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    This document provides an introduction to literature, including its definition, elements, types, forms, and contemporary forms. It defines literature as anything that reproduces life experiences through writing. The key elements discussed are form, theme, characterization, and style. The main types are fiction, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction. Common literary forms across types include drama, novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. The document also outlines contemporary literary forms such as hyperpoetry, blogs, text tula, chick lit, speculative fiction, and flash fiction.

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    This document provides an introduction to literature, including its definition, elements, types, forms, and contemporary forms. It defines literature as anything that reproduces life experiences through writing. The key elements discussed are form, theme, characterization, and style. The main types are fiction, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction. Common literary forms across types include drama, novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. The document also outlines contemporary literary forms such as hyperpoetry, blogs, text tula, chick lit, speculative fiction, and flash fiction.

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    INTRODUCTION TO

    L I T E R AT U R E
    ACTIVITY 1: GETTING TO KNOW LITERATURE
    AccomplIsh the K-W-L chart writing what you know, you want to know, and what you will
    learn about LITERATURE. Work on the first TWO columns of the chart before reading the
    unit, and work on the third column after listening/ reading.

    What you KNOW What you WANT TO KNOW What you LEARNED
    WHY DO WE READ?
    BUT IS ALL FICTION
    L I T E R AT U R E ?
    Literature is concerned with the
    content and the form, in other
    words not only the story but the
    way it is written.
    SECTION 1
    LITERATURE MEANING
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    LITERATURE
    • It is anything and
    • comes from the everything that
    LATIN word reproduces life
    experiences. It collects,
    “literatura”, which
    organizes and sums up
    means, “writing the entirety of humanity,
    formed with letters”. occassionally adding
    more color to it.
    LITERATURE
    • Before writing developed as a system of signs, whether
    pictographs or alphabets, “texts” were passed on orally.
    • The predecessor of literary expression, called “oral poetry,”
    • In 21 st century, Audio-literature and the lyrics of songs
    display the acoustic features of literary phenomena
    through the medium of radio and other sound carriers.
    ELEMENTS of Literature
    FORM , the general structure of the literary piece. From the title of the literary
    work, to the way the words or sentences creates a visual impact.
    ELEMENTS of Literature

    THEME , the SUBJECT of which literature revolves around. Literature is created to share
    stories, ignite a passion, and thrust readers forward to feel more of life.
    ELEMENTS of Literature

    CHARACTERIZATION
    STYLE
    could be products of
    the refer to the specific
    writer's imagination, or they techniques and designs that
    could be compelling point-of- a literary writer employs to
    view that the writer thinks prolong his/her grip of the
    readeer's interest
    TYPES of Literature
    ELEMENTS of Literature

    FICTION NONFICTION
    talks about imaginary talks about the reality of
    characters, settings and things, places and people,
    stories building up on facts
    CREATIVE NONFICTION LITERATURE

    tries to combine the two main types into one ingenious literary masterpiece.
    It follows the structure of Nonfiction Literature, while employing the use of
    Fiction Literature's style and characteristics. Also regarded as modern essay,
    it is built on facts, but is crafted creatively.
    COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

    DRAMA NOVEL
    is a created literature to be an extended story, usually
    performed and witnessed by an fictional. It is organized in
    audience. It is divided into
    “chapters”, and sometimes,
    “acts” and “scenes”, forming a
    “volumes”.
    text filled with dialogues and
    stage directions for the actors'
    movements
    COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

    POETRY
    SHORT STORY
    uses more expressive words, like

    narrated in brevity, figures of speech, and creative


    structures in conveying its
    oftentimes are more
    message. Intended to read aloud,
    creatively crafted than to a specific person, or meant to
    novels, but lack specific and be heard and generalized. it has
    minute details time, meter, rhyme and rhythm
    COMMON FORMS OF LITERATURE ACROSS TYPES

    ESSAY EPIC
    intended to be read, and are it combines both styles of a
    drama and a narrative story. It
    mostly built upon facts and
    has also an element of song in it,
    general knowledge. it as most epics were sung in the
    focuses on analyzing and old times. It showcase personal
    critiquing issues. interpretations adding hints of
    fantasy and mythology.
    CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

    HYPERPOETRY BLOG
    sometimes called from the words “web log”, is a
    website created to contain and
    “Cyberpoetery”, presents
    manage user-made articles posts
    poems that include verses or that are updated regularly
    lines linked through
    hyperlink mark-ups;
    oftentimes uses graphics to
    convey meaning
    CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

    TEXT TULA CHICK LIT


    a poem produed and shared a genre of fiction that was made
    through the use of a mobile popular in the late 1990's. It

    phone's messaging application; generally talks about women and


    their different struggl, specifically
    in the form of “tanaga”, a
    staged in modern times
    Filipino poem consisting of four
    lines with seven syllables each
    with a rhyme scheme of AABB
    CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF LITERATURE

    SPECULATIVE FICTION FLASH FICTION


    a fiction genre that dwells on
    a fiction genre that presents
    issues of alternate imagined
    one-sitting-long-of-reading texts.
    scenarios. It uses the appeal The longest text in the genre of
    of conspiracy themes, Flash fiction is only said to 1000-
    fantasy science fiction and words
    dystopian societies
    Thank you

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