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LIT REV FOR EXAM Flashcards

1
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This refers to the words written by the writer and spoken by the characters in the play. It connotes action in the play.

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Dialogue

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A literary technique often used to describe the manner of opening your story in the midst of action so that exposition is bypassed and filled in gradually, either through dialogue, flashbacks, or descriptions of past events.

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In Medias res - “into the middle of things”

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parts of the drama. ( main parts of the drama scenes - smaller sections of acts)

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Acts

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How the actors move.

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Stage Directions

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How the actors move.

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Stage Directions

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serious and deals with darker themes.

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Tragedy

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Exaggerate sensational and romantic topics to play with the readers’ feelings and emotions.

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Melodrama

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Blend aspects of both tragedy and comedy.

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Tragicomedy

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Humorous with a happy and vivacious ending.

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Comedy

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play that takes a comic look at people and current events while at the same time attempting to make political or social statements.

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Satire

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Tries to make people laugh by caricaturing the spirit of serious works, or by the ridiculous treatment of their subjects.

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Burlesque

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a nonsensical, overacted comedy play that often uses slapstick humor.

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Farce

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Is a comedy play that satirizes the manners and pretentiousness of a social class or several classes, and often uses stereotypes.

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Comedy of Manners

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a play with a duration of 70 minutes to about 2 hours

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Full-length Play

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30-minute play

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one-act play

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not meant to be performed onstage but maybe just enjoyed by solitary readers.

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Closet Drama

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a theatrical piece played by a single actress, usually portraying one character.

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Monodrama

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Performed outdoors

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Street Theater

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Uses puppets.

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Puppet Play

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Dance play.

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Dance Drama

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Uses shadow.

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Shadow Play

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Mediums.

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Stage Play
Screenplay
Teleplay
Radio Play

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two or more characters speaking directly to one another. The audience can hear what is said, but is not included in the action.

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Dialogue

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a longer speech that one character says directly to the other characters onstage. All the others onstage can hear this. It is intended to communicate directly to them.

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Monologue

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a longer speech that a character gives onstage that no one else can hear. No one except the audience, that is. It may be spoken directly to the audience.

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Soliloquy

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a short one or two-line comment that is made directly to the audience by a single character. No other characters onstage can hear it. Comments directly to the audience about what is happening in the play.

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Aside

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27
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dramatists who write the plays’ scripts,
which are then staged in theatrical productions.

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Playwrights

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28
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has a beginning, middle and end. Short, but it is not a sketch.

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Ten-Minute Plays

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concentrates on one core action or issue and can last from 15 mins. to almost an hour.

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One-Act Plays

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often referred to as evening-length plays because it can last till evening.

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Full-Length Plays

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often referred to as evening-length plays because it can last till evening.

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Full-Length Plays

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uncommon acts that can range in length from five minutes to an hour.

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Musicals

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refers to the planning of actions or happenings on stage. should be distinguished from the tale and provide a chronological account of both on-and off-stage occurrences.

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Plot

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refers to their having several dimensions, with a conceivably complex blend of the desires, hopes, inhibitions, and fears that characterize genuine human beings.

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Characterization

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contain the subject it is describing. must have a purpose that the literary work embodies in this sense

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Theme

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is a credible type of discourse that stays away from cliche and artificiality. it changes in line with the personalities of the characters divided into two categories: dramatic and narrative.

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Dialogue

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the play’s soul. everything has a [answer] to it, including the plot, characters, language, and spectacle. a play’s impelling energy. helps build a climactic conclusion.

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Rhythm

38
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anything heard or seen on stage. use of actors, scenery, costumes, lights, and sound.

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Spectacle

39
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mga kwento ni Lolo Basyang, writer of walang sugat, “Father of Filipino Drama” or “Don Binoy”.

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Severino Reyes y Rivera

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tenor, writer, stage actor and playwright known as “Father of Philippine Zarzuela”. Author of Dalagang Bukid

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Hermogenes Ilagan

41
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wrote his first written play at fourteen years old entitled “sugat ng puso”

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Balmaceda

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an activist in and out of prison, the first national dramatist

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Aurelio Tolentino

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filipino-American fictionist, playwright, essayist, and editor

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Nolledo

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constantly paid tribute to Rizal in his works due to his deep admiration.

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Nick Joaquin

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an economist and a playwright with 15 award winning plays.

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Bienvenido Noriega, Jr.

46
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overlapping of the social and political arena in their influence over literary texts.

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Sociopolitical [context]

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Socio Political issues

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politics and power, religion, social issues

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is a multi-disciplinary approach which includes the perspectives of humanistic disciplines such as literature and art. It dabbles on the behavior, culture, values, and attitudes of the individuals reflected in the literary works.

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Cultural Studies

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an approach in studying literature which provides a context or background on how the literary works were perceived during their time. provides a contrast and a reflection between the ideas and values during when they were written.

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New Historical Perspectives

50
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this perspective is an approach that deals with how dominant elites exploit subordinate or vulnerable groups. expression of class struggle.

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Marxist Perspective

51
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It is an approach that sees literature where there is a contest for power and control but tackles more on the role, position, and influence of women in the literary works.

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Feminist Perspective

52
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Is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Creative Writing

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Refers to the usage of words in a text.

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Word Craft

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Refers to the use of spoken and written words as a communication system.

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Language

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Refers to the use of words and expressions in appropriate Contexts.

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Word Choice

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Refers to the use of action words that can be visually seen and concretized by the readers such as saying “The man beamed” instead of saying “The man was happy

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Vivid Verbs

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Refers to the use of figurative language in the literature that appeals to the human senses such as “The starry night looked beautiful”.

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Imagery

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Refers to a particular item of information including descriptive and illustrative ones that support an idea or contribute to an overall impression of a written work.

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Details

59
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This category refers to the construction of sentences and paragraphs to form a cohesive whole.

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Structural Craft

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Refers to the system of constructing a written work.

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Text Structure

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Refers to how paragraphs are organized according to the writer’s purpose such as narrative, conversational, argumentative, and descriptive.

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Paragraph Type

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Means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as “and” or “or.”

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Parallel Structure

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Refers to the use of words and phrases to show the transition of ideas in a paragraph to show contrast, addition, example, and comparison such as in addition to, furthermore, on the other hand, on the contrary.

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Transitional Device

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Refers to the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause for emphasis such as “what if fair is foul and foul is fair.

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Repetition

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Refers to how a certain page is designed using graphics, textual designs, and other visual appeals to create an effect to the reader.

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Page Layout

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Refers to how sound devices are used in a text.

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Audible Craft

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Refers to the use of similar consonant sound at the beginning of a word in a literary work such as “whither wilt thou wander”.

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Alliteration

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Refers to the repetition of vowel sounds such as “rise high in the bright sky”.

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Assonance

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Refers to the pattern formed by stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

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Rhythm

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Refers to the beat of measure of something that follows a set rhythm.

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Cadence

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Refers to the texture of sounds that relates to the auditory impact that it produces to the reader such as the sound of lightning compared to the sound of a baby’s laughter.

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Hard and Soft Sounds

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