WORLIT 030

ASSIGNMENT 04. BASIC CONCEPTS RELEVANT TO LITERATURE

GROUP MEMBERS 1. GUADALUPE, 2. ROSALES, KRISTEL

CHERYLL ANNE JEN
3.GUTIERREZ, JAMES 4.BONGHANOY, JANEL 5. ILUSTRISIMO,
RIZA NOVELYN

Instructions: Read the notes on the basic concepts about literature. Present these basic
concepts using the chart below. Write the major topics in the second level, the subtopics
in the 3rd level, and keyword/s in the last level.
Refers to the art of selecting the right
CRAFT
words and building the most effective sentences

It aims to communicate a special vision or reality. It is the art that selects,

FINE ART
heightens, and represents reality.
ASPECTS
Reflects philosophy in the sense that it gives man the universal view of life and of
PHILOSOPHICAL
human nature

SUCJECT TO Involves the art of discriminating between the beauty and the faults of literary
CRITICISM works based upon knowledge and taste.

EMOTIONAL APPEAL Readers are moved or troubled.

INTELLECTUAL
ELEMENTS Readers are reminded with knowledge and information.
APPEAL

HUMANISTIC VALUE A person improves as he reaches a better outlook in life.

Description of the topic, generalization drawn from the description, the human
SUBJECT
condition and the system of values the topic of a piece deals with called the theme.

MAIN INGREDIENTS FORM Verbal and artistic structuring of ideas

POINT Angle of vision of the narrator involving attitude and tone

LITERATURE

Writers follow the examples of

IMITATIVE
other authors before they arrive at their own original words.

REPRESENTATIVE Any literary work is a substitute for reality

THEORIES

APPRECIATIVE Gives us a bigger view of life.

SYMBOLIC Scattered in other meanings.

ARTISTRY The quality which appeals to our sense of beauty

INTELLECTUAL
These should enrich our mental life by making us realize fundamental truths about life
BEAUTY

Quality relevant to the emotional power of literature to make

SUGGESTIVENESS
us feel deeply and stir our feelings and imagination.

LITERARY Work must elevate the spirit by bringing out moral values
SPIRITUAL VALUE
STANDARDS which make us better persons.

Work endures and can be read again as each reading gives

PERMANENCE
fresh delights and new insights.

It appeals
UNIVERSALITY to one and all, anytime, anywhere because it deals with elemental feelings, fundamental
truths, and universal conditions

STYLE Great works are marked as much by their memorable substance as by their distinctive style