1.1 - LITERATURE ENGLISH
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- Littera means?
- Latin word “littera”
- It is an enduring expression of a significant human experience in words well-chosen and arranged.
- A faithful reproduction of man’s manifold experience blended into a harmonious expression.
- It is man’s love, grief, thought, dream and aspiration coached in a beautiful language.
- Literature is news that stays news.
- A performance in words.
- So important that one cannot bear to let it pass into oblivion.
- The idea that something about the book touches the human spirit, evokes human emotion, or makes a personal connection through human relationships.
- Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor: Timeliness and Timelessness
- Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty.
- 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.
- It stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning, making man realize the fundamental of truths of life and its nature.
- Literature elevates the spirit and the soul and thus has the power to motivate and to inspire
- 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.
- Fiction, Non-Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction
- Lyric and Narrative
- May be described as rhythmic imaginative language expressing invention, thought, imagination, taste, passion, and insight of the human soul.
- The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
- Is so-called "ordinary writing" — made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any metrical structure
- is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eye.
- may or may not use rhyme.
- It expresses a strong emotion or a lofty thought compressed and intense utterance.
- The main purpose is to provide pleasure and delight.
- It appeals to the emotion and imagination.
- does not make use of rhyme at all.
- It is generally concerned with the presentation of an idea, concept or point of view in a more ordinary and leisurely manner.
- The purpose is to furnish information, instruction, or enlightenment.
- It appeals to the intellect.
- is a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance.
- It is one of the literary genres, which is an imitation of some action.
- It isalso a type of a play written for theater, television, radio, and film.
- A composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue.