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• Literature


  Everything that is put into writing
• Novels on science are written works and belong to literature
• Novel


  • Made through the long waves of time
  • Words are arranged cleverly with author's sweat and blood to produce something we call art
  • Artistic side separates it from the book of science
• Literary forms

  • Novel
  • Short story
  • Poem
  • Essay
• Literary forms

  • Printed matters with an artistic element
  • Made of art, which means that there is something in them that humanity must see
• Writer's purpose

  Something in the writer's heart and mind that they want humanity to understand
• Appreciating literature

  1. Understand the purpose of the writer

  2. Understand the role being played by the characters

  3. Contrast that literature to the other works you have read

  4. Ask what happened in the story that will possibly happen in reality
• The preliminaries in interpreting fiction shall be borrowed in poetry
• Simile


  A comparison of two unlike objects by the use of like, as, resembles and others
• Metaphor


  A bold comparison of two unlike things, with the word 'like' omitted
• Metonymy


  Associating things or describing one by using the other
• Personification


  Giving human attitude to non-human object
• Irony


  The meaning is opposite from what is being said
• Informal essay


  Deals on the light, entertaining or humorous topic
• Formal essay


  Topic is something informative, thought-provoking and above all impersonal
• When reading an essay, consider

  1. Subject matter - the writer's purpose

  2. Viewpoint - the author's attitude towards the topic

  3. Presentation - the art of the writer in presenting the topic

  4. Coherence - the flow of thought which leads to the development of the topic

  5. Relevance - whether the topic is connected with the life of the readers and is a burning issue
• Drama


  A distilled interpretation of human experience
• Appreciating a drama

  1. Facts of the play

  2. Setting

  3. Characters

  4. Symbolism
• Contemporary art

  Appreciating the arts of music and dancing
• Musical sounds

  • Sound is the most basic medium of music
  • It is produced either through a voice of instrument, or a combination of both
  • There are four properties of sound: pitch, duration, volume and color
• Pitch


  • The place of tone in the musical scale
  • The highness or lowness of tone
• Duration


  The length of time over which vibration is maintained
• Volume


  The softness or loudness of sound
• Tone color


  The quality of sound
• Mediums of music


  • Vocal medium
  • Instrumental medium
• Vocal medium

  • Soprano
  • Mezzo
  • Alto
  • Tenor
  • Baritone
  • Bass
• Vocal qualities

  • Coloratura Soprano
  • Lyric Soprano
  • Dramatic Soprano
  • Mezzo-Soprano
  • Contralto
  • Tenor
  • Lyric Tenor
  • Dramatic Tenor
  • Baritone
  • Bass
• Instrumental mediums


  • Bowed (strings)
  • Blown (brasses)
  • Struck (percussion)
• Percussion instruments


  • Glockenspiel
  • Xylophone
  • Cymbals
  • Chimes
  • Harp
• Keyboard instruments


  • Piano
  • Organ
• Ensemble


  • Combination of different musical instruments
  • Two or more performers engage in playing the instruments or singing a piece of music
• Types of ensembles


  • Orchestra
  • Symphony orchestra
  • Concerto
  • Band
  • Rondalla
• Appreciating music

  • Music has a communicative aspect
  • The musician has something to say which he wants humanity to understand
  • When a person creates sounds, he tends to search for a message, or at least he expects that something about a person can infer such as facts of his or her emotional life
• • Purity and harmony
  • Relaxing sound
  • Message