UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO

KIDAPAWAN CITY CAMPUS

Sudapin, Kidapawan City

Formalism
Rheinz Bryan D. Viajante

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 Class Room Standards

In this class be SMART

Sit properly
Minimize your voice
Actively participate
Raise your hand if you want to answer
Turn off your mobile phones

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 Scars
by William Stafford

They tell how it was, and how time

came along, and how it happened
again and again. They tell
the slant life takes when it turns
and slashes your face as a friend.

Any wound is real. In church

a woman lets the sun find
her cheek, and we see the lesson:
there are years in that book; there are
sorrows
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 a choir can’t reach when they sing.

Rows of children lift their faces of

promise,
places where the scars will be

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 Learning Competencies/ Specific objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected

to

1. Define Formalism.

2. Identify the characteristics of Formalism for in-

depth study of literature.

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 Learning Competencies/ Specific objectives

3.Discuss the intellectual or linguistic or socio-emotional

and or artistic influences of literatures through Formalism.

4. Criticize a poetic text through Formalism.

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 Activity

Baby Pass the Ball!

Mechanics: A ball will be provided to the

class and everyone will take turn on
passing the ball after the music stop the
one who is holding the ball shall answer
the question. Before that you will be
given 3 Minutes to conceptualize your
answers.
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 Activity

1.Who is narrating or telling what happens in

the work? How can you say so?

2.How is the work structured or organized?

3. Did simile appear in the work? And which

part?
4. Is metaphor found in the piece? Why and
why not?
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 FORMALISM
In literary theory, formalism refers to critical analysis, interpretation or
evaluation to the inherent features of a text

The formalist perspective

The formalist perspective began in Russia in the early 1920s.

Formalism allows the reader to analyze a literary piece with complete

objectivity.

The formalist perspective concentrates on the form of the literature itself.

“Formalist criticism regards literature as a unique form of human

knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms” (Kennedy 1468).
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 Formalist Criticism.
Is not concerned a lot with the historical, political, social, or biographical
context surrounding the work  The critic pays special attention to the
elements of the work
1468).

Fiction: Plot, point of view, characters, setting, tone and style, theme,
symbol.

Poetry: kind of poem (lyric, didactic, epic, etc.), tone, words, imagery,
figures of speech, sound, rhythm, form, symbol.

Drama: modes of drama, plot, characters, climax, theme, setting, symbol.

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Guide question of Formalist Critical Analysis
• How is the work structured or organized?

• How does it begin? Where does it go next?

• How does it end? What is the work’s plot?

• How is its plot related to its structure?

• What is the relationship of each part of the work to the work as a whole?
How are the parts related to one another.

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• Who is narrating or telling what happens in the work? How is the narrator,
speaker, or character revealed to readers? How do we come to know and
understand this figure?

• Who are the major and minor characters, what do they represent, and how do
they relate to one another?

• What are the time and place of the work – its setting? How is the setting related
to what we know of the characters and their actions? To what extent is the
setting symbolic?

• What kind of language does the author use to describe, narrate, explain, or
otherwise create the world of the literary work? More specifically, what images,
similes, metaphors, symbols appear in the work? What is their function? What
meanings do they convey?
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 Group 1
Who is narrating or telling what happens in the work? How is
the narrator, speaker, or character revealed to readers?

Group 2
What is the message of the poem?
What symbols help convey a message?

Group 3
How is the work structured or organized?
How does it begin and end?
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 Group 4
What is the structure of the poem?

Group 5
Who is the main character of the piece?
What do they represent?

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 RUBRICS
RUBRICS: (5) (3) (1)

CONTENT

The content of report is all correct. Some content of report is correct Got one correct answer

TIME MANAGEMENT

The members finish the report a head of The members finish the report a on The members do not finish the report
time with complete data time with incomplete data on time with incomplete data

COOPERATION

The members of the group are very Some members of the group are not
The members are not cooperative.
cooperative cooperative

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 QUIZ
TIME

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 1. It refers to critical approach that analyzes, interpret, or
evaluate the inherent features of a text. These features
include not only grammar and syntax but also literary
devices such as meter and tropes.
A. Feminism C. Marxism
B. Formalism D. Structuralism

2. Formalist criticism pays attention on each element of

drama, EXCEPT.
A. Character C. Symbol
B. Form
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 3. Formalist criticism pays attention on each element of
fiction, EXCEPT.
A. Character C. plot
B. setting D. Rhyme

4. Formalist criticism pays attention on each element of

poetry, EXCEPT.
A. Imagery C. Symbol
B. Form D. Theme

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 5. The formalist perspective began in Russia in the
early_____.

A. 1920 C. 1970
B. 1968 D. 1900

6. The formalist perspective concentrates on the _____of

the literature itself.
A. Character C. plot
B. Form D. Rhyme
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 7. Formalism allows the reader to analyze a literary piece
with compete _____.
A. Affection C. Obsession
B. Objectivity D. Negativity

8. He said stated that “Formalist criticism regards

literature as a unique form of human knowledge that needs
to be examined on its own terms”
A. Aeron C. kennedy
B. Shakespeare
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 Activity

9 . This are the question meant to be answered by a

formalist critic.
A. Auxiliary questions C. Guide questions
B. Critical questions D. Random Questions

10. Formalism not concern itself of the follow of the

following, EXCEPT.
A. Background C. Politics
B. Social D. Symbolism
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 ASSIGMENT
Direction: Read and Analyze the summary of the piece “A Rose for
Emily”. Answer the following question. Your answer should be 3
paragraphs 5 sentences each paragraph.

Is symbolism is found in the poem? How?

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 ASSIGMENT

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 End of slide
Thank you for
listening!

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