2.  To read and to understand the
Selection: “Zita” by Arturo Rotor
 To discuss and apply the Skill:
Figures of Speech
 To distinguish the different figures
of speech

4. OVERTURE:
Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is
what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Franklin P. Jones
Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to
end.
-Anonymous
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
-Charles M. Shultz

5. OVERTURE:
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must
not love. But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to
suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to
love. TO be happy then is to suffer. But suffering
makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy
one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too
much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
-Woody Allen
Love is the triumph of imagination over
intelligence.
-H. L. Mencken

6.  Zita is about a brokenhearted teacher who
comes to the land of Anayat. From the minute
Mr. Reteche steps on the shores of Anayat, his
lonesomeness is apparent for the villagers. He
comes across Zita, the innocent province girl
who coincidentally has the same name as her
past lover. Zita becomes fond of her gloomy
teacher and soon grew keen and observant
with his actions. Mr. Reteche was saddest
whenever a certain mail arrive: a letter
enveloped in a blue.

7.  Don Eliodoro, Zita’s father asks Mr. Reteche to
teach his daughter how to be ‘a lady’. He agrees
and teaches her how to dress, act and dance like
a city lady. One day he told Zita to dress
accordingly as he will teach her a spanish dance.
She does so and manages to show up like a true
lady. She dances dreamily with her teacher, but
Mr. Reteche doesn’t show any affection towards
her. Their dance was paused by a Turong, a
messenger, who hands him a blue envelope. But
he tore the letter into pieces. She asks him why he
tears it when he will only pick them up and put it
together. Then he explains that soon she will

8.  After a while, Zita realizes that her teacher will
soon go. On the day that he will depart, she tried
to be in her very best. She was well dressed, and
made-up. She waited impatiently for her teacher to
come by her house and bid her farewell. Soon
Turong arrives and gives her a letter. She opened
the window and sees Mr. Reteche’s silhouette
disappearing, but was quite sure he was looking at
her. Suddenly she realizes that the letter she was
holding, she was unaware she had torn apart.
Slowly, painfully, she picks them up and put it all
together.

9.  A SIMILE makes comparison by using the
words as and like.
Ex. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer
at a time, and sometimes you weep.
 A METAPHOR makes direct comparison of
things which may seem to be dissimilar.
Ex. Prince William is a 24 karat gold.

10.  A HYPERBOLE makes use of words that
denote an exaggeration for emphasis.
Ex. I have a million things to do today.
 An IRONY makes use of words that convey the
opposite meaning.
Ex. Mr.Reteche had to give up love to be free.

11.  A PERSONIFICATION makes use of words
that give human qualities to inanimate objects,
events or animals.
Ex. The moon smiled down at me.
 A PARADOX makes use of two different ideas
to magnify the intended meaning. An apparent
contradiction which, nevertheless, is true.
Ex. Please ignore this notice.
This sentence is false.

12.  An OXYMORON makes use of two ideas that
contradict each other yet can stay or appear
side by side.
Ex. “The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.”
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)
 A SYNECHDOCHE makes use of a part for the
whole (ABCs for alphabets) or the whole for a
part (England won the World Cup in 1966).
Ex. All hands on deck.
He bought a new set of wheels.

13.  A METONYMY makes use of a word to
represent another.
Ex. The teacher is blessed to have many Einsteins
in her class. (smart students)
 A EUPHEMISM makes use of more polite and
tactful words for offensive ones.
Ex. She felt like his husband passed away when
he left the island.