INTRO TO

LITERATURE
MATERIAL
(SEMESTER 4)

PROSE,POETRY, DRA
MA
BY : Dian Fadhilawati, M.Pd.
Islamic University of Balitar (UNISBA)
Blitar East Java Indonesia
 LITERATURE
DEFINITIONS

19 TH
14TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY CENTURY

Polite learning
through reading. The high skills of
Practice and
A man of writing in the
profession of
literature or a special context of
man of letter = a writing
man of wide high imagination
reading, ”literacy”
 MODERN
ROBERT FROST’S DEFINITION
Performance in a Language artistically
word used to achieve
identifiable literary
qualities and to convey
meaningful messages
 Literary is
characterized by
beauty of expression
form and by
universality intellectual
and emotional appeal
 THE IMPORTANCE OF
LEARNING
LITERATURE

 Reading /learning literature improves our Language proficiency

 Reading/learning literature enhances our understanding about
culture of others.
 Reading/learning literature gives us a valuable chance to explore
the nature of human being
 Reading /learning literature makes us human
 Reading or learning literature shapes our goal and values by
clarifying our own identity both positively and negatively
 Reading/learning literature helps us grow personally and
intellectually
 Etc.
 LITERATURE
GENRES

Examples:
 Open form  News
 Made of and close Examples:  Reports
dialog and form  Myths  Journals
set direction  Relies on  Fables  Articles
 Designed to imagery, figu  Novels  Essays
rative  Textbooks
be  Short Stories
language and  Biographies
performed sounds  Etc.
 DRAMA

 Drama is a story written to be performed by actors.

Although a drama is meant to be performed, one can
also read the script, or written version, and imagine the
action.
 POETRY

DEFINITION

 Poetry is language KINDS OF

written with POETRY/POEM
rhythm, figurative
language, imagery, soun
d devices and  Concrete poem
emotionally charged  Narrative Poem
language.
 Lyric Poem
 PROSE

DEFINITION
KINDS OF PROSE
 PROSE is the ordinary .
form of written
language. o Fiction
o Non Fiction
 Prose imitates the
spoken language.
 KINDS OF
POETRY
CONCRETE NARRATIVE
LYRIC POEM
POEMS POEM
o Concrete Poem is .
one with a shape o Narrative Poem
that suggests its is a story told in
subject. verse. Lyric poem is a
o The poet o Narrative highly musical
arranges the poems often verse that
letters, punctuat have all the
ion, and lines to expresses the
elements of
create an image short observation and
or picture, on stories, includin feelings of a
the page.
g single speaker.
characters, con
flict, and plot
 KINDS OF PROSE

FICTION
NON FICTION
Examples:
 Short Stories Examples:
 Legend  Report
 Fairy Tales Letters  Personal Narrative
Folk Tales Memoirs
Memoirs


 Novels
 Short Stories  Letter
 Fables  Article
 Myth  Journal
 Etc.  Biographies
 ELEMENTS OF
STORY

ELEMENTS OF STORY INCLUDE:

1. Setting
2. Characters
3. Plot
4. Point of view
5. Theme
6. Image
7. Symbol