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(Presentation) P Lesson 1 Introduction To Literature

This document provides an introduction to literature, including its key ingredients, forms, categories, and genres. It defines literature as writing formed with letters and discusses its main ingredients as subject, form, and point of view. It identifies the two main forms as prose and poetry, and the two categories as fiction and nonfiction. Finally, it outlines some common literary genres like drama, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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(Presentation) P Lesson 1 Introduction To Literature

This document provides an introduction to literature, including its key ingredients, forms, categories, and genres. It defines literature as writing formed with letters and discusses its main ingredients as subject, form, and point of view. It identifies the two main forms as prose and poetry, and the two categories as fiction and nonfiction. Finally, it outlines some common literary genres like drama, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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21 Century

st ENG S211

Literature from
the Philippines
and the World
INTRODUCTION
TO
LITERATURE
LESSON 1
LITERATURE
✘ Came from the Latin word, Litteratura, which
means writing formed with letters.
Ingredients Forms
Literat
ure
Categories Genres
Ingredients Forms
Literat
ure
Categories Genres
Ingredients of literature
Form

Point of
Subject
View

Literature
Ingredients of literature
 Subject  Form  Point of View
✘ Any work of literature is ✘ The manner in which ✘ The angle of vision of
about something, and the writer the narrator.
for this reason, it has a communicates the
subject. subject.
Ingredients of literature
 Point of View ✘ First Person POV – “I,” “You”
✘ The angle of vision of “Me,” “We…”
the narrator.
✘ Third person omniscient POV
✘ Limited omniscient POV
Ingredients Forms
Literat
ure
Categories Genres
2 Forms of Literature
Prose example Poetry example

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of Be beautiful, noble, like the


number four, Privet Drive, were antique ant,
proud to say that they were Who bore the storms as he bore
perfectly normal, thank you very the sun,
much. They were the last people Wearing neither gown nor helmet,
you’d expect to be involved in though he was archbishop and
anything strange or mysterious… soldier:
Wore only his own flesh

Excerpt from Harry Potter: The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. Excerpt from Be Beautiful, Noble like the Antique Ant by Jose Garcia Villa
2 Forms of Literature
Prose Poetry
 Most everyday writing is in  Language incorporate rhyme
prose form. and rhythm that contribute to
 Ideas are contained in a different sound and feel.
sentences that are arranged  Ideas are contained in lines.
into paragraphs. Lines are arranged in stanzas.
Ingredients Forms
Literat
ure
Categories Genres
2 Categories of Literature
Fiction Nonfiction
 Not real  Real life
 Derived from imagination  Journalistic writing, technical
 Novels, Novelettes, writing, academic writing
Novellas, Short story, flash  Memoirs, autobiographies,
fiction biographies
Ingredients Forms
Literat
ure
Categories Genres
Literary genres

Fiction Poetry

Creative
Drama
Nonfiction
References:
Rowling, J. K., author. (1998). Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. New York:
Arthur A. Levine Books
Rexroth, K. (2019, February 22). Literature. Encyclopædia Britannica.
https://www.britannica.com/art/literature
Solmerano, E., Ondevilla, M., Palencia, M., Jerusalem, V., & Cruz, J. (2017). 21st
century literature from the Philippines and the world (2nd ed.). Manila: Fastbooks
Educational Supply, Inc.
Tan, A. (2001). Introduction to literature (4th ed.). Quezon City: Academic Publishing
Corporation.

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