I LOVE YOU.

I LOVE YOU!
ILOVEYOU
I LOVE. YOU
I LO VE YOU.
I LO/VE YOU.
Now, you try.
FORMALISM
THE ANATOMY OF THE LITERATURE
 FORMALISM IN A
NUTSHELL
This Russian school of approach
revolves around the idea that any
literary text is autonomous -
beyond the external influences of
the text.
 T O N O M Y
A U ORE SC IENTIF
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I C.

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“My mama don't like you and she likes
everyone.”
“My mama don't like you and she likes
everyone.”
INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT GENDER ISSUES

TEXT
HISTORY READER
AUTHOR CULTURE
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT
INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT GENDER ISSUES

TEXT
HISTORY READER
AUTHOR CULTURE
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT
 VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR/SYNTAX LITERARY DEVICES

TEXT
FORM STYLE
SYMBOLS IMAGERY
FIGURES OF SPEECH TEXT COHERENCE
DEVIATION
 DEVIATION
GRAMMAR/SYNTAX
TEXT COHERENCE
The FORM is PART of its MEANING.
They cannot be separated.
What do you notice?
DEFAMILIARIZATION
DEFAMILIARIZATION
DEFAMILIARIZATION
WHAT IF

A HUNTER?
RIZAL IS
 DEFAMILIARIZATION
Language is used in such a way that
ordinary and familiar objects are made to
look different.
It is a process of transformation
where language asserts its power to affect
our perception.

Make the familiar unfamiliar

Make the familiar unfamiliar.
BUGTONG
LUMULUHA, WALANG MATA.
LUMALAKAD, WALANG PAA.
BALLPENS
Dalawang magkaibigan,
may talim ang tiyan;
matagal nang
nagkakagatan, di pa rin
nagkakasakitan.
GUNTING
 Lahat sila dumaan sa akin, wala
akong pinagdaanan kahit kanino.
Lahat nagtatanong tungkol sa
akin, hindi ako nagtatanong
tungkol sa kahit kanino.
KALYE
If you eat me, my sender will
eat you. What am I?
FISH HOOK
What cannot be used until it
is broken?
AN EGG/EGGS
 What belongs to you but
others use it more than you
do?
 HUGOT/
PICK UP LINES
 Theory in Inquiry

What are the features

of the text?
 VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR/SYNTAX LITERARY DEVICES

TEXT
FORM STYLE
SYMBOLS IMAGERY
FIGURES OF SPEECH TEXT COHERENCE
DEVIATION
 KEY QUESTIONS
• How does the work use imagery to develop its own symbols?
• What is the quality of the work's organic unity In other words, does how the work is put together
reflect what it is?
• How are the various parts of the work interconnected?
• What kind of language does the author use to describe, narrate, explain, or otherwise create the
world of the literary work? More specifically, what images, similes, metaphors, symbols appear
in the work? What is their function? What meanings do they convey?
• How do paradox, irony, ambiguity, and tension work in the text?
• What is the relationship of each part of the work to the work as a whole? How are the parts
related to one another?
 KEY QUESTIONS
• How do these parts and their collective whole contribute to or not
contribute to the aesthetic quality of the work?
• How does the author resolve apparent contradictions within the work?
• What does the form of the work say about its content?
• Is there a central or focal passage that can be said to sum up the entirety
of the work?
• How do the rhythms and/or rhyme schemes of a poem contribute to the
meaning or effect of the piece?
What do you notice?
onomatopoeia