Pointers to review for the first quarter examination:

1. Conventions of literature
2. Precolonial Period
-Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale in Biag ni Lam-Ang
3. Escapism- is a literary technique used by Francisco Baltazar in writing Ibong Adarna
Epistolary- is a literary technique used by the author in writing Urbana and Feliza or The
Correspondence between Two Maidens.
Epistolay- a literary work in the form of a letter
4. Text and Authors of the Regions
5. Literary forms in Philippine Literature during the Spanish Colonial Period
6. Literary forms in Philippine Literature during the American and Japanese Colonial Period
- Sa mga Piging in Dakilang Asal by Aurelio Tolentino
- Footnote to Youth
- How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife by Manuel Arguilla and the Element of Local
Color
- During the American colonization, Filipino writers used drama as an expression of revolt
against the colonizers
- Foreshadowing – is a literary device used in the story to give a sign of something to come.
7. Postwar Literature
-Philippine Literature During Martial Law: Protest lit., Circumvention Lit., Proletarian Lit, and
Prison Lit.
- Historicism or traditional historical criticism is a sociocultural approach that deals with the
history that influenced literature writing. We apply this in national literature- literature that
reflects the history and culture of a country, usually created by its local writers. We can also
apply this literary criticism in works with a political undertone like “Dekada ‘70” by Luwalhati
Bautista

8. 21st Century Literary Genres

- mobile phone textula and tanaga

- Contributive to create tensions within the poem:

1. A Caesura is a pause, normally signaled by a strong syntactic break underscored by
punctuation such as a comma, semi-colon, colon or a period that occurs somewhere other
than the end of the line, most often in the middle.
2. Enjambment -occurs when the line end is not coincident with the syntax and the
thought runs over into the next line.
3. Elision makes two syllables into one to conform to metrical expectation.