English 7 2nd Quarter

• Those who fled to the sea were gone many years, and when their children came back, their skins were white.
• Elements of narratives from the precolonial period include the title of the selection, setting, characters/characterization, point of view, plot, conflict, mood, tone, theme, and moral.
• Literary texts are organized using different techniques of categorization, including precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial.
• Literature can be analyzed by inspecting its elements, regardless of the time of publication.
• The elements of a narrative include the title of the selection, setting, characters/characterization, point of view, plot, conflict, mood, tone, theme, and moral.
• Literary texts are categorized by their production or publication: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial.
• Literary works are categorized by their production or publication: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial.
• Look for the subject after the verb, and choose a singular or a plural verb to agree with the subject.
• Subject-verb agreement is a basic rule: subjects must always agree with their verbs in number.
• In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: plural nouns add an “s” to the singular form, whereas plural verbs remove the “s” from the singular form.
• Philippine precolonial literature talks about nature and human behavior because precolonial literary texts are commonly about the origins of natural phenomena and the natural way of life of the people in that era.
• Cliffhanger: A narrative device that creates a feeling of suspense among readers by not ultimately revealing the story’s actual ending, leaving it to the imagination and speculation of readers.
• There are also precolonial texts that explore everyday experiences in nature and how humans survive, like hunting, eating, moving, walking, climbing.
• Some texts talk about the existence of kinship, family, government, practices of a particular tribe or community.
• The elements of a narrative can be analyzed using the elements of a narrative.
• Precolonial literature also had fables and narratives that instill proper behavior in their readers and listeners by using animals as characters.
• In the context of precolonial literature, there are certain elements exclusive to it that can be traced back to the time or place it was inspired from.
• Plot Twist: An unexpected change in the storyline or at the end of the story, which is called a twist ending.
• A text that contains ideas about human behavior, how to live life, what is good or bad, can be classified as a text with the theme of human aesthetic ideals.
• Poetic Justice: A literary device that shows an outcome where the good is rewarded while the wicked is punished.
• The Creation Story (Tagalog) tells the creation of the world, starting with the crow, the sea, the sky, the earthquake, the bamboo plant, the man and woman, and ending with the parents beating their children.
• All of these themes can be identified by analyzing the elements present in a text.
• A precolonial text that contains imagery of geography and nature may have keywords like mountains, trees, rivers, air, leaves, land, soil, valleys, and others.
• In the same way, there are elements specific to a genre that can contribute to establishing the theme of a particular text.
• The agreement rules apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is, are, was, were, has, have, does, do.
• The subject-verb agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the second helping verb in a pair.
• The subject-verb agreement rules do not apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must.
• Analogy is a tool used to determine relationships and meanings of words.
• The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns (as subjects) except I and you, which, although singular, require plural forms of verbs.
• A ball is part of a variety of events, including basketball, baseball, and games.
• Analogy is a form of reasoning which compares one thing with another in order to make a particular point.
• A compound subject is a subject made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by coordinating conjunctions and, or, and nor.
• An analogy shows the relationship between words, helping us learn meanings of unfamiliar words by determining the relationship between the given words.
• Two or more singular (or plural) subjects joined by “and” act as a plural compound subject and take a plural verb.
• Analogy is also a form of reasoning which compares one thing with another in order to make a particular point.
• Two or more singular subjects joined by “or” or “nor” act as a singular compound subject and, therefore, take a singular verb.
• Two or more plural subjects joined by “or” or “nor” take a plural verb.
• In an analogy, the relationship is between a whole and its parts, for example, a page is a part of a book while a finger is part of a hand.
• Both are needed for the production.
• Some nouns are regularly plural in form but singular in meaning and require singular verb forms.