Literary Appreciation

and Valuing
in/of Prose
REPORTERS:

RAZALO, ROVI MAE

PENUELA, RICA
What is Prose?
•Form of writing or speaking that
follows natural flows of speech and
grammar.
•Written ordinarily without intended
metrical structure.
Importance of
Prose
• Basic purpose of prose in
writing is to convey an idea,
deliver information, or tell a
story. It is the way a writer
fulfils her basic promise to a
reader to deliver a story with
characters, setting, conflict, a
plot, and a final payoff.
 What is Literature?
•This describes a variety of creative works of imagination
that may be written or oral.

•Can also define as Literature as imitation of Life.

•It is an imaginary composition

Great Values of Literature

01.
Entertainment 02.
Mastering of English
Language

03.
04.
Emotional Relief Social Control
Great Values of Literature

05.
Literature also functions 06.
as a means of direct Literature Mirrors
experience Life

07. 08.
Literature Serves as
Historical Document/ Social
Literature is a Document
reservoir of culture Finally, Literature is also a
means of education and
enlightenment
 LITERARY
APPRECIATIO
N

According to Ogenlewe (2006)

‘literary appreciation refers to the evaluation
of works of imaginative literature as an
intellectual or academic exercise.’
 LITERARY
APPRECIATIO
N

Donelson and Nilsen (2009) echo this

sentiment and add that it is the process by
which one ‘gauges one’s interpretive response
as a reader to a literary work’.
 7 STAGES
Pleasure and Profit

Decoding Lose yourself

Venture beyond
Find yourself Variety in reading Aesthetic purposes
self
 Literary Appreciation
-focuses on the adequate grasp of definition ad
application of the following which may be
encountered within texts.
 Traditional Literary Devices:
04.
Setting
01. Character 03.

Plot 02. Metaphor 05.

Symbolism
 Margaret Early’s Stages of Growth in Literary
Appreciation

Determines that the personal attitudes, reading and observing

skills are all part of literary appreciation. Thus, Literary
Appreciation is a lifelong process.
 Genre In Literature

Main Categories:

Non
Fiction
-text written or spoken with
Fiction
the pattern of ordinary or -any literary work that is
everyday language, without a based mainly on fact, even
metrical structure. though it may contain
fictional elements.
 Types of Nonfiction:
Narrative Nonfiction
information based on fact that is
presented in a format which tells a
story.
An Autobiography
gives the history of a person’s life,
written or told by that person.
Essays
are a short literary composition that
reflects the author’s outlook or point.
Speech
the faculty or power of speaking;
oral communication; ability to
express one’s thoughts and emotions
by speech, sounds, and gesture.
A Biography
is a written account of
another person’s life.
General genre of
Nonfiction
- This is Informational text dealing with an
actual, real-life subject. This offers opinions
or conjectures on facts and reality that
includes biographies, history, essays, speech,
and narrative nonfiction. 
 Genres of Fiction
Drama
genre of literature that’s subject for
compositions is dramatic art in the way
it is represented.
Fantasy
the forming of mental images with
strange or other worldly settings or
characters; fiction which invites
suspension of reality.
Poetry
rhythmical in composition, written or
spoken.
Humor
amusing or comical. Full of fun, fancy
and excitement that is meant to entertain.
It can be seen with all genres.
 Genres of Fiction

A Fable Fairy Tales

is a story about supernatural or or wonder tales are a kind of folktale or
extraordinary people Usually in the fable. Sometimes the stories are about fairies
form of narration that demonstrates a or other magical creatures, usually for
useful truth children.

Science Fiction Short Story

is fiction of such briefness that is not able
is a story based on impact of
to support any subplots.
potential science, either actual or
imagined.
 Genres of Fiction

Realistic Fiction Folklore

is a story that can actually happen and are songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a
is true to real life. person of “folk” that was handed down by
word of mouth. 

Historical Fiction A Tall Tale

is a humorous story with blatant
exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do
is a story with fictional characters the impossible with an here of
and events in a historical setting. nonchalance.
 Genres of Fiction

Legend Mystery

is a story that sometimes of a national is a genre of fiction that deals with the
or folk hero. Legend is based on fact solution of a crime or the unraveling of
but also includes imaginative material. secrets.

Mythology Fiction in Verse

is a type of legend or traditional narrative. This is is full-length novels with plot, subplots,
often based in part on historical events, that themes, with major and minor characters.
reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by
its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of
the gods.
ELEMENTS OF EACH
GENRES

The Elements of Fiction

•Plot
•Setting
•Conflict
•Symbol
•Point of View
•Theme
The Elements of
Nonfiction
•Point of View
•Character Development
•Narratice
•Dramatization
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