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I
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(Kahayon,
1998, p
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(Baritugo,
et al
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1 cited by Ang, 2012)
Literature in its broadest sense, is everything that has
ever been written
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1)
The best way to understand human nature fully and to
know a nation completely is to study literature
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, 1993, p
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(Garcia, et
al
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4 cited by Ang, 2012)
Literature offers us an experience in which we should
participate as we read and test what we read by our
own experience
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1)
Literature is our life’s story including its struggles, ideas,
failures, sacrifices and happiness
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1)
Literature is one of the seven arts (i
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, music, dance,
painting, sculpture, theatre, and architecture) and as
such, literature is a creative product of a creative work,
the result of which is form and beauty
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Nuggets,
2004, p
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(___
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4 cited by Ang, 2012)
thematic value
entertainment value
richness of its plot
comparison with other works
ideas it contains
emotional power
character analysis
appeal to move readers to action
social reforms
its representations of literary movements and techniques
author’s unique use of language (style)
reflection of life itself

Functions of Literature
Entertainment Function
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In
this function, literature is used to entertain its readers
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Social and Political Function
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Literature helps the reader “see”
the social and political constructs around him/her and
shows the state of the people and the world around
him/her
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Literature shapes our way of thinking
based on the ideas of other people
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Moral Function
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The morals contained in a literary text, whether
good or bad, are absorbed by whoever reads it, thus
helps in shaping their personality
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Literature preserves the language of
every civilization from where it is originated
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Cultural Function
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Literature preserves entire cultures and creates imprint
of the people’s way of living for others to read, hear,
and learn
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Literature teaches us of many
things about the human experience
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Literature, therefore, is
conduit for the chance to experience and feel things
where we can learn things about life
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Ancient texts, illuminated scripts,
stone tablets, etc
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Thus they
serve as time capsules of letters that is studied by
scholars and researchers of today
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8 cited by Ang, 2012)

Form
Language
Appeal
Aim

PROSE


Written in paragraph form

POETRY
Written in stanza or verse form

Expressed in ordinary language

Expressed in metrical, rhythmical
and figurative

To the intellect

To the emotion

To convince, inform, instruct,
imitate and reflect

Stir the imagination and set ideal
of how life should be

Prose
A
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It consists entirely of dialogues in prose, and
is meant to be acted on stage
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Essay
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C
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Something invented, imagined or feigned to be
true
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A long fictitious narrative with a complicated plot
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A fictitious narrative compressed into one unit of
time, place and action
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Biography and Autobiography
Biography
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Autobiography
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D
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Diary
F
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A magazine or periodical especially of a serious or
learned nature
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Scientific Prose—a prose form that deals with the
subject science
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Current Publications—books, magazines or newspapers
that are commonly known or accepted in general usage at
the time specified or, it unspecified, at the present time
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Book Review—an article with the contents, literary
worth, etc
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Philosophy—a prose from that deals with the processes
governing thought and conduct
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taken by the writer
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Anecdote—a brief narrative concerning a particular
individual or incident
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Parable—a short tale that illustrates principles, usually
by setting forth the application of the principle to
something familiar to the hearer or reader
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Eulogy—writing in praise of a dead person, event or thing
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Speech
Address—implies a formal, carefully prepared speech
and usually attributes importance to the speaker or the
speech
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Lecture—a carefully prepared speech intended to inform
or instruct the audience
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Sermon—a speech by a clergy man intended to give
religious or moral instruction and usually based on
Scriptural text

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