First Year LMD Literary Genres Programme

-What is Literature? Student Problem with Literature
Introduction to Literary Genres
What is Fiction?

 The Novel

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Short Story

The Fall of the House of Usher by E.A. Poe

Eveline by James Joyce

What is Drama?

Text: Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Soliloquy ‘To be or not to be’

What is Poetry?

Text: Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Literary Elements:

Plot

Characterization

Theme

Settings

Literary Techniques

Point of view

Style

Symbolism