STANDARDS OF GOOD LITERATURE

Question 1

quality which appeals to our sense of beauty.

Answer 1

Artistry

Question 2

a literary work stimulates thought and enriches our mental life by making us realize fundamental truths about life and human nature.

Answer 2

Intellectual Value

Question 3

this is the quality associated with the emotional power of literature, such that it should move us deeply and stir our creative imagination, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience

Answer 3

Suggestiveness

Question 4

a good literature elevates the spirit by bringing our moral values which make us better person

Answer 4

Spiritual Value

Question 5

a great work of literature endures… it can be read again and again as each reading gives fresh delight and new insights and open new worlds of meaning and experience.

Answer 5

Permanence

Question 6

great literature is timeless and timely… forever relevant in terms of its theme and conditions. Likewise, a literary text can be studied in several ways (Garcia et al., 1993, p. 4).

Answer 6

Universality

Question 7

STANDARDS OF GOOD LITERATURE

Answer 7

Artistry
Intellectual Value
Suggestiveness
Spiritual Value
Permanence
Universality

Question 8

Functions of Literature (Vinuya and Gondo, 2011)

Answer 8

Literature is man’s vehicle for self-expression;
the preserver of the national culture of a nation that preserves it;
the showcase of people’s national identity;
Literature as a recorder of a national history and its social and political upheavals;
Literature is a means or a tool for cultural transmission

Question 9

a form of catharsis and feelings of friendship

Answer 9

Literature is man’s vehicle for self-expression

Question 10

It is through _________ (along with other arts) that the cultural heritage of a people is passed on from one generation to the next.

Answer 10

literature

Question 11

Of course, the primordial aim of literature is to __________.

Answer 11

entertain

Question 12

The Filipino expresses his love to his beloved in his sentimental _____________together with endearing love poems

Answer 12

kundiman and haranas

Question 13

refers to compositions that deal with life experiences. It tells stories, dramatizes situations, expresses emotions, analyses, and advocates ideas.

Answer 13

Literature

Question 14

In the past, literary works were __________, and were retained only as long as people performed these _________ by which these literary traditions are handed down from generation to generation.

Answer 14

recited or sung; oral acts

Question 15

Literature helps us grow, both ___________.

Answer 15

personally and intellectually

Question 16

It links us with the broader society of which we are a part. It allows us to recognize human dreams and the struggles of different peoples and places. It helps us develop mature sensibility and compassion for all creations in the universe. It exercises our emotions through interest, concern, tension, excitement, hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy.

Answer 16

Literature