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LITERATURE
What is the importance of studying literature? (Cerda, et al., 2013)
o Literature helps us grow both personally and intellectually.
o Literature links us with the world of which we are a part of.
o Literature enables us to transcend our immediate time, place, and
culture and to make connections with other human beings and their
concerns.
o Literature encourages us to develop mature empathy with all forms
of life—human, animal, and plant.
o Literature sharpens our sense of moral judgment.
LITERATURE
7 LITERARY STANDARDS
LITERATURE
PROSE POETRY
It is defined as a spoken or It is the imaginative
written language without expression of emotion,
metrical regularity. thought, or narrative, frequently
in metrical form and often
using figurative language.
4 GENRES OF LITERATURE
Myth Legend
-is often a story of origins, -comes from the Latin
how the world and adjective “legenda.”
everything in it came to be. -It refers to unverified story
handed down from earlier
times, especially one
popularly believed to be
historical.
PROSE FICTION
Parable Fable
-is a simple story -is a usually short narrative
illustrating a moral or making an edifying or
religious lesson. cautionary point and often
employing animals as
characters that speak and
act like humans.
PROSE FICTION
Novel Novella
-is a fictional prose -is a fictional prose
narrative of considerable narrative that is longer than
length, typically having a a short story, but shorter
plot that is unfolded by the than a novel.
actions, speech, and -It is a form in its own
thoughts of numerous right.
characters placed in a
number of different
situations.
B. POETRY
Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic
LYRIC POETRY
Tragedy Comedy
Tragicomedy Satirical Comedy
Melodrama The Comedy of Manners
Romantic Comedy
Black Comedy
Farce
C. DRAMA
PART 2: AFRO-ASIAN
LITERATURE
ANCIENT LITERATURE