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- 2. What is WorldLiterature?
- 3. What is WorldLiterature? “It is about stepping out of our neighborhoods, regions, cultures, and ethnicities, and placing ourselves in the larger context of humanity.”
- 4. What is WorldLiterature? World Literature is learning about values, culture, nationalism, attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, feelings and experiences of the continents of the world their in different forms like poetry and prose.
- 5. What is Literature? autobiography,diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay, as well as in the disciplines of history and philosophy. Looking back…
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- 7. Qualifications of Literature Lookingback… GENRES of Literature
- 8. POETRY Let’s define… Itrefers to those expressions in verse, with measures, rhymes, lines, stanzas and melodious tone. Function: to embody the deep truths reveal to us the complex livingorganismcalledhumanbeing. HORACE: Poetry has a two-fold function: to delight andto instruct. * Horace was a Roman writer who lived during the reign of Augustus Caesar in the 1st century B.C.
- 9. Types of Poetry Let’sdefine…
- 10. Types of Poetry Let’sdefine…
- 11. Types of Poetry Let’sdefine… b. NARRATIVE POETRY – it tells a story that follows an order of events. - long descriptive poemabout life and events that may be real or imaginary.
- 12. Types of Poetry Let’sdefine… Types of Narrative Poetry: 1. Ballad – a short simple narrative poem composed to be sung, and is orallytold fromone generation to another. 2. Metrical Romance – written in verse; a long rambling love story which centers the adventure s of knights and lords and their royal ladies during the age of chivalry. It is also heavily flavored in romance, fantastic events, supernaturaloccurrences, magic,and truth, courage, reverenceand justice. 3. Epic – a long, majestic poem that tells the adventures of a traditional heroand the development of a nation.
- 13. Types of Poetry Let’sdefine… c. DRAMATICPOETRY – it has elements that are closely related to drama because it is written in dramatic form or makes use of dramatic technique. It may suggest a story but more emphasis is placed on the characters rather than the narration.
- 14. Other Forms ofPoetry Let’s define… • Blank verse – (Italy) written in iambic pentameter, or a line with ten syllables and five stresses; unrhymed and traditionallyuses dramaticspeech. • Haiku – (Japan) a three-line poem which has 5-7-5 syllable count. • Free verse – an open form that does not follow a rhyme, metrical, or musical scheme.
- 15. Elements of Poetry Let’sdefine… • Lines/verse • Meter - describes the rhythm (or pattern of beats) in a line of poetry. • Sound Pattern/Rhymes - the repetition of syllables, typically at the endof a verse line. • Imagery- element of a poem that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images. Specifically, using vivid or figurative languageto represent ideas, objects, or actions.
- 16. PROSE Let’s define… • Inwriting, prose refers to any written work that follows a basic grammatical structure (think words and phrases arranged into sentences and paragraphs). This stands out from works of poetry, which follow a metrical structure Prose simply means language that follows the natural patterns found in everyday speech.
- 17. PROSE Let’s define… • FICTION •NONFICTION
- 18. Let’s define… FICTION • aseries of imaginative facts about truths in human life; presents humanlife. Classifications: a. Short Story - short narrative artistic in nature involving one or more characters that focus on a single plot, one single experience. b. Novel - a long narrative divided into chapters and may involve few or more characters with complex theme (plot). c. Drama - a literary form presented on stage. It involves three elements : theater, actors, audience. It is an art of imitating human characters and actions. (Tragedy, Comedy)
- 19. Let’s define… FICTION Classification WordCount Flash fiction 100 – 1,000 Short story 1,000 – 10, 000 Novelette 10, 000 – 20, 000 Novella 20, 000 – 30, 000 Novel 30, 000 and beyond
- 20. Let’s define… Elements ofFiction PLOT – the sequence of evets in the story; this includes the conflict of the story and the resolution. • Conflict: internal or external • Man vs. Self • Man vs. Man • Man vs. Society • Man vs. Nature • Man vs. Supernatural
- 21. Let’s define… Elements ofFiction CHARACTERS – individuals in a story Presence: Major/Minor character Position: Protagonist/Antagonist Characterization: Round/Flat Movement: Dynamic/Static POINT OF VIEW – the position in which the story is being told and the manner of its telling
- 22. Let’s define… Elements ofFiction VOICE and DIALOGUE – how speech is rendered in a story, either as the narrator talking to the reader or characters talking to each other SETTING– where and when the story take place THEME – what the story is trying about the human condition
- 23. Let’s define… Elements ofFiction Symbols – or an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, belief, concept, and abstraction that may not otherwise be rendered into concrete images. Symbols take the form of words, sounds, gestures, or visual images and are used to convey ideas and beliefs.
- 24. Let’s define… Kinds ofsymbolism: • Motif/Leitmotif – a repetition of symbol in a story. It can be an object, an action, a word or phrase, or even a description. Motifs are dependent on the fictional world of the story, and may not carry any meaning in the real world. • Tropes – are common literary devices, motifs, or figurative language that occur across several creative works, they can be identified by the way they are commonly used by the creators. Ex. a boy falls in love with a girl who does not love him back; the monster in the closet; or the ordinary person becomes the hero.
- 25. Let’s define… Kinds ofsymbolism: • Archetypes – usually refer to character templates in a story that fulfill a certain function. • Allegory – also known as extended metaphor and uses characters and events in literary or other art forms to represent and symbolize abstractions. Many mythologies and religious texts use allegories to concretize an abstract concept or idea.
- 26. Let’s define… based mainlyon facts rather than on imagination althoughthey may contain fictional elements. • essays, biography/autobiography, memoir, diary, and the like
- 27. Literature, as comparedto any other forms of writing, possesses distinct qualities that separate it from the rest. These are what we call literary standards. What are the literary standards?
- 28. What are theliterary standards?
- 29. What are theliterary standards?