21st Century

• Writer's Context is knowing about the life, values, assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation and the political and economic issues related to the author.
• Reader's Context - is about the reader's previous reading experience, values, assumptions, political and economic issues.
• Text Context - is about its publishing history. It is a part of the larger text such as newspaper, history, events translated in it.
• Social Context & Socio-cultural of a text - feature the society in which the characters live and in which the author's text was produced.
• Imagery - is creating a picture in the reader's mind by using words that appeal to the senses.
• Visual Imagery - produced by the use of words appeal to the sense of sight.
• Auditory Imagery - produced by the use of words appeal to the sense of hearing.
• Kinesthetic Imagery - produced by the use of words appeal to the actions and movements.
• Literary Techniques - are methods the author or writer of a literary piece used to convey what they want the impart to the reader.
• Flashback - is a literary technique/device where the events have taken place before the present time the narration is following.
• Foreshadowing is a literary technique/device that hints at future events or reveals information about the plot.
• Marshall (2001) - defined multimedia as computer controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (video).
• Blog/Weblog - is a website containing informational articles about a person's own opinion, interests and experiences.
• Mind Mapping - is a graphical technique to visualize connections of ideas and pieces of information. A flowchart for an example.
• Flow Map/Chart - is a picture of the separate steps of a process in sequential order.
• Tree Map/Family Tree - is a visual method for displaying hierarchical data that uses nested rectangles to represent
• Circle Map - Is used to brainstorm ideas and show what you already know about a topic by using context information.
• Mobile Phone Text Tula - is a traditional filipino poem like tanaga.
• Slideshow Presentation - is created with the use of microsoft powerpoint. It contains series of slides/pictures. Displayed on a large screen
• Tag Cloud - is a visual, stylized arrangement of words or tags within a textual content such as websites, articles, speeches and databases.
• Video - is an electronic device used to record, copy, playback, broadcast and display moving visual media.
• Character - who takes part in the action of the story
• Protagonist - is considered as the main character or the most important of all characters
• Antagonist - is the character that challenges the main character.
• Setting - the place and time when the story happens. May be based on real place or author's imagination
• Plot - is the actual story. It is what the story is all about. It is the series of events and charcter's actions
• Exposition - This is the beginning of the story
• Rising Action - This event occurs as you begin to move throughout the story
• Climax - it is the most exciting part of a short story. Part when important decisions are made or important things are discovered.
• Falling Action - this point occurs after the climax as the problems in the story start to work themselves.
• Resolution - This is the solution to the problem in a story.
• Conflict - Problem of the story
• Theme - This is the central idea in a short story a general truth. A message to readers.
• Point of view - This is the way how the story is narrated.
• First Person - Narrator using the pronoun "I"
• Limited Third Person - Narrator is not in the story, unable to see into the mind's of the characters.
• Omniscient Third Person - the narrator is not in the story but can tell the thoughts of the characters as he can see into their minds.