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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) 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) 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 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) 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 )

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Discourse Argumentation Description Exposition Narration

Essay Formal Humorous Informal

Fable Genre Novel Novella Parable

n. a feigned or invented story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse (Janica Bamo) 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* Prose Verse 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)

FIGURES OF SPEECH
TERM Allusion Apostrophe Euphemism 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) 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 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) 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)

Hyperbole Litotes Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Symbol

Synecdoche

Understatement