Literary

Appreciation
Skills

Baturiano, Diana Rose C.

BEED-III
Literature tells you many things. It tells the stories
of real people who grapple with problems that the
urgency in todays living brings. It recounts the
experiences of ordinary country folk who delight at
the simple joys of life. It narrates the exploits or
adventures of the immortals and the supernatural
beings who thrill us their incredible powers.

Literature relates all these things through its

elements:
1. Poetic language
2. Tone and mood
3. Character
4. Setting
5. Plot
1. Poetic Language

Words or phrases that conjure up vivid

pictures in your mind, that appeal to your
emotions, or that communicate ideas beyond
the literal meanings of the words are called
poetic or figurative language,
Images appeal to the senses of sight, touch ,
and hearing, although the majority of images
are visual
Examples

Plain chip ware on a plain and creaking wood,

Tin flatware .

. . . As they lean over the beans in their rented back room.

That is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths

Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes

- Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bean Eaters

Examples

There is sweet music here that softer falls Music that brings sweet sleep from he blissful skies.

Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Here are cool mosses deep,

Or night-dews on still waters between walls And through the moss the ivies creep,

Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,

Music that gentler on the spirit lies And from the craggy ledge the poppy

hangs in sleep
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes;
.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lotus-Eaters
Read the poem. Then list the images from the poem
and identify their sense appeal.

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,

Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall of snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?
Have you felt the wool of the beaver?
Or swans down ever?

Ben Jonson
Triumph of Charis
Figure of Speech

1. Simile
Phrase that uses the words like or as describe
someone or something by comparing it with
someone or something
ex. The moon, like to a silver bow
new-bent in heaven (Shakespeare)
Figure of Speech

2. Metaphor
- word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to
another thing in order to show or suggest that they are
similar.
ex. The worlds a stage,
and all the men and women merely players.
(Shakespeare)
Figure of Speech

3. Personification
- an imaginary that represents a thing or idea
ex. I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies skirts across the grass-
O wind, a- blowing all day long
O wind, that sings so loud a song! (Shakespeare)
Figure of Speech

4. Hyperbole
- Language that describes something as better or worse than it
really is
ex. Till a the seas gang dry, my dear
And the rocks melt wi the sun (Robert Burns)