LESSON 3: CONTEXT and TEXT’S MEANING Reader's context is about the reader's previous reading
experience, values, assumptions, political and economic issues.
Example:
1. What are your prior experiences related to the text?
Let’s recall the Major Elements of Literature!
2. What is your impression of the text?
ELEMENTS of LITERATURE: The text's context is about its publishing history. It is part of the
larger text such as newspaper, history, events, translated in it.
Example:
1. Where was the text published?
1. Form – talks about the general structure of the literary piece. Form is 2. What year was it published?
the first aspect of literature that attempts to connect with the reader. 3. What publishing company printed the text?
From the title of the literary work, to the way the words or sentences Social context and socio-cultural of a text feature the
creates visual impact, every part of it is literature. Therefore, it is society in which the characters live and in which the author's text
through form that the literature first communicates its message. was produced.
Example:
2. Theme – it is the subject of which literature revolves around. 1. What kind of society emerged during the time when the
literature was created?
3. Characterization – it could be products of the writer’s imagination, 2. What type of government or significant historical event
or they could be the very compelling point-of-view that the writer thinks. happened during its publication?
Great characterization is achieved when one drops his or her
stereotypical views of the world, and grabs the more relatable and The structure of the poem refers to words that are put together or
vulnerable personas that stand out. arranged such that they make sense.
4. Style – the specific techniques and designs that literary writer Imagery is creating a picture in the reader's mind by using words
employs prolong his or her grip of the reader’s interest. The play on that appeal to the senses. There are types of Imagery that are used in
words and the skill in storytelling of the writer compromise of his or her this module. (Menoy 2016))
style. 1. Visual imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the
sense of sight.
2. Auditory Imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to
Context originates from the notion of weaving together. It is the sense of hearing.
defined as the circumstances that form the setting of events, 3. Kinesthetic imagery produced by the use of words that appeal
to the actions and movement.
statements, or ideas and in the way of which it can be fully understood
and assessed. Reading a literary piece may contribute to the production
Literary Techniques are methods the author or writer of a
of the author and the reception of the reader as they appreciate and literary piece used to convey what they want to impart to the reader,
explore. such as Flashback where the events have taken place before the
present time the narration is following.
The writer's context is knowing about the writer's life, values,
assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation, and the political
and economic issues related to the author.
Example:
1. Who is the author/writer?
2. What is his/her educational background?
3. What are his/her personal information?
4. How do these affect/influence the text?
