LITERATURE
EXERCISE 1. Read, translate, and learn the new words to read and discuss the texts and dialogues. Translate the sample sentences:
1. the fine arts. Literature is one of the fine arts.
2. fiction, non-fiction. Literature has two main divisions: fiction and non-fiction.
3. to create, creative. An author creates fiction from imagination. Creative readers bring their own experiences of life to the experiences the writer presents in the page.
4. narrative. Most fiction is narrative writing.
5. factual. Non-fiction is factual writing about real-life situations.
6. an essay, a diary. The chief forms of non-fiction include the essay, history, biography, autobiography, and diary.
7. deep. Creative reading leads to the deepest enjoyment of literature.
8. to judge. Reading is such a personal activity that there are no rules for judging a piece of writing.
9. to broaden. Our ability to judge literature intelligently develops as our reading broadens.
10.a reason. We are fond of reading for different reasons.
11.a solution. Sometimes we find possible solutions to our problems when we meet people in books whose problems are like our own.
12.imagination, imaginary. The novel tells us about events in the lives of real or imaginary people.
13.complicated. In short stories the situations are less complicated.
14.appearance. Drama usually includes stage directions describing the appearances and actions of the characters.
15.conversation. A drama takes the form of dialogue, or conversation.
16.metre, rhyme. Poetry usually has metre and rhyme.
17.to arrange in a pattern. Poets use metre when they arrange words in a pattern.
18.definite rhythm. Poets use metre when they arrange words in a pattern with a definite rhythm.
19.to persuade. The girl was trying to persuade her mother to go to the cinema.
20.to lower the taxes. She persuaded her husband to lower the taxes.
21.in the original. I have read this book in the original.
EXERCISE 2. Read the international words and mind the stress:
literature, term, fact, person, situation, drama, poet, essay, history, biography, critic, muscle, information, problem, form, incident, character, actor, direction, dialogue, tragedy, comedy, rhythm.