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MODULE 7

Author: Butch C. Cabanig

Lay-out Artist: Herma C. Vejerano
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Introduction

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the

World Module aims to engage students in appreciation and
critical study of 21st Century Literature from the Philippines
and the World, encompassing their various dimensions,
genres, elements, structures, contexts, and traditions.

This module allows the students to embark on a journey

from Philippine regions to the different parts of the world
through various literary encounters.

Here, the learners will be accompanied by Lito and Letty,

the ship captains of Balangay ( an old name of a Philippine
boat). Lito is a Filipino Ship Captain who is in-charge of the
local destinations. And Letty is a Lady Ship Captain from
other country. She is in-charge of the tour abroad. Lito and
Letty assist each other in every module visit.

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Legend

This Self Learning Kit is divided into 27 modules with varied parts and re-
spective icons:

Gearing Up
(Review)

Testing the Water

( Pre-test)

Leaving the Shore

( Priming Activity)

Rocking the Boat

( Activity Proper)

Plotting the Course

( Analysis)

Keeping Track
( Abstraction)

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Legend

Approaching Destination (Application)

Seeing the Lighthouse

( Reflection)

Dropping the Anchor

( Post Test)

Going Back to the Ocean

( Remediation)

Going Back to the Ocean

( Remediation)

Every module targets a specific Learning Competency and asks learners to

perform multiple tasks.

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Hello, dear student, our fellow voyager!

Welcome…

I’m Letty. Are you ready to set sail

and BEGIN your voyage with this module?

I’m Lito
Well, it’s time to GO
ABOARD to set your quest for
KNOWLEDGE in motion.
Have FUN!

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Horizon Overview

Learning Competency:

EN12Lit-Ie-27 Analyze the figures of speech and other literary tech-

niques and devices in the text.

The use of this module requires every learner to demonstrate

understanding of how the analysis of literary devices such as figures of
speech and other techniques in the text can be of help in writing a
significant interpretation of different literary texts. At the end of the lesson,
you are expected to:

 identify figures of speech;

 analyze the figures of speech in the poem; and
 appreciate works from different regions .

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Connect with the Module:

Some reminders before
cruising:

Use the module with care especially in turning each

page.

Be reminded to answer the Pre-Test before moving

on to the Self-Learning Kit (SLK) Proper.

Read and understand the directions in every

exercise.

Observe honesty in answering the tests and

exercises and in checking your answers.

Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of this

module.

Try to finish the task at hand before proceeding to

the next.

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Gearing Up

Hi welcome back! Can you recall the

lessons you learned from module 6? How does
literary and non-literary language
differ?

For your next journey , we will guide you

in gathering more literary tools that will surely
make learning more convenient.

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Testing the Waters

DIRECTION: Using the given answer sheet, darken the circle corresponding to the letter
of the correct answer for each item.

1. What figure of speech is highlighted in the following lines?

“The star itself

Is already dead.”

A.Irony
B. Simile
C.Metaphor
D. Personification

2. Which among the lines used Metaphor as figure of speech?

A.Jose Rizal is a hero

B.Jose Rizal is as bright as the star
C.Jose Rizal is a star
D.The star is born

3. What figure of speech is comparing two unlike objects and uses the word, “like”?

A. Rhyme
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Repetition

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Testing the Waters

DIRECTION: Using the given answer sheet, darken the circle

corresponding to the letter of the best answer for each
item.

4. What do we call the figure of speech in which a thing , an idea, or an

animal is given attributes?

A.Metaphor
B. Simile
C.Personification
D.Irony

5. __________is a figure of speech that signifies contradiction.

A. Irony
B. Simile
C. Personification
D. Metaphor

Let’s Navigate

Are you familiar with “figures of speech”? How

many can you mention? Do you know the significance of
these in poetry? Did you know that a poet or an author
uses figures of speech to make the poem more lively
and interesting ?Are you ready now to explore the uses
of figures of speech in the text? Then, if you are ready,
let’s begin navigating the lesson.

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Leaving the Shore

Journey

Directions: Study the lines carefully and identify the Non-Human Subject.
Underline your answer. The example below is your guide in
answering.

The waves dance in the moonlight.

1. Time creeps on him.

2. The news took the people by surprise.

3. The thunder grumbled at night.

4. The storm attacked the people in Luzon.

5. The flowers begged for sunlight.

Were you able to identify all the Non-Human

Subjects? How were you able to determine them?
Did you discover their human attributes? Let’s
continue with your journey to this wonderful poem.
Go to the next page of the module and discover more.

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Rocking the Boat

Directions: Read the poem below. Choose the letter corresponding to the use
of the Italicized lines.

A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Personification D. Irony

Padre Faura Witnesses 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 itself

13 (his cheeks still ruddy 29 Is already dead.

14 From the sudden sun
15 After the bitter winters
16 In Europe.)

What did you discover about

the poem? What human attribute
does the “Star” have? Does the attribute the
same as Jose Rizal?Get deeper with the
meaning of the poem as you plot the course on
your next travel.

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Plotting the Course

DIRECTION: 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 personified in the following lines? ________

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 miles away”?
________________________________________________

4.In 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?

Hi! Welcome back! Did you have fun exploring

“Padre Faura Witnesses the Execution of Rizal”?
What helped you understand its message? Move to
the next page so we can place your thoughts on the
right track.

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Keeping Track

Do you know that poems are embedded with

devices that make a text more attractive? These
devices are called “Literary Devices”. Read and
discover more of them.

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.

Some of the commonly used figures of speech used by a writer are

the following:

Simile
A simile makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words
"like" or "as."

Example:
Jose Rizal is like a star.

Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things or ideas with NO
“like” or “as”.

Example:
Jose Rizal is a star.

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Keeping Track

Personification
Personification gives human qualities to non-living things or ideas.

Example:
1. Star:
Still shimmering

2. The star itself

Is already dead

Did you find these figures of speech in the poem, “Padre

Faura Witnesses the Execution of Rizal”? Did you find out that the
writer used Personification to compare the human attributes of a
Star to Jose Rizal? Now that you have learned figures of speech,
can you give your own example for each type? Challenge yourself
more with the next activity.

Remember:
Figures of Speech like Simile, Metaphor, and Personification make
literary texts such as poems more lively and attractive to the
readers. As you sail farther, you will meet other
literary devices in your future journeys.

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Approaching Destination

DIRECTION: Choose the letter of the figure of speech used in each item.
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Personification D. Irony

Morning, Puerto del Mar, Isla Guimaras

by John Iremil Teodoro

Always, there is a hidden cove

in my heart
where all year it is summer
and the (1)rain visits
only when I am desolate.
But this morning,
I am truly at the sea,
swimming by myself in waters
(2) whose lines are clean as a poem
perhaps,(3) heaven’s jetway is a shore
with (4)sand as fine and white as the long
dresses of angels.
Perhaps the chorus of their voices
is cool and pure as the lapping tongues
of the smallest waves.
How blissful it would be to take my last
breath
reclining in the arms of the sea,
wrapped in the warm rays
of a just-risen sun.
But I have many more poems
that I must write
Poems of love.
(5)Love like the sea
deep and color-changing,
custodian of such mysteries.

How did you get on with the challenge? Did

you enjoy analyzing the figures of speech
highlighted in the representative text of the region
in Visayas? Prove your knowledge for the last
time as you reflect on the final task.

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Seeing the Lighthouse

DIRECTIONS: The writer of the poem, “Padre Faura Witnesses 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 the good traits that you have. Compare yourself to a Non-Human
Subject. Use Simile as a figure of speech. Write at least a short sentence that will justify
your comparison.

Example:
1.Jose Rizal is as bright as the star.
2.He is compared to a star because a star gives light to the world while Rizal
opened the eyes of the Filipino people against the Spanish colonizers. With
that, a dark past was changed to a brighter tomorrow.

Your Answers
1. I am as _________________as the____________________
2. (Write your reasons below)
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
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Dropping the Anchor

DIRECTION: Using the given answer sheet, darken the circle corresponding to
the letter of the correct answer for each item.

1. What figure of speech is highlighted in the following lines?

I am truly at the sea,
swimming by myself in waters
whose lines are clean as a poem

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Repetition
D. Personification

2. Which among the lines used Simile as the figure of speech?

Poems of love.
Love like the sea
deep and color-changing,
custodian of such mysteries.

A. Poems of love
B. Love like the sea
C. deep and color-changing
D. custodian of such mysteries

3. What are the two objects being compared in the lines?

swimming by myself in waters

whose lines are clean as a poem

A. swimming and myself

B. waters and poem
C. Lines and poem
D. Myself and water

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Dropping the Anchor

DIRECTION: Using the given answer sheet, darken the circle corresponding to
the letter of the best answer for each item.

4. What Non-Human Subject is used by the writer in the lines below?

where all year it is summer

and the rain visits

A. year
B. summer
C. rain
D. visits

5. What qualities does love and sea have in common, according to the
poem?

Love like the sea

Deep and color-changing
Custodian of such mysteries

A. deep
B color - changing
C.mysterious
D. A and B

At last you’re almost through with your

journey! Did you find it easier to answer
now that you’ve learned figures of
speech? Turn to the next page and let’s
see how many exciting gems you have
discovered.

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Discovering the Gems

Hi! Here are the gems you’ve kept along the

course of your journey. Let’s count them.

PRE-TEST POST-TEST

1. D 1. A
2. C 2. B
3. B 3. B
4. C 4. C
5. A 5. D

Leaving the Shore Rocking the Boat Plotting the Course

1. Time 1. Personification 1. stars

2. news 2. Personification 2. salt
3. thunder 3. Personification 3. shimmering
4. storm 4.Personification 4. star
5. flowers 5.Personification 5. Jose Rizal

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1. C 1. AGREE
2. A 2.DIASAGREE
3. B 3.DISAGREE
4. A 4.AGREE
5. A 5.AGREE

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(For scores 4-5)
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have succeeded in your journey to the excit-
ing atmosphere in the ocean. See you next time!

(For scores 1-3)

Hello there! Are you satisfied with your
gems? Do you want to gain more? Get
ready because I will be with you as you
search for more gems amidst the waters.
Good luck!

Going Back to the Ocean

Don’t Forget:

Figures of speech are literary device that create

an intense picture of the text. Simile, Metaphor, and
Personification are some of the commonly used
figures of speech that have a common feature and
that is “comparing” two unlike objects.

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DIRECTIONS: Determine the figure of speech highlighted on each italicized line

in Column A. Check whether they are correctly identified in Column B. Write the
word AGREE if it is correct or DISAGREE if it is not in Column C.

A B C

1. Now I’m floating like a butterfly,

Stinging like a bee
METAPHOR
I earned my stripes.
- ROAR by Katy Perry.

2.Shot me out of the sky.

You’re my kryptonite. You keep making me
SIMILE
weak. Yeah frozen and can breathe.
– ONE THING by One
Direction
3. Lord, catch me when I’m falling.
– Who I am by Asting
PERSONIFCATION

4. I can read you like a magazine

- Blank Space by Taylor
SIMILE
Swift

5. Cause baby you’re a firework

—FIREWORKS by Katy
METAPHOR
Ferry.

Were you able to analyse the

figure of speech correctly? Well,
congratulations! You can now move to
your next journey. See you next time!

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