Úvod do štúdia Anglického jazyka

Introduction to Literature
Several topics mentioned during the play:
• Language codification, standardization, standard language, slang, dialects, written literature
• National determination, the right to use own language
• Slovak people - small ethnics, small nations, non-governing/non-dominant nation (like Irish)
• The future of the Slovak language (internationalisms, influence of English language)
Topics mentioned during the play:
• English language - Lingua Franca
• The language of the youth
• Virtual age - virtual (internet) communication versus face-to-face communication
Literature - Introduction
• Everything in print - broadest sense
• Literature as art - aesthetic function
• Literature changed during different historical periods
Imaginative and non-imaginative writing
• Non-imaginative writing - use of logical abstractions
• Imaginative writing (creative literature) - use of artistic images
Literary scholarship
• Literary history (development of literature from the earliest times to the present)
• Literary criticism (analyses the content and the form of creative literature)
• Literary theory (studies the forms, techniques, types, genres, language, composition, aspects of creative writing)

Literary genres
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Drama
Literary figures
• Figures of speech - tropes
• Stylistic figures

Figures of speech - tropes
• The Simile
• The metaphor
• The personification
• The synecdoche
• The metonymy
• The irony
• The sarcasm
• The euphemism
• The pun
• The symbol