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TERMS Allegory DEFINITION An allegory is an extended metaphor, especially a story in which fictional characters and actions are used to understand and express aspects of concepts relating to human existence. (Jennifer Gonzales (noun) 1.A short and interesting or amusing story about a real incident or person. 2. An account considered as unreliable of hearsay. (Arianne Tala) Discourse is defined as an ensemble of ideas, concepts, and categories through which meaning is given to social and physical phenomena, and which is produced and reproduced through an identifiable set of practices. (Stellabae) Description tells what things are like according to the five senses. A descriptive essay, or a descriptive passage in a story, tells how things look, sound, feel, taste, and smell. Nouns and adjectives can show what a person, place, or thing are like in their material aspects. But description often tries to do more than to enable readers to visualize characters, settings, and actions. It may also try to evoke a mood or atmosphere, and this is aided by the use of simile and metaphor. (Stellabae) The purpose of argument is to convince through logic. An argument is based on a belief or opinion that the writer holds as true. The statement of this opinion is called a "thesis." It is usually presented explicitly near the beginning of the argument. To convince readers that his opinion is true, the writer must build a case to support the thesis. Building a case requires presenting reasons for accepting the thesis, and then presenting evidence to support the reasons. If the reader accepts the reasons and the evidence, then he should agree with the thesis. (Stellabae) Exposition- at the beginning of a story, novel, or other narrative, the part of tr plot line that sets the scene by introducing the characters, setting, and situation. (Jenelle Rabago) Essay Formal Humorous Informal Narration - writing or speech that tells a story (Jenelle Rabago) Essay - a short literary composition on a particular theme or topic, usually in prose and generally. (Yohan Park) Formal essay - is an essay dealing seriously with a subject, characterized by careful organization, formal diction, and sentence structure. Many essays on literature are formal, keeping the focus on the literature discussed rather than the writer's personal response. (Yohan Park) Humorous Essay is a type of personal essay or familiar essay that has the primary aim of amusing readers rather than informing or persuading them. (Yohan Park)

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Discourse Argumentation Description Exposition Narration

Fable Genre Novel Novella

Informal Essay - is usually brief and is written as if the writer is talking informally to the reader about some topic, using a conversational style and a personal or humorous tone. In an informal essay, the writer might digress from the topic at hand, or express some amusing, startling, or absurd opinions. Thus, an informal essay reveals as much about the personality of its author as it does about its subject. ( Yohan Park ) n. a feigned or invented story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse (Janica Bamo) A category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, style, or content. Some current genres are the novel, short story, essay, epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, and lyrics. (Christian Penafiel) Novella - a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel or a long short story (John Edward Gopez) n. a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. (Simon Tan) *ONE DAY LATE*

Parable a type of literature that is written expression without a formal pattern of verse or meter (Stephanie Abalos) Noun Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. (Mariel Ruiz)

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TERM Allusion DEFINITION Allusion: reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events (Nari Kim) a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply. The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition. (Al Jerrome Dayo) *FOUR DAYS LATE* Euphemism Hyperbole Euphemism is the substitution of a soft agreeable expression instead of one that is harsh or unpleasant. (Bryant Santos) Hyperbole- noun. extravagant exaggeration] early 15c., from L. hyperbole, from Gk. hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," related to hyperballein "to throw over or beyond," (Jewel Lagman) An understatement; especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (Aria Perez-Theisen) * FIVE DAYS LATE* Metaphor Onomatopoeia A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable (Jamie Guzman) n. The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.(Rey John Flores) attribution of personal qualities; especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form (Lora Arino) *ONE DAY LATE* Simile Symbol a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose." (Alisha Nueva) A symbol is a word or object that stands for another word or object. The object or word can be seen with the eye or not visible. (Louis Dulana) A synecdoche is a literary device that uses a part of something to refer to the whole. It is somewhat rhetorical in nature, where the entire object is represented by way of a faction of it or a faction of the object is symbolized by the full. (Mizpah Mansanao)

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Synecdoche Understatement