SURVEY ON AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE

MS. LORRINE C. GARCIA

Fiction is an
imaginative recreation
and re-creation of life.
are the representation of a human
being; persons involved in a
conflict.
• What the character do along with the
circumstances in which they do it?
• How the characters are described?
• What the characters say and think?
• What other characters say about them?
• What the author says about them?
• Round Character - is a dynamic
character the recognize changes in the
circumstances.
• Flat Character - is also known as the
stock or the stereotype character that
does not grow and develop.
• Protagonist – hero/heroine
• Antagonist – a foil to the protagonist
• Deuteroganist – second in importance
• Fringe – one who is destroyed by his
inner conflict
• Typical or minor characters
the locale (place) or period (time) in which
the action of a short story, play, novel or
the motion picture takes place (also known
as the background of the story).
the struggle or complication involving the
characters, the opposition i persons or
forces upon which the action depends in
drama or fiction
• Internal Conflict – occurs when the protagonist
struggles within himself or herself.
• Interpersonal Conflict – pits the protagonist
against someone else.
• External Conflict – happens when the
protagonist is in conflict with the values of his or
her society.
a causally related sequence of events; what
happens as a result of the main conflict is
presented in a structure format; the
sequence of events which involves the
character in conflict
• Narrative Order – the sequence of events is called the
narrative order.
• Chronological – the most common type of narrative
order in children’s books.
• Flashback – occurs when the author narrates an event
that took place before the current time of the story.
• Time lapse – occurs when the story skips a period of
time that seems unusual compared to the rest of the
plot.
determines who tells the story, it
identifies the narrator of the
story
 Omniscient
First Person the writer-narrator
– the writer Third Person sees all; he can see into
uses the – the writer- the minds of
pronoun “I” narrator is a characters and even
report everyone’s
character in
innermost thoughts.
the story.
the atmosphere or emotional effect generated
by the words, images, situations in a Literary
work (the emotional ambience of the work), for
example, melancholy, joyous, tense, oppressive
and so on.
stand for something other than
themselves, they bring to mind not their
own concrete qualities, but the idea or
obstruction that is associated with them.
 are usually characterized by concrete
qualities rather than abstract meaning:
these appeal to the senses of taste,
smell, feel, sound, or sight.
the central or dominating
idea in a literary work
Poetry is derived from a Greek word
poesis meaning “making or creating.”
Poetry is a kind of language that says it
more intensely than ordinary language
does.
is revealed through the
meaning of words, images
and symbols.
is the result of a
combination of elements.
a. tone color – alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, repetition, anaphora.
b. rhythm – ordered recurrent alteration of strong and weak elements in the
flow of the sound and silence: duple, triple, running or common rhyme.
c. meter – stress, duration, or number of syllables per line, fixed metrical pattern,
or a verse form: quantitative, syllabic, accentual and accentual syllabic.
d. rhyme scheme – formal arrangement of rhymes in stanza or the whole poem.
refers to (1) arrangement of words, and lines
to fit together, and (2) the organization of
the parts to form a whole.
• word order – natural and unnatural arrangement of
words
• ellipsis – omitting some words for economy and effect
• punctuation – abundance or lack of punctuation marks
• shape – contextual and visual designs: jumps, omission
of spaces, capitalization, lower case.
Tone is the poet's attitude toward the
subject matter or the reader, while mood
is the emotional atmosphere created by
the poem.

Choose (1) story and make an analysis.
• The World is an apple by Alberto S.
Florentino
• The Wedding Dance by Amador T.
Analyze your chosen short
story by using the following
elements:
Characters
Setting
Plot (Exposition, Rising
Action, Climax, Falling Action,
Resolution)
Conflict (internal and

Daguio external)
Point-of-View
• Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez
Mood
• Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Symbolism
Villa Theme
Moral