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• The Philippines regained its freedom from the Japanese colonizers on July 4, 1946.
• It also marked the start of the Third Republic.
• The major challenge was reconstructing everything destroyed by the war— infrastructure, livelihood, culture, and government.
• ●The Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was established in 1950
• During the Period of Activism (1970-1972)
• He put the country under Martial Law on September 21, 1972.
• The Period of the New Society started on September 21, 1972, and ended in 1980
• The military rule was lifted on January 2, 1981.

   
• Personalistic free verse become popular on Third Republic
• The “bloodless revolution” led to the victory of former president Corazon Aquino against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.
• The Summer Solstice”. This story features the local ritual in Paco, Manila, in the 1850s called “Tadtarin”.
• A narrative is a story or an account of an event.
•   Flat - has one kind of personality trait all throughout the story
•    Dynamic - a character which changes in the story as time passes
• Plot -   The events that inform the action in the text
•     Exposition - the beginning of the story
• Climax - the most intense or most exciting part of the story/the turning point in the story
• Denouement - resolution or conclusion of events

   
• Rising action - the conflicts or issues leading to the climax
• Falling action - events that follow the climax
•   Internal - a struggle within the self
• Conflict - Problems or challenges faced
• External - a struggle against a forces outside the self
• Mood - The general feeling of a story
• Theme - The universal truth in the story
• personal recount - To informally tell the reader a series of events in the order which they happened
• factual recount - To factually relate to the reader series of events in the order of which they happened