(1) The benchmark for literature content standard 5 for a student upon graduation is the ability to:
(a) examine, explain, and evaluate various perspectives concerning community, national, and world issues reflected in literary works;
(b) identify and respond to philosophical assumptions and basic beliefs underlying selected texts;
(c) recognize patterns, symbols, and universal themes present across literary works and relate those to personal experience; and
(d) investigate and report ways in which authors, their works, and their styles have impacted or been influenced by social and cultural issues or events.