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Nur Anisa R

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1. What is literature?
Literature is whole written expression in fiction that is used in various activities for example
in the world of education that interperts the meaning of nature and life, the disire to
understand, express, and finally share experience.
2. Do you like to read it? Why?
Yes. Because we enjoy stories. It is a pleasure to meet characters and to live in their
world, to experience their joys and sorrows. In a practical sense, an active
imagination helps us perceive truth, make value judgments, and deal with the
complexities of life in creative ways.
3. Mention form in literature.
There are four major literary forms: nonfiction prose, fiction prose, poetry, and drama.
4. What are the characteristic of literature?
The four main characteristics of Literature are the plot, the setting, characterization and the
theme.
5. What are kinds of literature? Explain!
There are kinds of literature:
- Literature primer
Primary literature is original writing that contains a study of a new theory, or an
explanation of ideas in various fields. Primary literature can be in the form of scientific
magazine articles, research reports, dissertations, patents, standards, seminar papers
and others.
- Literature sekunder
Secondary literature is literature that contains information about primary literature.
Secondary literature offers primary literature by summarizing or indexing, so secondary
literature does not contain new knowledge, but only repeats and organizes existing
knowledge. This literature includes the types of reference collections such as
dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, directories, abstract magazines, index
magazines, bibliographies, literature reviews, including databases and others.
- Literature tersier
Tertiary literature is literature that contains information that is a guide to obtaining
secondary literature. Which includes tertiary literature is a bibliography of
bibliographies, directories from directories and others.
6. What is interpretative literature?
Interpretative literauter is written to boarden deepen and sharpen our awareness of life. It
take us through the imagination, deeper into the real word. It enables us to understand our
troubles. Its object is pleasure plus understanding. It makes understand the reality of life
better.
7. What is escape literature?
Escape literature is that a literary works written purely for entertaiment, to help us pass the
time happily. It take us away from the real words; it enables us temporarily to forget our
troubles in our daily life. Its only object is pleasure.
8. What do you understand by linguistic competence and literary competence?
- Linguistic competence
Linguistic competence refers to the knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Traditionally,
English language teaching focused on mechanical grammar drills. This focus is influenced
by the idea that grammar and vocabulary are the basic building blocks of a language.
- Literary competence
The effective reader should master certain skills and strategies which allow him to
convert the words on the page of a literary work into literary meanings. He knows
certain conventions about how a literary text should be read and understood.

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