Terms and Ideas 1. Biography - Written by another 2. Autobiography - Written by the subject 3. Characterization - Crafting of personality through various means 4. Narrative structure - Movement of a particular literary discourse 5. Prose 6. Fabula - Chronological order of events - Syuzet - organization and orchestration of the narrative A particular time is recreated and recollected, and icidents are meaningfully connected with one another. Through language, the disjointed or chaotic events of real life can be connected or rearranged into a coherent narrative. According to novelist, Joan Silber (2009), this is what makes fictio different from reality– in fiction “life can be seen as intelligible”. This also applies to nonfiction or stories derived from true events, as in history or biography. To write the story of a real person, a writer selects the most important detaoles of their life and world, charactertizing them andallowig the reader to know them. Literature strives to make life comprehensible and itelligl=ible by its creative use of language in a plot– through descriptions scene, dialogue, and more =. The use of language cultivates. Poetic Repetition used in poetry Rhyme - found pattern Assonance - repetition of sound Consonance - repetition of consonants’ Alliteration - pleasure in pattern tripping of consonance Literature is more umm prettier,its more aesthetic than real world, someti Literary language - associated ith poetry can be found in prose. Prose also engages use by telling a story. A story makes us believe in the plot and events even if they are fictional. This is perhaps the effect of stories beginning with “once upon a time” Magdalena Jalandoni, a writer from Western Visayas. It reads like history, since it mentions details about the person. However, it also reads into the mind of the esteemed author and literary matriarch who "remained single, and wrote 37 novels, 5 autobiographies, 8 narrative poems, 6 corridos, 10 plays, 213 lyric poems, 132 short stories, 9 essays, and 10 melodramas." The catalogue of her life work already suggests her passion for the written word; it also connotes the solitude she has chosen as a price for her prolific literary production, and which the writer of the essay found to be an interesting subject. In this essay, author and Hiligaynon literature scholar Winton Lou Ynion uses language creatively by almost turning Jalandoni into a fictive character. In this essay, Ynion explores Jalandoni's world, speculating on her story beyond what is mentioned in conventional biographical accounts. Ynion performs this to create a different experience of reading Jalandoni's story. Through the literary essay, he humanized Ialandoni, as with a fictional character, and imagined her into a relatable imaginative figure.
