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Literature Exercises.

This document discusses different forms of imaginative literature including prose fiction, poetry, and drama. It provides characteristics and examples of each form. For prose fiction, it describes fictional prose as using techniques like dialogue and narrative to tell an imagined story. Poetry is defined as using language to express emotions, and discusses poetic content and form. Drama is mentioned but no details are given.

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Literature Exercises.

This document discusses different forms of imaginative literature including prose fiction, poetry, and drama. It provides characteristics and examples of each form. For prose fiction, it describes fictional prose as using techniques like dialogue and narrative to tell an imagined story. Poetry is defined as using language to express emotions, and discusses poetic content and form. Drama is mentioned but no details are given.

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EXERCISE 1:

YES NO IMPLIED
1.Literary works are preferably read aloud, even until today.
2. Literary works speaks of life- emotions, situations and
ideas.
3.Literature enriches the experiences of humans intellectually
and personally.
4.It draws individuals to the wider world of human dreams
and struggles.
5. It encourages more people to capture and express the
product of their imaginations.
6.The situations presented in literary works make us better
feel and understand the totality of the created universe
7.We better appreciate the beauty of order and arrangement.
8.Literature somehow influences our views about other
humans, positively or negatively.
9. It makes us appreciate the beauty of others’ creativity and
giftedness.
10.It helps us become better critical thinkers.
11. Imaginative literature presents life realities.
12.Non – fiction prose presents facts as in news of events in
the world, history, and science.
13.It furthers logic reasoning
14. News reports, feature articles, essays, editorials, and the
like are, non – fiction prose.
15. The characters and events of these literary works are not
based on the imagination of the writer.

EXERCISE 2:

Imaginative Literature Characteristics


1. Prose fiction Literary forms:

All forms of written or spoken a. Nonfictional prose. Prose that is a


expression that are drawn from the true story or factual account of events
imagination not factual or information is nonfiction.
A type of writing that employs basic Textbooks, newspaper articles, and
storytelling techniques that includes instruction manuals all fall into this
dialogue, narrative, exposition and so category. Anne Frank’s Diary of a
on. Young Girl, composed entirely of
This may be based on real events and journal excerpts, recounts the young
people, the actual characters and plot teen’s experience of hiding with her
of the story are made up, which can family in Nazi-occupied Netherlands
open up possibilities for fantastic during World War II.
events that could not take place in b. Fictional prose. A literary work of
reality fiction. This is the most popular type
of literary prose, used in novels and
Latin “prosa oratio,” meaning short stories, and generally has
“straightforward.” characters, plot, setting, and dialogue.

c. Heroic prose. A literary work that is


either written down or preserved
through oral tradition, but is meant to
be recited. Heroic prose is usually a
legend or fable. The twelfth-century
Irish tales revolving around the
mythical warrior Finn McCool are an
example of heroic prose.

d. Prose poetry. Poetry written in prose form.


This literary hybrid can sometimes have
rhythmic and rhyming patterns. French poet
Charles Baudelaire wrote prose poems,
including “Be Drunk” which starts off: “And
if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the
green grass of a ditch, in the mournful
solitude of your room.”

e.

Essence:

Characters:
Minor character - provides support for and
highlights the protagonist.
Static character - a character who remains
the same throughout a literary work.
Dynamic character - a character who
changes in some important way.

Purpose:
Prose fiction offers the reader a glimpse into
another world, delving into the pages of a
book and becoming a part of someone else’s
imagination, and by writing dialogue and
narrative or formulating character
personalities in a way that the reader is
already familiar with, authors can create that
connection to be forged quicker, stronger and
deeper.
2. Poetry Content:
content and form combine to create meaning.
A type of writing that uses language to Poetic content refers to a poem's language. It,
express imaginative and emotional too, makes use of numerous elements,
qualities instead of or in addition to including the poem's topic, subject matter,
meaning theme, tone, word choices, word order,
figurative language, and imagery.
May be written as individual poems or
included in other written forms as in Content is the information or message in
dramatic poetry, hymns, or song a poem. Form is the physical layout, rhyme,
lyrics. meter, length, etc. Form is the manner in which
the content is conveyed.

Shape and Length:


shape poem is a poem that takes on the shape
of the thing you're writing about. So, if you
wanted to write a poem about an apple, you
could write it inside of the outline of an apple,
or you could write a short poem and make the
words the outline of the apple. ... Then, take
those words and form them into your shape.

Length
One foot: Monometer. a rare form of verse in
which each line consists of a single metrical
unit (a foot or dipody).
Example:
Gods chase
Round vase.
What say?
What play?
Don’t know
Nice, though.

Two feet: Dimeter.

Three feet: Trimeter.

Instrumentation:
3.Drama Forms and Design:

Character:

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