1.1 - LITERATURE ENGLISH

• Littera means?

  Letter
• Latin word “littera”


  Literature
• It is an enduring expression of a significant human experience in words well-chosen and arranged.

  Literature
• A faithful reproduction of man’s manifold experience blended into a harmonious expression.

  Literature
• It is man’s love, grief, thought, dream and aspiration coached in a beautiful language.

  Literature
• Literature is news that stays news.

  Ezra Pound
• A performance in words.

  Robert Frost
• So important that one cannot bear to let it pass into oblivion.

  Murasaki Shikibu
• The idea that something about the book touches the human spirit, evokes human emotion, or makes a personal connection through human relationships.

  Universality
• Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor: Timeliness and Timelessness

  Permanence
• Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty.

  Artistry
• 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
• It stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning, making man realize the fundamental of truths of life and its nature.

  Intellectual Value
• Literature elevates the spirit and the soul and thus has the power to motivate and to inspire

  Spiritual Value
• 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
• Fiction, Non-Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction

  Prose
• Lyric and Narrative

  Poetry
• May be described as rhythmic imaginative language expressing invention, thought, imagination, taste, passion, and insight of the human soul.

  Poetry
• The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

  William Wordsworth
• Is so-called "ordinary writing" — made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any metrical structure


  Prose
• is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eye.

  Vera Brittain
• may or may not use rhyme.


  Poetry
• It expresses a strong emotion or a lofty thought compressed and intense utterance.

  Poetry
• The main purpose is to provide pleasure and delight.


  Poetry
• It appeals to the emotion and imagination.

  Poetry
• does not make use of rhyme at all.


  Prose
• It is generally concerned with the presentation of an idea, concept or point of view in a more ordinary and leisurely manner.

  Prose
• The purpose is to furnish information, instruction, or enlightenment.

  Prose
• It appeals to the intellect.

  Prose
• is a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance.

  Drama
• It is one of the literary genres, which is an imitation of some action.

  Drama
• It isalso a type of a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.

  Drama
• A composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue.

  Drama
• Characteristics of Literatue

  • It is generally written
  • It is also considered to be superior and of lasting artistic merit
  • It may be based on reality or imagination
  • Its words are artfully arranged to stimulate feelings and impart understanding
  • It is a source of enjoyment, reflection, and knowledge
• Aims of Literature

  • It entertains and gives pleasure
  • It fires imagination and arouses noble emotion
  • It enriches the man by enabling him to reflect on the life and filling him with new ideas.
  • It gives him the ability to cope with life because of his understanding of human nature