Greatbooks

• 7 Literary standards of Literature:

  • Universality
  • Artistry
  • Intellectual Value/Beauty
  • Permanence
  • Style
  • Spiritual Value
  • Suggestiveness
• 3 Literary Models:

  • Cultural Model
  • Language Model
  • Personal Growth Model
• Great literature is timeless and timely. Forever relevant, it appeals

  to one and all, anytime, anywhere. Universality
• Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of

  beauty. Artistry
• A literary works stimulates thought. It enriches our mental life by making us realize fundamental truths about life and human nature. Intellectual Value/Beauty
• A great work of literature endures. It can be read again and again as each reading gives fresh delight and new insights and opens a new world of meaning and experience. Permanence
• Literature presents peculiar ways on how man sees life as evidence by the formation of his ideas, form, structures, and expressions which are marked by their memorable substance. Style
• Literature elevates the spirit by bringing out moral values which makes a better person. Spiritual value
• It unravels man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience. Suggestiveness
• Literature aims to understand and appreciate cultures and ideologies different from one’s own in time and space. Cultural model
• Literature aims to promote language development like vocabulary and structure. Language model
• aims to help one achieve lasting pleasure and deep satisfaction in reading. Personal Growth model
• the time and place in which events occur. (where and when). Setting
• 3 Types of Literature Genre:

  • Prose
  • Poetry
  • Drama
• the usual form of writing including everything except poetry, songs, or dramas. Prose
• Types of Prose:

  • Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Autobiography
  • Biography
• untrue, or "fake" stories; includes novels, novellas, short stories. Fiction
• fiction that is plausible. Realistic Fiction
•  a blend of historical events/people with fictitious events/people. Historical Fiction
• fiction based on futuristic science. Science fiction
• a true story (really happened); includes autobiography, memoir, biography, personal narrative, essays, articles, texts, journals, diaries and letters. Nonfiction
• a true, life story about oneself told by oneself. Autobiography
• a true, life story about someone else's life- the author and subject are different people. Biography
• composed of lines organized into stanzas. Poetry
•  a play; a story meant to be acted out. Drama
•  the perspective from which a story is told. POV is the author's choice of narrator. This choice determines how much information the reader is given. Point of View (POV)
• 4 Types of POVs:

  • first person limited
  • second person limited
  • third person limited
  • third person omniscient
• is when the narrator is a character in the story. He/she tells the story based on what he/she thinks, hears, and experiences. It uses the pronouns I, me, and my. First person
• is when the story is an event in which you as a reader participate. It uses the pronoun "you." Second person
• is when the narrator is NOT a character in the story, but he/she presents the story from the perspective of ONE of the main characters. The reader doesn't know anything that the character doesn't know. Third person
• is when an "all-knowing" narrator tells the story and can see into more than one character's thoughts and feelings. The narrator is NOT a 

  character from the story.  Third Person Omniscient
• these are characters that remain the same emotionally throughout the course of the work. Static characters
• these are characters that change emotionally throughout the course of the work. Dynamic characters
• the ways that the author tells the reader about a character. Characterization
• the main character; the story revolves around this person or animal. Protagonist
• the person or thing that is bothering or antagonizing the protagonist; the villain or the negative force or influence. Antagonist
• It is the problem(s) in the story. Conflict
• A kind of conflict inside the character - emotional. Internal conflict
• A kind of conflict outside the character - physical. External Conflict
• 7 Types of Conflict:

  • Character vs. Character
  • Character vs. Self
  • Character vs. Nature
  • Character vs. Technology
  • Character vs. Supernatural
  • Character Vs. Society
  • Character Vs. Unknown