Extra Credit: Literature

Literature terms in an essay, article, or any piece of writing, lets you know how an author expresses his or her ideas. There are many terms you can find in reading such as characterization, conflict, dialogue, imagry, point of view, symbol, and tone. Each of these has its own set of standards. Characterization is used through  the characters in a story, actions, reactions, dialogue and thoughts of a character. Conflict is the struggle in the story, usually the whole main point and without conflict in some cases, there is no story behind it. Dialogue is talking or vocal exchange between two characters. Imagry is used to show attitude, tension, mood, setting and things like that within a story or the image itself can tell the story. Point of view is like the authors thought then eventually leads to the reality or definition of what the author is talking about. Symbol is realated to imagry in a sense, a writing can seem like something ordinary but have a real meaning behind it which would be symbolic to the author or reader. And tone is an attitude towards the subject communicated by words.

Writing poetry is like making an arguement. To be able to write a poem you should look at the genre and theme of what you're going to be writing about. Also a huge factor to writing poetry is the versification. How the words rhyme and fit together, theres many ways you can rhyme or poetry doesn't even have to rhyme. Be able to recognize your figures of speech such as metephors, similies, metonymy, synechdoche, personification, litotes and irony. Telling a story is the most importatnt part of poetry. Starting with a beginning of a story and making sure you finish with a good closure. All of these are huge factors into writing decent and excellent poetry.

I will use the literature terms more often. I usually don't think about using these kind of terms when writing for some reason but maybe thats because I don't usually write stories which these are more often found in. But I will remember the different kinds of tones that I'm able to use in stories to make them more efficient. I write poetry a lot or I used to when I had a lot of time on my hands and I would always do everything this artice said without knowing it, I was never "taught" how to write poetry I would just write it and versification was always my favorite part. The stories were hard to come up with when I wasn't going through anything but since I was for the most part gonig through different things in my life I always had a good story to make a poem out of. This information was all very useful and I plan on using it in the future.