I wish I paid more attention back in school when it came to literature and language arts classes. Trying to retrace the lessons I learned as a child as an adult is really annoying and there doesn't seem to be much out there in terms of easy to find resources for it like there are with math & science. Does anyone else have this problem or am I the only tard here.
>>152350
I let myself sit on the knowledge of literary terms and other such theory for so long that my brain forgot what they are and how to associate them to thoughts I have. Such as thinking of a good way to describe a certain character in relation to the structure of a story and then while googling about to find a good term to describes them I stumble upon something that clicks with a childhood memory and I feel like an idiot for having forgotten the word.
>>152353
I am a writer and trust me, no one does it outside high school or literature studies at university. If it is done, it's done on instinctual, subconscious level.
But if you really want to know these technical literary terms, the best way to go is probably exposure. Read books, and talk about books with people. You will see relevant terminology and theories mentioned. Irrelevant ones are irrelevant. Only because someone graded you at school from knowledge of some obscure shit doesn't mean that obscure shit has any use.
You could check out this:
https://hyperbolit.com/2020/07/04/how-to-write-literary-
You don't need to know every term or read the entirety of the example poem to get the gist of it.
I think as long as you know what a metaphor is and are familiar with basic symbolism within a culture (e. g. lilies mean lesbians when you watch yuri anime) you've got the most important basics down. Everything else comes down to what kind of media you want to analyse. (You probably won't need to know about cadence and meters outside of poetry.)
You could try to read through every literary device on this list https://literarydevices.ne
I don't need to know what the word alliteration means to think that it's funny that every character in OreGairu has their first and last name starting with the same letter, but it's faster and fancier (and maybe funnier) to say "alliteration names".
Often enough, historical and cultural contexts are more important to really understand a piece of fiction.
Like, it's a lot easier to understand what's going on in the anime Yuri Kuma Arashi when you understand that in the story, the space bears who cross the invisible wall and disguise themselves as humans to eat humans actually represent sexually active lesbians that want to have sex with women which is seen as inherently predatory by a system of enforced norms that ostracises them (invisible wall). Not all stories are so steeped in symbolism that they become incoherent if you lack the cultural context, but they're out there and not even that rare in spirit if you consider that memes are also hard to understand without context (I don't actually want to explain skibidi to my mum though).
Anyway, I think it can't hurt to critically engage with works you love and gain more understanding of literary analysis over the course of that.
If you want to go into writing, there are tons of resources and writing courses out there too although there are things to look out for there as well ( https://mythcreants.com/blog/five-writing-advice-cu
>>152359
>it still feels helpful to have a quick word for reference rather than trying to string together the concept each time.
I think that'll get easier over time though, just like when you're learning a language. When I learnt English, words like "penultimate" never really came up in the beginning and I didn't need them either. When I did, I just looked them up and that was that, it's part of my vocabulary now
>>152349(OP)
everyone in high school used sparknotes
