LITERARY STANDARDS MEANING

Literature appeals to everyone, regardless of

1. UNIVERSALITY culture, race, sex, and time which are all
considered significant.

2. ARTISTRY
Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus
possesses a sense of beauty.

Literature stimulates critical thinking that

enriches mental processes of abstract and
3. INTELLECTUAL VALUE
reasoning, making man realize the fundamental
truths of life and its nature.

Literature unravels and conjures man’s

emotional power to define symbolisms,
4. SUGGESTIVENESS
nuances, implied meanings, images and
messages, giving and evoking visions above and
beyond the plane of ordinary life and
experiences.
 LITERARY STANDARDS MEANING

Literature elevates the spirit and the soul and

5. SPIRITUAL VALUE
thus has the power to motivate and inspire,
drawn from suggested morals or lessons of the
different literary genres.

Literature endures across time and draws out

6. PERMANENCE
the time factor: timelessness, occurring at a
particular time, and timelessness, remaining
invariable throughout the time.

Literature presents peculiar way/s on how

man sees life as evidenced by the formation
7. STYLE of his ideas, forms, structures, and
expressions which are marked by their
memorable substance.
 LITERATURE GENRES

Examples:
▪ News
▪ Open form
▪ Made of Examples: ▪ Reports
and close
dialog and ▪ Journals
form ▪ Myths
set ▪ Relies on ▪ Articles
▪ Fables
direction imagery, ▪ Essays
▪ Novels
▪ Designed to figurative
▪ Short Stories ▪ Textbooks
be language and ▪ Biographies
performed sounds
▪ Etc.
 POETRY

KINDS OF POETRY/
DEFINITION POEM

• POETRY IS LANGUAGE
• CONCRETE POEM
WRITTEN WITH RHYTHM,
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, • NARRATIVE POEM
IMAGERY, SOUND DEVICES • EPIC
AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED • BALLAD
LANGUAGE.
• LYRIC POEM
• ODE
• SONNET
• ELEGY
• SONG
• DRAMATIC POETRY
 KINDS OF
POETRY
• NARRATIVE LYRIC POEM
POEM
.

oNARRATIVE POEM Lyric poem is a

IS A STORY TOLD highly musical
IN VERSE.
verse that
oNARRATIVE POEMS
expresses the
OFTEN HAVE ALL
THE ELEMENTS OF observation and
SHORT STORIES, feelings of a single
INCLUDING
CHARACTERS,
speaker.
CONFLICT, AND
PLOT
 PROSE

DEFINITION
•PROSE IS THE ORDINARY
• KINDS OF PROSE

FORM OF WRITTEN .
LANGUAGE.
oFICTION
•PROSE IMITATES THE
oNON FICTION
SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
 KINDS OF PROSE

FICTION
NON FICTION
EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES:
•SHORT STORIES
•NOVELS ▪ Biography
• LEGEND ▪ Essay
•FAIRY TALES
•FOLK TALES ▪ Reaction paper
•SHORT STORIES ▪ Reflection paper
•FABLES
•MYTH ▪ Diary
▪ Business letters
 Verse

• What do you call a line in a

poem?
• Two lines - couplet • 4 lines - quatrain

• Three lines - tercet • 5 lines - cinquain

 DRAMA

• DRAMA IS A STORY WRITTEN TO BE PERFORMED BY

ACTORS. ALTHOUGH A DRAMA IS MEANT TO BE
PERFORMED, ONE CAN ALSO READ THE SCRIPT, OR
WRITTEN VERSION, AND IMAGINE THE ACTION.
 Literary
Elements

• Plot • Theme

• Setting • Characters
• Conflict
 Non-Prose

• Business Letters are parts of Non-Prose

Materials
Identify the parts of the letter
 1

5
6
Parts of a Business Letter
1. Heading
2. Inside Address
3. Salutation
4. Body/ Text
5. Complimentary Closing
6. Signature
Heading
• Date of writing
• Address of the writer
Inside Address
• To whom the letter is written
1. addressee’s courtesy title and full name
2. addressee’s business title if required
3.full name of addressee’s business
affiliation
Salutation
• Greets and expresses courtesy to the recipient
• Followed by a colon
Madam:
Dear
Madam: Sir:
Dear Sir:
Body/ Text
• The message of the letter
• BODY and SOUL
Complimentary Closing
• Courtesy at the end of the letter
• Pleasant, courteous but BUSINESSLIKE
Respectfully yours,
Sincerely yours,
Truly yours,
Signature
• First line- name with signature
Optional Parts of a Business Letter
1. Attention Line
is used if the writer likes to address his letter
to an organization but at the same time wishes to
call the attention of a particular department or
individual
two lines below the last line of the inside
address and two lines above the salutation
2. Subject Line
the gist of the letter
two spaces beneath the salutation and
precedes the message
SUBJECT: SUBMISSION OF PROGRESSREPORT
Subject: Shifting of Duties
RE: Labor C a se NO. 2563789-97
3. Enclosure Notation
is indicated something is with it.
two lines beneath the identification initials
Enclosure- preference
Enclosure: Contract
Enclosure: Check
Agreement
Memo
4. PostScript
is employed when the writer has
neglected something to mention in the message
P.S.
is positioned in the closing section
Types of Business Letters
1. Inquiry
2. Order
3. Claim/Complaint
4.Memorandum (has no
salutation).
Parts of a Memorandum:

_________________
_________________ heading
_________________

_________________
Receiver’s
information

_________________
Sender’s
information

_________________ Subject Line

_________________
Date Line
Assignment:
Review on the following:

1. Full block
2. Modified block
3. Semi-block
4. Simplified
5. Indented