REVIEWER IN LITERATURE Hailie Lim | HUMSS 1B - URSA

LESSON 14 III. Figurative Language

Literary Context
1. Biographical Context
- About the author’s life
- They put themselves in
texts.
- Through autobiography or
IV. Tone
- It could be positive or
negative.
- It determines the mood.
3. Sociocultural Context
- Social, economic, political,

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biography and cultural
a. Autobiography - Role of the audience

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- about self
b. Biography LESSON 15
- about others Different Approaches in
2. Linguistic Context Sociocultural Context

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I. Diction
a. Formal I. Marxist Approach
b. Informal - shows the class
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* if there are contradictions in dictation, it materialism
is INFORMAL. (ex. of contradictions: - propaganda
you’ll, wouldn’t, etc.) material
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- oppression, social
II. Syntax conflicts, and
- form of lineation shaped solution
by using line breaks
a. traditional II. Feminist Approach
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b. non-traditional - examines the role

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of women in
literature
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- females are
empowered or
discriminated

III. Queer Theory

- Concerned with
queer or third
genders
- Named in 1991

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- LGBT are being II. Fantasy

examined - Uses magic and
supernatural
IV. Historicism elements in the plot,
- Historical criticism theme, and setting.
- History that - Magic journeys and
influences the quests are often
writing involved in

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fantasies.
V. New Historicism
- Focuses on history III. Utopian Fiction

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when written or how - Presents a world
it happened that is ideally
perfect in all

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VI. Post-Colonialism aspects of society.
- Lives or changes in
the attitude of the IV. Dystopian Fiction
people after the
t - Presents a futuristic
colonial period illusion of a perfect
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society but is
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corporate and
Speculative Fiction
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totalitarian control
- Stories from imaginary worlds
- A broad genre that encompasses
V. Apocalyptic Fiction
stories that are often the result of
- Deals with the end
one or more “what if” questions
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of civilization either
and is open to an infinite number
through nuclear
of possible answers
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wars plague or
some other general
● Subgenres of Speculative Fiction
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disaster
I. Science Fiction
- Deals mainly with
VI. Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
the impact of actual
- Sets in a world after
o imagined science
the disaster (time
on society or
frame may be
individuals
immediately after
the catastrophe or
sometime later)

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VII. Alternate History endured challenge

- set in worlds in which one and obstacle in life.
or more historical events
unfold differently from II. Confessional Memoir
how they did in reality - Very personal
retelling of an
LESSON 17 author’s most
Memoir painful and deepest

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- a literary genre and a sub-genre secrets about
of creative non-fiction have themselves or their
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word “memoire” meaning has affected them
‘memory’ or ‘reminiscence’.
- It usually involves a public III. Professional / Celebrity

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portion, of the writer’s life as it Memoir
relates to a historical event. - Cover important
moments in the
t author’s rise to
Memoir Autobiogr Biograph Diary
fame and success
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Who The The Another The

writes actual actual person actual IV. Travel Memoir
it? person person person
- Let us escape with
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What A very A more A more A day to the author and learn

is it specific general general / day
about a time and
about? life event /broader broader person’s
story story life place through their
How is Written Written Heavily Written
experiences
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it based on based on based based on

written the the on the
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memory memory memory
and and and
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on on on
Metafictional Devices
- These are techniques that a
writer may use in order to let a
● Subgenres of Memoir
metafictional story flow.
I. Transformation Memoir
- Written with the
theme of
redemption as it is
about the author’s

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● Types and Examples Metafiction LESSON 19

1. A work of fiction within a work of Comics & Graphic Novels
fiction. - 80% or 90% uses drawing
2. A novel about a writer creating a
story
Comics
3. A novel where a narrator
- Tells a story through drawing
intentionally or accidentally
- Can be traditional
reveals himself as the author

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creating the story being read.
Graphic Novels
4. A novel about a reader reading a
- Exceeds 50 pages
novel

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- Narrative in comic book formats
5. A novel in which the book itself
- Is a format, not a genre
seeks interaction with the reader
- Have captions
and sees the book itself living
- Narrow lines or spaces in

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entity
between the panels/frames
6. A non-linear novel that can be
- Tell a story in frames has a
read in any order other than from,
beginning, middle, and end
beginning to end t - Shows glimpse from the story
7. Narrative footnotes which
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continue the story while
● Parts of a Graphic Novel
commenting on it
a. Front Page
8. A novel wherein the author is a
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b. Dialogue Balloons
character shows the author as
c. Thought Balloons
one of the actual story characters
d. Credits
and not just a number
e. Title
9. A parallel novel that has the same
f. Cover Image
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setting and time period as a

g. Publisher
previous work, and many of the
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h. Issue no.
same characters but is told from
a different perspective
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10. Merging characters are elements

from diverse works of fiction into
a new fictional scenario
11. Characters who express
awareness that they are in a work
of fiction

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LESSON 20 Broadway Show

Theatrical Adaptation / Drama
● Main responsibilities of a
performer before stepping on
stage
1. Learn lines, songs, and
dances
- Often mistaken as an individual
and separate form of theatrical
adaptation
- Big production than musical and
opera

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2. Research the play and
character
3. Work with other

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performers
4. Practice stage blockings

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Drama
- A literary genre that shares
several features
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- Tells a story by using the
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elements of fiction the same way
novels and short stories do

Theatrical Adaptation
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- A genre wherein a story from

another medium is rewritten to
conform to the elements of
theater
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Musicals
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- It is a form of theatrical
performance that involve people
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conversing in dialogues and in

musical numbers

Opera
- Involves singing performances as
well just like the musicals
- Focused on singing