Literary Standards:

1. Artistry - a quality which appeals to our sense of aesthetics or beauty; the book
having entertaining characters and plot and well- chosen vocabulary
2. Intellectual Beauty - Each literary piece must stimulate thought and critical
thinking. These should enrich our mental life by making us realize about the
fundamental truths towards life and human nature.
3. Suggestiveness - quality relevant to the emotional power of literature to make
us feel deeply and stir our imagination. It should trigger and evoke visions above
and beyond the plane of ordinary life experiences.
4. Spiritual Value - A literary work must elevate the spirit within us by bringing our
moral values into the realm of the physical world. It should present moral values
necessary for us to reflect and eventually inspire us to become a better person.
5. Permanence - A great literary work endures and can be read again as each
readings gives fresh delights and new insights. It should not be ephemeral or
merely a passing hype to the audience; it should be long-lasting. It is timely
(updated, applicable, relevant to the times) and timeless (ageless; does not die).
6. Universality - It is forever relevant; it appeals to one and all regardless of race,
sex, age, and culture, anytime and anywhere because it deals with an array of
individual's perceptions as well as orientations toward fundamental truths and
universal conditions.
7. Style - the peculiar and unique way in which a writer sees life, forms his or her
ideas and expresses them. Great works are marked as much by their memorable
substances as by their distinctive style.