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Preliminaries Flashcards

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Before reading a text, gather important information about it as it helps prepare your mind for the barrage of information

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Previewing

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Involves highlighting or making notes of important ideas in the text, can be done by underlining important ideas, make notes of questions and responses, and a symbol system

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Annotating

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Consider the historical, cultural, or biographical context of the text. Your understanding of a certain concept is influenced by these contexts

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Contextualizing

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Help you identify the main ideas in the text and express them in your own words. Helps you understand how a text is developed through the presented ideas

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Outlining and Summarizing

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Deals with examining the information presented to support the author’s arguments. By looking at the evidence, sources, and biases

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Analyzing

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Requires repeated examination of the text enabling you to improve comprehension of the text. Fully grasping the meaning of the text the author is conveying

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Rereading

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After clearly understanding the text, you’r now able to respond which means drawing meaning from what you have read and presenting it in writing or talking about it

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Responding

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This context requires the reader to analyze the life and experience of the author to understand the literary text

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Biographical Context

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Requires the reader to analyze the social, economic, political, and cultural standpoint of the literary text

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Sociocultural Context

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Requires the reader to analyze the language, form, and structure of the text

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Linguistic Context

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Different strategies may be employed in analyzing the text using the aforementioned contexts

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Critical Reading Strategies

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Literature shows class struggle and materialism thus it looks into the social classes portrayed in the work according to Marxist Perspective

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Marxism

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Examines the role of the women in the literature. Looks into how the female character may be empowered or discriminated against

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Feminism

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Concerned with the queer or the third gender. This perspective was named in 1991 which means gay, lesbians, and other characters or persona

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Queer Theory

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Traditional historical criticism is a perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature

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Historicism

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Literary perspective that looks into the changes ins the attitude of the post colonies after the colonial period. Dependence or independence of decolonized countries are examined

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Postcolonialism

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Another perspective in the sociocultural context that focuses on how the history happened

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New Historicism

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Relays the text being examined to a larger structure

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Structuralism

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School of literary criticism and literary theory that focuses on the structure of a particular text. Examines a text without taking into account any outside influence

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Formalism (New Criticism)

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Reaction to structuralism wherein there may be underlying structure that may have different interpretations based on how the words or phrases were used in the text

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Poststructuralism

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(Sonnet, Song, Elegy, Ode)

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Lyric

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(Epic, Ballad, Metrical Tale/Romance)

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Narrative

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(Dramatic Monologue, Soliloquy)

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Dramatic

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Form of narrative that tells about imaginary characters and events

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Fiction

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Prose writing based on real people and events

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Nonfiction

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Composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue

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Drama

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Concerns the organization of the main events of a work of fiction

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Plot

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Occurs at the beginning of a short story. Characters introduced, learned about the setting, presents other facts necessary to understanding the story

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Exposition

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Time, Place

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Setting

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Main Character; Hero

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Protagonist

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Conflict with the main character; Bad Guy

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Antagonist

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Character Stays the same

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Static

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Character changes in some way

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Dynamic

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Where the story is told through main character’s eyes

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1st person POV

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Narrator in the story is talking to the reader as if they are also part of the story

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2nd person POV

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Narrator is not a character in the story and talks about the characters. Narrator has limited perspectives and can only read one character’s mind, feelings, and motive

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3rd person Limited

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Narrator is not a character in the story and is “all-knowing” Can read every character’s feelings, motives, and thougths

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3rd person Omniscient

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Includes the events that lead to the climax and presents some type of conflicts

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Rising Action

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Struggle between two forces in the story where it provides interest, suspense, and tension

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Conflict

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Two or more characters havea problem

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Character Vs. Character

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Characters have to fight against force of nature

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Character Vs. Nature

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Character fights against rules of society

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Character Vs. Society

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Character is dealing with an internal struggle

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Character Vs. Self

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“High point” and the turning point of the story. Character comes face to face with a conflict and may change the character in some way

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Climax

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All loose ends of the plot are tied up. Conflicts and climax are taken care of

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Falling Action

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The story comes to a reasonable ending

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Resolution

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Scene or passage that interupts the present action of a plot to introduce a past event

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Flashback

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Use of clues or indications to suggest future event in the story to the reader’s curiosity and build up the suspense

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Foreshadowing

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Creation of a mood or feeling by the use of descriptions and setting

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Atmosphere

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Refers to the time and place where the story is set which includes weather, social and political climate, etc.

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Setting

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Central idea of the story to an extent, purpose of its uttrance

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Theme

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Category of artistic, musical , or literary composition characterized by a particular style

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Genre

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Most compact form of literature with ideas, feelings, rhythm, and sound packed into chosen words to convey meaning. Has tone, form, and figurative language

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Poetry

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Poems that tell a story

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Narrative Poetry

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Poems that are supposedly sung with musical accompaniment

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Lyric Poetry

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Poems that are usually performed onstage, can be sung or spoken

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Dramatic Poetry

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Dramatic character who is the speaker in the poem, it is not always the poet

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Persona

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Poetry in written lines, oftentimes the lines are divided into groups

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Form

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Lines that is divided into groups in poetry

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Stanzas

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Use of language that appeals the five senses: Visual, Auditory, Gustatory, Tactile, and Olfactory

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Imagery

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Include rhyme, rhythm, and other literary device pertaining to sound

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Sound Patterns

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Repetition of similar or identical sounds at the end of poetic lines

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Rhyme

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Pattern of the rhyme placed at the end of each line or stanza

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Rhyme Scheme

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Central idea of a poem stated in philosophical truth in life

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Theme

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Any writing that does not have metrical structure and rhythmical pattern

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Prose

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Should be read in one sitting striving for unity and effect

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Short Stories

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Longer and more complex than a short story

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Novel

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Shorter version of a Novel with 17,500-39,999 words

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Novella

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Novel with 7,500-17,499 words

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Novelette

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Features distinct episodes related to one another and can be read individually almost as stories by themselves

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Episodic Plot

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Contains repetition of phrases, sentences, or events with one new aspect added with each repetition

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Cumulative Plot

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Story in which another story or other multiple stories are embedded

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Frame Narrative

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Texts that provide actual information such as science, history boks, dictionaries, etc

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Informative Nonfiction

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Written like fiction, but people, evens, and other information are factual

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Literary Nonfiction

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Story of a person’s life told by the same person, usually written in 1st person pov

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Autobiography

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Story of a person’s life told by another person

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Biography

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Piece of writing that centers on one topic or subject matter. It’s purpose is to inform, describe, entertain, or persuade

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Essay

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Stories in verse or prose that are meant to be performed onstage in front of the audiences

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Dramas

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They write dramas

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Dramatists or Playwrights

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Central character has a tragic flaw which leads to the characters’ downfall

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Tragedy

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Aims to make the audience laugh with its lighthearted and unusual remarks

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Comedy

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The characters have various themes from serious to comedic and could dance and sing

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Musical Drama

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Nonsensical drama that employs slapstick humor, mainly comedic and is characterized by absurd conditions or situations

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Farce

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Characterized by the characters’ exaggerated emotions in various situations

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Melodrama

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Refers to the character’s speech and is considered the lifeblood of drama

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Dialogue

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Conversations of two or more characters onstage

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Dialogue

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Long speech given by one character that can be heard by or directed to other characters onstage

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Monologue

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Speech of a character who is alone onstage, portrayed as though the character is talking to themselves or the audience

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Soliloquy

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Remark that a character makes that is meant only for the audience to hear

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