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    Local color in literature is a technique that features the peculiarities of a particular place, including customs, traditions, dialects, and beliefs. It aims to capture the unique atmosphere of a region through examples that show local practices, such as preparing offerings to ask for a child, making offerings to mountain gods, or paying homage after harvest with seeds and shells. Local color adds important context and appreciation for a setting.

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    Local color in literature is a technique that features the peculiarities of a particular place, including customs, traditions, dialects, and beliefs. It aims to capture the unique atmosphere of a region through examples that show local practices, such as preparing offerings to ask for a child, making offerings to mountain gods, or paying homage after harvest with seeds and shells. Local color adds important context and appreciation for a setting.

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    PRACTICE

    BELIEF
    DIALECT
    Local Color
    In Literature
    Objectives
    1. Define local color

    2. Identify the kinds of local color

    3. Appreciate the importance of


    local color
    Local Color
    - a technique that features the
    peculiarities of a particular locale or
    region.
    - a style hints at the region’s customs,
    traditions, dialects and beliefs.
    Example
    Thus, the couple prepared flowers,
    candles, and incense sticks to go
    ask for a child as their wish.
    Example
    We should go to ask for blessings
    from the devata guarding the high
    mountain.
    Example
    The couple led the people in the rite of
    paying homage to the shells of the
    pumpkins, squashes, rice and sesame
    seeds, after the harvest was done, on
    the full moon day in the twelfth lunar
    month.

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