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Weekly Learning Activity Sheet Solomon P. Lozada National High School 21 Century Literature From The Philippines and The World 2 Quarter - Week 4

The document is a weekly learning activity sheet that focuses on analyzing literary devices, techniques, and figures of speech. It provides objectives for students to identify figures of speech, analyze them in poems, and understand the importance of international literature. It then defines and provides examples of various literary devices and figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, irony and more. Students are assigned activities to identify these techniques in a sample poem and compare themselves to a non-human subject using simile.

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Weekly Learning Activity Sheet Solomon P. Lozada National High School 21 Century Literature From The Philippines and The World 2 Quarter - Week 4

The document is a weekly learning activity sheet that focuses on analyzing literary devices, techniques, and figures of speech. It provides objectives for students to identify figures of speech, analyze them in poems, and understand the importance of international literature. It then defines and provides examples of various literary devices and figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, irony and more. Students are assigned activities to identify these techniques in a sample poem and compare themselves to a non-human subject using simile.

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WEEKLY LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Solomon P. Lozada National High School


21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
2nd Quarter – Week 4

Literary Devices, Techniques and Figures of Speech

Competency:
 Analyze the figure of speech and other literary techniques and devices in the text.
(EN12Lit-Id-27)

Objectives: At the end of the week, students are expected to:

 Identify figure of speech;


 Analyze the figure of speech in the poem; and
 Realized the importance of works from different regions.

Key Concepts:

Literary Devices, Techniques and Figures of Speech

Literary devices refer to the language techniques used by a writer to convey a clearer and
more interesting message from the text.

A Figure of Speech is a literary device that has a separate meaning from its literal
meaning.

Figure of Speech like Simile, Metaphor, and Personification make literary text such as
poems more lively and attractive to the readers.

FIGURE OF SPEECH

Allusion: A reference within a literary work to a historical,


literary, or biblical character, place, or event. For example, the
title of William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury alludes
to a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Foreshadowing: An author’s deliberate use of hints or
suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not
develop until later in the narrative. Images such as a storm brewing or
a crow landing on a fence post often foreshadow ominous
developments in a story. Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php

Hyperbole [hi-pur-buh-lee]: An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.


“I’ve told you that a million times already” is a hyperbolic statement.
Idiom: A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal
meaning, such as “It’s raining cats and dogs” or “That cost me an arm and a leg.”
Imagery: Language that brings to mind sensory impressions. For example, in the
Odyssey, Homer creates a powerful image with his description of “rosy-fingered dawn.”
Irony: Broadly speaking, irony is a device that emphasizes the contrast between the way things
are expected to be and the way they actually are. A historical example of irony might be the fact
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that people in medieval Europe believed bathing would harm them when in fact not bathing led
to the unsanitary conditions that caused the bubonic plague.

Metaphor: The comparison of one thing to another that does


not use the terms “like” or “as.” A metaphor from
Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Life is but a walking shadow.”
Simile [sim-uh-lee]: A comparison of two things through the
use of the words like or as. The title of Robert Burns’s poem
“My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose” is a simile.
Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php
Motif: A recurring structure, contrast, or other device that
develops a literary work’s major themes (see below). For example, shadows and darkness
are a motif in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, a novel that
contains many gloomy scenes and settings.
Onomatopoeia: The use of words like pop, hiss, or boing, in
which the spoken sound resembles the actual sound.
Oxymoron: The association of two terms that seem to
contradict each other, such as “same difference” or “wise fool.”
Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory on
Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php
the surface but often expresses a deeper truth. One
example is the line “All men
destroy the things they love” from Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.”
Personification: The use of human characteristics to describe
animals, things, or ideas. Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago”
describes the city as “Stormy, husky, brawling / City of the Big
Shoulders.”
Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php

Symbol: An object, character, figure, place, or color


used to represent an abstract idea or concept. For example,
the two roads in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”
symbolize the choice between two paths in life.

Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php

Tone: The general atmosphere created in a story, or the author’s


or narrator’s attitude toward the story or the subject. For
example, the tone of the Declaration of Independence is
determined and confident.
Theme: A fundamental, universal idea explored in a literary
work. The struggle to achieve the American Dream, for example,
is a common theme in 20thcentury American literature.
“Oppression of women”, “Facing Reality”, “Injustice”,
“Desire for Power”, “Love”, “Friendship”, “War” or “Death” Source: http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/sat/satcriticalreading/section4.php

are other examples of themes.


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Padre Faura Witness the Execution of Rizal
By Danton Remoto

1. I stand on the roof 17. And on this day


2. Of the Ateneo Municipal, 18. With the year beginning to turn
3. Shivering 19. Salt stings my eyes.
4. On this December morning 20. I see Pepe,

5. Months ago, 21. A blur


6. Pepe came to me 22. Between the soldiers
7. In the Observatory. 23. With their Mausers raised
8. I thought we would talk 24. And the early morning’s

9. About the stars 25. Star:


10. That do not collide 26. Still shimmering
11. In the sky: 27. Even if millions of miles away
12. Instead, he asked me about purgatory 28. The star itsel

13. (his cheeks still ruddy 29. Is already dead.


14. from the sudden sun
15. After the bitter winters
16. In europe

ACTIVITY 1:
Directions: Identify Figure of Speech in the poem, Padre Faura Witness the Execution of
Rizal.

1. What are the figure of speech used in the poem?

2. What figure of speech used by the writer to compare human attributes to Jose Rizal?

3. Give at least one example of Figure of speech, Simili, Metaphor and Personification.

Simile____________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
___.

Metaphor__________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
______

Personification_____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
___________
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ACTIVITY 2:
Directions: Study the following questions carefully and write your answer on each blank.

1. In the Third stanza, the line “that do not collide” refers to-
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________

2. What object is personalized in the following line?

And on this day


With the year beginning to turn
Salt stings my eyes.
I see Pepe

3. In the last stanza, what is the human trait of the Star that remains “even if million of mile
away”?____________________________________________________________

4. In the lines 28 and 29, what object is already dead?


____________________________________________________________

5. After analyzing the figure of speech used in the poem, who is compared to a Star?
____________________________________________________________

Performance Task:
Directions: The writer of the poem, Padre Faura Witness the Execution of Rizal” used the
figure of speech, Personification in comparing a hero to a star. He is Dr. Jose P. Rizal. Just
like Jose Rizal, you have also good attributes that make up a good person. Think of good
traits that you have. Compare yourself to a Non- Human Subject. Use Simile as a figure of
speech. Write at least 10 sentences that will justify your comparison.

Your Answers

1. I am as ___________ as the _____________________

2. Write your reasons below.

_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________.

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RUBRICS

Point
Quality of Writing Grammar, usage and mechanics
s
4 Piece was written in an extraordinary Virtually no spelling, punctuation mark
style or grammatical errors
Very informative and well organize
3 Piece was written in an interesting style Few spelling and punctuation errors,
Somewhat informative and organized minor grammatical errors
2 Piece had little style A number of spelling, punctuation
Gives some new information but poorly or grammatical errors
organized
1 Piece had no style So many spelling, punctuation
Gives no new information and very or grammatical errors that it interferes
poorly organized with the meaning

REFERENCES

A. Book

Ma. Letecia Jose Cabana-Basilan, Ph.D. Letra 21st Century Literature in the Philippines
and the world. Intramuros Unlimited books Liberary Services & Publishing Inc.

B. Online sources

Tip: press “shifht and enter: to break URLs without breaking the link.

Answer key

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3

1. Personification 1. Star Answers may


2. Personification 2. Salt Vary
3. Personification 3. Shimmering
4. Personification 4. Star
5. Personification 5. Jose Rizal

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