Lesson 14 - Literature

8/10/2019 Lesson 14 - Literature

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LITERATURE ASAN ART


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That is part of the beauty of allliterature. You discover that youlongings are universal longings, th

you're not lonely and isolated froanyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


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Defnition o Literature

Literature is any form of writing whicdeals with the significant humanexperience -- his society and hisexperiences -- which is artisticallyconceived for an effect.


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All writings in prose, or verse, especially tof an imaginative or critical characteristic

Literature is the enactment of humanpossibilities, or a vehicle that will help usdiscover more about ourselves and themeaning we can make of life.



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It has two major features: LanguageImagination --- that when combined

produce a fictional world that reflectsreality.Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons e

because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaima



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Elements of Literature

Inspiration comes to a writer of great literatuthree channels:

- through the senses

- through the intellect

- through the emotions

These three now also serves as the major elethat constitutes literature.


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Classifcation o Literature

Major Types of Literature:

- Oral Literature (ballads, myths, jokes, folktales, fable

- Written Literature (drama, novel, poetry, non fiction)

Major Genres of Literature:- Prose (literature written in normal language)

- Poetry

Major Forms of Literature:

- Fiction


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PROSE

Prose is any writing or speech in its ncontinuous form, without the rhythm

visual line structure of poetry.


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PROSE

It is divided into two classifications:

Fiction / Imaginative Literature-Literature of Power. Deals with fictitious characters/ pers

presents actual truths.- Composed of Short Stories, Novels, Novelettes, etc.

Non-Fiction Literature- Literature of Knowledge. Deals with actual facts, experieideas or events.

- Composed of Essays, Biographies, Diaries, Journals, etc


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PROSE

Fiction

came from the Latin word fictio or counter-fitting.

- refers to any narrative in prose or in verse that is wholly or in pproduction of the imagination.

- Not true but not lies.

- Describe what is not real, but not totally unreal.

- Designed to make us respond as if, but not to deceive

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Describe none-existing people but produce real emotioaltered behavior and important reflections.


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PROSE: FICTION1.Short Story a prose narrative w/c concentraa uniform or single effect and are in which thetotality of the effect is the main objective.

2.Novel fictitious prose narrative or a tale ofconsiderable length in which characters and represents the real life wherein the past and ptimes are portrayed in a plot of none/less

complexity.


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PROSE: FICTIONThere are two major kinds of novels:

Allegory the symbolical story revolves atwo meanings: what the writer says direct

totally different from the conveyed meanthe end.

Comedy a common type of novel whersatire is used in focusing on the facts of th

society and their desires.


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Eleents o Fiction


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Eleents o FictionParts of the Plot:

1.Exposition refers to the layout of the materthe story or introduction.

2.Complication rising action where the majoconflict of the story are presented.

3.Climax the peak of the story or action whedilemma is faced by the main characters.

4.Resolution falling action.


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Eleents o Fiction

B. SETTING the time and place of actirefers to the physical locale, climatic

conditions and historical period whestory is taking place.


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Eleents o Fiction

C. THEME- the generalization about humancharacter that a story explicitly or implicembodies a philosophical truth. It is the

idea of the story and revolved around thsignificant human experience.*it is not the moral message

*it is not always made explicit at some point of the

*must embody some state of mans thinking


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Eleents o Fiction

D. CHARACTER the set of people embodiewithin a human experience. There are twmajor characters are theprotagonist(m

character) andantagonist(villain), butsometimes the line between the two is blike theanti-hero.


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E. POINT OF VIEW the narrative voic

the story. It is the vantage point from

which the characters, actions and

events are seen.

Eleents o Fiction


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First Person POV I or We limited to himself

Dramatic/ Objective POV story revealed th

the dialogues between the characters and t

their actions.

Omniscient POV the voice is outside the wo

which allows the descriptions of the inner tho

and emotions of any and all he characters in

story.

Eleents o Fiction


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F. CONFLICT the dilemma faced by he main cof the story.

Types of Conflicts:

Person Vs. SelfPerson Vs. Person

Person Vs. Society

Person Vs. Nature

Person Vs. Supernatural

Person Vs. Machine or Technology

Eleents o Fiction


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Non-fiction is a story based on real life facinformation. Non-fiction is a narrative, accother communicative work whose assertio

descriptions are believed by the author tobe factual.

NON!FICTION


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It depends on the author attempting to teltruth. In other words, even though no authoknows everyone or everything,one of the

requirements of non-fiction is that an authoshould never claim something is true if he knows that it's not.

NON!FICTION


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are writings about real people that arecomposed by someone other than the pewhose story is being told.

It's important to note that, unlike some ficstories that biographically tell the story ofcharacter, biographies are meant to tell tstory of a real person who lived or is alive

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Autobiographies are stories about a persothat are written by the person whose life idiscussed.

One particularly influential example of thgenre isThe Autobiography of Benjamin Fwhich covers Franklin's experiences growand becoming a famous political figure.

Auto&io#ra$%ies An' (eoirs


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One subcategory of autobiography that aincludes a first-person account of one'sexperiences is thememoir. While similar t

autobiographies in that they retell the evea person's life, memoirs tend to focus mospecific events or phases in the person's lautobiographies.

Auto&io#ra$%ies An' (eoirs


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Essays as works that are meant to introduauthor's opinion or argument. This naturalmeans that essays might take all sorts of f

such as long editorials, articles in a magajournal, or even collections of photograpare meant to make a point.

ESSA)


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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, thwho never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin, A Dance


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POETR)

Poetry is a disciplined, compact veutterance, in some none/less musical

dealing with aspects of internal or extreality on some meaningful way.


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POETR)

Poetry relies more on the figures of spsymbolism and imagery. It also relies

on the sound and rhythm of speech aoften uses rhyme and meter. .


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ELE(ENTS OF POETR)

a.Theme the soul of the poem. It is what the pwants to express through words which may eia thought, a feeling, an observation, a story oexperience.

b.Symbolism the expressions that express deehidden meaning behind the words used by th


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ELE(ENTS OF POETR)

d.Rhythm this refers to the resonation of walong with the sounds, and the musicproduced when the poem is read aloud

e.Meter it is the basic structure of a poemis determined by the number of syllables

f.Rhyme


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ELE(ENTS OF POETR)

g. Simile -is a figure of speech that directlycompares two things through the explicconnecting words

h. Metaphor -a figure of speech in which aor phrase is applied to something to whinot literally applicable in order to suggeresemblance

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