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Literature Concepts

A. Identification

Animal Tale 1. A folk tale using animals as characters.

Ethiological Legends 2. Explains how things came to be, why things are as they are.

Folk Song 3. Verse set into music by the members.

Dodecasyllabic Quatrains4. The structure of Awit.

Secular Drama 5. Generally held during the nine nights of vigil and prayer after someone’s death or the first
anniversary when the family members put away their clothes.

Poetry 6. Literary attempts to share period experiences and feelings.

Theme 7. Element of short story which the central idea or insight that comments on human conditions,
a truth in life which is the heart of the story.

Falling Action 8. Element of plot , these are the events after the climax which ends the story.

Simile 9. Type of figure of speech which is directly expressed comparison between two dissimilar
objects by means of the world like as or as if.

Short Story 10. A work of fiction that is usually written in a narrative format.