READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH

LITERARY APPRECIATION SKILLS

Stephanie C. Samson
Developmental Reading Subject
 Stephanie C. Samson
Developmental Reading Subject

READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH

LITERARY APPRECIATION SKILLS
LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A. Construct meaning from literary texts

Gain deeper understanding and appreciation

B. for the value of literature

Identify the literary merits of the literary

C. selections
LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A. Construct meaning from literary texts

Gain deeper understanding and appreciation

B. for the value of literature

Identify the literary merits of the literary

C. selections
LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A. Construct meaning from literary texts

Gain deeper understanding and appreciation

B. for the value of literature

Identify the literary merits of the literary

C. selections
LEARNING OUTCOMES:

A. Construct meaning from literary texts

Gain deeper understanding and

B. appreciation for the value of literature

Identify the literary merits of the

C. literary selections
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LET’S LISTEN TO LITERATURE:
Literature tells you many things. It
tells you the stories of real people
who grapple with problems that
the urgency in today’s living
brings. It recounts the
experiences of ordinary country
folk who delight at the simple joys
of life. It narrates the exploits or
adventures of the immortals and
the supernatural beings who thrill
us with their incredible powers.

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LET’S LISTEN TO LITERATURE:
Literature tells you many things. It
tells you the stories of real people
who grapple with problems that
the urgency in today’s living
brings. It recounts the
experiences of ordinary country
folk who delight at the simple joys
of life. It narrates the exploits or
adventures of the immortals and
the supernatural beings who thrill
us with their incredible powers.

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 LITERATURE RELATES ALL THESE THINGS
THROUGH ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS

POETIC TONE AND

CHARACTER SETTING PLOT THEME
LANGUAGE MOOD
 LITERATURE RELATES ALL THESE THINGS
THROUGH ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS

POETIC TONE AND

CHARACTER SETTING PLOT THEME
LANGUAGE MOOD
 LITERATURE RELATES ALL THESE THINGS
THROUGH ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS

POETIC TONE AND

CHARACTER SETTING PLOT THEME
LANGUAGE MOOD
 LITERATURE RELATES ALL THESE THINGS
THROUGH ITS ELEMENTS SUCH AS

POETIC TONE AND

CHARACTER SETTING PLOT THEME
LANGUAGE MOOD
1.POETIC LANGUAGE
-Words or phrases that conjure up vivid pictures in your mind,
that appeal to your emotions, or that communicate ideas
beyond the literal meanings of the words are called poetic or
figurative language.

Images appeal to the senses of sight,

touch, and hearing, although the majority
of images are visual.
“Plain chip ware on a plain and creaking wood,
tin flatware.
…As they lean over the beans in their rented
back room.
That is full of beads and receipts and dolls and
cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes”

Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Bean Eaters”
 There is sweet music here that softer falls
than petals from blown roses on the grass,
or night-dews on still waters between walls
of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
than tired eyelids upon tired eyes;music that brings sweet sleep
down from the blissful skies.
Here are cool mosses deep,
and thro' the moss the ivies creep,
and in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,
and from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from “The Lotus-Eaters”
 Example images in the poem:
Images Senses

Sweet music – sense of hearing

Cool mosses deep – sense of touch
Tired eyes – sense of sight
Roses on the grass – sense of sight
 ACTIVITY 1: BOARD WORK
Read the poem. Then list five images from the poem
and identify their sense appeal.
  Have you seen but a bright lily grow
    Before rude hands have touched it?
  Have you marked but the fall of the snow
    Before the soil hath smutched it?
  Have you felt the wool of the beaver,
    Or swan’s down ever?
  Or have smelt o’ the bud o’ the brier
      Or the nard in the fire?
  Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!

Ben Jonson
“Triumph of Charis”
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 ANSWERS:
IMAGES SENSES
1. __________ __________
2. __________ __________
3. __________ __________
4. __________ __________
5. __________ __________
 EVALUATION: Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
(
Read the following passages.
With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Identify the images and state the
sense/s appealed to in each of Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
the passages. Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!
1. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
“Ode to the West Wind”
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Images _________ _________
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until Senses _________ _________
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

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 EVALUATION:
Read the following passages. Identify the images and state the
sense/s appealed to in each of the passages.

2. I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, Images _________ _________
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils; Senses _________ _________
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

-William Wordsworth
“I Wandered Lonely As A
Cloud”
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 EVALUATION:
Read the following passages. Identify the images and state the
sense/s appealed to in each of the passages.

3. The sun is up today. Water drips from the

Images _________ _________
eaves of the house. Icicles melt into water and
drip-drip from nine in the mornin’ till three in the
evenin’. White clouds scud the sky. Winter has Senses _________ _________
started breakin’ up. Warm thaw winds blow
through the bare Kentucky trees. One can feel
them, warm soft winds, winds that remind one of
rain.

-Jesse Stuart
“Dark Winter”
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 EVALUATION:
Read the following passages. Identify the images and state the
sense/s appealed to in each of the passages.

3. The sun is up today. Water drips from the

Images _________ _________
eaves of the house. Icicles melt into water and
drip-drip from nine in the mornin’ till three in the
evenin’. White clouds scud the sky. Winter has Senses _________ _________
started breakin’ up. Warm thaw winds blow
through the bare Kentucky trees. One can feel
them, warm soft winds, winds that remind one of
rain.

-Jesse Stuart
“Dark Winter”
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