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English literature - Coggle Diagram
English literature
The study of literature
poetry
Meters
It is a repeated stress pattern
Porse
Epic poem
The novel
It has a plot and a narrator
drama
It is written to be performed on the stage.
Aristotle
He included drama in poetry
The history of English literature goes back to the 5th century.
Wen Germanic tribes came to England.
They spoke Old English.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
His works made the status of English respectable.
William Shakespeare
He has had a tremendous influence on the English language and literature.