EL 106

• "Literature is a living thing, something that moves the soul, makes it sing in wonder and awe. The text walks you through all the passion, despair, feelings, anger, love, hatred, and joy a human can experience. it's almost like being in the right committed relationship; you're caught up in it, and it feels like magic" - Tiago Marcelo, 2015
• "Literature strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." - Virginia Woolf
• "Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but molds it to its purpose." - Oscar Wilde
• "Literature is an imitation of sequences of events. It can be categorized and thereby, understood according to the method of operation and execution of each category." - Aristotle
• "Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Book save lives." - Laurie Anderson
• "Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and the heart." - Salmon Rushdie
• Lynch - Brown and Tomilinson (2005) in their book "Essentials of children's literature" recognized that reading literature will gain personal and academic value for our learners.
• Personal value - Enjoyment, Imagination and inspiration, vicarious experience, understanding and empathy, cultural heritage, moral reasoning, and literary and artistic preference.
• Academic value - Improving reading skills, developing writhing style, learning content-area knowledge, promoting art appreciation.
• Parkinson and Thomas (2000) in sell (2005) has listed benefits teaching literature in the language classroom as collected from various authors and research studies.
• Cultural enrichment - promote cultural understanding and awareness.
• Linguistic model - provide example of "good" writing, linguistic diversity, expressive ranges.
• Mental training - train the mind and sensibility.
• Extension of linguistic competence - stretch the competencies of learners who have mastered linguistic rudiments.
• Authenticity - literature is a genuine linguistic material to be studied and read.
• Memorability - can be a memorized archive of linguistic usage.
• Rhythmic resource - assimilate the rhythms of language.
• Motivating material - engage with and motivate a learner to deal with subjects and themes of interest to the learner.
• Open to interpretation - serve as a basis for "genuine interaction" between learners.
• Convenience - literature is a handy resource.
• Literary criticism theories - these literary theories are schools of thought or style of analysis that gives the readers or scholars with another lens in viewing or in critiquing the literary text as a work of art and a product of the author.
• Genres, branches, and authors - literature in a structural and stylistic perspective, can be divided and subdivided into branches and genres.
• Cultural and historical contexts - literary context is essential in studying literature because it describes the relevance of the text to the moods, attitudes, conditions, and acceptance norms which is a particular person, period (history), society, group of people (culture), religion, gender, or technology.
• Models and approaches in teaching literature - the teaching literature models are approaches teachers my employ when teaching and learning literary texts.
• Comprehension levels in reading literature - the levels of comprehension framework in reading literary texts guides teachers to extract comprehension from learners according to the analysis of multi-level questions from easy to complex.
• Utilitarian - inform and or instruct. (Journal, Auto Biography, Biography, Editorials).
• Creative - meant to entertain the imagination. (Prose, Poetry, Drama).
• Prose - writing paragraph and sentences.
• Poetry - arrange in lines with rhythm and rhymes.
• Drama - meant to be played and perfom on stage.
• Fiction - product of imagination or imaginative story.
• Non-fiction - real-life events, stories, and happenings.
• Myths - traditional story focusing on particular hero, event, or explanation of phenomenon with no true basis of fact.
• Folktales - kwentong bayan.
• Short story - can be read in one sitting that has lesson, plot, fictional.
• Novels - long fictional prose narrative.
• Legends - origin.
• Fables - characters and animals.
• Biography - non-fictional account of person's life or achievement written by other person.
• Auto biography - written by own self.