Download Understanding Literary Context and Text Meaning and more Study notes English in PDF only on Docsity! Quarter 1 – Module 3: Context and Text’s Meaning This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you fully understand literary contexts and the text’s meaning. 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. MELC: Discuss how different contexts enhance the text’s meaning and enrich the reader’s understanding. This module helps you specifically develop a skill to discuss how the different literary social and socio-cultural contexts enhance the text’s meaning and enrich the reader’s understanding. After going through this module, you are expected to: 1. identify words, ideas, structure, and purpose of the text; 2. explore the different social and socio-cultural contexts to enhance and enrich the understanding of the text; and 3. appreciate the importance of understanding the literary context and its meaning to one’s own life experiences. Lesson 1 Context and Text’s Meaning Reading literary pieces becomes a challenge to a student like you. But as the years go by, changes happened even in the literary genre. Understanding the selection you read takes time, but if you will familiarize yourself with the context of the literary piece, appreciation comes along. What is It Context originates from the notion of weaving together. It is defined as the circumstances that form the setting of events, 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 of the author and the reception of the reader as they appreciate and explore. ● 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. ● Reader's context is about the reader's previous reading experience, values, assumptions, political and economic issues. ● The text's context is about its publishing history. It is part of the larger text such as newspaper, history, events, translated in it. ● Social context and socio-cultural of a text feature the society in which the characters live and in which the author's text was produced. In this lesson, you will unravel what goes with the poem. The structure of the poem refers to words that are put together or arranged such that they make sense. Imagery is creating a picture in the reader's mind by using words that appeal to the senses. There are types of Imagery that are used in this module. (Menoy 2016)) ● Visual imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of sight. ● Auditory Imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the sense of hearing. ● Kinesthetic imagery produced by the use of words that appeal to the actions and movement. Literary Techniques are methods the author or writer of a literary piece used to convey what they want to impart to the reader, such as Flashback where the events have taken place before the present time the narration is following.
