21st Century Literature

2. Life Madness
Life gets faster every day,
No time to think, no time to play.
Hurry, chaos, lots of stress,
Tension leads to sleeplessness.
When will all this madness cease?
Where is free time? Where is peace?
I'm running, doing, till I drop.
Give me buttons: Pause, Mute, STOP!

3. 21ST Century
Literature from
the Philippines
and the World

4. Objective
s:
At the end of the lesson the students should be
able to:
a. identify and explain the literary elements, genre and tradition
present in the 21st century poem,
b. demonstrate understanding of the text through the integration
of group tasks; and,
c. apply the use of specific literary elements through the creation
of individual poems of students in their own choice of topic.

5. LITERARY
ELEMENTS
It refers to the overall or
universal quality or description of
any written or oral text.

6. 6 LITERARY ELEMENTS
OF POEM
1. Stanza
2. Rhyme
3. Rhythm
4. Word
sounds
5. Figurative/
Connotative
Devices
6. Imagery

7. 1. Stanza
: are series of lines grouped together and separated by an
empty line from other stanzas. They are the equivalent of a
paragraph in an essay. One way to Identify a stanza is to
count the number of lines. Thus:
⚫ couplet (2 lines) ⚫sestet (6 lines)
⚫ tercet (3 lines) ⚫septet (7 lines)
⚫ quatrain (4 lines) ⚫ octave (8 lines)
⚫ cinquain (5 lines)

8. Life Madness
Life gets faster every day,
No time to think, no time to play.
Hurry, chaos, lots of stress,
Tension leads to sleeplessness.
When will all this madness cease?
Where is free time? Where is peace?
I'm running, doing, till I drop.
Give me buttons: Pause, Mute, STOP!

9. 2. Rhyme
: Is the repetition of similar sounds. In poetry, the most common kind of
rhyme is the end rhyme, which occurs at the end of two or more lines.
It is usually Identified with lower case letters, and a new letter is used to
Identify each new end sound. Take a look at the rhyme scheme for the
following poem.
I saw a fairy in the wood,
He was dressed all in green.
He drew his sword while I just stood,
And realized I'd been seen.

10. :Is the flow of the beat in a poem. It creates the
pleasant gilding effect when we read a poem. It can be
fast or slow.
3. Rhythm
The rhythm of a poem depends on which meter the author chooses to
utilize. One famous example of iambic pentameter is Shakespeare's
"Sonnet 18."
"Shall I| compare| thee to| a sum|mer's day?|"

11. 4. Word Sounds
a. Onomatopoeia: words that sound like that which they describe.
Ex: The lion roared. My phone rings. The car crashed.
b. Repetition: the repetition of entire lines or phrases to emphasize key
thematic Ideas.
Ex: You are the way the truth and the life. You will always be our
way, truth and life.
c. Parallel Structure: a form of repetition where the order of verbs and
nouns is repeated; It may involve exact words, but it more importantly
repeats sentence structure.
Ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered."

12. d. Alliteration: the repetition of initial sounds on the
same line or stanza
Ex: Big bad Bob bounced bravely.
e. Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds
(anywhere in the middle or end of a line or stanza)
Ex: Tilting at windmills
f. Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds
(anywhere in the middle or end of a line or stanza).
Ex: And all the air a solemn stillness holds.

13. 5. Figurative/Connotative Devices:
• Simile -is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often
introduced by "like" or "as."
Ex: "My love is like a red, red rose."
• Metaphor -doesn’t use "like" or "as" and implies a direct comparison
between objects or situations. A metaphor states that one thing is another
thing.
Ex: “All flesh is grass.”
• Personification –is a figure of speech that is used to attribute
human characteristics to something that is not human. You take
an object or animal and give it human qualities, such as emotions
or thoughts.
Ex: "nature wept" or "the wind whispered many truths to me”

14. 6. Imagery
:Despite "image" being a synonym for "picture", images
need not be only visual. An easy way to spot imagery in
a text is to pay attention to words, phrases, and
sentences that connect with your five senses (sight,
smell, taste, touch and sound)

15. QUIZ TIME!
Get ¼ sheet of paper

16. Direction: Identify what Type of Figurative
/Connotative Devices are the following:
1. “The stars in the sky blinked and winked.”
2. “You’re like a star that shines so bright.”
3. “Your beauty is a star that shines so bright.”
4. “Your eyes are the stars I looked at night.”
5. “You’re as beautiful as the stars.”
6. “Time is Gold.”
7. “The time played hide and seek with us.”
8. “Our precious time is like precious gold.”
9. “The leaves danced with the wind.”
10. “Life is a highway.”
Choices:
SIMILE
METAPH
OR
PERSONIFIC
ATION