LITR Flashcards
Lyrical poem, the poet either express his feelings or emotions
LYRIC POETRY
A longer form of poetry that tells an entire story, with the beginning, middle and ending. Contains all the elements of fully developed story, including plot, conflict and resolution.
NARRATIVE POETRY
Poem that use detailed words to create imagery of a person, animal, or inanimate objects.
DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
Rhyming poem containing 14 lines
SONNET
Situation on octave with the resolution in Sestet
ITALIAN SONNET
Falls into 3 quatrains and concluding couplet
ENGLISH SONNET/ SHAKESPEREAN SONNET
No required number of syllables but must have 3 lines
HAIKU
Mournful poem that traditionally mirrors the 3 stage of lost
ELEGY
Comedic, downright crude and trivial in nature kind of poem
LIMERICK
Short numerous poem contains of 5 lines
LIMERICK
Short narrative song, typically consist of 2 kinds of stanza
BALLAD
Lyric poem with varying stanza
ODE
Long narrative poem that can be long as book
EPIC
a literary technique derived from latin,
meaning “letters of the alphabet.” It occurs when two or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound, such as “fish fry.”
Alliteration
a literary technique where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.
Example:( the sound “o”) Go slow over the road.
Assonance
the same consonant sound repeats within a
group of words.
Example: Mike likes his new bike.
Consonance
one way a poet can create sounds in a poem.
Example: The dog growled menacingly at the strangers.
The cat meows incessantly as she pets it.
The mooing of the cows was hard to miss.
Onomatopoeia
the correspondence of two or more words with
similar sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another
Example: day, prey, weigh, bouquet
Rhyme
a recurring movement of sound or speech. An
example is the rising and falling of someone’s voice.
Rhythm
Two things or actions are interlinked.
Simile
An implied comparison without the use of any comparative word.
Metaphor
It is called a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
Personification
Address of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.
Apostrophe
Exaggeration of words is made on a statement in order to create impressiveness
Hyperbole
,we speak in a softened and milder form to give the expression of unpleasant thing
Euphemism
It is a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
Parable
Statement made is directly contradictory to the reality/ the opposite of literal meaning
Irony
a word is substituted for another word that it is closely associated with
Metonymy
a phrase that uses two contradictory words to create a new meaning.
Oxymoron
a statement that appears to contradict itself but contains some truth, theme, or humor.
Paradox
tells the events of the story that happen before
the present story.
Backstory
tells of an inherent object inserted in the
narrative;
Chekhov’s gun
narration that starts at the middle of the story.
In Medias res
tells a catchy story opening to hook the
attention of the readers
Narration hook/narrative hook
tells a story within a
story
Story within a story or 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
a narrative convention which tells from
whose perspective is the story told.
Point-of-view
is another style technique
used to inspire or pity a character
Pathos or emotional appeal
forms mental images of scenes using
descriptive words
Sensory detail
which repeats on purpose the words that
usually express a motif or theme important of the story
Leitwortstil
which presents an object or character with much description or gestures and dialogues
making scenes vivid for the audience.
Dramatic visualization
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.
Theme of the story
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.
Emotional Appeal
used
the language should sway the
emotion to convince the readers.
Persuasive writing
often used to create comparison to
feel the connection in the story.
Metaphor or simile
Uplifts women goals by defining and stablishing equality in the family, civil, social, political and
economic area.
FEMINISM
often associated with the literary pieces written by women that deal with women in the society.
This approach gives an impact to the voice of women.
Feminist Literature
deals with the cultural context during the writing of the piece of literature.
This approach interprets literature for its meaning or idea in a particular sociohistorical atmosphere, it needs an
understanding of the author’s milieu and the cultural context during its
production,
New Historicism
which is also called
new criticism. This uses close reading of a piece of literature. Formalists’ interpretation of a work of art is formulated by
the information and details of the piece itself.
FORMALISM
Considered are form, structure, technical features as more
important than the content and context
FORMALISM
Formalists focus
is on rhetorical and logical connections
within the writing.
FORMALISM
It is a critical judgement of a motion picture.
It focuses on the art of the film maker and evaluates the techniques employed by the director.
FILM REVIEW
It is the kind or type of film. Is it comedy? Tragedy?
Musical? Action? Thriller? Horror? Sci Fi? Romance? Historical?
Melodrama? Animation?
GENRE
It is the gist or summary of the film. What is the
film all about? What are the objectives of the film> how were the elements of the story interrelated with one another?
SYNOPSIS
It is the development or portrayal of the characters. How will you describe the characters in the film?
What are their deprivations and motivations? Are their acting skills convincing and powerful for the viewers?
CHARACTERIZATION
It is the essential aspect of the film and it consists
SPEECH as the voice of the actors, the MUSIC, as the soundtrack or song laid in the film, and the SOUND EFFECT or embedded
sound in the film.
SOUND
It is the manipulation of the filmstrip
and photographic image by the camera. How was the coordination of one shot with the succeeding shot? Does the speed, motion, and transformation of each photographic image
help in the quality of the film?
CINEMATOGRAPHY
It refers to the costumes and make-ups matched to the characters’ role? Do the props stimulate the
ambiance for the scene? Does the production design depict the
setting of the story?
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Part is used for a whole or whole is use as a part
Synecdoche
Display few character traits and often does not change n the whole story
Flat
Complex trait with distinct personality background and motive
Round
Goes through a dramatic changes as a character in the fiction
Dynamic
Traits that do not change throughout the story, same from the start to the end of the story
Static
Story from PHILIPPINES
SI MABUTI by Genoveva Edroza Matute- narration is the techniques used and literary approach is Feminism
Tata Selo by Rgelio Sikat- Literary approach used is Formalism
Morning in Nagrebcan by Manuel E Arguilla-Symbolism is the literary approach used.
Anything that stand for something else/representing something in poetic manner
Symbols
makes the author to convey ideas to the reader or audience in a poetic matter instead of its outright expressions
Symbolism
Vietnam Poets
The Cherished Daughter- A folk poem/ lyric poem/ repetition/ feminism prespective
A school boy Apology by Le Thanh Huan- Historicism/Narrative Poem/Visual Imagery
Inside Submarines by Phan Nhien Hao
Literary works in Brunei
The Oilfields Laborers- Cliff Hanger/ Foreshadowing
Borneo’s Green Heart
Travel Brunei Darussalam Poem - Bandar Seri Begawan by John Tiong Chunghoo
Literary works in Myanmar
Close Proximity
by Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay
The Wedding Reception
by Nyi Pu Lay
The Kindergarten Teacher By Aung Thin
Literary works in Thailand
Boatman Love Song- theme: Love/ Lyric Poetry/Ode/ Simile
Three Line Poetry by Uten Muhamid- Haiku
under the umbrella of sociocultural reading context
Historicism or historical approach
a prospective dealing with a history that influenced the writing of literature
Historicism or traditional historical criticism
