INTRODUCTION TO

L I T E R AT U R E
ACTIVITY 1: GETTING TO KNOW LITERATURE
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learn about LITERATURE. Work on the first TWO columns of the chart before reading the
unit, and work on the third column after listening/ reading.

What you KNOW What you WANT TO KNOW What you LEARNED
WHY DO WE READ?
BUT IS ALL FICTION
L I T E R AT U R E ?
Literature is concerned with the
content and the form, in other
words not only the story but the
way it is written.
SECTION 1
LITERATURE MEANING
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 LITERATURE
• It is anything and
• comes from the everything that
LATIN word reproduces life
experiences. It collects,
“literatura”, which
organizes and sums up
means, “writing the entirety of humanity,
formed with letters”. occassionally adding
more color to it.
 LITERATURE
• Before writing developed as a system of signs, whether
pictographs or alphabets, “texts” were passed on orally.
• The predecessor of literary expression, called “oral poetry,”
• In 21 st century, Audio-literature and the lyrics of songs
display the acoustic features of literary phenomena
through the medium of radio and other sound carriers.
 ELEMENTS of Literature
FORM , the general structure of the literary piece. From the title of the literary
work, to the way the words or sentences creates a visual impact.
 ELEMENTS of Literature

THEME , the SUBJECT of which literature revolves around. Literature is created to share
stories, ignite a passion, and thrust readers forward to feel more of life.
ELEMENTS of Literature

CHARACTERIZATION
STYLE
could be products of
the refer to the specific
writer's imagination, or they techniques and designs that
could be compelling point-of- a literary writer employs to
view that the writer thinks prolong his/her grip of the
readeer's interest
TYPES of Literature
ELEMENTS of Literature

FICTION NONFICTION
talks about imaginary talks about the reality of
characters, settings and things, places and people,
stories building up on facts
 CREATIVE NONFICTION LITERATURE

tries to combine the two main types into one ingenious literary masterpiece.
It follows the structure of Nonfiction Literature, while employing the use of
Fiction Literature's style and characteristics. Also regarded as modern essay,
it is built on facts, but is crafted creatively.
COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

DRAMA NOVEL
is a created literature to be an extended story, usually
performed and witnessed by an fictional. It is organized in
audience. It is divided into
“chapters”, and sometimes,
“acts” and “scenes”, forming a
“volumes”.
text filled with dialogues and
stage directions for the actors'
movements
COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

POETRY
SHORT STORY
uses more expressive words, like

narrated in brevity, figures of speech, and creative

structures in conveying its
oftentimes are more
message. Intended to read aloud,
creatively crafted than to a specific person, or meant to
novels, but lack specific and be heard and generalized. it has
minute details time, meter, rhyme and rhythm
COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

ESSAY EPIC
intended to be read, and are it combines both styles of a
drama and a narrative story. It
mostly built upon facts and
has also an element of song in it,
general knowledge. it as most epics were sung in the
focuses on analyzing and old times. It showcase personal
critiquing issues. interpretations adding hints of
fantasy and mythology.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

HYPERPOETRY BLOG
sometimes called from the words “web log”, is a
website created to contain and
“Cyberpoetery”, presents
manage user-made articles posts
poems that include verses or that are updated regularly
lines linked through
hyperlink mark-ups;
oftentimes uses graphics to
convey meaning
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

TEXT TULA CHICK LIT

a poem produed and shared a genre of fiction that was made
through the use of a mobile popular in the late 1990's. It

phone's messaging application; generally talks about women and

their different struggl, specifically
in the form of “tanaga”, a
staged in modern times
Filipino poem consisting of four
lines with seven syllables each
with a rhyme scheme of AABB
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

SPECULATIVE FICTION FLASH FICTION

a fiction genre that dwells on
a fiction genre that presents
issues of alternate imagined
one-sitting-long-of-reading texts.
scenarios. It uses the appeal The longest text in the genre of
of conspiracy themes, Flash fiction is only said to 1000-
fantasy science fiction and words
dystopian societies
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