21st Century Literature Reviewer PDF

REVIEWER IN 21^ST^ CENTURY LITERATURE **Memorial de la vida cristiana en lengua tagala**- Published in 1605, this book contains basic Catholic doctrines. **Dead Stars**- considered to be the first modern Filipino short story **The Canterbury** Tales- written in Middle English **Ballad-** short s...

REVIEWER IN 21^ST^ CENTURY LITERATURE **Memorial de la vida cristiana en lengua tagala**- Published in 1605, this book contains basic Catholic doctrines. **Dead Stars**- considered to be the first modern Filipino short story **The Canterbury** Tales- written in Middle English **Ballad-** short simple narrative poem is composed to be sung **Legend** - This story is presented as history but is unlikely to be true **Folktale**- This story is passed down from generation to generation, and it becomes part of a tradition of a community. **Kundiman**- It is a Filipino love song traditionally sung by a man wooing the woman of his dreams **Myth**- This story is told to explain a belief, a practice, or a natural phenomenon. **Context -** referred to as the background of the text including biographical, linguistic, and sociocultural factors surrounding it **Onomatopoeia and alliteration**- Figures of sound **Alliteration**-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of the adjacent or close connected words. **Thematic-** deals with the analysis of the theme **Artistry**- quality of literature appeals to our sense of beauty **Suggestiveness**- the quality of literature associated with the emotional power of literature **Prose**- making a discourse by using a sentence that usually form a paragraph to express ideas, feeling and actions **Poetry-** rhythmic imaginative language expressing the invention, thought, imagination, passion and insight of the human soul **Literary techniques**- literary devices are used on purpose by a writer in his work to convey its meaning. **Stage directions**- the statements that tell the actors how they should look, move, and speak in a drama **Elements of drama-** Character - are the one to performed an act of the play. Plot -what happens in the play theme- refers to the action in the play dialogue- a word that written by the playwright and spoken by the characters music/rhyme -actors voice as they speak spectacles- visual elements of the play **literary elements-** are essential to a story as writers utilize these components to serve as the structure of and to develop a story. **Catharsis**- derived from a Greek word which means "purgation" or "purification **Story**- Characterized by beauty of expression and form and by the universality of intellectual and emotional appeal - **Study the 21^st^ century literary genres**