21st Century Flashcards
- Filipino writer from Manila
- Grand prize winner of 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado
Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)
(Asian Literature)Novel Title. With light shading of New York noir and American thriller; tells the story of a young writer’s apprentice tasked with the self-appointed mission of writing an account of his deceased master’s life. The action that follows takes readers on a journey of metacriticism, which does well to entertain while asking some serious questions about the state of Filipino literature as a whole
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
Author (Asian Literature)
- works are known for their complex portrayal of the “female psyche”
- some of the highest literary awards in China
- also wrote the screenplay for Zhang Yimou’s 1996 film Shanghai Triad
Bi FeiYu (China)
Author (Asian Literature)
- Garnered the prestigious MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Asian Literature (2010)
Bi FeiYu (China)
Author (Asian Literature)
- became the first Korean writer to win the MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE in 2012 for her novel PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER
- amongst the most highly regarded contemporary writers
- has won major literary prizes including the MANHAE LITERATURE PRIZE, the DONG-IN LITERARY AWARD and the YI SANG LITERARY PRIZE
- prose is especially prized for its focus on exploring the psychological depths of the human mind.
Shin Kyung Sook (South Korea)
Author (Asian Literature) & Novel Title. An intense and invigorating examination of personality and rampant individualism that’s set in the context of high-Communist China in the years of the Cultural Revolution, does well to draw its readers in with a plethora of storylines that touch on vice, sex, Machiavellian power plays and contemporary politics all at the same time. With its focus on female characters and their interactions with male patriarchs in the China all around them.
Three Sisters by Bi FeiYu
Author (Asian Literature) & Novel Title. driven by the guilt of those closest to ‘Mother’, the saintly, sacrificial old woman who has gone missing in the center of Seoul. Alternating in perspective, from first to second to third person, the novel veers from near accusatory to reflective and explores themes of family in the midst of South Korea’s rapid urbanization and modernization of the past decade.
Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung Sook
Author (Asian Literature)
- Better known as Vinda
- Indian poet, writer, literary critic and translator of Marathi language
- Writer of The Wheel
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (India)
Author (Asian Literature)
- Born in Tokyo in 1969
- Debuted in Eureka at the age of 19
- Has written poems with stylistic diversity and unique sense of humor
- Wrote A Day When the Mountains are Visible and Sweet Ultramarine Dreams
- has emerged as the new poetic sensitivity in Japan, and is sure to remain one of the most important figures in 21st – century Japanese poetry
Yosuke Tanaka (Japan)
Author (Asian Literature)
- a famous Japanese author whose works have been translated into several languages cultural soo
- not only arguably the most experimental Japanese novelist to have been translated into English, but is also the most popular, with sales in the millions worldwide
- now the most widely-read Japanese novelist of his generation; he has won virtually EVERY PRIZE in Japan has to offer, including its greatest, the “YOMIURI LITERARY PRIZE”
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Asian literary genre.
- Unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively
- first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by the name haiku until the 19th century.
- a nature poem which revolves around seasons and nature
Haiku
Asian literary genre.
- a genre of speculative fiction that contains imagined elements that don’t exist in the real world
- spans a wide range of themes that often explore time travel, space travel, are set in the future, and deal with the consequences of technological and scientific advances
- Ramayana (5th to 4th century BC) - includes Vimana flying machines able to travel into space or under water, and destroy entire cities using advanced weapons.
- Rigveda collection of Sanskrit hymns (1700–1100 BC) - “mechanical birds” that are seen “jumping into space speedily with a craft using fire and wate
Science Fiction
Asian literary genre
- expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group
- include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes
- Folk Songs: epics (Shishi), and narrative poems (Xushishi) similar to long ballads or lyrical fairy tales
- wedding songs (kujiage), drinking songs (jiuge), love songs (quingge), and work songs (laodongge
- Spoken narratives such as folktales (minjiangushi), myths (shenhua), legends (chuanshuo), animal tales (dongwugushi) and many more different styles of stories.
Folklore
North American
- has written 147 novels since 1976, had 114 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of 67, which is also a Guinness World Record.
- have sold approximately 305 million copies worldwide.
- awards include the Edgar Award, the BCA Mystery Guild’s Thriller of the Year, the International Thriller of the Year award, and the Children’s Choice Book Award for Author of the Year.
- the first author to have No. 1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children’s bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Tracker’s top-ten list at the same time.
James Brendan Patterson (New York)
North American
- an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist
- has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times
bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.
Nicholas Sparks (North Carolina)
North American
- an American author and YouTube content creator
- won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska
John Green
North American Author and novel
the first book of a trilogy, partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Another inspiration was her father’s career in the Air Force, which gave her insight to poverty, starvation, and the effects of war, was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of ______________produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force production company.
Suzanne Collins; The Hunger Games
North American
- Works were able to connect with the masses.
- was born in New York, on March 22, 1941.
- was POET LAUREATE of the United States between 2001 and 2003.
- reflects modern American life.
- His work is so popular because he uses the everyday situations that most Americans deal with to connect with audiences, caters to middle class Americans and their struggles.
Billy Collins (New York)
North American literary genre
- author speculates assumes upon the results of changing what’s real or possible, not how a character would
react to a certain event
- first observed and coined by American fictionist Robert Heinlein
- Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canadian) and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (American)
Speculative Fiction
North American literary genre
- a novel in comic strip format
- a book format in which a narrative is conveyed with sequential art and a book written and illustrated in the
style of a comic book
- was formally introduced by American Cartoonist, in 1964
- Watchmen by Allan Moore (English) and Dracula by Bram Stoker (Irish)
Graphic Novel
North American literary genre
- also known as Young-Adult literature
- written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age
- expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction
- common themes include friendship, first love, relationships and identity
- The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (American) and To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
(American)
Young Adult fiction
North American literary genre
- concentrating on young women and their emotional lives, American original fiction genre that tackles the
issue of modern literary genres
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (American) and Spellbound by Jane Green (English)
Chick Lit
North American literary genre
- a fiction about characters or settings from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work rather
than by its creator, fans may maintain the creator’s characters and settings or add their own
- Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (American)
Fan Fiction
North America
- an Internet community for readers and writers to publish new user-generated stories in different genres,
including classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, fanfiction, spiritual, humor and teen
fiction - aims to create social communities around stories from both amateur and established writers
Wattpad
European
- born in Yate, Gloucestershire
- a British writer and philanthropist
- named as the world’s first billionaire author according to Forbes and has lived as a “rags to riches” life.
- was also named a runner-up by Time Magazine in its 2007 Person of the Year
- was also appointed as a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour at the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to Literature and philanthropy
- in October 2020, was named as the “Most Influential Woman in Britain.”
Joanne Rowling / JK Rowling
European
- born in Portland, Maine
- an American writer of various genre such as horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Many of his books have been adopted into films, televisions, miniseries, and comic books.
- wrote: Rage (9177), The Long Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), and The Running Man (1982), and Thinner
(1984) - has been described as the ‘King of Horror”,
- became an English educator at Hampden Academy in late 1971 and married fellow writer Tabitha Spruce also that year
- was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Award Best Novel; Mr. Mercedes was an inspired by a true event about a woman driving her car into a McDonald’s restaurant (2013); Finders Keepers second book (2015); End of Watch (2016); The Outsider (2018); The Institute (2019)
Stephen Edwin King (Richard Bachman)
European
- born in Portchester, Hampshire
- age of four, was able to read
- writing career began in England as journalist
- a British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that
frequently features a darkly humorous tone - is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses
genres and reaches audiences of all ages - listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers and is a prolific
creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama
Neil Richard Mackinnon Gaiman
European
- an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and television producer
- known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire and later adapted
into the Home Box Office (HBO) dramatic series of Game of Thrones (2011) - graduated with a B.S. in Journalism summa cum laude from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Illinois, and went on to complete his M.S. in Journalism the next year also from Medill
George Raymond Richard Martin (GRRM / George R.R. Martin)
European Literature History.
- Any work written in Latin or the vernacular between c. 476-1500 CE
Medieval Period (500-1500)
European Literature History.
- A celebration of ideas of the human mind through action and science
Age of Enlightenment (1700-1800)
European Literature History.
- Concerned with masses instead of the middle class and the individual instead of the society
Romantic Movement (1798-1870)
European Literature History.
- an effort to replicate the true nature of reality in a way that novelists had never attempted
Realism (1820-1920)
European Literature History.
- Characterized by simplicity, truth and tempered emotions
Victorian Period (1837-1901)
European Literature History.
- Emphasizes the individual existence, freedom and choice
Existentialism (1850)
European Literature History.
- Identifies the underlying causes for a person’s actions or beliefs
Naturalism (1870-1920)
European Literature History.
- Writers free to try new concepts like the use of the unreliable narrative
Modernism (1910-1945)
(European Literature) Literary Movement
- denotes a lifelike, immediate quality
- represents reality by portraying mundane, everyday experiences as they are in real life, capturing all its
minutest details - tells a story as truthfully as possible instead of creative distortion through dramatization
- Themes: class conflict * philosophy and morality * marriage and family * everyday experiences
Realism
(European Literary Movement) Literary genres of Realism
- Magical Realism
- Social Realism
- Socialist Realism
- Kitchen Sink Realism
- Naturalism
- Psychological Realism
(European Literature)Literary Movement
- emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice
- focuses on the question of human existence, and the feeling that there is no purpose or explanation at the
core of existence - Themes: focus * existence essence * moral individualism * importance of individual and subjectivity *
authenticity and inauthenticity * freedom to choose * atheism and religion * anxiety regarding life, death,
contingencies, and extreme situations * social criticism * the absurd * angst
Existentialism
Literary genres of Existentialism (European Literature)
Expressionism
Nihilism
Genre of Existentialism (European Literature). emphasizes on subjective experience, angst and intense emotionality, and deals with anguish of the modern man (The Haunted Mansion by David Berenbaum)
Expressionism
(European Literature).Genre for Existentialism. focuses on the meaninglessness and purposelessness of life together with the insignificance of the universe (The Road Runner Show)
Nihilism
European Literature. Works with Existentialism
Irrational Man – Woody Allen (2015) • The Dark Knight Series – Christopher Nolan and David Goyer (2005, 2008, 2012)
Literary Movement in European Literature.
- emerged when society came to rely on technology, consumer culture, media and images
- signifies the boundary between the external world and the individual consciousness
- questions the notion of the self (you, me, author, character, reader) as a source of meaning
- Themes: intertextuality • hyperreality • irony • maximalism • paranoia • fragmentation • post World War II • late capitalism
Postmodernism
European Literary Genre of Postmodernism
Literary Genres
o Metafiction
o Pastiche
European Postmodernism movement. fiction within a fiction, a style of prose narrative in which attention is directed to the process of fictive composition (The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde)
Metafiction
European Literary movement Postmodernism. an imitation of other texts or genres (Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell)
Pastiche
European Postmodernism literary movement works
The Starveling – Don DeLillo (2011)
The Apologizer – Milan Kundera (2015)
Lit??
consists of the oral and written literature of _______in diverse languages, like Spanish, Portuguese and the Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Themes: poverty, family and relationship loyalties, gender roles, social protest and exploitation, religion and magical realism
Latin American Literature
Latin American Literature. Primarily oral, while the Aztecs and Mayans produced elaborate codices
Pre-Colonial Literature
Latin American Literature.
- when Europeans encountered the New World
- early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts of crónicas of their experience, like Columbus’s letters or Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s description of the conquest of Mexico
Colonial Literature
(Latin American Literature)
- the period of foundational fictions
- time of gradual increase in women’s education and writing that brought more women writers to the forefront
Nineteenth Century Literature
Latin American Literature.
- characterized by a tendency towards irony and humor and towards the use of popular genres. Some writers felt the success of the Boom to be a burden, and spiritedly denounced the caricature that reduces Latin American literature to magical realism. Contemporary literature
- vibrant and varied, ranging from the best-selling Paulo Coelho and Isabel Allende to the more avant-garde and critically acclaimed work of writers such as DiamelaEltit, and GianninaBraschi
Post-Boom and Contemporary Literature
(Latin American Literature) Nineteenth Century Literature
- attempted to establish a sense of national identity and focused on the role and rights of the indigenous or the dichotomy of “civilization or barbarism”
Romantic or Naturalist
(Latin American Literature) Nineteenth Century Literature
-: a poetic movement whose founding text was the Nicaraguan Ruben Dario’s Azul, the first Latin American literary movement to influence literary culture outside the region and was also the first truly Latin American Literature
Modernismo, the Vanguards, and Boom
(Latin American Literature) Nineteenth Century Literature
-: was the next artistic movement after Modernismo which instituted a radical search for new, daring, confrontational themes and shockingly novel forms.
Avant-Garde also vanguadria (fore - guard)
(Latin American Literature) Nineteenth Century Literature
- : a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s, after World War II, writers outside traditional narrative structures, embracing non-linearity and experimental narration, launched Latin American Literature onto the world stage, and was distinguished by daring and experimental novels. education and writing that brought more women writers to the forefront
Boom
Authors in Latin American Literature.
- a famous Columbian novelist, short story writer, journalist, screenwriter and a Nobel Prize winner in 1982 for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflicts
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
Authors in Latin American Literature
- had written the most endearing and memorable stories of magic realism in Latin American fiction: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in time of Cholera, and Autumn of the Patriarch
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
Authors in Latin American Literature
- received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972) and Nobel Prize in Literature awardee (1982).
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
Authors in Latin American Literature
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo)
Carlos Fuentes Macias
Mario Vargas Llosa
Julia Alvarez
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
restricted to 140 characters only (CF Camlot’s Tickertext1)
Twitter Poetry
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– allows the reader-user to create remixes of voice, sounds, images, and special effects (Radical Karaoker)
- Electronic Ballad
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty maner posted in an online journal or informational website (Nava;s Minima Marabia Redux)
- Blog-Aforismos
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– made up of non-sequential and interlinking lexia (Belen Gache’s Word Toys)
- Hypertext Short Fiction
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– long narrative work of fiction with some realism posted in an online journal or informational website
- Blog Novelas
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– short stories not exceeding a page
- Microrelatos
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– animated poems in which letters explain the content of the title of the poem
- Anipoemas
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– an interactive documentary with multimedia platforms as hyperlinks for the suers to choose their own narrative
- Hypertext Documentaries
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– a novel proposal which bets on collective creation in a dynamic and novel way
- Novela Colectiva
Genres in Latin American Literature. Hybrid Forms
– individual micropoems (Eduardo Navas’ Poemita)
- Peomita
Genres in Latin American Literature.
- magic which cannot be explained by typical notions of natural law
- a realist description that stresses normal, common, every-day phenomena, which is then revised or “refelt” by the marvelous;
Magic Realism
Genres in Latin American Literature.
- two views of reality which nearly merge or intersect
- a challenged space
- a broken identity at times; and,
- historic and timelessness of time
Magical Realism
Themes in (country?) Literature.
- degeneration of society, chaos, crisis and its aftermath (Damiela Eltit’s Mano de obra; Pedro Mairal’s El año del desierto)
- memory and the coming of age of new generations moving away from testimonial approaches, where the past becomes a reinvented fiction and as de volver a casa)
- writings about militant experiences during the 21st century (Carlos Gamero’s Un yuppie en la columnade Che Guevara; Federico Lorenz’sMontonero’s o la ballenablanca)
Latin American Literature
Themes in (country?) Literature.
- rewriting of the myths and heroes of history (Washington Cucurto’s La revoluciónvividaporlosnegros; Eduardo Galeano’sEspejos)
- violence and philosophy in the 21st century (Roberto Bolaño, Nocturno de Chile; PolaOloixarac’sTeoríassalvajes)
- new technologies and new subjectivities, showing characters between the real and the cyber worlds, strange worlds that are familiar to us in some way (Jorge Baradit, Trinidad; César Aira, El juego de losmundos; and Marcelo Cohen, Casa de Ottro).
Latin American Literature
Authors in Latin American Literature
- a Mexican novelist and essayist
- was described by The New York Times as “one of the most admired writers in the Spanish Speaking World” and an important influence in the Latin American Boom while The Guardian called him “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist
- Carlos Fuentes Macias
Authors in Latin American Literature
- literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Belisario Dominguez Medal of Honor (1999) as Mexico’s highest award and was often a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won
- The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo and Christopher Unborn
- Carlos Fuentes Macias
Authors in Latin American Literature
- a Peruvian Spanish writer whose commitment to social change is evident in his novels, plays, and essays
- awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
- an unsuccessful candidate for president in Peru year 1990
- made his acting debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid, where he appeared as a duke in Tales of the Plague his stage adaption of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Authors in Latin American Literature
- a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist
- one of the most significant Latina writers and she has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale
- Julia Alvarez
Authors in Latin American Literature
- wrote about this experience “A Fish in the Water: A Memoir” (1993) and became a citizen of Spain and was awarded the Cervantes Prize of the same year.
- “The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto” (1997), The feast of the Goat (2000, filmed 2005), The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006), The Dream of the Celt (2010), The Discreet Hero (2013) and The Neighborhood (2016)
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Authors in Latin American Literature
- known for works that examine cultural expectations of women both in the Dominican Republic and the United States, and for rigorous investigations of cultural stereotypes
- works are influenced by her experiences as a Dominican in the United States and focuses heavily on issues of assimilation and identity
- Julia Alvarez
Authors in Latin American Literature
- Won National Medal of Arts (2014) from President Obama
- novels : How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her works as a poet include Homecoming (1984), and The Woman I kept to Myself (2004) and Something to Declare (1998) was her autobiographical compilation as an essayist.
- Julia Alvarez
2 Genres in Latin American Literature
Hybrid Forms
Magical Realism
____ Lit?
- generally refers to a comprehensive, complex and creative literature of and from Africa
- Oral literature, including stories, dramas, riddles, histories, myths, songs, proverbs, and other expressions : is frequently employed to educate and entertain children
AFRICAN LITERATURE
categories of African literature
-traditional oral literature of Africa
-literature written in indigenous African
-languages and literature written in European languages
African literature. Oral histories, myths, and proverbs : serve to ________ of their ancestors’ heroic deeds, their past, and the precedents for their customs and traditions.
remind whole communities
Authors of African literature.
- a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
- one of the world’s most widely recognized and praised writers
- often called the father of modern African literature
- wrote some of the most extraordinary works of the 20th century
- also a noted literary critic, particularly known for his passionate critique of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), in which he accuses the popular novel of /rampant racism through its othering of the African continent and its people
Chinua Achebe
African Literature (author & title). one of the most widely read- books in the world is a devastating depiction of the clash between traditional tribal values and the effects of colonial rule, as well as the tension between masculinity and femininity in highly patriarchal societies
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
Authors of African literature.
- a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction
- works are primarily character-driven, interweaving the background of her native Nigeria and social and political events into the narrative
- works have been met with overwhelming praise and have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the Orange Prize and Booker Prize.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Authors of African literature.
- Purple Hibiscus (2003) : a bildungsroman, depicting the life experience of Kambili and her family during a military coup
- Americanah (2013) : an insightful portrayal of Nigerian immigrant life and race relations in America and the western world
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Authors of African literature.
- a Ghanaian writer best known as an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children
- novels are known for their intense, powerful depictions of political devastation and social frustration in Armah’s native Ghana, told from the point of view of the individual
- works were greatly influenced by French existential philosophers, such as Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, and as such hold themes of despair, disillusionment and irrationality
- AyiKwei Armah
Authors of African literature.
- The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) : centers around an unnamed protagonist who attempts to understand his self and his country in the wake of post-independence.
- AyiKwei Armah
Authors of African literature.
- a Senegalese author and feminist, whose French language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages
- one of Africa’s most influential women authors
- known for her powerful feminist texts, which address the issues of gender inequality in her native Senegal and wider Africa
- Mariama Ba
Authors of African literature.
- So Long A Letter (1981) : depicts, simultaneously, its protagonist’s strength and powerlessness within marriage and wider society
- Mariama Ba
Authors of African literature.
- a Somali novelist
- has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays
- has written numerous plays, novels and short stories, all of which revolve around his experiences of his native country
- subsequent works feature similar social criticism, dealing with themes of war and post-colonial identity
- Nuruddin Farah
Authors of African literature.
- From a Crooked Rib (1970) : stems from a Somalian proverb “God created woman from a crooked rib, and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it”, and is a commentary on the sufferings of women in Somalian society through the narrative of a young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage
- Nuruddin Farah
Literary Forms of African literature. Oral Lit.
- explains the interrelationships of all things that exist, and provide for the group and its members a necessary sense of their place in relation to their environment and the forces that order events on earth
- Myth
Literary Forms of African literature. Oral Lit.
- elaborate literary forms, usually performed only by experts on special occasion. They often recount the heroic exploits of ancestors
- Epics
Literary Forms of African literature. Oral Lit.
- short, witty or ironic statements, metaphorical in its formulation which aim to communicate a response to a particular situation, to offer advice, or to be persuasive
- Proverbs
Literary Forms of African literature.
- novels, plays, poems, hymns and tales in the 1950’s
- literatures of testimony in 1960’s
- texts moved away from the project of recuperating and reconstructing an African past and focus on responding to, and revolting against, colonialism and corruption
- more concerned with the present realities of African life, and often represent the past negatively
Written Literature
Assessment. True or False
- Assessment is synonymous to evaluation or examination.
- Self-assessment can be defined as a practice of monitoring personal progress and recognizing strengths and weaknesses.
- Self-assessment weakens critical thinking skills.
- Learners have no control of learning when they self-assess.
- One of the goals of doing self-assessment is identifying learners’ strengths and weaknesses.
- True
- True
- False
- False
- True
ICT Literary Adaption eme. True or False
- Adaptation means transforming one medium to another.
- ICT means Information and Communication Technology.
3.Close adaptation is an adaptation in which the dialogue and the actions are
preserved intact. - In adaptation, legal concept such as copyright must be observed.
- One of the directors of the Harry Potter series film is Chris Colombus.
All true
ICt Literary Adaption eme. ABCD
_____1. It’s an adaptation based on a literary or other original source which captures the essence of the original, often by using cinematic equivalents for specific literary techniques.
A. Literary Adaptation C. Loose adaptation
B. ICT Skills D. faithful adaptation
D. faithful adaptation
_____2. It is an adaptation in which only a superficial resemblance exists to the
original source.
A. Literary Adaptation C. Loose adaptation
B. ICT Skills D.faithful adaptation
C. Loose adaptation
_____3. Who is the one seen by Agueda in the mirror after she did the ritual in May
Day Eve?
A. Anastasia C. Nick Joaquin
B. Don Badoy D. Voltaire
B. Don Badoy
_____4. It is the adapting of literary source (e.g., a novel, a short story, play, poem)
to another genre or medium, such as music, a stage play, a ballet, an opera, a film,
or even an animation.
A. Loose adaptation C. Literary Adaptation
B. Faithful adaptation D. Graphic Novels
C. Literary Adaptation
_____5. He directed the film adaptation of “The Lovely Bones”.
A. Josh Boone C. Neil Burger
B. Nick Cassavetes D. Peter Jacson
B. Nick Cassavetes
Match
1.World’s most popular blogging software that started in 2003.
a. Blogger
2.Short for web log like an online diary or journal. b. Pick a Topic
3.A kind of blog that shares news and reviews in film industry in general.
c. Word press
4.The best site known for set up a blog with
students
d. Blog
5.The first step to blogging.
e. Movie
f. Tumble
C
D
E
A
B
TRUE or FALSE. Blogs
- “My Review of the Island of the Blue Dolphin” is a kind of a movie blog.
- A person who blogs is called a writer.
- Tags and sharing button section is the opinion of the readers left in response to a blog post. It is a useful way to connect with the audience/reader.
- “A Philippine Festival to Experience” is a kind of a story blog.
- Word press is a popular blogging platform.
T
F
F. Review and comment
T
T
These are visual representations that do not move.
A. Still images B. Pixels C. JPEG D. GIF
A. Still Images
_____2. The unit of measurement used for computer graphics. It is a contraction for
“picture element”
A. Labelling B. Pixel C. Picture D. Cartoon
B. Pixel
_____3. The Joint Photographic Experts Group file format was designed to store
high-resolution photographic images and display them attractively on screen.
A. PNG B GIF C. JPEG D. Image
C. JPEG
joint photographic experts group
_____4. The truly universal in its appeal because the files can be viewed on Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX platforms. The graphic files are compressed to produce small file sizes which makes them very useful for transmitting electronically over the phone lines.
A. GIF B. JPEG C. PNG D. Pixels
A. GIF
_____5. A photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in
varying tones of only one color.
A. Painted B. Monochrome C. Pixilated D. JPEG
B. Monochrome
one color
Write the letter B if the characteristic given in the statement below belongs to Bitmap image, and V if the statement given is a characteristic under Vector-drawn image. Write your answer on the space before each number.
Vector images use less memory space and have a smaller file size as
compared to bitmaps.
For the Web, pages that use vector graphics in plug-ins download faster, and
when used for animation, draw faster than bitmaps.
Vector images cannot be used for photorealistic images.
Bitmaps are not easily scalable and resizable
_____1. In drawing programs, the user typically uses a tool palette which contains lines and geometric shapes.
_____2. It is created from rows of different colored pixels that together form an
image.
_____3. It is constructed using mathematical formulas describing shapes, colors, and placement.
_____4. The graphics are affected by resolution. If you enlarge the graphic, it will look jagged. When shrunk, its features become indistinct and unclear.
_____5. It is not appropriate for complex images (e.g., digitized photographs).
V
B
V
B
V
_____1. Which of the following does NOT belong to vector drawn images?
A. Computer-aided design (CAD) programs.
B. Graphic artists designing for the print media.
C. Using clipart galleries
D. 3-D animation programs.
C. Using clipart galleries
_____2. Which of the following file format was designed to store high-resolution photographic images and display them attractively on screen?
A. PNG B. JPEG C. GIF D. EPS
B. JPEG
_____3. Which bitmap refers to an assortment of graphics, photographs, sound, and video and are a popular alternative for users who do not want to create their own images.
A. Bitmap software.
B. Clip arts galleries
C. Captured and edited image
D. Scanned images
B. Clip arts galleries
_____4. Which of the following refers to unit of measurement used for computer graphics
A. Pixel B. Bitmap C. Vector D. Still image
A. Pixel
_____5. Which statement is TRUE about still images?
A. The computer generates still images as bitmaps and vector-drawn images.
B. Images can be incorporated in multimedia using clip arts, bitmap software, or by capturing, editing, or scanning images.
C. Creating 3-D images involves modeling, extruding, lathing, shading, and rendering.
D. All of the above
D. lahat :0
____1. It is a drawing that expresses the artists’ opinion on a social or political issue.
A. Irony B. Symbolism C. Editorial Cartoon D. Analogy
C.
____2. It refers to the use of simple objects to represent an idea.
A. Labelling B. Caricature C. Symbolism D. Exaggeration
C.
____3. It refers to a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.
A. Symbolism B Irony C. Caricature D. Analogy
C.
____4. It is a comparison between objects, people or events to show a point.
A. Analogy B. Symbolism C. Editorial Cartoon D. Irony
A.
____5. It refers to overdoing of physical characteristics or elements in a picture in
order to make a point.
A. Analogy B. Exaggeration C. Irony D. Symbolism
B.
Cartoon is derived from two words:
Caricature and Lampoon.
True or False
______1. Editorial Cartooning are graphic interpretations of opinion & thoughts on
a topic.
______2. It is always politically oriented.
______3. Cartoons and Posters are the same.
______4. Editorial Cartoons reflect current events and often created under strict
deadlines to remain relevant.
______5. Originality is not imperative. Hence, style & voice are not significant.
T
F
F
T
F
___1. An element of editorial cartooning that refers to the arrangement of all the
elements of a good drawing to produce the desired form and specifications.
A. composition B. unity C. balance D. neatness
A. Composition
___3. It refers to the stability produce by even distribution of those elements with
respect to the whole. This is done through contrasting, opposing, and interacting elements.
A. unity B. composition C. originality D. balance
D. Balance
___4. It refers to the process of drawing or sketching pictorial caricatures of a person or object in order to inform, influence, argue, criticize, praise and interpret a
certain event or to entertain.
A. caricature B. editorial cartoon C. illustration D. lampoon
B.
___5. It refers to the difference between the way things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be.
A. captioning and labels B. irony C. juxtaposition D. exaggeration
B.
Euphemism.
_____1. Sarah was less favored by beauty than her friends.
A. prettier B. unattractive C. happier D. sadder
_____2. He didn’t pass the test. He’s just not the sharpest tool in the box.
A. Not smart B. Not qualified C. earned D. spent
_____3. Now that I’m getting up there in years, I don’t like birthdays so much.
A. tired B. lazy C. old D. crazy
_____4. Jon is a couch potato. He sits around and does nothing all day.
A. excited B. tired C. ugly D. lazy
_____5. I can’t afford a new car, so I’m going to buy a pre-Owned vehicle.
A. used B. fancy C. junk D. recent
B
A
C
D
A
EUPHEMISM.
- I just need to powder my nose before we leave.
A. put on make-up C. get changed
B. blow your nose D. use the bathroom - I heard that Jane is in the family way again. That ‘ll be her third.
A. sick C. divorced
B. pregnant D. married - “That horrible old guy has finally kicked the bucket. I won’t miss him.”
A. to leave C. to die
B. on holiday D. to hide - Politicians often stretch the truth especially when making election promises.
A. to start talking C. to tell lies
B. to be honest D. to have a meeting - I’m actually in-between jobs at the moment. I’m sure I’ll find one soon.
A. retired C. unemployed
B. bored D. on holiday
A
B
C
C
C
Symbolism Allegory. True or False
_____________ 1. Allegory is a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a
meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative.
_____________ 2. An allegory, or higher meaning, may not contain moral,
philosophical, environmental, religious, or political concepts or ideas.
_____________ 3. Symbolism an object representing another, to give an
entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant.
_____________4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Edgar Allan Poe is a spiritual allegory. The moral is no man escapes death.
_____________ 5. Symbols do shift their meanings depending on
the context they are used in.
T
F
T
F
T
True or False. Symbolism and Allegory
____________1. Abstract themes and ideas contain characters, places, or descriptions of acts that correlate, or connect, to known historical places and figures is called allegory.
____________2. The allegories of political and historic, characters and places work in
place of concepts that may not be tangible or concrete.
____________3. All allegories are extremely symbolic, but not all symbolic writing is
allegorical.
____________4. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an allegory using the Devil’s staff to defy God and eat the forbidden fruit.
____________5. Blade Runner characterizes the association between mankind and
technology. It aggravates technology’s ability to leave the world devoid of human interaction.
F
F
T
T
T
Identify the statement that uses paradox.
- A. The clouds drifted lazily in the sky.
B. The person who wrote that book can’t write.
C. The clown fish swam comically in the aquarium.
D. I was confused by the lesson. - A. She is an awfully good singer.
B. The blank page stared back at me.
C. It was best of times; it was the worst of times.
D. They danced in the moonlight. - A. Whose turn, is it?
B. Robert carefully built a model of the ship.
C. Remember to take out the trash.
D. If you want peace, you must prepare for the war. - A. The best advice I have for you is: don’t listen to advice.
B. The rains came.
C. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
D. She cared for him all her life. - A. The dress cost million dollars.
B. I’d rather be lucky than smart.
C. It’s twelve minutes until midnight.
D. She stood in the empty room.
B
C
D
A
D
Write Y in the blank if it is paradox. Write N in the blank if it is not a paradox.
____________1. I know that I know nothing.
____________2. He was too tired to go sleep.
____________3. I always lie.
____________4. Call me if you find my phone.
____________5. She’ll be your friend through thick and thin.
Y
N (WHY)
Y (??)
Y
N
Write T for the paradoxes that can be true. Write an F for those that cannot
be true.
____________1. You have to spend money to save money.
____________2. Deep down inside, he’s a very shallow person.
____________3. Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
____________4. No one goes to that movie theater; it’s too crowded.
____________5. A rich man is no richer than a poor man.
T
T
T
F
F (??)
