This document provides information about William Wordsworth and defines literature according to Wordsworth. It then outlines the main divisions of literature as poetry and prose. For poetry, it defines concepts like rhyme, rhythm, stanza, and provides examples of different types of poetry including narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. It also defines prose and provides examples of different types of prose works.

1. LITERATURE

2. William Wordsworth was born in
Cumberland County, in the town of
Cockermouth, the 7th of April 1770. He
was the second child of five in the family of
the legal representative of James Lowther,
1st Earl of Lonsdale.

3. Popular poems by William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Daffodils)
A Character
The World Is Too Much With Us; Late And Soon
A Night Thought
She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
It Was An April Morning: Fresh And Clear
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
The Solitary Reaper
A Night-Piece
A Complaint

4. According to WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
LITERATURE is the expression of life in
words of truth and beauty. It is written
record of man’s spirit, his emotions,
thoughts and aspirations. It is the history
and only history of the human soul.

5. Literature has two main divisions:
Poetry
Prose

6. POETRY
It is a literary composition in verse
form having a regular rhyme,
rhythm and meter and divided into
stanzas.

7. Rhyme
-correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words,
especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Example:

8. Rhythm
-pattern of beats or a series of stressed and
unstressed syllables in the poem.
Poets create rhythm by using words in
which parts are emphasized or not
emphasized.

9. Stanza
-group of lines in the poem. It is often called
“verse”.

10. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

11. PROSE
A literary composition in sentence form having
no regular rhyme, rhythm nor meter and
divided into paragraphs.

13. Three kinds of POETRY:
1.Narrative poetry
2.Lyric poetry
3.Dramatic poetry

14. Narrative Poetry
-tells a story
Lyric Poetry
-expresses the ardent personal feelings of the poet
on a subject
Dramatic Poetry
-is designed to be spoken and acted on stage

15. Three kinds of Narrative Poetry:
Epic
Ballad
Metrical Tale/ Romance

16. Epic
-is a long narrative poem elevated in
style and dignified in tone telling of the
adventures and achievements of a
hero important to the history of his
race or nation.

17. National Epics of some countries
England : Beowulf
France : Song o Roland
Germany : Siegfried
Greece :Iliad and Oddysey
Icelandic countries : The Volksunga Saga
India : Mahabarata and Ramayana
Italy : Aenied
Philippines : Florante at Laura
Spain : El Cid
United States of America : Song of Hiawatha

18. Short Quiz

19. Give what is being ask.
1-2 Two main division of literature.
3-5 Three kinds of poetry
6-8 Three kinds of narrative poetry
9-10 Give atleast two national epics and their countries

20. Direction:Readandunderstandthefollowingquestionsandchooseyouranswerwrittenin theboard.
11. It is the expression of life in words of truth and beauty. It is written record of
man’s spirit, his emotions, thoughts and aspirations.
12. _____ is correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
13. It is called as group of lines in the poem and often called “verse”.
14. It is a literary composition in verse form having a regular rhyme, rhythm and
meter and divided into stanzas.
15. Kind of poetry that tells a story.
16. ___ is a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables in
the poem.
17. A literary composition in sentence form having no regular rhyme, rhythm nor
meter and divided into paragraphs.

21. Direction:Readandunderstandthefollowingquestionsandchooseyouranswerwrittenin theboard.
18. It is a short poem, often songlike qualities expresses the ardent personal
feelings of the poet on a subject.
19. ____is a long narrative poem telling the adventures and achievements of a
hero important to the history of his race or nation.
20. It is designed to be spoken and acted on stage
21. ___ is a tale about romantic relationship.
22. ___is a medieval tale in verse form dealing with heroic or marvelous
achievements of knights in shining armor
23. ___is a simple narrative poem often meant for singing dealing with basic
subjects such as love, honor or death.
24. ____is an epic of England.
25. Aenied is an epic of Italy and Mahabarata and Ramayana is an epic of what
country?

22. Ballad
-is a simple narrative poem often
meant for singing, characterized by
simplicity of language and usually
dealing with basic subjects such as
love, honor or death.

23. Metrical Tale/Romance
-is a medieval tale in verse form
dealing with heroic or marvelous
achievements of knights in shining
armor and of fair ladies in distress.

24. Lyric Poetry
-short poem, often songlike
qualities expresses the ardent
personal feelings of the poet on a
subject

25. Six types of Lyric Poetry
1. Ode
2. Elegy
3. Sonnet
4. Song
5. Idyll
6. Simple Lyric

26. Ode
-is a short lyric poem about the subject
that expresses praise, glorification or
tribute.
Ex. “Ode on Grecian Urn” by John
Keats

27. Elegy
-is a sad poem, usually written to
praise and express sorrow for someone
who is dead.
Ex. A poem sung by elders when
someone has died

28. Sonnet
-is a lyric poem of fourteen iambic
pentameter lines rhymed according to
a traditional rhyme scheme.
Ex. “Sonnet 18” by William
Shakespeare

29. Two Kinds of Sonnet
1. English or Shakespearean Sonnet-
the fourteen iambic pentameter lines
are divided into 3 quatrains plus a
concluding couplet with the rhyme
scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg

30. Two Kinds of Sonnet
2. Italian or Petrarchean sonnet-
fourteen iambic pentameter lines are
divided into octave rhyming abbaabba
and sestet rhyming cdecde or cdccdc.
Ex. “To the Nile” by John Keats

31. English or Shakespearean Sonnet

32. Italian or Petrarchean Sonnet

34. Song
-is a lyric poem set to music.
-expression of poet’s personal
emotions meant to be sung.
Ex. “Jopay” by Mayonnaise

35. Idyll
-is descriptive poem of rural or pastoral
character which expresses the poet’s
feeling for his immediate landscape.
Ex. “ The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love” by Christopher Marlowe’s

36. Simple Lyric
-is a poem usually short and
uncomplicated.

37. Dramatic
Poetry

38. Dramatic Poetry
-is classified into poetic plays.
-also known as dramatic verse or verse
drama performed by an actor before
an audience.

39. Seven Types of Dramatic Poetry
1. Comedy
2. Tragedy
3. Dramatic History
4. Farce
5. Melodrama
6. Masque
7. Dramatic Monologue

40. Comedy
-is a dramatic play of light and
humorous character; typically with a
cheerful or happy ending.

41. Tragedy
-is a dramatic play portraying the
struggle of a strong-willed protagonist
against fate, as predestined by
mysterious, divine, social or
psychological culminating in disaster
and usually death caused by a flaw in
the protagonist’s character.

42. Five great Shakespearean
tragedies
1. Hamlet -Tragedy of Indecision
2. King Lear -Tragedy of Parental Love
3. Macbeth -Tragedy of Ambition
4. Othello -Tragedy of Conjugal Love
5. Romeo -Tragedy of Young Love
and Juliet

43. Dramatic History
-is a dramatic play dealing with a past
historical event
Ex.

44. Farce
-is a light dramatic composition
marked by broadly satirical comedy
and improbable plot.
Ex.

45. Melodrama
-is a dramatic composition characterized
by extravagant theatricality and by the
predominance of plot and physical action
over characterization.
Ex.

46. Masque
-is a short allegorical dramatic entertainment
popular with courtly audiences in 16th century
and 17th century England originally consisting
of pantomime and dancing, staging and
costuming , the use of dance, song and very
little dialogue
Ex.

47. Dramatic Monologue
-is a dramatic composition is verse form
having one speaker only.
Ex.

48. Prose
-literary composition having no regular
rhyme, rhythm, meter and divided into
paragraph.

49. Eight Types of Prose
1. Essay
2. Prose Drama
3. Prose Fiction
4. Biography
5. Autobiography
6. Letters
7. Diaries
8. Journals

50. 1. Essay
-is a prose composition which discusses a
particular subject.
-Usually unified by a central idea with all
parts in the essay contributing to that
idea.

51. Types of Essay
1. Descriptive Essay
2. Expository Essay
3. Argumentative Essay
4. Narrative Essay

52. 2. Prose Drama
-has the same types as poetic plays
except that these are in prose form.

53. 3. Prose Fiction
-is a prose composition in which
character, setting or events are
imaginatively created.

54. Twelve Types Prose Fiction
1. Prose Allegory 7. Fable
2. Prose Romance 8. Parable
3. Tale of Adventure 9. Myth
or Experience
4. Novel 10. Legend
5. Novelette 11. Folk Tale
6. Short Story 12. Fairy Tale

55. 1. Prose Allegory
-is a narrative in prose form in which
abstract ideas are personified.

56. 2. Prose Romance
-is a narrative treating imaginary
characters involved in events remote in
time or place and usually heroic,
adventurous or mysterious.

57. 3. Tale of Adventure or
Experience
-is a prose fiction dealing with something
involving danger and unknown risk or
ma’s encounter with nature.

58. -is a fictitious prose narrative of
considerable length portraying
characters, actions and scenes
representative of real life in a more or
less intricate plot.
4. Novel

59. -is a prose composition shorter than a
novel, longer than a short story
containing elements of plot, setting and
character with its plot more complicated
and the characters more in number than
a short story.
5. Novelette

60. -is a prose narrative of about 10,000
words intended to be read in one sitting
with plot, setting and character
contributing to achieve a unified or single
effect.
6. Short Story

61. -is a prose narrative with animals or
inanimate objects as characters and
devised to teach a moral lesson
7. Fable

62. -is a short prose narrative that teaches a
spiritual truth or moral lesson. It differs
from a fable as it uses persons as
characters. It has setting, characters and
events
8. Parable

63. -is a prose narrative embodying the
convictions of a people as to their gods
and other divine personages, their own
origin and early history and the heroes
connected with it or the origin of the
world or to explain a natural
phenomenon.
9. Myth

64. -is a prose narrative coming down rom
the past especially one regarded as
historical although not verifiable
10. Legend

65. -is a characteristically anonymous,
timeless and placeless tale circulated
orally among people.
11. Folk Tale

66. -is a narrative of adventures involving
fantastic forces and beings to good to be
true and almost always has a happy
ending.
12. Fairy Tale

67. -is an account of a person’s life
written by another.
4. Biography

68. -is an account of a person’s life
written by himself.
5. Autobiography

69. -is a direct or personally written or
printed message addressed to a
person or organization.
6. Letter

70. -is a prose composition published
periodically for an exclusive
readership.
7. Journal

71. -is a daily record of personal
activities, reflections or feelings
written by a person or posterity.
8. Diary