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Module-2-Introduction To Literature

This document provides an introduction to literature, including definitions, types, and genres. It defines literature as compositions that deal with human experiences through stories, situations, emotions, ideas, and advocacy. The document outlines four main learning outcomes related to understanding and classifying literature. It then defines and describes four major genres: poetry uses imagery and figurative language to express human experiences concisely, fiction uses prose and imagination to tell stories, non-fiction uses facts and reasoning to describe and interpret real events, and drama is literary works meant to be performed for audiences.

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Module-2-Introduction To Literature

This document provides an introduction to literature, including definitions, types, and genres. It defines literature as compositions that deal with human experiences through stories, situations, emotions, ideas, and advocacy. The document outlines four main learning outcomes related to understanding and classifying literature. It then defines and describes four major genres: poetry uses imagery and figurative language to express human experiences concisely, fiction uses prose and imagination to tell stories, non-fiction uses facts and reasoning to describe and interpret real events, and drama is literary works meant to be performed for audiences.

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Introduction to

Literature
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Realize the value of studying and understanding literature
and their meaning
2. Explain what makes literature important;
3. Classify different literary forms and genres.
4. Define the basic concepts of Literature and World
Literature
Literature
It is this form of writing or oral
that creates and recreates life in
all its panoply and splendour -
through symbolic presentation.
Topics
◈ Definition and Importance of Literature
◈ Types of Literature and Its Genres
◈ Classification of Major forms of Literature
a. Poetry
b. Prose
Definition
What is Literature ?
What is Literature ?
Literature refers to compositions that deal with
experiences. It tells stories, dramatizes situation,
expresses emotions, analyses, and advocates ideas.

Literature makes us human.


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Types of Literature

◈ Poetry
◈ Fiction
◈ Non-Fiction
◈ Drama
Poetry

◈ Poetry expresses a conversation or


interchange of the deeply felt
experiences of human beings. Poetry
comes in many formal and informal
shapes and lengths. It uses few
words, as compared to prose fiction.
It relies heavily on imagery,
figurative language and sound.
Fiction
◈ Fiction refers to prose stories based on the
author’s imagination. The essence of fiction
is narration - whereby events or actions are
recounted. Works of fiction focus on one or
a few major characters that change in
attitude as they interact with other
characters and deal with problems. The
main purpose of prose fiction is to interest,
stimulate, instruct and divert.
Non- Fiction
◈ Non-fiction prose as a literary genre is
represented by news reports, feature articles,
essays, editorials, historical, and
biographical works and like – all of which
describe or interpret facts and present
judgments and opinions. The major goals of
nonfiction prose are truth in reporting and
logic reasoning.
Drama
◈ Drama is literature designed to be
performed by actors. Like fiction, drama
may focus on a single character or a small
number of characters and enacts fictional
events to be witnessed by an audience.
THANK
S!
For clarifications, questions and
concerns as well as the
announcements for the
instructions of written works for
this topic please click the meet
link that I will be posting on
Gclass today.

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