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• Contemporary literature


  Belonging to or occurring in the now, writers after 1940 focusing on their feelings, emotions, and societies as they were experiencing them
• Contemporary literature


  • Writing styles can vary, but the main idea is to convey realistic characters and experiences
  • Explores issues of diversity and ethics raised in works, including issues of ethnic heritage and religion
  • Important to be able to read closely and critique with evidence
• Contemporary literature


  • Characterized by fragmentation, unreliable narrators, pastiche imitation of styles, non-linear presentation, and uncertainty in language
  • Includes works from Western authors as well as literary figures from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
• Local color or regional literature


  Fiction that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region
• Technique of local color or regional literature

  • Use of dialect to establish credibility and authenticity of regional characters
  • Use of detailed description, especially of small, seemingly insignificant details central to an understanding of the region
  • Frequent use of a frame story in which the narrator hears some tale of the region
• Opinion


  A view or judgment formed about something that is not necessarily based on fact or knowledge, a personal belief or attitude about something that isn't necessarily based on facts
• Assertion


  A statement used to make a declaration or to express strong belief on a particular topic, often without evidence, an approach or technique involving a strong declaration, a forceful or confident and positive statement regarding a belief or a fact, often without proof or any support, its purpose is to express ideas or feelings directly, it's not necessarily factually correct, but the person making the assertion forcefully states their belief as if it were true
• Purpose of creating or formulating an assertion


  For the writer to express directly an idea or feeling and to convince the reader to accept the writer's interpretation of a particular literary work
• Basic Assertion


  A statement used to express the writer's feelings, beliefs, and opinions directly
• Emphatic Assertion


  A statement used to express empathy or how a person understands the feelings and emotions of the literary author, composed of two parts: 1) a statement that recognizes the situation or even the feelings of the characters in the text being read, 2) a statement where the writer states their stand about the situation
• 1. Language Assertion


  A statement used to express the feelings and preferences of the writer, focuses on the writer and uses the pronoun "I", composed of three parts: 1) accurate information from the literary work, especially the topic the writer disagrees with, 2) the effect or feeling of the writer towards the topic, 3) the preference or recommendation of the writer
• What


  Asking about an object
• Simple questions


  Questions that are plainly stated and do not require active participation. They are also easily understood and not complicated or complex.
• Fact


  A statement that can be verified. It can be proven to be true or false through objective evidence.
• PowerPoint Presentation


  • The most commonly used form of visual aid. Used well, it can really help you in your presentation; used badly, however, it can have the opposite effect.
• Opinion


  A belief or attitude about something that isn't necessarily based on facts
• Belief


  Something that an individual considers as the truth, shaped by the individual's background experiences and based on one's cultural or personal faith, morality, or values
• Conviction


  A firm belief in something that an individual is convinced of, based on statistical data, observational data, causal data, and experiential data
• A conviction remains the same even with new experiences and even after long periods because it is built in concrete information
• Video gives you a chance to show stimulating visual information, use video to bring movement, pictures, and sound into your presentation, always make sure that the clip is directly relevant to your content, tell your audience what to look for, avoid showing any more films then you need
• Painting


  • It is about putting colors on a canvas or a wall, painters express their ideas through a mixture of colors and different brush strokes, it is also one of the oldest forms of visual art
• Drawing


  • Creating a picture with a variety of tools like pencils, crayons, pens, or markers, artists draw on different types of surfaces, like paper or canvas
• Filmmaking


  • The process of directing and producing movies for television and cinemas, it is a very expensive and complicated form of art, involving many tasks, for example, scriptwriting, casting, and editing film sequences before they can be shown to an audience
• Sculpture


  • Three-dimensional pieces of art that are created by shaping various kinds of material, among the popular sculpting materials are steel, plastic, ceramics, and wood, sculpture is often referred to as plastic art
• Cartoon


  • A type of illustration, sometimes animated, typically in a nonrealistic or semi-realistic style, drawings and illustrations in magazines or newspapers, animated or audio-visual cartoon films that contain sound, voices, and attractive animated drawings
• Conviction


  A firm belief in something that an individual is convinced of
• Obtaining information to be convinced

  1. Statistical data based on analysis of statistics

  2. Observational data based on what the person has observed or perceived they observed

  3. Causal data based on what fact has caused a particular factual result

  4. Experiential data based on what experience shows can be inferred from the facts
• A conviction remains the same even with new experiences and even after long periods because it is built in concrete information
• Types of questions


  • What (about the object, the subject, the subject complement, and the people's full name)
  • Where (asking about a place)
  • When (asking for information about what time something happens)
  • Who/whom (asking about a person specifically)
  • Which (asking a person to choose or what is their choice)
  • Whose (asking about a person's possession)
  • Why (asking a person the reason and explanation)
  • How (asking about a way something is done)
• Main idea


  The big point or the most important idea that the writer is communicating to the reader. Often, the reader can find the main idea just by looking at the title. It is also the head of the text or paragraph. It is the controlling idea. All other supporting details in the text or within a program should tell us more about the main idea.
• Supporting details


  Sentences that are connected to the main idea. They include information or details the reader needs to read so that they can understand the topic.
• Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional media. It is a sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media formats (people, text, visual, motion, audio, and manipulative) in a given presentation or self-study.
• Multimedia


  The word comes from two Latin roots, multi and media. Multi means several or many and media means in the middle. This multimedia definition tells us that materials on the Internet or in your school and business presentations involve several forms of communication to connect, that is, to be in the middle of the sender and receiver. Also, multimedia can be recorded for playback on computers, laptops, smartphones, and other electronic devices.
• Five types of multimedia

  • Text Materials
  • Graphics/Photographs
  • Sound/Audio
  • Video Presentations
  • Forms of Animation
• Text Materials


  Important components used in written explanations to deliver information in many multimedia applications. They are characters used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs. Example: Hypertext.
• Graphics/Photographs


  Digital representations of non-text information such as drawings, charts, or photographs. They give ideas in the images with the help memory and one of the oldest forms of media. Example: JPEG
• Sound/Audio


  Any spoken explanation that lates imagination and can added and combined with all types of media. Example: MP4.
• Video Presentations


  Clips or full videos that show information, They are a collection of moving pictures combined with audio files. Example: MP4, MOV, AVI files.
• Forms of Animation


  Flipping through a series of still images. It is a series of graphics that create an illusion of motion to display pieces of information with moving or still images and are easily transferable. Example: Graphic Image File (GIF)
• Recount


  Its purpose is to retell a series of events.