something.
Expressive
Imitative
Affective
This theory holds that the artist is not essentially an imitator but a man who expresses his feelings.
Expressive
Imitative
Affective
This theory holds that a work of art ought to arouse a particular emotion, or affect in (the psychological term) the perceiver.
Expressive
Imitative
Affective
This theory often includes the notion that art gives us not only pleasure but knowledge, insight into the nature of reality.
Imitative
Expressive
Affective
