LITERATURE

PREPARED BY:

DARYANN MAE B. IMPERIAL

WHAT is LITERATURE?

The human way of life during the ancient times was traced through literature. Great ideas and values of the past are available through the medium of literature.

Literature is a record of human experience.

Reading Literature sharpens our capacity to read well and effectively to gain in understanding the insight, pleasure and the capacity to feel and be sensitive.
Literature is imaginative writing.

PURPOSE :
The readers are introduced to the human experience of values and pleasure, a certain kind of pleasure. Literature brings us both to the experience of reflection and illumination.

ASPECTS OF LITERATURE
1. LITERATURE IS A CRAFT
As a craft, literature refers to technical skill with words.
The craft of literature is largely concerned with the fundamentals of reading writing.

2. LITERATURE IS FINE ART.

Literature is not only a technique. It is something more than the expert use of language. It is an art that selects, heightens and represents reality in such a way that the representation is pleasing for its own sake.

3. LITERATURE IS PHILOSOPHICAL
Literature reflects philosophy in the sense that it gives man a universal view of the world and mans place in it. To speak of philosophy in literature is to speak of its significance and its relationship to truth and to life itself.

4. LITERARY IS SUBJECT TO CRITICISM The art of discriminating between the beauty and the faults of a literary work based upon knowledge and taste is literary criticism.

It interprets the work of art in the light of relevant historical facts, compares it with other works of the same class, and asserts wise and flexible standards.

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
When the reader is moved or touched by a literary work.

When the reader is reminded of the knowledge or information that he might have already forgotten.

When the literary wok makes the reader an improved person with a better outlook in life.

1. ESCAPE LITERATURE
It is written for entertainment. It helps the reader pass out time leisurely and it takes away the reader from the real world and makes him temporarily forget his trouble.

2. INTERPRETATIVE LITERATURE
Takes the reader into the real world and enables him to understand himself better and the world he lives in.

Literature has Three Uses:

- It can present moral lessons to the reader to understand and be appreciated.
It can be used to advertise a thing, a person, a place or even an idea. It can be used as a form a catharsis; an emotional relief from pent up emotion or stress.

POETRY
Oldest form of literature.

Poetry is language written with rhythm, figurative language, imagery, sound devices and emotionally charged language.

NARRATIVE POETRY DRAMATIC POETRY

LYRIC POETRY

NARRATIVE POETRY
I tells a story through exposition or through a combination of dialogue and exposition. Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories, including characters, conflict, and plot.

It has THREE types: - Epic - Ballad -Metric Tale.

 Is a long narrative poem dealing with heroic deeds of men which are the great significance to a nation and embodying the history or tradition of a people. A folk epic is of unknown authorship but it has been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.

Literary ballads are short narrative poems written in the tradition of the folk ballad by literary men who like to express their stories in songs.

 Is the counter part of the modern short story. The story is told in a simple, straight forward and realistic manner. It is written in poetry form, usually simple and realistic.

DRAMATIC POETRY

it presents a story through the speech of the characters, sometimes with accompanying actions. A Drama or play in verse is Dramatic poetry. Drama is a story written to be performed by actors. Although a drama is meant to be performed, one can also read the script, or written version, and imagine the action.

Lyric poetry

It is typically short and unified and expresses the poets personal feelings. Lyric poem is a highly musical verse that expresses the observation and feelings of a single speaker.

Other Types of Lyrical Poems

ODE is written to praise a person or a thing to glorify someone or an event. It expresses enthusiasm and deep feeling. ELEGY has the most distinguishable subject matter. SONNET which is easily distinguished because of its form. SONGS which are intended to be sung.

SUBDIVISIONS OF POETRY
DIDACTIC POETRY teaches a moral or some branch of learning. SATIRICAL POETRY censures folly or evil, usually in humorous manner. PASTORAL POETRY gives an idealized picture of rural life.

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