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    ENGLISH

    Importance of Literature
     To explore other cultures and beliefs
     Your knowledge increases
     Helps you find yourself
     To further our mastery of language
     Literature develops communication skills
     To exercise our brains
     Critical thinking
     Improves communication skills
     To see the tragedy

    7 Literary Standards of Literature


    1. Artistry
    - This is a quality which appeals to our sense of beauty
    2. Suggestiveness
    - A literary work stimulates thought. It enriches our mental life by
    making us realize fundamental truths about life and human nature.
    3. Intellectual value
    - This is the quality associated with the emotional power of literature.
    4. Spiritual value
    - Literature elevates the spirit by bringing out moral values which
    makes us better persons. This is the capacity to inspire.
    5. Permanence
    - A great work of literature endures. It can be read again and again as
    each reading gives fresh delight and new insight and opens new
    worlds of meaning and experience.
    6. Universality
    - Great literature is timeless and timely. Forever relevant, it appeals to
    one and all, anytime, anywhere because it deals with elemental
    feelings, fundamental truths, and universal conditions.
    7. Style
    - This is the peculiar way in which a writer sees life, forms his ideas
    and expresses them. Great works are marked as much y their
    memorable substance as by their distinctive style. Style should suit
    the content.

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