Language of Today

Word History: The word modern, first recorded in 1585 in the sense "of present or recent times," has traveled through the centuries designating things that inevitably must become old-fashioned as the word itself goes on to the next modern thing. We have now invented the word postmodern, as if we could finally fix modern in time, but even postmodern (first recorded in 1949) will seem fusty in the end, perhaps sooner than modern will. Going back to Late Latin modernus, "modern," which is derived from Latin modo in the sense "just now," the English word modern (first recorded at the beginning of the 16th century) was not originally concerned with anything that could later be considered old-fashioned. It simply meant "being at this time, now existing," an obsolete sense today. In the later 16th century, however, we begin to see the word contrasted with the word ancient and also used of technology in a way that is clearly related to our own modern way of using the word. Modern was being applied specifically to what pertained to present times and also to what was new and not old-fashioned. Thus in the 19th and 20th centuries the word could be used to designate a movement in art, modernism, which is now being followed by postmodernism.

Friday, September 24, 2010

TAYUTAY

Mga Uri ng Tayutay

Types of Figure of Speech
pagtutulad
simile

pagwawangis
metaphor

pagsasatao
personification

pagmamalabis
hyperbole 		pag-uyam
sarcasm

pagpapalit-saklaw
synecdoche

paghihimig
onomatopoeia

pagtanggi
litotes

The Tagalog word for 'poetry' is panulaan or simply tula ('poem').

malayang taludturan
free verse

mga salik ng tula
elements of a poem


sukat
meter

tugma
rhyme

kagandahan / kariktan
beauty
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