CONTEXT

clues
Context Clues
-Hints found to understand
meanings of
-The unknown word is defined
by its brief definition, synonym,
or restatement.
new or unfamiliar words. Example- It is used when
the sentence includes
Readers are considered
objects that can be
detectives too. They find
categorized under that
words, phrases, and
unknown word.
expressions that serve as Antonym- The sentence
context clues as a way to uses a word of the opposite
understand the text they’re meaning of the unknown
reading. word. They are also called as
Types of Context Clues Contrast clue words.
Inference- Uses logic & Synonym- Familiar words
reasoning skills to figure with a similar meaning of
out the meaning of the the unknown word are
unknown word. used in the sentence.
-Uses common sense, prior Acronym for Types of
knowledge are harder to spot. Context Clues:
Definition- It is used when Inference
the sentence shows the
Definition
Example
explanation of the Antonym
unknown word. Synonym
literatures
of
africa
Literature
-Comes from the Latin word
Litera- “acquaintance with
letters”.
-Written, oral or visual
-Has imaginative language
-Portrays thoughts, emotions,
and experiences of humans
-Valued as work of art
-Examples: Novels, poems,
short stories, and plays.
Africa
-Second largest continent in
the world.
-Considered as the Dark
Continent because of the dark
history it holds due to their
colonizers.
African Literature
-A body of work that has different their slaves.
languages and genres ranging
from oral literature in the
language of their past colonizers.
Oral Literature
-Literature expressed orally or
spoken in words for it to
communicate to its listeners.
African Oral Literature
Prose- Made up of
sentences and paragraphs,
without a metrical structure
Verse- Made of lines and
stanzas, Has a metrical
structure and rhyme.
Period of Colonization
-This was the time African
Literature was under the
serious threat of Europeans
wherein they want to destroy
what they considered as the
pagan and primitive culture of
Africa for Africans to become
African Post-Colonial
Literature
literatures of africa
-The Character can be
-This was the time when most
described directly or indirectly
African nations gained
by how it acts, what it thinks
independence from the
about, and how it expresses its
Westerners and African
ideas or how it speaks.
literature has grown in number
Setting- It is where and
and recognition.
when the story happened
African Chants (Place and Time).
Chant- Rhythmic speaking Plot- The order of events in
or singing of words and a story.
sounds. Conflict- The main problem
In Africa, These are used for the characters of the story
activities related to need to face.
spirituality and practices PARTS OF A PLOT:
related to religion. Exposition- The
Basic Literary Elements introduction of the story
wherein the characters and
Literary Elements
-These are things an author setting are shown.
uses to create a story. Rising Action- These are
the events that lead to the
Title of the Story climax.
Author- The person who Climax- The turning point
wrote the story or the most exciting part of
Characters- People, the story.
animals, or figures Resolution/Deneouement/
represented in a literary Conclusion- This is where
work or these are the ones all the events are retold and
that are involved or do the a final statement is made.
story.
Characterization- The way Theme- It is the moral
an author introduces, lesson of the story or the
develops, and describes a idea that can come from
character. the story.