ESSENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LITERATURE (Dones, 2009)

Question 1

Literature (origin of the term – _________ which means letter) deals with ideas, thoughts, and emotions of man—thus it can be said that literature is the _________ (Kahayon, 2998, p. 5-7)

Answer 1

litera; story of man

Question 2

Literature comes from the French phrase “__________,” means beautiful writing (Baritugo, et al., 2004, p.1).

Answer 2

belles-letters

Question 3

Literature in its broadest sense, is everything that has _________.

Answer 3

ever written

Question 4

The best way to understand human nature fully and to know a _______ completely is to study literature (Garcia et al., 1993, p.3)

Answer 4

nation

Question 5

Through literature, we learn the innermost feelings and thoughts of people—the most real part of themselves, thus we gain an understanding not only of others, but more importantly, of ourselves and of life itself (________, et al., 1993, p.4).

Answer 5

Garcia

Question 6

Literature offers us an experience in which we should participate as we read and test what we read by our own experience.

Question 7

Literature does not yield much unless we bring something of ourselves to it.

Question 8

Literature is a faithful preproduction of life… in a sense it is a product and a commentary on life process.

Question 9

Literature illuminates life.

Question 10

Literature is our life’s story including its struggles, ideals, failures, sacrifice, and happiness (Ang, 2006).

Question 11

Literature appeals to man’s higher nature and its needs—emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and creative. Like all other forms of art, literature entertains and gives pleasures; it fires the imagination and arouses noble emotions and it enriches man by enabling him to reflect on life and by filling him new ideas (Garcia et al., 1993, p. 1-3).

Question 12

Literature is one of the seven arts (i.e. music, dance, painting, sculpture, theatre, and architecture, and as such literature is a product of a creative work, the result of which is a form and beauty (Nuggets, 1999, p.2).

Question 13

Why do people read literature—for information, for amusement, for higher and keener pleasure, for cultural upliftment, and for discovery of broader dimensions in life (Nuggets, 1999, p. 2-3).