lit reading - LITERARY STANDARDS Flashcards
Appeals to our sense of beauty
Artistry
It should stimulate your thought
It should make you think and analyze
Intellectual Value
It uplift your faith in God
It should help you realize that there is a God that created everything.
Spiritual Value
It refers to the emotional value
It should move you
It should make you feel something
Suggestiveness
It is timeless and timely
Applicable now, yesterday, and tomorrow
Always important and applicable
Permanence
It cuts across gender, nationality, and race.
A theme that everyone can relate to and understand.
Universality
This is author-based
How the author writes or wrote the piece.
Style
AISSPUS
Aiza Is Sad Seeing Paolo Uttering Something
2 TYPES OF Genres:
literary and factual
literature is divided into 2 genres:
prose and poetry
not metrical, no measurement.
Prose:
has lines, verses, imagery, measurements
Poetry:
types of factual texts
procedure (steps)
explanation (reason)
exposition (hidden or unknown)
recount (recall the past)
information report (the now, news)
3 classifications of poetry:
Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
A storytelling poetry
It should tell a story
NARRATIVE POETRY
- Long narrative poem set against the distant past relating the exploits of a semi-legendary hero.
Epic
- long rambling story in verse characteristics of the middle ages.
Metrical Romance
- Story-telling verse meant to be sung. Not all love stories are ballads.
Ballad
Two types of ballad:
folk, literary
ballad that is song of the unlettered folk
folk
ballad that are songs written by literay people
literary
- It is to poetry while the short story is to prose. A narration but it has lines. Poetry but story
Metrical Tale
Derives its name from the musical instrument lyre, played by wandering minstrels, and is primarily intended to be sung.
LYRIC POETRY
- most majestic lyric type and expresses enthusiasm, lofty praise, or homage for a person or object. It is to glorify something.
Ode
- voices the author’s personal grief for a loved one, or loss affecting the public or simply a meditation about death.
Elegy
- distinguished by its 14 iambic pentameter lines
Sonnet
is made up of two sections, grouped by different rhyming sounds
The italian sonnet
The first 8 lines is called the — and has the rhyme scheme: a b b a a b b a
octave
The last 6 lines are known as the —- and can have 2 or 3 rhyming sounds which can be arranged in a number of ways
sestet
In the italian sonnet, the change occurs with the beginning of line 9 which is called the —.
volta or turn.
consists of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme scheme and closes with a rhyming couplet (2): a b a b/ c d c d/ e f e f/ g g
english sonnet
- are short poems meant to be sung, which are either secular, sacred, anthems, oratories, or hymns.
Songs
- lyrical poem that does not belong to other types of lyric. Does not have a story
Simple lyric
Poetic form used to set forth life and character by means of speech and action.
→ DRAMATIC POETRY
TYPES OF Poetic plays
COMEDY, TRAGEDY, DRAMATIC HISTORY
(protagonist succeeds over the travails of his plight)
COMEDY
(protagonists emerges as the loser in the end)
tragedy
(exaggerated, excessive, and plot situations are more important than the plot).
dramatic history, farce and melodrama
- is related more to the opera than to drama, characterized by a splendid setting, elaborate costumes, makeup, music, and tableaux
Masque
- Only has one speaker and is adopted for small and nonregular products
Dramatic Monologue
Uses ordinary and personal language, sentences and paragraphs and is more direct and intimate to the reader. Tuloy tuloy lang.
PROSE
- 3-act or 1-act play. Like typical plays we see.
Modern drama
- presents in prose form the author’s thoughts, feelings, and observations on some phases of life that are of interest.
Essay
- prose narratives that employ creativity and imagination. Prose ang pagkasulat but it is fiction
Prose fiction
- long implied comparison between unlike things. Characters are more symbols than personages.
Prose Allegory
- metrical romance in prose form
Prose Romance
- a three element prose narrative: setting, plot, and characters
Novel
- a short novel with a simpler plot and fewer characters
Novelette
- one unit of place, time, and action prose
Short Story
- fictionalized story of human life as it presents the highlights and struggles. It could be someone writing or yourself writing
Biography and Autobiography
- life accounts as they are lived from day to day, separated by dates.
letters, diaries, and journals
This is where literature developed themes
Romanticism
Realism
Naturalism
