21st Lit : Introduction to Literature

• Littera - a letter of the alphabet
• Literature - body of written workshop by a given culture or by the whole of humankind, highlights significant human experiences that tell the story of individuals and group of people in different times and contexts
• Literature - the totality of human expression
• Artistry - aesthetic alay appearing and reveal and convenes hidden truth and beauty
• Suggestiveness - allows the work to inspire and provoke thoughts and understanding beyond the actual words written on the page
• Intellectual Value - promotes critical thinking that enhanced booth abstract and reason-based thought processes and makes reader focus on the fundamental truths of life and nature
• Spirituality Value - ligtas the inner spirit and soul and has the power to motivate and inspire readers
• Permanence - determined by a written work’s ability to stand the test of time, which makes it impossible to determine at the moment of writing
• Universality - appeal to the hearts and mines of almost any reader
• Style - refers to the distinct way the authors express their thoughts
• Dulce - sweetness, to bring entertainment
• utile - usefulness, to give information
• Oral literature - poems and stories shared through the word of mouth
• Written literature - encoded works through writing or printing
• Poetry - features the metrical and sophisticated use of languages through imagery, figurative languages, and poetic devices, leave implications messages in their works that need to be “dug out” by the readers
• Lyric poetry - originally sung with a lyre, focused on writer’s personal experiences and emotions
• Elegy - a poem to honor the dead
• Ode - a poem that pays tribunal to a person, idea, place or another concept
• Sonnet - a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
• Haiku - a three-line poem that originated in Japan, follows the 5-7-5 syllable scheme and uses nature to express an emotion or concept
• Narrative poetry - tell a story in lines and versus, originally sung by bards
• Ballad - set to music, focused on usually human experiences
• Epic - tell the story of heroes and their adventures
• Metrical Tale - topics vary from romance, the quest of adventure, love and various phases of life
• Metrical Romance - delas with the story of adventure, love, chivalry, and deeds of derring-do, also called chivalric poems
• Fictional prose - written in ordinary, non-metrical languages but still ulit Ines literary techniques to deliver its messages, texts feature characters, settings and incidents which are born out of the writer’s imagination, may include super natural elemento or extraordinary events, but these are still ultimately rooted in reality
• Short story - has its plot, characters, setting and conflict, can be read in one sitting
• Novel - an extended work of prose that features chapters with fictional elements
• Nonfictional prose - present facts or opinions about reality, writers straightforwardly express their message to convey information to their readers effectively
• Biography - story of a person’s life written by another person
• Autobiography - a story of a person’s life written by the person themselves
• Profile - an in-depth article or essay about one person or place
• Character sketch - a brief description or portray Al of a person’s character’s qualities, etc.
• Interview - meeting of people, usually face-to-face, to discuss an issue or topic
• Memoir - a recollection of a person’s specific experience, deals with a slice of life in contrast to a autobiography that deals with an individual’s life, confessional
• Traveogue/Travel writing - an author’s experiences while travelling
• Food writing - concentrates on food, in the from of memoirs and essays written in creative nonfiction, but can also include history and explanation of scientific concepts
• Nature writing - deals with the natural environment, typically reserved for a Style of nature representation deemed literary, written in the speculative personal voice and presented in the form of the nonfiction essay
• Diary - a record of a person’s daily experiences and his/her/their thoughts and emotions
• Journal - daily record of personal news or happenings that function much like a newspaper or magazine