21st Century

• Characters: People who appear in the story
• Poetry is probably the most sophisticated of all literary genres.
• Your Filipino ancestors, through oral tradition, shared epics, proverbs, riddles, and folksongs in poetic form with a specific formal scheme in which they strictly followed.
• Writer and literary critic Gemino Abad has written that the journey to creating a local poetic identity has been continually transformed by the different colonizers who have stayed in the country and the continued fascination with languages-be it English, Filipino, Visayan, Bikolano, and so much more.
• Poetry is still the chosen genre of many local writers, for it offers a uniqueness that other genres may not achieve: the opportunities to see the world anew, with every single written word.
• In the early 1900s, Filipino poetry celebrated romanticism, and several poems about love flourished.
• Olfactory imagery in poetry is what the writer wants the reader to smell.
• The writer uses carefully chosen and phrased words to create imagery that the reader can see through their sense.
• Visual imagery in poetry is what the writer wants the reader to see.
• Modern poetry sprouted, and writers are now more adventurous in their craft.
• Tactile imagery in poetry is what the writer wants the reader to feel.
• As the years went on, poetry became more formalist, with the emphasis on the form and language used by the poet, rather than the theme itself.
• Gustatory imagery in poetry is what the writer wants the reader to taste.
• Sense and images are used by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing.
• Diction is an important element in Filipino poetry, with writers being careful of the words they use to form their poems.
• Diction is the denotative and connotative meaning of the words in a sentence, phrase, paragraph, or poem.
• Rhyme Scheme is the way the author arranges words, meters, lines, and stanzas to create a coherent sound when the poem is read out loud.
• Rhyme Scheme may be formal or informal, depending on the way the poem was written by the poet.
• Senses, imagery, diction, and rhyme scheme are emphasized in the canonical poem "Gabu", one of the most widely read local poems in English by Carlos Angeles.
• Carlos Angeles was born on 25 May 1921 in Tadoban, Leyte.
• Carlos Angeles finished his undergraduate degree in University of the Philippines and his work has been included in poetry anthologies in the United States.
• Carlos Angeles' poetry collection, Stun of Jewels, won the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature back in 1964; he also won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Poetry in the same year.
• Carlos Angeles is an active member of many Filipino-American press clubs in the US, where he currently resides.
• Carlos Angeles' poem, "Gabu," is said to be one of the most well-loved Filipino poems written in English.
• The structure and form of a poem are the ways that the poem is organized or arranged.
• Things like lines, rhyme scheme, rhythm, meter, and stanza form are all part of poetic structure.
• Word order in a poem refers to the order in which words are arranged.
• Poetic license describes the freedom an artist or writer has to change details, distort facts, or ignore the usual rules the art they produce is better as a result.
• A fiction piece is from the author's imagination and is not based on facts.
• Fiction pieces will be stories.
• The purpose of fiction is to entertain the reader.
• Fiction creates a mood, a feeling you get from reading the selection.
• The mood could be happy, sad, scary, angry, peaceful, etc.
• Character: The one you relate with, converse with or listen to the thoughts of.
• Two characters interacting in a story may symbolize the conflict or union between two different societies.
• The character and the way he or she changes as the story progresses become the driving force of fiction.
• Characters in a short story sometimes serve as symbols of the story.
• A character may symbolize a community or an event in history.
• A short story may use a character, object, or event to signify something else from its original meaning.
• The character may be kind, rich, confusing, annoying, bratty, and so on.