Literature

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Literature

• What is it?

Language Arts-7th
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• Literature is literally "acquaintance with
  letters" (from the Latin littera meaning "an
  individual written character (letter)").

• The term has generally come to identify a
  collection of texts or work of art, which in
  Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction
  and non-fiction, drama and poetry.

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ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

• Written works having excellence in
• Form
• Expression
• Ideas
• Widespread and Lasting Interest

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The Major Genres
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PROSE

• Prose is writing that is organized in sentences
  and paragraphs.
• It imitates the spoken language.

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Prose

• FICTION NON-FICTION
• Short Stories Biographies
• Fairy Tales Letters
• Novels Memoirs
• Historical Essays
• Reports

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Poetry

• Poetry is language written with rhythm and is
  organized in lines and groups of lines called
  stanzas.
• Major Types of Poetry
• Lyric Poetry
• Narrative Poetry
• Concrete Poetry

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Lyric Poem

• Lyric poem is a highly musical verse that
  expresses the observation and feelings of a
  single speaker.

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Narrative Poem

• Narrative Poem is a story told in verse.
  Narrative poems often have all the elements of
  short stories, including characters, conflict,
  and plot.

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Concrete Poem

• Concrete Poem is one with a shape that suggests
  its subject. The poet arranges the letters,
  punctuation, and lines to create an image or
  picture, on the page.

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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.
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Folk Literature

• Most works of prose or poetry travel from the
  authors imagination to a page. Folk literature
  makes a different and longer journey, from the
  mouths of many tellers to the ears of many
  listeneres. Folk literature-including myths, folk
  tales and legends- is shaped by a group or
  culture over many years before being written
  down. It expresses the hopes and values of the
  culture that creates it.

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!Review!

• What is Literature?
• What does genre mean?
• What are the three main genres of literature?
• Write the categories in which prose is divided
  and write two examples of each.
• Write the categories in which poetry is divided
• What is drama?