Reading for

Appreciation and Enjoyment

Learning Outcomes

•Heighten awareness of three structure of literature selections•Enhance appreciation of stylistic options•Compare different interpretative strategies

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.

Different kinds of Literature

Poems

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 to know.

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.

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.

Example:

The python got up When I walked on the grass Afterwars, He was still.

(Aida Villanueva)

A Tanka is another verse form. It has thiirty-one syllables arranged in five lines (five,seven,five,seven,seven)

Example:

The angry wind blowsThe branches of tree moveI shiver with fear.Then the sky groans and it criesDreas seizes me and I swoon.

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

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

A Diamante is a seven-line, diamond-shaped poem. It has the following formats: Line 1: a noun that contrast line 7Line 2: two adjectives that describe line 1Line 3: three action verbs that relate to line 1Line 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 7Line 6: two adjectives that describes line 7Line 7: a noun that contrasts the line 1

Peacetranquil, placid

musing, meditating, contemplating

Serenity, calmness, gloom, deathcrying,suffering,writhing

sorrowful,deflorablewar

(Aida Villanueva)

Short Stories

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.

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.

REPORTED BY

LIZA B. JAVIERIII BSED (ENGLISH)