CHARACTERISTICS OF LITERATURE

CHARACTERISTICS OF LITERATURE

i.                    Literature is imaginative, this is achieved through creatively use of imaginary language.

ii.                  Literature expresses thoughts and feelings such as feeling of love, pain etc.

iii.                Literature deals with life experiences like political, social and economic matter.

iv.                Literature uses words in a powerful, effective and yet captivating manner.

v.                  Literature promotes recreation and revelation of hidden facts.

vi.                It has characters, these are participants in any written literature who carries themes and messages intended.

vii.              It has form and content as the basic or essential elements of literature considered when analyzing any literary work. viii. It employs plot where the events incidence is organized to meet dramatic and narrative techniques.