Literature

Introduction:

Literature is a college preparatory literature and composition course. Focus works,

including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, have been selected for literary quality,
interest, and for their place in the historical development of literature.

If you have ever cried at a movie or a play or laughed at a story, you already know some
of the ways literature can make you feel. Literature is basically a communication in words in
human thoughts and emotions. Before most people could read and write, literature consisted of
stories and poems that people made up and taught to their children and grand-children. (In this
way, stories and poems are remembered for many years, passing from generation to generation.
Troubadours (singers who traveled from town to town) made these stories and poem more
widely known. Stories and poems that were writtendown could be copiedand distributed to other
towns and other countries. Because of this, writting came to be adopted as the best way for
literature to reach a large number of people.

Some kind of writting are not really literature, although they can be very important to
people. Expository writing is very common and useful kind of non-literary composition. Its main
purpose is to give information to the reader.

Schoolbooks are good examples of expository writting.

Persuasive writting
Another kind of non-literary composition, its purpose is to make the
reader believe one particular opinion or point of view.

Television commercials and newspaper ads are good examples of persuasive

writing.

IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE
Literature is the foundation of life, it laced on emphasis on many topics from
human tragedies to tales of the ever, popular search for love. While it is physically written in
words, these words come alive in the imagination of the mind, and its ability to comprehend the
complexity or simplicity of the text.

PURPOSES OF LITERATURE

Literature can be both informative and persuasive, but it has other goals.
However, one of the main purposes of literature is to help pepole to understand human nature
and experience. Another important goal of literature is to entertain people. You enjoy reading
about other people and their experiences, and this reading often hepls you understand more
about people in general or yourself in particular. Throughout the ages, people have shared
certain characteristics. They love, hate, admire, pity. They are admired, sad, afraid, cruel, and
kind. Literature hepls people to understand these emotions and their reasons for feeling them.

Literature appeals to the readers emotions and imagination. Therefore, the writter
chooses the words, phrases, and approach (to his subject) that will excite his readers
imagination. A writter choses words for their sound and the thoughts people associate with them
as well as for their specific meaning.

LITERATURE

In its broadest sense, is any single body of written works. More restrictively, it is
writting considered as an art form, or any single writting deemed to have artistic or intellectual
value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordianry usage. Its latin root
literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera. Letter or handwritting) was used to refer to all
written accounts, through contemporary definitions extend the term to include text that are
spokenor sung (oral literature). Literature can be classified accordng to wether it is fiction or
non-fiction and wether it is poetry or prose, it can be further distinguished according to major
forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorized according to
historical periods or their adherance to certain aesthetic features or expectations.
The concepts has change meaning over time; nowadays it can braden to have non-
written verbal art forms, and thus it is difficult to agree on its origin, which can be paired with
that of language or writting itself. Developments in print technology have allowed an
evergrowing distribution and proliferation of written works, culminating in electronic literature.

TWO DIVISIONS OF LITTERATURE

PROSE

Is a discourse which uses sentences, usually forming paragraphs, to express

ideas, feelings, and actions.
Is written in paragraph form and is meant to reflect common everyday language. The
chief objectives of prose are to inform or educate the reader, or instruct the reader to do
something.

TYPES OF PROSE:

Essay- is a prose composition of moderate lenght, usually compository, which aim to

explain or elucidates the points of view.

Example:
A major change that has occured in the western family is an increased in divorce. Whereas in
the past,divoreced was relatively, in recent times has become quite common place.

Prose Fiction- is something like a drama that contains descriptive materials tha shuts out
history and biography tht are not product of imagination.

a. Novel- an extension of prose narrative that is elastic in form. Its lenght ranges from
one hundred pages of a steam-of-consciousness, or a long fictional prose narrative.
Example:
Romeo and Juliet by Willam Shakespear

b. Novella- the novella exists between the novel and short story.

c. Short Story- a dilemma in defining the short story as a literary form is how to, or
wether one should, distinguish it from any short narrative.

Examples of Prose:
Include novel, essay, letter or bioghraphy.

POETRY

A type of writting that uses lines and stanzas rather than sentences or
paragraphs to express idea. Poetry is a form of literary at which uses aesthetic and rhythmic
qualities of languages to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, prosaic ostensible
meaning. Poetry has traditionally distinguish from prose by its being set in verse.
Poetry is written in verse form, with the express intent to appeal to the readers
emotion. It relies heavily on the use of metaphors and abstract language to encourage the
readers to use their imagination.

Examples of Poetry:
Include ballad, an epic, a sonnet, or a song

TWO GENERAL TYPES OF LITERATURE

The two most general types of literature are fiction and non-fiction.

A. Fiction
- Is literature created through the authors imagination.

Examples of Fiction:
Include poems, stories, plays, and novels. Common genres of fiction are mystery,
romance, fantasy and classic literature.

B. Non-Fiction
- Is literature based on fact.

Examples of Non-fiction:
Include such types of of literature as newspaper articles, editorials, textbook and legal
documents. Readers will find may topics in the nonfiction section of a bookstore or library
including biography, business, cooking, self-help, healths, pets, crafts, home decorating,
language, travel, religion, art, history.

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