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Coñotations by Paolo Manalo
Coñotations by Paolo Manalo
Coñotations by Paolo Manalo
Listicles have become very popular online and majority of online media
outlets use them for their articles. You could say that Paolo Manolo used
the same format to craft his poem Coñotations. Whether he did it this way
intentionally or otherwise, the fact remains that the poem has the form
and style of a listicle. It's basically a listicle in poem form.
1. What does "suitcase fever" mean? This probably means attachment. The
person may be too attached to someone the way he's attached to a
suitcase.
2. Are all the speakers in the poem men? It does sound like that. The
words and phrases in the poem are mostly male lingo.
verb) also helped in giving more meaning to the text. Transliteration also
functions as a device to give the readers an idea that the poem has a playful
mood and of course the interest will eventually make them interested in the
whole text. For instance, the fragment “…we know how to look where we
writer also wants to tap the readers prior knowledge of what the line is about
G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6
ANALYSIS/ 20% 19 19 19 19 19 17
ANSWERS
GROUP 10 9 9 10 10 8
PRESENTATION
COMPREHENSION 15 14 9
TOTAL 45