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Identify what are the following Natural Disasters
that happened in our Philippine History
 Clues:
• May go down in history as the deadliest natural
erups ythpnoo disaster to hit the calamity-prone Philippines
• Made landfall in the eastern island of Samar
“lyoanda”

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 Clues:
• Unleashes flash floods on the central city of Ormoc
Rothiplac rstmo on Leyte island on November 15,1991.
• Killing more than 5,100 people.
elhtam  

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 Clues:
• Smashes into the main southern island of
Mindanao on December 3, 2012.
• Rarely hit by cyclones, the region suffers about
honoytp hapbo 1,900 people dead or missing.

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 Clues:
• Hits the central islands on August 31,
1984, killing 1,363 people.
yhtoohnp kei

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 Clues:
• About 60 kilometres (30 miles) from Manila,
erupts on January 30, 1911.
Alat lovonac • Killing about 1,300 people living in nearby
villages.
pureoitn

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 Clues:
• In the far east of the country erupts on
Aynom olcvnoa February 1, 1814.
• Burying the nearby town of Cagsawa with ash
rupetnoi and rock and killing about 1,200 people.

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 Clues:
Honohpty • Hits the northen part of Mindanao island on
December 16, 2011.
• Killing at least 1,080 people.
shwai

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 Clues:
• Was the second-largest volcanic eruption
Ountm of the 20th century, behind only the 1912
eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.
inapubot rupetnoi

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 WORD FOR TODAY
PLETHORA (n.)
- a very large amount or ✣ Example:
number A plethora of books
- An amount that is much have written on the
greater than what is subject.
necessary

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Philippine literary
turns and tropes
 VIEW
Throughout the history, the storm has
figured in the imagination of Filipino
writers.
 May Bagyo Ma’t May Rilim

✣ Written by unnamed “Una Persona Tagala”

✣ Appeared in the book Memorial dela Vida
Cristiana en Lengua Tagala
✣ Use the image of the “bagyo” to praise the good
writing of the friat-writer Francisco Blancas de
San Jose.

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Nang ang bagyo’y makaraan,
saka pa mandin nagsuhay

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Maria makiling
Described as one who
loved to walk “after a
storm… running across Place your screenshot here

the fields and whenever

she passed, life was
reborn – order and
peace” by Rizal

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Panay region
The tears of mythic
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Tungkong Langit
longing for his wife
Alunsina are said to be
the cause of rain.

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Paoay and
sampaloc lakes
There are myths about
powerful storms that Place your screenshot here

created lakes like the

ones in Paoay, Ilocos
Norte and Sampaloc,
Laguna.

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 What is a Trope?

✣ It’s the creative use of language mostly found in

literature.
✣ It change, turn, or alter language, making it new,
refreshing and thus literary.

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 What is a trope?
✣ Figurative Language uses tropes and figures of
speech to alter our experience by turning into our
similarities (as in simile and metaphor),
representations (as in synecdoche and
metonymy), and contradictions (as in irony and
paradox).

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 What is a trope?
✣ An image turned into trope, in principle, is not
simply itself, but something else as well, as seen
in the image of the storm in our example.
✣ As trope, it becomes meaningful by standing for
aspects of the human experience.

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Super Typhoon Haiyan/yolanda

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Remembering super typhoon haiyan or
yolanda

✣ In 2013, much of the country was

devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan,
known locally as Yolanda.
✣ Most affected areas: Leyte, Cebu, the
Panay islands, and Palawan.
✣ CNN.com: one of the strongest storms
recorded on the planet

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1. What do you remember about this event and
how did you feel knowing that there was a storm
coming?
2. How do you feel seeing the devastation in the
photographs?
3. Can we really prepare enough for these natural
calamities? Why or why not?

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Merlie m. alunan
She is one of the more
influential and respected
writers in the Visayas region.
She is a professor emeritus at
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the UP Visayas.
Her poetry collections:
Heartstone, Sacred Tree,
Amina Among the Angels,
Tales of the Spiderwoman,
and Pagdakop sa Bulalakaw.

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The Haiyan Dead
By Merlie M. Alunan
(Leyte)
do not sleep. 
They walk our streets
climb stairs of roofless houses
latchless windows blown-off doors
they are looking for the bed by the window
cocks crowing at dawn lizards in the eaves 
they are looking for the men
who loved them at night the women
who made them crawl like puppies
to their breasts babes they held in arms

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the boy who climbed trees the Haiyan dead
are looking in the rubble for the child 
they once were the youth they once were
the bride with flowers in her hair 
red-lipped perfumed women
white-haired father gap-toothed crone 
selling peanuts by the church door
the drunk by a street lamp waiting 
for his house to come by the girl dreaming 
under the moon the Haiyan dead are 

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looking for the moon washed out 
in a tumult of water that melted their bodies 
they are looking for their bodies that once 
moved to the dance to play 
to the rhythms of love moved 
in the simple ways--before wind 
lifted sea and smashed it on the land-- 
of breath talk words shaping
in their throats lips tongues
the Haiyan dead are looking 

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for a song they used to love a poem 
a prayer they had raised that sea had
swallowed before it could be said 
the Haiyan dead are looking for
the eyes of God suddenly blinded
in the sudden murk white wind seething
water salt sand black silt--and that is why 
the Haiyan dead will walk among us
endlessly sleepless--

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 Can you answer these?
1. In the perspective of the persona, what were each of the
Haiyan dead doing?
2. What are the images of devestation dramatized in the
poem?
3. There were clear references to what the dead were doing
in what was left of their town after the typhoon. What do
these suggest about the persona’s attitude towards the
event.

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4. Some parts of the poem do not follow the usual writing
mechanics. How do you relate this with the persona’s attitude
towards the devestation?
5. The Haiyan dead, in the memorializing of the persona, seems
unable to have peace as they “do not sleep” and keep on
“looking” for certain people, objects, or places in the town.
How do you relate the two main actions of the Haiyan dead?
6. Thinking of the poem in terms of its metaphor, what was
being suggested by the persona’s way of perceiving the
devastation? How is the event of the calamity related to
calling out of the Haiyan dead?

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 The poem, described by the national artist Edith L. Tiempo
as “steeped in metaphor”, is usually examined by considering
its:
Literal level Metaphorical level
Is something that refers to Is where we see the literal
the dramatic situation or dramatic situation unfolding
what is happening in the into a figurative articulation
poem. of what is taking place.

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 GROUP 1 Thanks you for listening!
LEADER:
Espero
MEMBERS:
Villejo, Adrigado, Ocenar, Loberiano, Brajas, Saniel,
Burac, Dela Cruz

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QUIZ TIME!
Write your answers in any clean
and appropriate paper.
1. It’s the creative use of language mostly found in literature.
2. It change, turn, or alter language, making it new, refreshing and thus
literary.
3. It uses tropes and figures of speech to alter our experience by
turning into our similarities (as in simile and metaphor),
representations (as in synecdoche and metonymy), and
contradictions (as in irony and paradox).
4. Throughout the history, the has figured in the imagination of
Filipino writers.
5. She is one of the more influential and respected writers in the
Visayas region.

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6. Who wrote the poem entitled as “The Haiyan Dead”?
7. Is something that refers to the dramatic situation or what
is happening in the poem.
8. Is where we see the literal dramatic situation unfolding
into a figurative articulation of what is taking place.
9. It is a noun that means “a very large amount or number”
10. Give atleast one famous myth/story/poem that uses or
inspired by storm.

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