LITERATURE

Literature

-written works (such as poems, plays, and novels)

Elements of Literature

1. Emotional Appeal2. Intellectual Appeal3. Humanistic Appeal

1. Emotional Appeal

Example:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the dept and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

-How do I love thee Elizabeth B. Browning

• is attained when the reader is emotionally moved or touched by any literary work.

2. Intellectual Appeal

Example:

Noli Me Tangere and

El Filibusterismo

• means it appeals to the mind as opposed to emotional appeal.

3. Humanistic Appeal

Example:

What would have happened if she had never lost those jewels?Who knows? Who knows? How strange life is, how fickle! How littleIs needed to ruin or to save!

- The Necklace

• can be attained when a literary work makes the reader an improved person with a better outlook in life and with a clear understanding of his/her inner life.

Classification of Literature

1. Escape Literature: is written for entertainment purposes.

2. Interpretative Literature: is written to broaden and sharpen our awareness of life.

1. Moralizing Literature

• is to present moral values for the reader to understand and appreciate.

2. Propaganda Literature

• this kind of literature is found not only in history books and advertising books but also in some books describing one's personal success and achievements in life.

3. Psychological continuum of the

individual-therapeutic value

• it could be looked on as a sophisticated modern elaboration of the idea of catharsis-an emotional relief experienced by the reader there-by helping him recover from a previous pent-up emotion.