L3-4: Poetry & Flash Fiction

• What does "Coup de Grace" mean?

  A blow of mercy that ends suffering
• Who is Dr. Noel Christian Moratilla?

  An educator with a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies
• What is the focus of Dr. Moratilla's work?

  Picturing the present situation of the country
• What is the theme of Dr. Moratilla's poem "Coup de Grace"?

  Dictatorship and empty promises of a dictator
• What is the poem "Coup de Grace" about?

  Poverty and mercy killing in our generation
• What does the poem discuss regarding society?

  Killing, poverty, and unfair social classes
• What is the shortest type of prose fiction called?

  • Short short story
  • Micro-Fiction
  • Micro-Narrative
  • Sudden Fiction
• What is another name for a short story in China?

  Smoking-Long
• Poetry

  literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language choses and arranged for its meaning sound and rhythm