This document provides an overview of Philippine literature, including definitions and classifications. It defines literature as an art form that presents life through words rather than directly telling readers about life. Literature is studied to develop critical thinking, mental maturity, and an appreciation for beauty. The document classifies literature as either fiction, which involves unreal situations, or non-fiction, including narrative forms like autobiographies, memoirs, and biographies, as well as informative genres like expository essays and persuasive essays. It also distinguishes between prose, which uses paragraphs and ordinary language, and poetry, which uses stanzas, metaphor, and ornamental vocabulary. Examples of different types of prose and poetry are also listed.

1. Philippine Literature
What is
Literature?
Why study
Literature?

2. LITERATURE
LITERA
LETTE
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3. What is Literature?
Is an Art
Is a presentation of LIFE. It
uses words to present to
readers and not to tell readers
what life is.
It does not define to us
directly what life is

4. Why Study Literature?
To develop a critical
appreciation and
discrimination of what life is.
To acquire mental maturity.
To get out from daily routine in
life and entertained.
To develop a taste for the true,
the goo and the beautiful.

5. 1. Classification
2. kinds

6.  Classification
FICTION: unreal situation
NON-FICTION: factual situation

7. NON-FICTION
1. Narrative Nonfiction
1. Autobiography - A writer tells his life in a first-person point of
view, using the pronoun I, and typically focuses on the most significant
events that happened to him or her.
2. Memoir - A writer also uses the first-person point of view to
relate events from his or her life. Memoirs differ from autobiographies
such that they typically focus on one period of a person’s life. In a
memoir, a writer will tend to emphasize his or her relationships with other
people of the impact of significant historical events on his or her own life.
3. Biography - A writer uses the third-person point of view to write
about the life of someone else. Narrative essay o A writer may use
either the first or third-person point of view to relate a true story in a
short composition

8. NON-FICTION
2. Informative Nonfiction
1. Expository essays - Explain a topic. Articles that
explain the steps in a process, report the news, or analyze
a work of literature are all examples of expository writing.
2.Persuasive essays - Promote an opinion. Advice
columns, movie reviews, and editorials are all examples of
persuasive writing. Many persuasive and expository essays
follow a general structure of lead, body and conclusion.

9. Kinds
Prose
Divided into
paragraphs
Expresses the
ordinary things in life
Does not make use of
metrical composition
Uses common place
words
Poetry
Divided into stanza.
Expresses the beautiful
things in life
Makes use of metrical
composition.
Meaning are not
directly stated but are
simply suggested
Uses ornamental
vocabulary.

10. TYPES OF
PROSE
NOVEL
SHORT STORY
PLAY LEGEND
FABLE
ANECDOTEESSAY

11. TYPES OF
POETRY
EPIC
METRICAL TALE
BALLAD
FALKSONG
SONNET
ELEGY ODE
PSALM
COMEDY
MELODRAMA TRAGEDY
FARCE
SOCIAL POEM
NARATIVELYRIC POETRYDRAMATIC
POETRY

13. THE
END