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This document discusses key concepts in analyzing the structure of stories and novels. It defines literary terms like exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, irony, symbolism, and allegory. It also mentions several important Filipino authors like Francisco Sionil Jose, Merlinda Bobis, and Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin and some of their notable works. The document provides an overview of concepts from Gustav Freytag's plot structure and Aristotle's view of basic story elements.

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3rd Grading English

This document discusses key concepts in analyzing the structure of stories and novels. It defines literary terms like exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, irony, symbolism, and allegory. It also mentions several important Filipino authors like Francisco Sionil Jose, Merlinda Bobis, and Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin and some of their notable works. The document provides an overview of concepts from Gustav Freytag's plot structure and Aristotle's view of basic story elements.

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3RD GRADING LESSON IN ENGLISH

Gustav Freytag-is a German novelist who realize that plots of stories and even novels have common
patterns.

Organic Unity-it states that interdependent parts of a story are all needed to create a whole.
Denouement-this part of the plot structure of a fiction include an explanation of what had happened and how
characters think or feel. A French term that means the ending.
Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin-some of his novels in English were written under the pen name Quijano de
Manila. He was awarded the title National Artist for Literature 1976.
Merlinda Bobis-a writer from the Philippines who is currently teaching at the Wollongong University in
Australia. A writer who received Philippine National Book award for Fish-Hair Woman in 2014. She is the
author of The Sadness Collector.
There are stories that may use a character, or event to signify something else from its original meaning. In
fiction, it is called symbolism.
Irony-it refers to the opposite of the literal meaning.
Francisco Sionil Jose-he is currently considered one of the most widely read Filipino authors. His usual
themes are social struggle and strife in Philippine society. One of his famous works is The God Stealer.
Exposition is a part of a story which shows that something happens to begin the action. This is called the
inciting incident. These are small events that tell signs that the conflict is about to begin.
Climax-a part of a story that usually signals how the story will end. The event with the greatest tension of the
story.
Exposition-it is sometimes known as the complication of the story.
Falling action-on this part, the story reaches a premature resolution of the conflicts, problems, and issues
that were raised in the previous part of the story.
Allegory-a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for
political or historical situation.
Situational irony-it refers to the actual outcome of a situation that is different from what is expected.
Fiction-a story that is entirely made up and is not true.
Character-the reason that the reader will be interested or disinterested in reading the story.
Rising action-a part of a Freytag pyramid wherein the complication begins to show itself on the characters,
settings, and events in the story.
Dramatic irony-this refers to the attitude of the reader that it seems like they know more than the characters
in the story.
Verbal irony-this refers to what is being said by the character which is opposite of what he originally meant.
Noli Me Tangere & El Filibusterismo-these novels are long and sustained critical story about the Spanish
rule in the Philippines.
Intention-these are the challenges to the main characters.
Aristotle-he believes that for a story to be considered a story, it must have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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