Literature

Language is composed of words that are combined into sentences to express ideas, emotions or desires.

Objectives:
To strive in raising the readers humanity and To accomplish the purpose of making one a better person, giving him a high sense of value.

Important Elements:
Emotional Appeal is attained when the reader is emotionally moved or touched by any literary work. Intellectual Appeal - add knowledge or information and remind the reader of what he has forgotten. Humanistic Appeal makes the reader an improved person with a better outlook in life and with a clear understanding of his/her inner self.

Emotional Appeal
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Elizabeth B. Browning How Do I Love Thee?

Intellectual Appeal
Dont you realize that it is a useless life which a literary work makes consecrated to a great idea: it is a stone wasted in the fields without becoming part of any edifice. (Simoun to Basilio) Jose Rizal Noli me Tangere

Humanistic Appeal
What would have happened if she had never lost those jewels? Who knows? Who knows? How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed to ruin or to save! Guy de Maupassant The Necklace

Classification of Literature
Escape Literature for entertainment purposes, help pass the time in an agreeable manner. Interpretative Literature to broaden and sharpen our awareness of life.

Uses of Literature
Moralizing Literature present moral values Propaganda Literature social problem novels Psychological continuum of the individualtherapeutic value catharsis: an emotional relief experienced by the reader