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    INTRO TO

    LITERATURE
    MATERIAL
    (SEMESTER 4)

    PROSE,POETRY, DRA
    MA
    BY : Dian Fadhilawati, M.Pd.
    Islamic University of Balitar (UNISBA)
    Blitar East Java Indonesia
    LITERATURE
    DEFINITIONS

    19 TH
    14TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY CENTURY

    Polite learning
    through reading. The high skills of
    Practice and
    A man of writing in the
    profession of
    literature or a special context of
    man of letter = a writing
    man of wide high imagination
    reading, ”literacy”
    MODERN
    ROBERT FROST’S DEFINITION
    Performance in a Language artistically
    word used to achieve
    identifiable literary
    qualities and to convey
    meaningful messages
     Literary is
    characterized by
    beauty of expression
    form and by
    universality intellectual
    and emotional appeal
    THE IMPORTANCE OF
    LEARNING
    LITERATURE

     Reading /learning literature improves our Language proficiency


     Reading/learning literature enhances our understanding about
    culture of others.
     Reading/learning literature gives us a valuable chance to explore
    the nature of human being
     Reading /learning literature makes us human
     Reading or learning literature shapes our goal and values by
    clarifying our own identity both positively and negatively
     Reading/learning literature helps us grow personally and
    intellectually
     Etc.
    LITERATURE
    GENRES

    Examples:
     Open form  News
     Made of and close Examples:  Reports
    dialog and form  Myths  Journals
    set direction  Relies on  Fables  Articles
     Designed to imagery, figu  Novels  Essays
    rative  Textbooks
    be  Short Stories
    language and  Biographies
    performed sounds  Etc.
    DRAMA

     Drama is a story written to be performed by actors.


    Although a drama is meant to be performed, one can
    also read the script, or written version, and imagine the
    action.
    POETRY

    DEFINITION

     Poetry is language KINDS OF


    written with POETRY/POEM
    rhythm, figurative
    language, imagery, soun
    d devices and  Concrete poem
    emotionally charged  Narrative Poem
    language.
     Lyric Poem
    PROSE

    DEFINITION
    KINDS OF PROSE
     PROSE is the ordinary .
    form of written
    language. o Fiction
    o Non Fiction
     Prose imitates the
    spoken language.
    KINDS OF
    POETRY
    CONCRETE NARRATIVE
    LYRIC POEM
    POEMS POEM
    o Concrete Poem is .
    one with a shape o Narrative Poem
    that suggests its is a story told in
    subject. verse. Lyric poem is a
    o The poet o Narrative highly musical
    arranges the poems often verse that
    letters, punctuat have all the
    ion, and lines to expresses the
    elements of
    create an image short observation and
    or picture, on stories, includin feelings of a
    the page.
    g single speaker.
    characters, con
    flict, and plot
    KINDS OF PROSE

    FICTION
    NON FICTION
    Examples:
     Short Stories Examples:
     Legend  Report
     Fairy Tales Letters  Personal Narrative
    Folk Tales Memoirs
    Memoirs


     Novels
     Short Stories  Letter
     Fables  Article
     Myth  Journal
     Etc.  Biographies
    ELEMENTS OF
    STORY

    ELEMENTS OF STORY INCLUDE:


    1. Setting
    2. Characters
    3. Plot
    4. Point of view
    5. Theme
    6. Image
    7. Symbol

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