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Unit Test in 21st Century Literature


LESSON 3:
Context and
Text’s Meaning
LESSON 5:
Elements of a
Short Story
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Context and Text’s Meaning
CONTEXT
-originates from the
notion of weaving
together.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
CONTEXT
It is defined as the circumstances
that form the setting of events,
statements, or ideas and in the
way of which it can be fully
understood and assessed.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
DIFFERENT CONTEXT
1. writer's context
2. reader's context
3. text's context
4. social context
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Context and Text’s Meaning
DIFFERENT CONTEXT
1. Writer's Context
knowing about the writer's life,
values, assumptions, gender, race,
race, sexual orientation, and the
political and economic issues related
to the author.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
DIFFERENT CONTEXT
2. Reader's Context
is about the reader's previous
reading experience, values,
assumptions, political and
economic issues.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
DIFFERENT CONTEXT
3. Text's Context
is about its publishing history. It is
part of the larger text such as
newspaper, history, events,
translated in it.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
DIFFERENT CONTEXT
4. Social context and
socio-cultural of a text
feature the society in which the
characters live and in which the
author's text was produced.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
STRUCTURE OF THE POEM
refers to words that are put
together or arranged such
that they make sense.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
IMAGERY
is creating a picture in the
reader's mind by using
words that appeal to the
senses.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
IMAGERY
is creating a picture in the
reader's mind by using
words that appeal to the
senses.
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Context and Text’s Meaning
THREE (3) TYPES OF
IMAGERY
1. Visual imagery
2. Auditory imagery
3. Kinesthetic
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Context and Text’s Meaning
THREE (3) TYPES OF IMAGERY
1. Visual imagery
produced by the use of words
that appeal to the sense of
sight.

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Context and Text’s Meaning
THREE (3) TYPES OF IMAGERY
2. Auditory imagery
produced by the use of words
that appeal to the sense of
hearing.

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Context and Text’s Meaning
THREE (3) TYPES OF IMAGERY
3. Kinesthetic imagery
produced by the use of words
that appeal to the actions and
movement.

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Context and Text’s Meaning
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
are methods the author or
writer of a literary piece used
to convey what they want to
impart to the reader, such as
Flashback
LESSON 5:
Elements of a Short Story
1. Character
2. Setting
3. Plot
4. Conflict
5. Theme
6. Point of View
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Elements of a Short Story
1.Character
is a person, in some stories an
animal, who takes part in the
action of the story or other
literary work.
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Elements of a Short Story
1.Character
the heart of the story are the
characters.
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Elements of a Short Story
Two Most Important
Character
1. protagonist
2. antagonist.
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Elements of a Short Story
Two Most Important Character
1.protagonist
the main character or most
important of all the
characters.
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Elements of a Short Story
Two Most Important Character
1.protagonist
In any case, the story always
revolves around the
protagonist
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Elements of a Short Story
Two Most Important Character
2. antagonist
character that challenges the
main character
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Elements of a Short Story
2. Setting
The place (locale) and time
(period )when the story
happens.
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Elements of a Short Story
2. Setting
may be based on real place
and real time or it may also
be based on the author’s
imagination.
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Elements of a Short Story
3. Plot
is the actual story. It is also
the series of events and
characters’ actions that lead
to the highest point of
interest in a short story.
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Elements of a Short Story
parts of a story’s structure
a. Exposition
b. Rising Action
c. Climax
d. Falling Action
e. Resolution
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Elements of a Short Story
a.Exposition
This is the beginning of the
story. This is where the
author introduces the
characters, settings, and
establishes the main conflict.
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Elements of a Short Story
b. Rising Action
This event occurs as you
begin to move throughout the
story. This is where conflicts
start to build.
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Elements of a Short Story
c. Climax
It is the most exciting part.
Part in the story when
important decisions are made
or important things are
discovered.
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Elements of a Short Story
d. Falling Action
occurs after the climax. The
excitement becomes less and
less as the conflict is
resolved.
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Elements of a Short Story
e. Resolution
solution to the problem in a
story. May not be what you
hoped for but as long as it fits
the story in tone and theme, the
conflict has been resolved.
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Elements of a Short Story
4. Conflict
Every story needs to have a
problem and this problem is
called conflict.
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Elements of a Short Story
4. Conflict
Without conflict, the story
will not go anywhere and will
not be very interesting to the
readers.
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Elements of a Short Story
Four types of conflict:
man versus man
man versus nature
man versus himself; and
man versus society
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Elements of a Short Story
5. Theme
This is the central idea in a
short story and a general
truth. This is considered as
the author’s message to the
readers.
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Elements of a Short Story
6. Point of View
This is the way the story is
told or narrated. It is also
known as the vantage point
that a writer uses to narrate
the story.
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Elements of a Short Story
TYPES OF POINT OF VIEW
a. First Person
b. Limited Third Person
c. Omniscient Third Person
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Elements of a Short Story
a. First Person
the narrator participates
in and tells the story using
the pronoun ‘I’.
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Elements of a Short Story
b. Limited Third Person
the narrator is not in the
story and narrates using
the pronouns ‘she’ or ‘he’.
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Elements of a Short Story
c. Omniscient Third Person
the narrator is not in the story and
tells the story using the pronouns
‘she’ or ‘he’. The narrator can tell
the thoughts of the characters as
he can see into their minds
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