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Identify the nature and meaning of
literature.
Familiarize the elements, types and
forms of literature.
 NATURE AND MEANING OF
LITERATURE
LITERATURE is our connection with our own human
experience of life.
It is the creative representation and reproduction of what we
have lived in and for.
It describes, records and shares our experiences, hopes
and desires to other people.
 ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

FORM- talks about the general structure of the

literature piece.
Form is the aspect of literature that attempts to connect with
the reader.
THEME-holds all of its other elements in
place. It is the subject of which literature
revolves around
CHARACTERIZATION
Characters in literature could be products of the
writer’s imagination, or they could be the very compelling
point-of-view that the writer thinks in.
STYLE- refers to the specific techniques
and designs that a literary writer employs to
prolong his or her grip of the reader’s
interest.
The Elements of Literature
 Characterization

Protagonist
Antagonist
Static
The character’s actions
Dynamic The character’s thoughts
The character’s
appearance
What the character says
What others say about
the character
 Climax
Plot

Exposition
Resolution
 Setting

Time 1852 A.D.

Place Jolly
Ole
England
 Conflict
Character v Character

Character v Nature

Character v
Supernatural

Character v Society

Character v Self
 Mood

Characters’ feelings

Reader’s feelings – how

the book makes you
feel
 Theme
The central idea or lesson about
life the story conveys

Growing Up

Death

Birth
 Point of View

First Person

Third Person
Omniscient

Third Person
Limited
Omniscient
Style/Figurative Language
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Types of Literature
THERE ARE 5 MAJOR GENRES OF
LITERATURE

 Fiction

 Non-Fiction
 Poetry
 Folk Tale
 Play
 GENRE
• A category of artistic works that
can be divided into form, style
or subject matter.
• (Style or Type)
 (1) FICTION
Invented stories with
characters and events
Realistic Fiction
Historical fiction
Science Fiction
Fantasy/Fairytales
Mystery
 (2) NON-FICTION

True stories of actual events or characters

• Biography
• Autobiography
• Information
• Newspaper
• Reference
 (3) Poetry

Words arranged in a metrical pattern, often using

rhymed verse in an imaginative style.
 (4) Folk Tales

An anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that is

originally told rather than written
 (5) Play

A story for stage performance by actors

 NOVEL
-an extended story, usually fictional. Novels could present
various themes organized in “chapters”, and sometimes,
“volumes”
 ESSAY
-is a literary form intended to be read, if not addressed to a
specific audience. Essays are mostly built upon facts and
general knowledge. It is one literary form that focuses on
analyzing and critiquing issues. Essays are deemed as the
most relatable and tangible among the other literary forms.
 EPIC
-a literary form that is slowly becoming extinct, if not rare. In
structure, an epic combines both styles of a drama and a
narrative story. It also has an element of song in it, as most
epics were sung in the old times
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF

LITERATURE
 Hyperpoetry
 Blog
 Text Tula
 Chick Lit
 Speculative Fiction
 Flash Fiction
 HYPERPOETRY
-sometimes called “Cyberpoetry”, presents poems that
include verses or lines linked through hyperlink mark-ups.
This type of poetry is very visual, as it oftentimes uses
graphics to further convey the meaning. The links in this
type of poem suggest that the reading of the poem is highly
independent on the readers, as they are the ones clicking
the links in mark up.
 BLOG
-from the words “web blog,” is a website created to conatin
and manage user-made articles or posts that are updated
regularly. This is a good medium for writers to share their
opinions and experiences to a bigger audience and at the
same, is a good channel to read others ideas as well.
 TEXT TULA
-is a poem produced and shared through the use of a
mobile phone’s messaging application. Usually, these
poems are either in the form of “tanaga,” a Filipino poem
consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with a
rhyme scheme of AABB.
 CHICK LIT
-a genre of fiction that was made popular in the late 1990s.
It generally talks about women and their different struggles,
specifically staged in modern times. Themes in this writing
genre are treated humorously and lightly.
 SPECULATIVE FICTION
-is a fiction genre that dwells on issues of alternate
imagined scenarios. It uses the appeal of conspiracy
themes, fantasy science fiction and dystopian societies to
create imaginative stories.
 FLASH FICTION
-is a fiction genre that presents one-sitting-long-of-reading
texts. The longest text in the genre of Flash Fiction is only
said to be 1000-words.