English 13 Module 2

MODULE IN ENGLISH 13:
ST. ANTHONY COLLEGE SURVEY OF PHILIPPINE

CALAPAN CITY, INC. LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
MODULE II
DIVISION AND GENRES OF LITERATURE
MODULE DESCRIPTOR:
This module covers the nature, essence, functions, and significance of
literature. It includes different activities that will enhance the student’s
knowledge after the discussions.
NOMINAL DURATION:
This module’s timeframe is from September 7-11, 2020.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this module you MUST be able to:
1. Identify the division and genres of literature.
2. Explore the different examples of genres of literature.
3. Determine the subdivision and subgenres of literature.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Identified the division and genres of literature.
2. Different examples of genres of literatures are explored.
3. Determined the subdivision and subgenres of literature.
4. Defined each terms related in the study of division and genres of
literature
5. Searched the books, and other resources for examples of the genres
and division of literature.
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LEARNING OUTCOME # 1 IDENTIFY THE DIVISION AND GENRES OF

LITERATURE
CONTENTS:
 Two main division of Literature
 Literary Genres.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
1. Identified the division and genres of literature.
2. Different examples of genres of literatures are explored.
3. Determined the subdivision and subgenres of literature.
4. Defined each terms related in the study of division and genres of
literature
5. Searched the books, and other resources for examples of the genres
and division of literature.
CONDITIONS:
Learners must be provided with the following:
1. WORKPLACE LOCATION
2. EQUIPMENT
- Computer/ Cellphone (with Internet Connection)
3. TOOLS, ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES
- Notebook
- Paper
- Pen
4. LEARNING RESOURCES
- Internet Connection or Book Suggested by the Teacher
- Module in Language and Literature Assessment
ASSESSMENT METHODS:
1. Written Test
2. Portfolio
3. Performance Test
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LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Learning Outcome 1
IDENTIFY THE DIVISION AND GENRES OF LITERATURE.
Learning Activities Special Instructions

Read Information Sheet no. 2.1 After reading the Information Sheet,
DIVISION AND GENRES OF answer Self Check no. 2.1 to
LITERATURE ensure knowledge in Key Concepts
Compare the answers to the answer
Answer Self Check no. 2.1
key.
After the Self-Check, reflect on the
topic studied by accomplishing the
Task Sheet: Divided by Two. This
task will exhibit your understanding
Accomplish Task Sheet no. 2.1 on the topics studied.
The teacher will use Performance

Criteria Checklist 2.1 to assess your
output.
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INFORMATION SHEET 2.1
Learning Objectives
After reading this information sheet, you must be able to:
1. Identify the division and genres of literature.
2. Explore the different examples genres of literature.
3. Determine the subdivision and subgenres of literature.
DIVISIONS OF LITERATURE
 Poetry may or may not use rhyme, as ordinarily it does not in blank and
free verse.
 Prose does not make use of rhyme at all.
 Both prose and poetry can stir thee motion as well as the intellect.
 Both can convey information as well as pleasure.
Prose
 It is generally concerned with the presentation of an idea, concept or

point of view in a more ordinary and leisurely manner.
 The purpose of prose is to furnish information, instruction, or
enlightenment.
 It appeals to the intellect.
Types of Prose
 Prose Drama – a drama in prose form. It consists entirely dialogues in

prose, and is meant to be act on stage.
 Essay – a short literary composition which is expository in nature. The
author shares his thoughts feelings, experiences, or observations on
some aspects of life that has interested him.
 Prose Fiction – something invented, imagined, or feigned to be true)
 Novel – a long fiction narrative with a complicated plot. It may have
one main plot and one or more sub plots that develop with the main
plot. It is made up of chapters.
 Short Story – a fictitious narrative compressed into one unit of time,
place and action. It deals with single character interest, a single
emotion or series of emotions called forth by a single. It is distinguished
from the novel by its compression.
 Biography and Autobiography
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o Biography – a story of a certain person’s life written by another

who knows the subject well.
o Autobiography – a written account of man’s life written by
himself.
o Letter – a written message which displays aspects of an
author’s physiological make-up not immediately apparent in his
more public writings. It is a prose form which by the force of its
style and the importance of its statements becomes an object of
interest in its own right.
o Diary – a daily written record of account of the writer’s own
experiences, thoughts, activities or observations.
o Journal – a magazine or periodical especially of serious or
learned nature. It is the reflection, opinion of a read material.
POETRY
 Poetry may be described as rhythmic imaginative language expressing

invention, thought, imagination, taste, passion, and insight of the
human soul.
 Its purpose is “enthrallment.”
 It expresses a strong emotion or a lofty thought compressed and
intense utterance.
 The main purpose of poetry is to provide pleasure and delight.
 It appeals to thee motion and imagination.
William Wordsworth describes it as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful

feelings.”
Characteristics of Poetry
A. RHYTHM
 Rhythm is the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed, long and

short, or high-pitched and low-pitched syllables creating a pattern in the
lines of a poem.
 This gives the poem its melodious quality and makes it grand, solemn
and majestic; sonorous and full; slow and mournful; rapid and light, etc.
1. Meter (Organized Rhythm)
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 Meter is the measured pattern or grouping of syllables, called

metric foot, according to accent and length.
 A group of metric feet forms a poetic line or verse.
 A group of poetic lines or verses is called stanza.
According to the placement of accent, there is a variety of patterns or feet of

which the four basics are.
 The Iamb (Iambic foot)

 The Anapest (Anapestic foot)
 The Trochus (Trochaic foot)
 The Dactyl (Dactylic foot)
 According to the number of feet in a poetic line, the principal verse

lengths are: monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter,
hexameter, heptameter, octameter, and nonameter.
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 Scansion is the system by which a poem is described according to its

metrical structure by identifying its accents and verse lengths.
 Free verse is the natural flow of cadenced rhythms as created by the
poet
 Blank verse is unrhymed verse
2. Rhyme and other “sound devices”
 Rhyme is the regular recurrence of similar sounds usually at the end of

lines or also within one line.
 The pattern or sequence in which the rhyme words occur in a stanza or
poem is called the rhyme scheme.
 To find the rhyme scheme, the same letter of the alphabet is usually
assigned to each similar sound in a stanza.
B. Imagery
 Imagery refers to expressions evocative of objects of sensuous appeal.

It may be in the form of direct description or may be figurative, which
latter involves the use of figures of speech and symbols.
C. Sense or Meaning
 A poem must say something.

 It must enlighten, reveal a truth, open new vistas, give new
perceptions, enable to understand the world around us more deeply,
and see things beyond the physical senses.
How do we try to understand a poem?
 When reading a poem, it would help much to look up the meaning of

unfamiliar words; to keep in mind that a poem is never purely literal;
and to remember that the poet means and feels more than what he
actually says.
 Imagine yourself in the situation of the poet and try to see and feel as
he does, given free rein to your imagination and feelings, and use all of
your life experience to enlighten you so that the poem can acquire
meaning for you.
Kinds of Poetry
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Lyric Poetry
 It is the “utterance of the human heart in poetic form.” It is described as

“brief and subjective, marked by imagination, melody and emotion, and
creating a single unified expression
Popular types of lyric poetry:
2. Simple lyric
3. Song
4. Sonnet
5. Elegy
6. Ode
 Simple lyric includes those lyrical poems that do not properly belong
under any of the other types of lyrics.
 Song is a short lyric poem which has a particularly melodious quality
and is intended primarily to be sung, or can easily be set to music.
 Sonnet is a lyric of fourteen lines with a formal rhyme scheme or
pattern.
o Types:
Italian or Petrarchan, named after Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, consists of

an octave which develops the theme, followed by a sextet which recapitulates
the idea. The octave has a rhyme scheme of abba abba and the sextet, cde
cde orcdcdcd, or some other combination.
Sonnet 5 (Francesco Petrarch)
I find no peace, and all my war is done;
I fear and hope, I burn and freeze likewise;
I fly above the wind, yet cannot rise;
And nought I have, yet all the world I seize on;
That looseth, nor locketh, holdeth me in prison,
And holds me not, yet can I’scape no wise;
Nor lets me live, nor die, at my devise.
And yet of death it giveth none occasion.
Without eyes I see, and without tongue I plain:
I wish to perish, yet I ask for health;
I love another, and yet I hate myself;
I feed in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain;
Lo, thus displeaseth me both death and life,
And my delight is causer of my grief.
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English, Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet, named after William

Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I, is divided into three quatrains plus a
couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. The idea is developed in
the three quatrains, and is summarized and reinforced in the closing couplet.
Sonnet XXIX (William Shakespeare)

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself, and curse my fate.
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur’d like him, like him with friends possest,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising
Haply I think on thee, and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Spenserian Sonnet, named after the English poet Edmund Spenser, is

divided into three quatrains and a closing couplet with a rhyme scheme of
abab bcbc cdcd ee.
 Elegy is a lamentation or an expression of mourning for the dead. By

its very nature, the poem’s mood is solemn and sorrowful, yet it usually
contains suggestions of hope and faith to allay the sorrow.
 Ode is the most majestic type of lyric poetry. It is exalted in tone and
expresses lofty praise for some person, event, object or idea. It is
elaborately designed and is formal in structure and content.
Narrative Poetry
 It tells a story following a chronology of events.

 Types:
1. Ballad is a short simple narrative poem composed to be sung, and
altered as it was orally transmitted from generation to generation until it
was written down much later.
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2. Metrical Tale relates real or imaginary events in simple straightforward

language. It can choose from a wide range of subjects, characters, life
experiences, emotional situations, and may project a mood that is serious or
light. It is usually concerned with ordinary events.
3. Metrical Romance is a long rambling love story in verse revolving around
the adventures of knights and lords and their highborn ladies during the age of
chivalry. Heavily flavored with romance, fantastic events, supernatural
occurrences, magic and the ideals of the medieval period such as honor,
truth, courage, justice, and reverence for woman, the story is often rich in
allegory and permits a great play of fancy and the conflict between the forces
of good and of evil.
4. Epic is a long majestic narrative poem which tells of the exploits of a
traditional hero and the development of a nation.
Characteristics of an epic:
 the story is broad in scope and theme; its subject matter is often a
mixture of legend, history, myth, religion, and tradition
 the action is grand and on a huge scale, the supernatural element is
highly pronounced and the characters are larger-than-life (gods, demi-
gods and highborn mortals)-the source of conflict involves elemental
passions; the events center on a prodigious struggle or effort to
achieve a great purpose or carry out a great task against powerful
forces
 the plot consists of numerous episodes and sub
 plots peopled by numerous characters
 the plot often begins in media res and the story is completed by a
series of flashbacks
 the style is solemn and majestic in keeping with the grandeur of the
subject matter
Dramatic Poetry
 It has elements that closely relate it to drama, either because it is

written in some kind of dramatic form, or uses a dramatic technique. It
may also suggest a story, but there is more emphasis on character
rather than on the narrative.
Forms of dramatic poetry:
 Dramatic Monologue presents the speech of a single character who

addresses one or more persons who are present and who are listening
to the speaker, but remain silent.
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 Soliloquy is a passage spoken by a speaker in a poem or by a

character in a play, except that there is no one present to hear him.
 Character Sketch is a poem in which “the writer is concerned less with
matters of story, complete or implied, than he is with arousing
sympathy, antagonism, or merely interest for an individual.”
LITERARY GENRES
 Genre is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or

entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on
some set of stylistic criteria.
 Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are
invented and the use of old ones is discontinued.
 Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and
recombining these conventions.
 Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek
literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and
calculated style that related to the theme of the story.
1. POETRY
 Poetry  is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic
qualities of language.
Example:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Different Kinds of Poetry

Lyric Poetry
 A comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker

presents a state of mind or an emotional state.
 It has 4 kinds:
o Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the
dead.
o Ode - a poem in which a person expresses a strong feeling of
love or respect for someone or something.
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o Sonnet - a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter,

which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a
tightly structured thematic organization.
o Dramatic Monologue - a poem in the form of a speech or
narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker
inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing
a particular situation or series of events.
Examples of Lyric Poetry
Elegy O Captain! My Captain!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Ode
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by
William Wordsworth.
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Sonnet (Sonnet Number 18 by William Shakespeare)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
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By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Melodic Drama (T.S. Eliot's The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,)
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and,
'Do I dare?'
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
(They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!')
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
(They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin!')
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.'
Narrative Poetry
 a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a
narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in
metered verse.
 It has 3 kinds:
o Epics - A long narrative poem written in elevated style, in which
heroes of great historical or legendary importance perform
valorous deeds. (e.g. Beowulf)
o Mock-epic - are typically satires or parodies that mock common
Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. (e.g
Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock)
o Ballad - a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having
been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of
the folk culture. (The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939))
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Descriptive and Didactic Poetry
 Both lyric and narrative poetry can contain lengthy and detailed
descriptions (descriptive poetry) or scenes in direct speech (dramatic
poetry).
 The purpose of a didactic poem is primarily to teach something.
Descriptive Poetry
Smoke
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
Didactic Poetry (An excerpt from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander

Pope)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence,
To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense:
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
PROSE
Prose
 Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical

structure.
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 e.g.
“The woods look lovely against the setting darkness and as I gaze into
the mysterious depths of the forest, I feel like lingering here longer.
However, I have pending appointments to keep and much distance to
cover before I settle in for the night or else I will be late for all of them.”
Kinds of Prose
Fiction
 Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that
describes imaginary events and people.
 There are 2 kinds of Fiction literature:
o Realistic Fiction - is a genre consisting of stories that could
have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable
setting.
o Fantastic Fiction -a type of fiction that ideologically and
aesthetically subordinates reality to imagination by depicting a
world of marvels that is contrasted to everyday reality and to
accepted views of what is credible.
Non – Fiction
 Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such
as biography or history.
 There are 4 kinds of Non – fiction literature:
o Biographies - is a detailed description of a person's life. It
involves more than just the basic facts like education, work,
relationships, and death, but also portrays a subject's
experience of these life events.
o Autobiographies - is a written account of the life of a person
written by that person.
o Essays - is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's
own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with
those of an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
o Articles - a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper,
magazine, or other publication.
o Humor - situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be
humorous
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Drama
 A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage.

 e.g
Miranda Priestly: Do you know why I hired you? I always hire the
same girl- stylish, slender, of course... worships the magazine. But so
often, they turn out to be- I don't know- disappointing and, um... stupid.
So you, with that impressive résumé and the big speech about your so-
called work ethic- I, um- I thought you would be different. I said to
myself, go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl. I had hope.
My God. I live on it. Anyway, you ended up disappointing me more
than, um- more than any of the other silly girls. - Meryl Streep (The
Devil Wears Prada, 2006)
Kinds of Drama
Comedy
 Comedies are lighter in tone than ordinary writers, and provide a happy
conclusion. The intention of dramatists in comedies is to make their
audience laugh. Hence, they use quaint circumstances, unusual
characters and witty remarks.
Tragedy
 Tragic dramas use darker themes such as disaster, pain and death.
Protagonists often have a tragic flaw—a characteristic that leads them
to their downfall.
Farce
 Generally, a farce is a nonsensical genre of drama, which often

overacts or engages slapstick humor.
 It’s basically, what you call a “Parody”
Melodrama
Melodrama is an exaggerated drama, which is sensational and appeals
directly to the senses of audience. Just like the farce, the characters are of
single dimension and simple, or may be stereotyped.
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Fantasy
 It is a complete fictional work where characters virtually display

supernatural skills. It is more appealing to children as fairies, angels,
superheroes, etc., are embedded in the plot. Use of magic, pseudo-
science, horror, and spooky themes through various kinds of technical
devices create a perfect world of fantasy. The modern version of drama
incorporates a great deal of special effects.
Musical
 In musical drama, the dramatists not only tell their story through acting
and dialogue, nevertheless through dance as well as music. Often the
story may be comedic, though it may also involve serious subjects.
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SELF CHECK 2.1

I. IDENTIFICATION
Instructions: Read each item carefully. Identify the correct answer for each
number. Write on the space provided.
____________1. It is a long fiction narrative with a complicated plot..

____________2. It is generally concerned with the presentation of an idea,
concept or point of view in a more ordinary and leisurely manner.
____________3. A fictitious narrative compressed into one unit of time, place
and action.
____________4. It may be described as rhythmic imaginative language
expressing invention, thought, imagination, taste, passion, and insight of the
human soul.
____________5. The regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed, long
and short, or high-pitched and low-pitched syllables creating a pattern in the
lines of a poem.
____________6. Refers to expressions evocative of objects of sensuous
appeal
____________7. A lamentation or an expression of mourning for the dead
____________8. It is exalted in tone and expresses lofty praise for some
person, event, object or idea.
____________9. A long rambling love story in verse revolving around the
adventures of knights and lords and their highborn ladies during the age of
chivalry.
____________10. Presents the speech of a single character who addresses
one or more persons who are present and who are listening to the speaker,
but remain silent
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____________11. It has elements that closely relate it to drama, either

because it is written in some kind of dramatic form, or uses a dramatic
technique
____________12. A type of fiction that ideologically and aesthetically
subordinates reality to imagination by depicting a world of marvels that is
contrasted to everyday reality and to accepted views of what is credible
____________13. Lighter in tone than ordinary writers, and provide a happy
conclusion.
____________14. Dramas that use darker themes such as disaster, pain and
death. Protagonists often have a tragic flaw—a characteristic that leads them
to their downfall.
____________15. The dramatists not only tell their story through acting and
dialogue, nevertheless through dance as well as music.
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Task Sheet 2.1
Title: Divided by Two
Performance Objectives:
Now that you learned a lot from the topics discussed you should be
able to write a reflective essay discussing about your own belief on the topic
stated. You should be able to impart own experiences as examples to
support your opinion. While you’re on it, include on your reflection the its
significance to your life and others.
Supplies: Notebook/ Paper, Pen
Equipment: PC and Printer (optional)
Steps/Procedure:
1. Search more about the topics discussed. Harvest ideas so you can have
better understanding regarding the past topics.
2. After gathering data, be guided by the following questions:

What have you learned from this module?
3. Your reflection must have at least four paragraphs with five sentences
each.
Assessment Method:
Performance Criteria Checklist
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Performance Criteria Checklist 2.1

Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
To what extent did your output satisfy the
following?
The response/solution is complete and appropriate.
Ideas are presented accurately and orderly.
Supporting details and examples are sufficient.
Highly influential and realistic due to the use of factual
details.
Grammar and word choice are correct and
appropriate.
The output presented is original and free of
plagiarism.
TOTAL (Highest= 30 pts.)
14 and
29-30 pts. 25-28 pts. 20-24 pts. 15-19 pts.
below
Needs
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are satisfied are satisfied are satisfied. satisfied. The objectives
well. The well. The The output output also are fulfilled.
output also output also also satisfied doesn’t The output
satisfied all satisfied well some of satisfy well also doesn’t
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MODULE IN ENGLISH 13:

ST. ANTHONY COLLEGE SURVEY OF PHILIPPINE

LEARNING OUTCOME # 1 IDENTIFY THE DIVISION AND GENRES OF

Learning Activities Special Instructions

The teacher will use Performance

INFORMATION SHEET 2.1

 It is generally concerned with the presentation of an idea, concept or

 Prose Drama – a drama in prose form. It consists entirely dialogues in

o Biography – a story of a certain person’s life written by another

 Poetry may be described as rhythmic imaginative language expressing

William Wordsworth describes it as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful

 Rhythm is the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed, long and

1. Meter (Organized Rhythm)

 Meter is the measured pattern or grouping of syllables, called

According to the placement of accent, there is a variety of patterns or feet of

 The Iamb (Iambic foot)

 According to the number of feet in a poetic line, the principal verse

 Scansion is the system by which a poem is described according to its

2. Rhyme and other “sound devices”

 Rhyme is the regular recurrence of similar sounds usually at the end of

 Imagery refers to expressions evocative of objects of sensuous appeal.

 A poem must say something.

How do we try to understand a poem?

 When reading a poem, it would help much to look up the meaning of

 It is the “utterance of the human heart in poetic form.” It is described as

Italian or Petrarchan, named after Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, consists of

English, Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet, named after William

Sonnet XXIX (William Shakespeare)

Spenserian Sonnet, named after the English poet Edmund Spenser, is

 Elegy is a lamentation or an expression of mourning for the dead. By

 It tells a story following a chronology of events.

2. Metrical Tale relates real or imaginary events in simple straightforward

 It has elements that closely relate it to drama, either because it is

 Dramatic Monologue presents the speech of a single character who

 Soliloquy is a passage spoken by a speaker in a poem or by a

 Genre is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or

Different Kinds of Poetry

 A comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker

o Sonnet - a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter,

Sonnet (Sonnet Number 18 by William Shakespeare)

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

Descriptive and Didactic Poetry

Didactic Poetry (An excerpt from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander

 Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical

 A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage.

 Generally, a farce is a nonsensical genre of drama, which often

 It is a complete fictional work where characters virtually display

SELF CHECK 2.1

____________1. It is a long fiction narrative with a complicated plot..

____________11. It has elements that closely relate it to drama, either

Task Sheet 2.1

Title: Divided by Two

Supplies: Notebook/ Paper, Pen

Equipment: PC and Printer (optional)

2. After gathering data, be guided by the following questions:

Performance Criteria Checklist 2.1

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