ASEAN LITERATURE (Phil - Brunei)

From the latin word littera (means titik) and the Filipino word Panitikan (pan-titik-an), these are body written works

Literature

Two types of literature

Tuluyan: patalata

Patula: pasaknong

Who is the author of "Si Mabuti"?

Genoveva Edroza-Matute

Who is the author of "Tata Selo"?

Rogelio Sikat

techniques used by the author in making meaning in the fiction

Narrative Conventions

tells the events of the story that happen before

Backstory

tells of an inherent object inserted in the narrative

Chekhovs' Gun

narration that starts at the middle of the story

In media res

tells a catchy story opening to hook the attention of the readers

Narrative hook

tells a story within a story

Hypodiegesis

tells a good character in a bad situation ensures character wins with an unexpected or implausible used to resolve the situation.

Deus-ex-Machina

tells a surprise ending

Plot Twist

tells a reward to the good characters and punishes the bad characters

Poetic Justice

tells and abrupt ending which places the main characters in a perilous situation with no resolution

Cliffhanger

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

Flashback

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

Flash Forward

indicates or hints something is coming in the latter part of the story

Foreshadowing

tells from whose perspective is the story told. It may be a character in first person

Point-of-view

impersonal narrator not affected by story situations

third person narrator

also known as an insincere narrator

unreliable narrator

often used to create comparison to feel the connection in the story

Figures of speech

used to inspire or pity a character

Pathos or emotional appeal

forms mental images of scenes using descriptive words

Sensory detail

repeats on purpose the words that usually expresses a motif or them important to the story

Leitwortstil

presents an object or character with much description or gestures and dialogues making scenes vivid for the audience

Dramatic Visualization

An underlying message

Theme

moves the emotion of the reader or audience

Emotional appeal

uplifts women goals by defining and establishing equality in the family, civil, social, political, and economic arena

Feminism

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

New Historicism

A close reading of a piece of literature. A _________'s interpretation of a work of art is formulated by the information and details of the piece itself

Formalism

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

Symbol

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

Symbolism

often has songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker's personal emotions and feelings. Historically intended to be sung and accompany musical instrumentation

Lyric

This type of poem is a form of poetry that is used to tell a story. The poet combines elements of storytelling—like plot, setting, and characters—with elements of poetry, such as form, meter, rhyme, and poetic devices

Narrative

unlike narrative poetry, is known not necessarily for telling a story but for its deep depiction of a person, animal or inanimate object. The feelings the poet has about this object are secondary to the description of the subject, so they don't get in the way of the visual imagery.

Descriptive

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Sonnet

of, relating to, or having the characteristics of Shakespeare or his writings; evocative of a theme, setting, or event from

Shakepearean or English

These are sonnets that are fourteen lines long, follow an initial rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA, and use iambic pentameter.

Italian or Petrarchan

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Haiku

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Elegy

a poem that consists of five lines in a single stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.

Limerick ballad

a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

Ode

It is a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. Many ancient writers used this type poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats

Epic

Stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase

Alliteration

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence)

Assonance

is the repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity usually on the same or adjacent lines of a poem, often occurring at the end of the words but can appear anywhere in the words of poetry

Consonance

is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink, meow (or miaow), roar, and chirp.

Example: squirt, squelch, belch,

Onomatopoeias

have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

Rhyme

The patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features sound

Rythm

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox).

Simile

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable: "her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor"

Metaphor

Artistic or literary device in which an abstraction is represented by a person

Personification

Rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning

Irony

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

Metonymy

Use of a term for a part of something to refer to the whole or vice versa

Synecdoche

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