21st Century Literature - Q2 - Module 1.3 FINAL
21st Century Literature - Q2 - Module 1.3 FINAL
21st Century Literature - Q2 - Module 1.3 FINAL
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21 Century
Literatureof the
Philippines and
the World
Quarter 2– Module 1.3:
RepresentativeTexts
and Authors
from Europe
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World – Grade 11
Self-Learning Module (SLM)
Quarter 2 – Module 1: Representative Texts and Authors from Europe First
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21st Century
Literature from
the Philippines
and the World
Quarter 2 – Module 1:
Representative Texts and
Authors from Europe
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
Welcome to the 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World -
Grade 11 Self-Learning Module (SLM) on Representative Texts and Authors from
Europe.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also
aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body
of the module:
As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and
assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
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This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:
What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in the module.
What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to check what
you already know about the lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this module.
What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current
lesson with the previous one.
What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you in
various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an activity or a situation.
What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will help you
transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life situations or
concerns.
Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of mastery
in achieving the learning
competency.
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The following are some reminders in using this module:
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities included
in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you understand and appreciate the representative texts and authors from Europe.
The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students.
The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.
• Value the importance of knowing the authors from Europe and their
respective works.
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This module is self-instructional. You can read, analyze concepts and ideas
presented and reflect on them. The activities will help you assess
your progress as you go through in this module.
Now, let us begin this journey.
What I Know
Good day! I know that you are excited for today’s new lesson. To start the
ball rolling, let us have first our pre-assessment test to assess your prior knowledge
about the notable authors from Europe and their respective works, as well as its
21st century genre: the elements, structures and traditions.
ACTIVITY 1- Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter on the
space provided before the number.
______1. Who was the author of the literary text entitled-Oedipus the King?
a. Sophocles b. Tyrannos c. William Shakespeare d.
Darius Sirius ______2. Which of the following authors wrote The
Iliad and Odyssey? a. Chaucer
c. Homer
b. Ovid d. Dante
______3. Which of the following poem was written by Alexander Dumas?
a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame c. The Wailing Clan
b. The Stanzas I Wrote d. Divine Comedy
_____5. The literary text Pilgrim’s Progress was written by which author?
a. John Bunyan c. John Keats
b. Willian Shakespeare d. Alfred Lord Tennyson
______6. Which of the following literary texts was written by Victor Hugo?
a. The Count of Monte Cristo c. Book of the Duchess
b. Les Mesirables d. War and the World
______7. Who was the Author of the literary text entitled-Romeo and Juliet?
a. Sophocles b. Tyrannos c. William Shakespeare d. Darius Sirius
______9. Who was the author of the literary text entitled Oresteia?
a. Voltaire b. Homer c. Aeschylus d. Phoebus
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______10. Which of the following authors wrote the text entitled Metamorphosis?
a. Ovid b. Aeschylus c. Dante d. Homer
______11. Which of the following authors wrote the literary text entitled “Anna
Karenina”?
a. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie c. Leo Tolstoy
b. J.K.Rowling d. Geoffrey Chaucer
______12. Which of the following is the Author of the literary text entitled “The
Satanic Verses”?
a. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie c. Leo Tolstoy
b. J.K.Rowling d. Geoffrey Chaucer
______14. Who is the author of the literary text entitled “Canterbury Tales”.
a. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie c. Leo Tolstoy
b. J.K.Rowling d. Geoffrey Chaucer
Lesson
Representative Texts and
1 Authors from Europe
The history of European literature and of each various periods is one of the
prominent figures among world literature. European literature emerges from world
literature before the birth of Europe, whose classical languages are the recipients to
the complex heritage of the Old World. An additional unique feature is the global
expansion of Western Europe’s languages and characteristic of its literary forms,
especially the novel, the poetry, the epic beginning in the Renaissance.
The literary prominence of Europe is perceptibly known by its notable authors and
their significant works. Here in this module, together, we will venture towards
learning their prolific literary fame.
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What’s In
For the previous lesson, we learned about the literary history of North America and
Latin America.
Activity 1
parts of North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Latin American
authors usually write in Spanish, Portuguese, English, or a language native to
their specific country.
Latin American literature has a rich history starting in the Pre-Colombian period
and working all the way up to modern day. With each period of Latin American
history, came a genre that dominated the field.
To further refresh your memory on the previous lesson, try to answer the activity below.
Activity 2: Let’s review
Direction: Encircle the letter of your answer.
2. Which of the following authors wrote the poem entitled When I was One and Twenty?
a. Kate Chopin c. Alfred Edward Housman
b. David Weatherford d. Carl Weatherman
3. Kate Chopin is a famous American author. Which among the choices is the title of her
work?
c. The Life of Queen Ursula c. The Story of an Hour
d. The Trenches and the Soldiers d. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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4. What region in the world incorporates countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras,
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc.?
a. Europe c. North America
b. Latin America d. Asia
5. Which among the literary texts in the choices is the work of J.G. Thurber?
a. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty c. The Life of Queen Ursula
b. The Story of an Hour d. The Guaman Pope
6. Which among the options is a work of a great American writer, named Tess
Almendarez-Locajono?
a. Just One Thing c. The Guaman Pope
b. Cold Summers d. Latinian Orthodox
Thumbs up! You are now ready for the next activities.
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Notes to the Teacher:
Teacherfacilitates an activity that enables learners to use previously
taught lesson.
What’s New
Each one of us usually appreciates music and poems. At home or in school, these
are the common medium where the point of intuitive fellowship is born. On the
matter of fluency, some even have gone to the level of composing songs and poems
that expresses admiration, appreciation, writing stories about your personal
experiences, drafting blogs, composing pick-up lines and then sharing these pieces
on social media. These stuffs that you are performing are forms of literature.
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1. What did you do to come-up with the right choice of answer?
The names that are presented in column A are all European authors, the
contexts found in column B are the titles of the literary texts that they have
contributed in literary history development.
Our next activity will now let you remember the different representative
literary texts from the different regions in Europe, as well as the authors whom
have contributed in the development of literature, ranging from the notable
classical writers up to the 21st century authors.
What is It
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2. Middle English literature (1066–1500)
- Middle English literature was written in many dialects that corresponded to the
region, history, culture, and background of individual writers.
Genre, elements, structures, traditions
allegorical narrative poem Hagiographies
drama historiography
liturgy Bible translations
folk tales Romances
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6. Late Renaissance (1625–1660)
• Rise of the second generation metaphysical poets
• The birth of allegory and classical allusions, and epic works Genre,
elements, structures, traditions
Metaphysical poem
allegory and classical allusions
epic
7. Restoration Age (1660–1700)
• the pioneering of literary criticism
• The presentation of John Milton’s religious flux and political
upheaval and his epic poem
Genre, elements, structures, traditions
sexual comedy play fiction and journalism long fiction
romantic poem
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poetry literary realism
10. Modernism (1901 –2000)
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• English literary modernism developed in the early
twentieth-century
• lyric poet and major novels evolved
• maintained a conservative approach to poetry by combining
romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism.
• The emergence of British writer of the early years of the
twentieth-century Rudyard Kipling
Genre, elements, structures, traditions
Radio drama
genre fiction Modernist poetry in English
fantasy ConservatismImpressionism
science fiction
short stories lyric poetry
Shortly after Oedipus’ birth, his father, King Laius of Thebes, learned from
an oracle that he, Laius, was doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, and so
ordered his wife Jocasta to kill the infant.
However, neither she nor her servant could bring themselves to kill him and
he was abandoned to elements. There he was found and brought up by a shepherd,
before being taken in and raised in the court of the childless King Polybus of
Corinth as if he were his own son.
Stung by rumors that he was not the biological son of the king, Oedipus consulted
an oracle which foretold that he would marry his own mother and kill his own
father. Desperate to avoid this foretold fate, and believing Polybus and Merope to be
his true
parents, Oedipus left Corinth.
On the road to Thebes, he met Laius, his real father, and, unaware of each
other’s true identities, they quarreled and Oedipus‘ pride led him to murder Laius,
fulfilling part of the oracle’s prophecy. Later, he solved the riddle of the Sphinx and
his reward for freeing the kingdom of Thebes from the Sphinx’s curse was the hand
of Queen Jocasta (actually his biological mother) and the crown of the city of
Thebes. The prophecy was thus fulfilled, although none of the main characters were
aware of it at this point.
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comic science fiction television plays
darkly comic fantasy
children's novels
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England- Age of Restoration (1660–1700)
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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and
intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under
its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious
flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost
(1667), written in blank verse, and widely considered to be one of the greatest
works of literature ever written.
Representative Text Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other
following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been
defeated and banished to Hell, also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandæmonium,
the capital city of Hell, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organize his followers;
he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the
end of the debate, Satan volunteers to corrupt the newly created Earth and God's
new and most favoured creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss
alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of
the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden
of Eden.
At several points, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different
perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare.
The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three
days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of
angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates
the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and
Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit
command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of
death.
Adam and Eve are having a romantic and sexual relationship while still
being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised
in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on
her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned,
knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from
his flesh, they are bound to one another- – if she dies, he must also die. Adam was
seen as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that
what he is doing is wrong.
Soon as they fall asleep, both have terrible nightmares, and after they awake,
they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realizing that they have
committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination.
Meanwhile, Satan returns triumphantly to Hell, amid the praise of his fellow
fallen angels. He tells them about how their scheme worked and Mankind has
fallen, giving them complete dominion over Paradise. As he finishes his speech,
however, the fallen angels around him become hideous snakes, and soon enough,
Satan himself turns into a snake, deprived of limbs and unable to talk. Thus, they
share the same punishment, as they shared the same guilt.
Eve appeals to Adam for reconciliation of their actions. Her encouragement
enables them to approach God, and sue for grace, bowing on supplicant knee, to
receive forgiveness. In a vision shown to him by the Archangel Michael, Adam
witnesses everything that will happen to Mankind until the Great Flood. Adam is
very upset by this vision of the future, so Michael also tells him about Mankind's
potential redemption from original sin through Jesus Christ (whom Michael calls
"King Messiah").
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Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, and Michael says that Adam may find "a
paradise within thee, happier far." Adam and Eve also now have a more distant
relationship with God, who is omnipresent but invisible (unlike the tangible Father
in the Garden of Eden).
Representative Text
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy tracks the life of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her
tryst with Count Vronsky. The novel is staged in the late nineteenth century at the
height of major political and social changes in Russia. Anna Karenina includes
dozens of characters that portray a realistic account of Russian society during this
period.
Dolly, Kitty's sister, discovered her husband Stiva having an affair. Anna
Karenina consoles Dolly and convinces her to stay with her husband. Meanwhile, Kitty
is proposed to by Konstantin Levin. She turns him down because she is in love with
Count Vronsky.
Count Vronsky shows no interest in Kitty. Upon meeting Anna, he falls in love
with and courts her even though she is already married. At a ball, Anna and Vronsky
give each other so much attention that Kitty realizes she will never be with him. Anna
returns to St. Petersburg followed by Count Vronsky, while Konstantin returns to his
estate in the countryside heartbroken.
Torn apart by Vronsky's affection for Anna, Kitty becomes ill and goes to a
healing center. Kitty comes back to St. Petersburg feeling better and more prepared to
be a wife.
Anna and Count Vronsky consummate their relationship. She struggles with her
roles as wife and mistress. Anna becomes pregnant with Count Vronsky's child and
tells her husband, Karenin, of the affair.
Konstantin Levin focuses on his farm and tries to find meaning in life without
Kitty. He watches as his brother falls deathly ill from tuberculosis.
Despite Anna being pregnant with his child, Count Vronsky refuses to commit
himself to her. He struggles to choose between his love for Anna and his career goals.
Anna rejects the option to stay with her husband; however, she doesn't know what to
do since she cannot depend on Vronsky for support.
Levin and Kitty become engaged.
Although Anna refused him, Karenin does his best to appear happy with his
marriage in public. However, after becoming angry with the circumstances, he hires a
divorce lawyer.
Anna becomes ill with puerperal fever and is on her deathbed when Karenin
forgives her for the affair and says that she can be with Vronsky. Although Karenin was
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willing to give her one, Anna refuses divorce because she is afraid that she will lose her
son.
Humiliated by his past actions and unwillingness to support Anna, Vronsky
unsuccessfully attempts suicide. Anna and Vronsky travel together after she is better.
Kitty and Levin are married and struggle with the reality of married life. Kitty
becomes pregnant.
Anna and Vronsky return from Italy. After seeing her son again, Anna realizes how
alone she feels. She becomes desperate to legitimize her relationship with Vronsky.
Although Vronsky advises against it, Anna attends the opera, where she is treated
insultingly. Vronsky is angry that she didn't listen to him, while Anna is furious with
him for not understanding her social position. The two move to the countryside, but
the relationship begins to deteriorate.
Dolly visits Anna. She realizes that Anna's life is cold compared to her life. Anna
confesses that Vronsky's interest is waning. At the same time, Count Vronsky feels
suffocated by Anna's intense love, which becomes apparent when Anna requests he
return home during a political convention.
Upon realizing the relationship with Vronsky will not endure, Anna commits
suicide.
Count Vronsky enlists in the Russian military. Meanwhile, a peaceful Levin
learns that the meaning of life is about living for the good of humanity.
Sophocles Electra
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Aeschylus Oresteia
Literary Genre
The three genres of literature are PROSE, POETRY and DRAMA and all of
them have a unique way of writing them.
PROSE is the most regular, easiest and simplest form of writing; you
basically need no skill in writing this. It is however written in chapters and verses
that is how you recognise them. They are also a continuous form of writing, which
basically the aim of a prose is to narrate a story.
Prose can be of any form, but first it comes in two types, which is the
fictitious and non -fictitious, fictitious prose tends to be more interesting,
because it is the creativity of a writer that makes people want to read a myth
instead of the true story.
DRAMA on the hand is basically a style of writing that portrays the actions of men,
and this genre of literature comes in dialogue and is written in scenes because it
should originally been acted on a stage, before being written down.
POETRY is the most difficult genre. Many people write prose and call it poetry,
however without the add-ons of figures of speeches and literary devices, a work
can never be considered a poem.
Poetry consists the more formal metrical structure of verse. Poetry often involves a
metrical or rhyming scheme.
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What Is Structure In A Poem?
The structure of a poem refers to the way it is presented to the reader. This could
include technical things such as the line length and stanza format. Or it could
include the flow of the words used and ideas conveyed.
1. Line length shows the reader how it should be read. Short lines are usually
read faster, with more emotion. Longer lines slow down the pace of a poem.
Choosing appropriate line breaks gives a reader a chance to take a natural
breath.
Those who write poetry pay careful attention to elements like sentence
length, word placement and even how lines are grouped together.
2. Rhythm or the beat that the poem follows. This will typically be measured in
meters (sets of syllables that are stressed and unstressed) that the reader
will sing along with.
Consider the rhythmic effect of music and the words. What emotions does
the singer display? The notes and the meter may be fast at first, but they
may slow down later on. This rhythm affects the message as a whole.
3. Stanzas, the groups of lines, are like paragraph in prose. They contain a
central idea. Having multiple stanzas gives readers a chance to focus on
multiple ideas. Think about a page with writing. Is it more manageable to
read it if all the words flow together as one paragraph or if they are broken
apart into appropriate paragraphs? The same works with poetry.
4. Consistency
Structure also refers to the consistency used throughout the poem. An author
might start each line with a certain part of speech, or a repeated line or
phrase is used at the same spot in each stanza.
When a poem has a strong sense of structure, it flows from beginning to end,
and the ideas are easily conveyed.
Here is an example of rhyme in poetry.
The Line: A line in a poem is not the same as a sentence. Just because the words
are placed in a single line, does not mean that the thought is complete.
As you read through a poem, and you come to the end of a line where there
is no punctuation after the last word, there is no need to pause – navigate to the
start of the next line and continue reading.
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For example, in the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Count Lev Anna Genre: prose poetry/, written in chapters Family
Nikolayevich/ Karenina Drama, Romance, Tragedy, Literary Fiction
17th Century Elements:
Russian Theme:
Literature • Social Change in Nineteenth-Century
Russia
• The Philosophical Value of Farming
• The Blessings of Family Life
• Adultery
• Forgiveness
• Death
Setting:
• Late 19th Century Moscow, Petersburg, The
Russian Countryside
• a time of insane amounts of intellectual
fervor and debate about what direction
Russia should take in becoming a modern
nation.
Characters/characterization:
• Anna Arkadyevna Karenina
A beautiful, aristocratic married
woman from St. Petersburg whose
pursuit of love and emotional honesty
makes her an outcast from society
Anna’s adulterous affair catapults
her into social exile, misery, and
finally suicide
• Alexandrovich Karenina
Anna’s husband
high-ranking government minister
and one of the most important men
in St. Petersburg
is formal and duty-bound
is cowed by social convention and
constantly presents a flawless façade
of a cultivated and capable man
Alexei
Kirillovich Vronsky
A wealthy and dashing military officer
whose love for Anna prompts her to
desert her husband and son.
Vronsky is passionate and caring
toward Anna
Was clearly disappointed when their
affair forces him to give up his
dreams
of career advancement
Konstantin Dmitrich Levin
A socially awkward but generous-
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hearted landowner
the co-protagonist of the novel
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Plot:
Initial Situation
Anna's life goes downhill, Levin's goes up,
and what makes Levin happy (i.e., his
family) is exactly what makes Anna
miserable
• Conflict
Anna meets Vronsky and starts feeling
unsatisfied with her family life
Levin attempts both farming and marriage
proposing, and fails at both.
• Complication
As Anna's dissatisfaction with her own
marriage mounts, she turns more and
more to Vronsky
Levin continues on his quest to resolve
his existential angst through marriage
and farming
• Climax
Anna suffers an irreparable break with
Karenin and ties her fate forever to
Vronsky
Levin finally gets the girl.
What is Karenin going to do about his
wayward wife?
Levin is married, is he finally satisfied?
• Denouement
Anna commits suicide
Levin has an epiphany
• Conclusion
Anna is dead
Levin embraces his love for the family he's
been looking for throughout the novel.
Point of view:
• told from the perspective of an omniscient, or
all-knowing third-person narrator The
story slips into the perspectives
• of Anna, Vronsky, Karenin, Levin—even
Levin's dog, Laska
Atmosphere: Tragic
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What’s More
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_________________8. What was God’s punishment to Satan after he corrupted Adam
and Eve as John Milton portrayed?
_________________9. In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, how did he portrayed his main
character Anna?
_________________10. How did Leo Tolstoy presented a more realistic story in Anna
Karenina.
Saladin is transformed into the devil as he falls, and he later grows horns
and goat legs with cloven hoofs. The two men crawl onto the coast, and Saladin is
arrested as an illegal immigrant. After being hospitalized, he escapes, only to find
that his wife is having an affair with one of his friends. His misfortunes continue as
he loses his job. However, his rage at Gibreel for failing to intervene when he was
arrested eventually transforms Saladin back into a fully human man.
In the meantime, Gibreel is reunited with Alleluia, but an angel tells him to
leave her and spread the word of God in London. He is hit by the car of an Indian
film producer, who plans a trio of religious films in which Gibreel will star as an
archangel. Later, Gibreel and Saladin meet at a party, and Saladin decides to kill
him. However, although he has various opportunities, he does not murder Gibreel
and instead induces him to believe that Alleluia has several lovers.
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Gibreel eventually realizes that Saladin has tricked him and resolves to kill
him. However, when Gibreel finds Saladin in a burning building, he rescues him.
Saladin has thoughts of his family in India where his beautiful hometown
reminds him of the best of his life. Upon learning that his father is dying, Saladin
returns to Bombay and reconciles with him. He inherits a substantial sum of
money and reconnects with a former girlfriend. Separately, Gibreel and Alleluia also
travel to Bombay, and a jealous Gibreel murders her and then kills himself.
Activity cue: In a separate sheet of paper, copy and fill-the grid below with the
appropriate details pertaining to literary text genre.
LITERARY TEXT ANALYSIS
Author/Literary Representative
Genre/structure/elements
Period Text
Genre: ______________
______________ Elements:
Theme: ______________
______________
Setting:
______________
Characters/characterization:
_________________________________
_________________________________
_________________________________
_________________________________ Plot:
Initial Situation
Exposition:
_____________________
1. _______ 2. _______
Rising Action (Conflict,
Complication):
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
Climax (Crisis, Turning Point):
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
Falling Action:
____________________________
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____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
Resolution (Denouement):
____________________________
____________________________
Atmosphere:
____________________________
____________________________
What I Have Learned
Wow! You are almost done. It is time to check what you have learned so
far from our lesson before we proceed to your assessment. This activity will give
a summary of everything you learned from our lesson.
1. What are similarities which you could provide regarding the different literary
texts discussed?
Answer:
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. What specific family values which Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie resented in
his work entitled Satanic Verse?
Answer:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
3. In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, what realization which you could personally
reflect in the case of the temptation of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden
fruit?
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Answer:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Give the similarities and differences between the literary texts entitled
“Oedipus the King” and “Anna Karenina”.
Answer:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Give short description of Anna as portrayed by Leo Tolstoy.
Answer:
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
What I Can Do
You are now ready to apply what you have learned about the 21 st Century
literature of Europe and its representative texts and authors. Let us begin.
Criteria 4 3 2 1 Total
Relevance The piece The piece The piece The piece
consists all missed missed to missed to
the elements to include 2 of include 3 of the include 4 and
of literary the elements elements of more of the
tragedy genre. of literary literary tragedy elements of
tragedy genre. genre. literary tragedy
genre.
Graphic The storyline The The The
illustrations and flow of illustrations illustrations illustrations
actions in the missed missed to missed to
piece is to portray 3 flow portray 4 and
perfectly portray of actions from more flow of
illustrated. 2 flow the literary actions from
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of piece the literary
actions from piece
the literary
piece
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Assessment
Congratulations for having made it this far! Now, let us check what you have
learned.
A. Directions: Some of the statements below are true about the 21 st Century
European literature and its representative texts and authors and some are not.
Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is False. Write your answer
on the space provided before the number.
____________1. Geoffrey Chaucer is the author of Book of the Duchess.
____________2. Satan is considered as a fallen angel in Milton’s Paradise Lost.
____________3. Leo Tolstoy wrote the Satanic Verse.
____________4. The Satanic verse is honed on the life of Lucifer.
____________5. A tragedy literary genre implicates the suffering of the protagonist.
____________6. The Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy employs adventure as its
theme.
____________7. Romeo and Juliet is one of the best work of Geoffrey Chaucer.
____________8. Iliad and Odyssey is an epic poem written by Homer.
____________9. Edgar Allan Poe composed Annabel Lee.
____________10. The poem I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud was written by
Wordswoth.
B. Directions: Identify what literary element is present in the following lines.
11. “It was a dark cold night in November, when Antonio discovered the buried
bones of his loved one Celina.”
Genre: ______________________
12. Which line/phrase in the context in item11, leads you to determine its genre?
Line/phrase: _________________________________________
13. “Under the cover of the golden moonshine, Juliet stood with her angelic smile,
Romeo swears his unfading love with the maiden.”
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Genre: ______________________
14. Which line/phrase in the context that leads you to determine its genre?
Line/phrase: _________________________________________
Additional Activities
Great job! You are finally done with your Assessment. Now, it is time to reinforce
your understanding of the lesson by accomplishing the given task.
Direction: Choose one (1) of the three (3) given tasks below.
Task 1: Compose, memorize, recite and record a poem expressing your own
personal way of preventing the spread of COVID 19 virus. Post it in our
class GC.
Task 2: Make a mini-poster about the poem (pandemic theme) that you composed.
Add a slogan that will express the thought of your poster. Post it in our
class GC.
Task 3: Assign a musical tone to the poem that you composed. Sing it, or find
anybody in the family to sing it in your own rendition. You may sing it
with a partner or you may be in group.
Record the song presentation and post it in the class GC
Rubric for Literary poem writing and graphic illustration
Criteria 4 3 2 1 Total
Relevance The poem The poem The poem The poem
consists all missed 1 missed 2 missed all the
the elements elements and elements and elements and
and structure structure of structure of structure
of poetry. poetry. poetry. of
poetry.
Graphic The poster The poster The poster The poster to
illustrations illustrated 4 illustrated illustrated 2 illustrate and
and more ways of ways of ways of
ways of preventing preventing preventing
preventing COVID COVID
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COVID COVID 19 19
19 19 pandemic. pandemic.
pandemic. pandemic.
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Answer Key
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References
Books:
Flores, R., (2016). Oral Communication in Context. Rex Printing Company, Inc. Sta. Mesa
Heights, Quezon City.
Sipacio, P. and Balgos, A. (2016). Oral Communication in Context for Senior High School. C
& E Publishing Company. South Triangle, Quezon City.
DISCLAIMER
This Self-learning Module (SLM) was developed by DepEd SOCCSKSARGEN
with the primary objective of preparing for and addressing the new normal.
Contents of this module were based on DepEd’s Most Essential Learning