2. Learning Outcomes
•Heighten awareness of three
structure of literature selections
•Enhance appreciation of stylistic
options
•Compare different interpretative
strategies
3. Let’s get the most out of literature
Reading literary
selections, poems, short
stories, novels, plays, or essays, not only
provide pleasure. The task also developed
your analytical skills as you must consider
each of the parts of the text separately
before you can interpret the meaning of
the entire work and eventually appreciate
reading.
6. Poems express idea in a
tighter, more compact way that prose as
they do not include details and
explanations common to the short of
the novel. They are more
concentrated, suggestive and
rhythmical than prose as they resort to
the use of symbols, figurative
language, and imagery, which tend to
leave more to a reader’s imagination
rather than giving everything he needs
7. Lyric poems expresses the
observations and feeling of a single
speaker.
Narrative poems are the stories to
which all the elements of a short
stories are found.
8. Poems maybe in the form of
Haiku, an unrhyme verse
form, consisting of three lines.
The first and third lines contain five
syllables while the second line
consists of seven syllables.
9. Example:
The python got up
When I walked on the grass
Afterwars, He was still.
(Aida Villanueva)
10. A Tanka is another verse form. It
has thiirty-one syllables arranged in
five lines (five,seven,five,seven,seven)
Example:
The angry wind blows
The branches of tree move
I shiver with fear.
Then the sky groans and it cries
Dreas seizes me and I swoon.
11. A Cinquain is a poetic unrhyme
form consisting of five lines. It comes
in three formats:
Pattern #1: Line 1: One word
Line 2: Two words
Line 3: Three words
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word
12. Pattern #2: Line 1: A noun
Line 2: Two adjectives
Line 3: Three-ing words
Line 4: A phrase
Line 5: Another word for the noun
Pattern #3: Line 1: Two syllables
Line 2: Foure syllables
Line 3: Six syllables
Line 4: Eight Syllables
Line 5: Two syllables
13. A Diamante is a seven-line, diamond-
shaped poem. It has the following formats:
Line 1: a noun that contrast line 7
Line 2: two adjectives that describe line 1
Line 3: three action verbs that relate to line 1
Line 4: four nouns, the first two relate to line 1;
the last two relate to line 7.
Line 5: three action verbs that relate to line 7
Line 6: two adjectives that describes line 7
Line 7: a noun that contrasts the line 1
14. Peace
tranquil, placid
musing, meditating, contemplati
ng
Serenity, calmness, gloom, death
crying,suffering,writhing
sorrowful,deflorable
war
(Aida Villanueva)
15.
16. Short stories are also literary type which
you may find interesting as it deals with the
fantastic or the unusual.
You will also find in short stories
elements such as :
•Plot
•Character
•Setting
•Point of view
•Theme.
17. Like lyric poems, they are
concise; hence they can be read in
one sitting. They create a single
effect, or dominant impression, on
the reader. The events usually
communicate an idea about life or
human nature.
