21st century literature (recitation questions)
Cards (50)
- Alunsina-Goddess also known as the unmarried one
- Moro-MoroDepicts the battle between Christians and Muslims
- Diction-The denotative and connotative meaning of the words on a sentence, phrase, paragraph, or poem.
- CorridoIt details the lives of the saints or the history of a tradition
- Coupled rhyme schemeTwo consecutive lines that rhymes with each other
- Alternate rhyme schemeLines of poetry where every other line rhymes
- Enclose rhyme schemeFirst and fourth stanza rhymes with each other, as do the second and third
- StructureTechniques and elements used to arrange the words in a poem on the page
- Word orderNatural or unnatural arrangements of words in a poem.
- FolksongExpressions of our ancestors experiences in lives-includes courtship, lullabies, and such
- Senses and imagesUsed by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing
- F. Sionil JoseA known fictionist, essayist, and novelist that deals with the themes of social struggle and strife in the Philippines.
- CarrilloUses shadows as its main spectacle
- Carlos AngelesThe author of Gabu
- ExpositionThe beginning of the story
- Symbolismuse of a character, object, or event to signify something else from its original meaning.
- Verbal Ironywhen what is said by the character is not what he or she meant. A character says one thing but means the opposite.
- Situational ironyThe actual outcome of a situation is different from the expected outcome.
- Dramatic IronyThe readers know more than the characters in the story.
- Fairy taleGenre consisting of magical things in the story
- TibagRitual brought by the Spaniards to remind about the search of Saint. Helena
- Pastoralelevates the life of the shepherd or shepherdess, versus the evils of the city.
- ZarzuelaMusical comedies or melodramas that deal with the elemental passions of human beings
- Shadowfigures that are placed between a light and a screen. Moving them creates the illusion of moving images on the screen.
- Essaytypically written to try to persuade the reader using selected research evidence.
- Parablestory that illustrates a moral attitude or religious principle.
- Elegywritten to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead.
- Visual imagerywhat the writer wants you to see.
- Olfactory ImageryWhat the writer wants you to smell
- Gustatory imageryWhat the writer wants you to taste
- Tactile imageryWhat the writer wants you to feel
- Auditory imageryWhat the writer wants you to hear
- Epithalamiumspecial poem written in honor of a marriage.
- ProtagonistAnother term for the main character of the story
- DenouementRefers to the ending of the story (conclusion)
- Fablesimplistic tale told to convey a moral, or lesson to the reader about how to behave in the world.
- Sonnetfourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter
- Deuteragonistthe person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama.
- Haikupoem that focuses on nature. It has 3 lines and follows the 5-7-5 syllables.
- Epicadventures of legendary or heroic people.