LEARNING ACTIVITY # 006-1st Semester

Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

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Activity Title : Usage and Categories of Literary Language (2)

Learning Target : Acquires knowledge on the fundamentals of usage and categories of literary language
References (Author, Title, Pages) : Literary Terms, https://literaryterms.net (accessed July 24, 2020).

The variety of uses for literary terms spans across genres and is remarkably wide-ranging based on the goals
or needs of the writer. Below we have categorized this vast subject.

CATEGORIES OF
IMPORTANCE
LITERARY LANGUAGE
Rhythm provides
soothing and meaningful
repetition and emphasis
in prose and poetry.
Sound, on the other
Sound and Rhythm
hand, is connotative of
numerous feelings from
anger to sadness based
on arrangement of vowel
and consonant sounds.
Wordplay serves as proof
that literature is
evolving, as new words
are invented each year.
Wordplay
Readers and writers
alike value wit and
comedy in poetry, prose,
and other forms.
USAGE
Sound and rhythm can
be used in all
compositions from poetry
and song to prose and
speechmaking to film
and television dialogue.
Wordplay can also be
used in creating new
words serious and silly
alike. Because wordplay
is creative and new, it
should not be used in
formal essays or
manuals with a pre-
designated lexicon.
COMMON TERMS
Alliteration is the
repetition of a certain
sound at the beginning
of successive words or
phrases.
Onomatopoeia refers to
words which sound like
that which they describe.
Neologisms are literally
new words, or words
recently created in order
to describe something
which has never been
described.
For example, a recent
neologism is “spork,”
meaning a combined
spoon and fork.
Anagrams are a type of
wordplay in which the
letters of a word or
phrase are rearranged to
create a new word or
phrase containing the
exact same letters.
For example, an
anagram of the word
“anagram” would be “nag
a ram!”

Activity 6. Create a short poem showing sound, rhythm and wordplay. Please be guided with the rubrics
below:

COMPETENCIES POINTS
Title of Poem 5
Conventions (spelling and punctations) 5
Organization 10
Creativity 10
TOTAL 30

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