The Seven Characteristics of Great Literature [PDF]

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Cacanindin, Gwen Bess N.



STEM 12-I



01-22-2018



The Seven Characteristics of Great Literature 1. Universality Literature appeals to everyone, regardless of culture, race, sex, and time which are all considered significant. 2. Artistry Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty. 3. Intellectual Value It stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning, making man realize the fundamental of truths of life and its nature. 4. Suggestiveness It unravels man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience. 5. Spiritual Value Literature elevates the spirit and the soul and thus has the power to motivate and to inspire. 6. Permanence Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor: Timeliness – occurring at a particular time. Timelessness – remaining invariable throughout time. 7. Style Literature presents peculiar ways on how man sees life as evidence by the formation of his ideas, form, structures, and expressions which are marked by their memorable substance.