Literary Period American Period 1898 - 1945 Philippine literature during the American rule was influenced by two factors‚ first of which is‚ education. With the Americans providing free education‚ many were given the chance to study and English was used as the language of instruction. Unlike the Spanish‚ the foreigners were willing to teach their language to the Filipinos. Free education served as the stepping stone for others to improve their social status. Early literary works in English
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only being let down by someone or just being foolish of something that really doesn’t matter as much. In the poem ‚ "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" contains the literary devices of imagery‚ metaphor‚ and personification. All these literary devices add up to the theme by comparing them to things that are usually strange to be compared to hope. Emily Dickinson uses imagery in the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" by creating a vision made up by hope and a home. In stanza two‚ Dickinson asserts
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The Manifestation of the South: Aunt Alexandra By: Shruti In her riveting novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee embarks on a journey to a land not-so-distantly in the past‚ and she singlehandedly replicates the bigotry and haughtiness of the hushed little town of Maycomb‚ Alabama in the 1930s. Aunt Alexandra is the very manifestation of the Southern
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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the entire book by this point. Title:__Dive – Book One______ Author:__Gordon Korman______ Currently on page #__148__ of ____148____total pages OR finished the book * Find OR write a POEM (8 line minimum) that represents your book. Attach the poem‚ and write three paragraphs that explain how this poem relates to the theme‚ characters‚ and/or plot in your novel. Danger‚ the deep has called my name. We go even deeper to find our fame. The treasure is waiting for us to find. No one believes
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I have chosen the following four literary term; farce‚ genre‚ metaphor and image. Farce: A comedy; a short play‚ in which both subtle humor and hilarity are developed through improbable situations‚ exaggeration and (often) ridiculous antics. Example: “I’m Going! A Comedy in One Act” by Tristan Bernard (1915) In this play‚ Henri wants to go the races; however his wife‚ Jeanne does not want him to go. Henri is trying to convince her on why she should not go‚ he says it cost more money‚ she does
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standard How to approach a poem p3 How to annotate a poem p4 Writing about style and language p5 Sample NCEA questions with criteria p6 Poems from New Zealand Tihei Mauriora p8 Bred in South Auckland p9 Race Relations p10 Poems from the Pacific Fings da kirls should know p11 My Dog p12 Wild Dogs under my skirt p13 A Book and a Pen p14 You‚ the Choice of my Parents p15 Poems from other cultures Island man p16 Half-caste p17 Search for my Tongue p18 Presents from my aunt in Pakistan p19 What were they
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Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past
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little or no semblance with real life. In the middle of the 14th century a revival of the old English alliterative verse occurs through romances‚ which develops – side by side with religions literature. This literature is inspired by French romantic poems and centers around Chivalry. There is an absence of originality but the fever of nationalism is present in the literature of this period. Heroes and subjects connected with Britain are given reference in the romantic cycles of chivalry. British stories
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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