STANDARDS OF GOOD LITERATURE Flashcards
quality which appeals to our sense of beauty.
Artistry
a literary work stimulates thought and enriches our mental life by making us realize fundamental truths about life and human nature.
Intellectual Value
this is the quality associated with the emotional power of literature, such that it should move us deeply and stir our creative imagination, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience
Suggestiveness
a good literature elevates the spirit by bringing our moral values which make us better person
Spiritual Value
a great work of literature endures… it can be read again and again as each reading gives fresh delight and new insights and open new worlds of meaning and experience.
Permanence
great literature is timeless and timely… forever relevant in terms of its theme and conditions. Likewise, a literary text can be studied in several ways (Garcia et al., 1993, p. 4).
Universality
STANDARDS OF GOOD LITERATURE
Artistry
Intellectual Value
Suggestiveness
Spiritual Value
Permanence
Universality
Functions of Literature (Vinuya and Gondo, 2011)
Literature is man’s vehicle for self-expression;
the preserver of the national culture of a nation that preserves it;
the showcase of people’s national identity;
Literature as a recorder of a national history and its social and political upheavals;
Literature is a means or a tool for cultural transmission
a form of catharsis and feelings of friendship
Literature is man’s vehicle for self-expression
It is through _________ (along with other arts) that the cultural heritage of a people is passed on from one generation to the next.
literature
Of course, the primordial aim of literature is to __________.
entertain
The Filipino expresses his love to his beloved in his sentimental _____________together with endearing love poems
kundiman and haranas
refers to compositions that deal with life experiences. It tells stories, dramatizes situations, expresses emotions, analyses, and advocates ideas.
Literature
In the past, literary works were __________, and were retained only as long as people performed these _________ by which these literary traditions are handed down from generation to generation.
recited or sung; oral acts
Literature helps us grow, both ___________.
personally and intellectually
It links us with the broader society of which we are a part. It allows us to recognize human dreams and the struggles of different peoples and places. It helps us develop mature sensibility and compassion for all creations in the universe. It exercises our emotions through interest, concern, tension, excitement, hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy.
Literature
