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21st Century Literature Flashcards

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  • A literary genre which encompasses a number of different genres of fiction, each with speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist in the real world.
  • Sometimes called what-if books or stories; changes the laws of what’s real or what’s possible in our current society, and speculates on the outcome.
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Speculative Fiction

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Subgenres

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Fantasy
Science Fiction
Horror
Utopia
Dystopia
False Utopia
Alternate History
Apocalyptic
Post-Apocalyptic
Superhero
Supernatural

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Includes elements and beings originating from or inspired by traditional stories such as mythical creatures.

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Fantasy

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Terrifying stories that incite fear

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Horror

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Features technologies and other elements that do not exist in real life but may be supposed to be created or discovered in the future through scientific advancement.

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Science Fiction

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Takes place in a highly desirable and problem-free society.

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Utopia

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Takes place in a highly undesirable society

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Dystopia

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Focuses on groups of survivors after a massive, worldwide disaster.

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Post-Apocalyptic

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Switch tactic where everything seems perfect on the surface.

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False Utopia

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Focuses on historical events as if they happened in a different way

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Alternate History

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Takes place before and during a massive, worldwide catastrophe.

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Apocalyptic

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Centers on superheroes and their fight against evil forces.

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Superhero

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Exploits or requires some contradictions of the common place natural world.

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Supernatural

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A frail man bullied by other people but gets an incredible strength from a magical bell that makes him a superhero.

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Enteng/Captain Barbell

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An ordinary person who gains superpowers through a magical amulet that guides him in fighting mythical creatures.

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Pedro Penduko

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An ordinary person who gains superpowers through a magical amulet that guides him in fighting mythical creatures.

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Pedro Penduko

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Has unique abilities to stretch his body like rubber and can form into his desired shape.

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Lastikman

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Accidentally engulfs a chemical-laden spider that gives an ability like spiderman.

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Gagamboy

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  • The ruling idea of the ruling group that it implants, propagates, and perpetuates so they can keep their ruling status
  • The structure of society assumed as the natural order of things
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Ideology

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Ordinary girl transforms into a mighty heroine with super strength and flying abilities after swallowing a magical stone.

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Darna

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  • When a state is indirectly controlled by another state via the route of what the former believes in about the latter.
  • The economic and political policies by which a great power indirectly maintains or extends its influence over other areas or people.
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Neocolonialism

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The process of offering a role to another

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Interpellation

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  • A movement that came after colonialism and is against colonialism; the concept of moving forward after the powers of the colonizers have been shaken off.
  • Questioning previous assumptions accepted; rejecting detrimental effects of the colonizing culture; maximizing the good derived from the colonial experience.
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Post Colonialism

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How are these roles maintaned?

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Repressive State Apparatus (RSA)
Ideal State Apparatus (ISA)

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The force of the government which makes sure the objects of interpellation stay within boundaries.

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Repressive State Apparatus (RSA)

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Enforcing images of the ‘ideal’ repetitively by convincing the person to stay in role and keep the given identity

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Ideal State Apparatus (ISA)

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How did we resist?

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Rejection
Appropriation

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Complete avoidance of an influence from the colonizer.

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Rejection

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The process of using a foreign form or material to further the goals of one what is fighting for.

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Appropriation

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Reading Strategies

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Analyzing
Summarizing
Annotating
Responding
Contextualizing

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Reading Strategies: Looking for evidences, sources and author’s biases

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Analyzing

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Reading Strategies: Identifying the main ideas in the text and expressing them again in one’s own words.

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Summarizing

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Reading Strategies: Considering the historical, cultural or biographical context of the text.

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Contextualizing

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Reading Strategies: Highlighting or making notes of important ideas on the text.

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Annotating

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Reading Strategies: Drawing meaning from what was read and represented in writing or in speech.

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Responding

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  • Refers to the background, environment, framework, or events; the details or information that enable readers to understand a literary work.
  • Being a bridge from writer to reader
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Context

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An author’s life, history, experiences, motivation for writing

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Biographical

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What was going on in the author’s life?

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Biographical

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How does this work fit into the author’s life?

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Biographical

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What personal circumstances, or specific event, either at the time of composition or in the past, motivated the author to write it?

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Biographical

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Are there striking or dramatic words in the text?

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Linguistic

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The choice, arrangement or use of words in the text.

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Linguistic

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What are literary devices or images?

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Linguistic

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What is the structure/form of the text?

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Linguistic

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What is the text saying about the world in general?

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Linguistic

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Response or reference to another work; influences

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Literary

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How is this work different or similar to other texts?

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Literary

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What other works influenced the text?

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Literary

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How does this work reflect or react to principles presented in other texts?

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Literary

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Depiction of society, classes, social issues in the text.

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Socio-cultural

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What is the relationship between the characters or the speakers in the text and their society?

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Socio-cultural

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Does the text address social issues?

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Socio-cultural

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How does this story reflect the nation?

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Socio-cultural

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trends the text promotes or rejects; ideas or beliefs the text provides

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Philosophical

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What philosophy or belief does this text admire or reject?

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Philosophical

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How does this work demonstrate a general truth or observation?

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Philosophical

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How does the author attempt to answer questions about human conditions?

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Philosophical

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  • A commitment to a set of principles or values of self-determination, immanent value, affirmation, mutuality, and care.
  • Eliminates oppression, domination, and hierarchy in all manifestations; a way of living one’s lives and acting in ways that allows others to make choices that affirm them and their perspectives, and that do not oppress and exploit.
  • Focuses on the achievement of equality for women with men and the development of opportunities for women’s expression and self-fulfilment in all realms of life, without the constraints of gender expectations.
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Feminism

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The Feminist Perspective

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It invalidates values and experiences often associated with women.

It gives voice to individuals marginalized and devalued by the domain culture.

It establishes a value system that privileges mutuality, respect, caring, power-with, and interconnection.

It eradicates the ideology of domination

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Women in Literature
- In the study by Dials (2017), the following images of women can be gleaned

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submissive
frail
assertive
modern.

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Emerging Roles of Women

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Wife/Mother
Independent
Revolutionary/Activist
Pleasure Seeker

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