English_In_Literature

English In Literature English in literature No truly human society could exist without the use of a natural human language. The word “literature” is etimologically related to “letters”. The earliest English poetry wich has survived is written in Old English poetry many linguistic devices which derive from oral verse, devices such as the regular and systematic use of alliteration, assonance, occurrence of stock phrases. Old English poetry relied heavily on myths, traditional wisdom and on memorised family trees. Oral literature is not, however, confined to remote African villages. It is part of our everyday experience in Britain and includes story-telling, historical narrations, anecdotes, myths, legends, fairytales and jokes. Among the differences in style and language between the written and the spoken narratives we may particularly note the following. Created by the use of dialectwords and phrases, by the inclusion of the adressee, “Did you hear about what happened to me'”. Secondly, B makes greater use of hiperbole. A is much less spontaneous with its traditional formulaic opening “Once upon a time” and conclusion “lived happy ever after”. Although oral literature is a much livelier tradition in the English speaking world than most people realise. Looked at from a distance, poetry , drama, novel language, speech, english, poetry, drama, novel, often, live, literature, time, play, syllables, much, effect, devices, between, been, written, stress, rhythm, regular, read, plays, oral, medium, literary, intervals, different, character, because, abouth, writers, world, word, wisdom, wich