📜 Literary Registers

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📘 Définition

A literary register refers to the effect an author wants to create in the reader. Depending on the register, a text may make the reader laugh, feel emotional, frightened, surprised, or thoughtful.

✏ Exemple

A tragedy aims to evoke fear and pity in the audience.

🧠 À retenir

Comic • Tragic • Lyric • Epic • Fantastic

✅ Points clés

  • • The comic register aims to make readers laugh.
  • • The tragic register presents painful or unavoidable situations.
  • • The lyric register expresses emotions and feelings.
  • • The epic register highlights heroic achievements.
  • • The fantastic register introduces strange or supernatural events.

❌ Erreurs fréquentes

  • • Confusing literary genre and register.
  • • Thinking a text can only have one register.
  • • Failing to identify the effect intended by the author.

💡 Astuce

Ask yourself what emotion the author wants the reader to feel.