Litr 102 - Quiz 1

Genoveva Edroza-Matute

Author of “Si Mabuti”.

Rogelio Sikat

Author of “Tata Selo”.

Manuel Arguilla

Author in “Morning in Nagrebcan”.

Backstory

Tells the events of the story that happen before the present story.

Chekhov’s gun

Tells of an inherent object inserted in a narrative.

Narrative hook

Tells a catchy story opening to hook the attention of readers.

Hypodiegesis

Story within a story.

Deus ex machina

An unexpected power or Godlike, power event saving a seemingly hopeless situation.

Plot twist

Tells a surprise ending.

Poetic justice

Tells a reward to the good character and punished the bad characters.

Clifthanger

Tells an abrupt ending, which places the main characters in a perilous situation with no resolution.

Flashback

Tells an interjected scene of the story that takes it back in time from the current point in the story and often used to tell the events that happened before another important event.

Flash forward

Tells a scene that takes the narrative to a future time from the current point of the story.

Foreshadowing

Indicates or hints something is coming in the latter part of the story.

Point of view

A narrative convention which tells from whose perspective is the story told.

Style

A convention in which Figures of speech like hyperbole, metonymy, euphemism, oxymoron, and emotional appeal are involved.

Theme

The underlying message or the central idea. It is about life that the author is conveying in the story which is universal in nature. It is about human experience.

Emotional appeal

Moves the emotion of the reader or audience. It is a way or method used by the author to create emotional response among his reader or audience.

Metaphor or simile

Often used to create comparison to feel the connection in the story.

Feminism

A type of literary approach that focuses on the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

New historicism

Deals with the cultural context during the writing of the piece of literature.

Formalism

A theoretical position that favours form over the thematic concerns within a text or its relationship with the world outside.

Formalism

Also called new criticism, this uses close reading of a piece of literature.

Symbol

Anything that stands for something else. Authors use symbols to give deeper and significant meaning to their content or story.

Symbolism

Makes the author convey ideas to readers/audience in a poetic matter instead of its outright expression.

Hanoi

Capital of Vietnam

Lyric

A verse or poem that is, or supposedly is, susceptible of being sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument

Narrative

A form of literature that combines the elements of poetry with the elements of storytelling.

Descriptive

Uses words to create mental images of places, people and activities through a more detailed observation of sounds, colors and motions.

Sonnet

A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter.

Haiku

A Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

Elegy

A song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead.

Limerick

Humorous verse that is often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba.

Ballad

Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.

Ode

A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.

Epic

Long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person or group of persons.

Le Thanh Huanh

Writer of A School Boy's Apology

Phan Nhien Hao

Writer of Inside Submarines

Alliteration

The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text.

Assonance

The repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.

Consonance

Repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text.

Onomatopoeia

Formation of a word which describes its sound.

Rhythm

The beat and pace of a poem.

Rhyme

The correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another.

Negara Brunei Darussalam

Full name of Brunei.

Bandar Seri Begawan

Capital of Brunei.

Flat

Displays few character traits and often does not change in the whole story

Round

Has complex traits with distinct personality, background, and motive.

Dynamic

Goes through a dramatic change as a character in the fiction.

Static

Has traits which do not change throughout the story, the same from the start to the end of the story.