The Literary Elements

A close look at the literary genres

Multiple Choice

Literature simply defined as _____________________?

• work of art

• work in silence

• art of words

• art of brilliant ideas

Multiple Choice

It refers to literary works with artistic value and literary merit.

• Literary fiction

• Thriller

• Mystery

• Romance

Multiple Choice

Created with a light-hearted, oftentimes optimistic tone, and most often a satisfying conclusion.

• Thriller

• Literary fiction

• Mystery

• Romance

Multiple Choice

A _________ is narrative prose work of considerable length that talks about significant human experience.

• Short story

• Myth

• Novel

• Drama

Multiple Choice

It talks about human social behavior with personified animals or natural objects.

• Legend

• Fable

• Myth

• Short story

So why did he present this "invisible poem?" 

Jose Garcia Villa

•It was his frustration with Philippine poetry in English that drove him to create The Emperor’s New Sonnet. 

•Artistic, rhythmic patterns, and the economy of words evaluate poetry as a form of literary art.

It tells a story with an orientation, complication, crisis, and resolution

Poems also come in many forms.

These forms are distinguished from the other by the choice of structural units

Acrostic poem

 is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase. Typically, the first letters of each line are used to spell the message, but they can appear anywhere.

Nursery Rhyme

Ode

Riddle

Lyric Poem

Sonnet

Assignment

• Write your own poem

• 1. Acrostic

• 2. Haiku

• 3. Free Verse

• 4. Sonnet

• 5. Villanelle

• Note: Make it creative, submit in google classroom with MS Word format