Dear student, first you have to study the following literature definitions, then test your knowledge about what you read on the next page. Good Luck.
Style (الأسلوب): the way in which a piece of literature is written. Style refers not to what is said, but how it is said.
Suspense (التشويق): the tension or excitement felt by the reader as he or she becomes involved in the story.
Syllogism (القياس المنطقي): a logical argument based on deductive reasoning.
Symbol (الرمز): a person, object, idea or action that stands for something else. It is usually something literal that stands for something figurative. For example Roads can stand for choices.
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.
Syntax (النحو): sentence structure (see handout).
Theme (الفكرة الرئيسية): the central idea in a literary work. The theme is usually an idea about life or about people. Writers sometimes state the story’s theme outright, but more often they simply tell the story and let the reader discover the theme. Therefore, there is an idea revealed by the events of the story; the plot is simply what happens in the story; it is not the theme.
Tone (النغمة): the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
Understatement (التهكم): a type of verbal IRONY in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is; also called meiosis.
