4. 1. Emotional Appeal
Example:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the dept and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
-How do I love thee
Elizabeth B. Browning
• is attained when the reader is emotionally
moved or touched by any literary work.
6. 3. Humanistic Appeal
Example:
What would have happened if she had
never lost those jewels?
Who knows? Who knows? How strange
life is, how fickle! How little
Is needed to ruin or to save!
- The Necklace
• can be attained when a literary work makes the reader
an improved person with a better outlook in life and
with a clear understanding of his/her inner life.
7. Classification of Literature
1. Escape Literature: is written
for entertainment purposes.
2. Interpretative Literature: is
written to broaden and sharpen
our awareness of life.
9. 2. Propaganda Literature
• this kind of literature is found not only in
history books and advertising books but
also in some books describing one's
personal success and achievements in life.
10. 3. Psychological
continuum of the
individual-
therapeutic value
• it could be looked on as a
sophisticated modern
elaboration of the idea of
catharsis-an emotional
relief experienced by the
reader there-by helping
him recover from a
previous pent-up emotion.