| Course Type | Compulsory Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | 1 |
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| Semester | First Term (Fall) |
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| ECTS | 5 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Define literary terms, genres, and figures of speech by providing examples.
- Identify the elements that make up a literary genre and infer their contribution to the literary text.
- Explicate a text given by using literary terms, figures of speech, and elements of a literary genre.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | |
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| Course Description | This course aims to familiarize students with major literary genres such as poetry, narrative, and drama and to introduce basic literary terminology and figures of speech necessary for textual analysis. The students will learn how to critically approach a specific literary genre, practice close reading and evaluate a literary text by putting the knowledge of literary terms they have acquired into practice. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Orientation ORY100, No Class. |
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2nd Week |
An introduction to the course and overview of the syllabus;
An introduction to literary studies, definitions of literature, text, fiction and non-fiction, prose, poetry, drama
. Introduction to Elements of Poetry (Questions to Analyze a Poem, Persona, Plot, Setting, Theme, Imagery). Reading of example poems: Lucille Clifton "Good Times" Billie Collins "Introduction to Poetry" Langston Hughes ?Cross? Elizabeth Bishop "One Art" |
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3rd Week |
Imagery: Robert Frost "After Apple Picking" Galway Kinnel ?Blackberry Eating? Seamus Heaney "The Forge." In-Class Exercises. |
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4th Week |
Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Conceit, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy, Philip Larkin "A Study of Reading Habits" Sylvia Plath "Metaphors" John Donne "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" Emily Dickinson "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves" Alfrred Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar" |
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5th Week |
Figurative Language: Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" William Blake "The Sick Rose" W.H. Auden "Musee des Beaux Arts," Anne Sexton "Cinderella" |
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6th Week |
Figurative Language: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony, Emily Dickinson "Much Madness is divinest Sense"Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" Countee Cullen "Incident" Theodore Roethke "My Papa?s Waltz" |
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7th Week |
Tone and Musical Devices, Rhythm and Types of Meter, Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool" George Herbert "Virtue" In-Class Exercises. |
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8th Week |
Midterm Examination |
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9th Week |
Evaluating Poetry: In Class Writing Workshop |
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10th Week |
Elements of Fiction: Plot & Structure, Characterization, Point of View, Theme, Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" John Cheever "Enormous Radio" |
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11th Week |
Symbol, Allegory, Fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe "Masque of the Red Death" Sylvia Plath "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" |
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12th Week |
Humor & Irony, Kate Chopin "Story of an Hour" Sandra Cisneros "Barbie-Q", Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" |
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13th Week |
Semester Quiz |
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14th Week |
Introduction to Drama, Susan Glaspell Trifles |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Tenth Edition, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.
Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Gioia, eds. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Compact edition, HarperCollins, 1995.
Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies, Routledge, 2004.
Jago, Carl et al. Literature and Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking, Bedford, 2011.
Rainsford, Dominic. Studying Literature in English: An Introduction, Routledge, 2014.
Sullivan, Jenny. Writing Themes About Literature, Norton, 1983.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
30 |
| Assignment |
3 |
15 |
| Presentation of Article |
1 |
15 |
| Total(%) |
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60 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
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60 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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40 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
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| Individual or group work |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
20 |
20 |
| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
20 |
20 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Homework |
3 |
6 |
18 |
| Article Presentation |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| Total Work Load | 150 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 5 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 5 |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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