LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN CREATIVE WRITING

Worksheet No. 8

Learner’s Name: __________________________________________________

Grade Level and Section:_______________________________________________
Date: ______________________________________________________________

I. LEARNING SKILLS
A. Most Essential Learning Competency
Understand intertextuality as a technique of drama.
B. Objectives
At the end of this learning activity learners will be able to:
● Define intertextuality;
● Identify the types of intertextuality; and,
● Show and/or verbalize appreciation of the importance of
Intertextuality as a technique of drama.

II. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT

The word ‘intertextuality’ was derived from the Latin word intertexto
meaning ‘to mingle while weaving’. It was first introduced in literary linguistics by
Bulgarian-born French semiotician and philosopher Julia Kristeva in the late 1960s.
In her manifesto which includes such essays as "The Bounded Text" and "Word,
Dialogue, and Novel," Kristeva broke from traditional notions of the author’s
influences and the text’s sources. She argued that all signifying systems, from table
settings to poems, are constituted by the way they transform earlier signifying
systems. A literary work, then, is not simply the product of a single author, but of
his/her relationship to other texts (both written and spoken), and to the structure of
language itself.
Intertextuality shows how much a culture can influence its authors, even as
the authors in turn influence the culture. It also shows how a similar cultural,
religious, political, or moral ideology can be expressed in very different ways
through different cultural practices.

There are different types of Intertextuality: Appropriation, Allusion, Parody,

Quotation, and Adaptation.

ADAPTATION
Adaptation is a remaking of a original text taking a book’s plot and using
the same characters and ideas to create a movie or film.

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 In a theatrical adaptation, material from another artistic medium, such as a
novel or a film is re-written according to the needs and requirements of
the theatre and turned into a play or musical.
Example:
L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900; it was Baum's
attempt to create an American fairy tale. Most everyone is familiar with the 1939
film version The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, but there was an earlier
adaptation, a silent film version produced in 1925. The story pretty much remained
the same, but some more significant changes were made in subsequent
versions. The Wiz, the 1975 musical theater adaptation of the Wizard of
Oz updates the originals, moving the story from a farm to an urban setting and
adding a racial twist to the original. In this case, Dorothy is an African American
teenager

ALLUSION
Allusion is a brief and concise reference that a writer uses in another
narrative without affecting the storyline. It may simple refer to a character or quoting
a line.
Example:
You're acting like such a Scrooge! Alluding to Dickens's A Christmas Carol,
this line means that the person is being miserly and selfish, just like the character
Scrooge from the story.
Types of Allusion
 Historical – An allusion to a historical event or period. ...
 Mythological – An allusion to a mythological figure or story. ...
 Literary – An allusion to a literary text or figure. ...
 Religious – An allusion to a religious text, story, or figure.

APPROPRIATION
Appropriation is a reworking or re-imagination of a well-known text to change
or extend its meaning.
Example:
Marcel Duchamp's artwork, L.H.O.O.Q is an appropriation of Da Vinci's
Mona Lisa.

QUOTATION
Quotation is a group of words, phrases or sentences repeated by someone
else but not by the speaker or writer himself. It is a repetition of a sentence, phrase
or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.

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 Example
“The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures,
sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point
where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break
through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre”. Antonin
Artaud

PARODY
Parody is a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an
author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. It is specially associated with
postmodernism. It is a humorous piece of writing, drama, or music which imitates
the style of a well-known person or represents a familiar situation in an exaggerated
way. When someone parodies a particular work, thing, or person, they imitate it in
an amusing or exaggerated way.
Example
The movie Vampire Sucks parodies and pokes fun at the
blockbuster Twilight series, which was a film adaptation of Stephanie
Meyer’s novel Twilight.

III. ACTIVITIES
A. Practice Tasks
Task 1. Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the
correct answer on the space provided.

_______1. What is intertextuality?

a. The relationship between texts
b. Allusions from one text to another
c. The translation of a text into a different language
d. Copying of ideas and texts

_______2. Who introduced intertextuality in literary linguistics?

a. Graham Allen c. Ferdinand de Saussure
b. Julia Kristeva d. Mikhail Bakhtin

_______3. A filmmaker decides to make a remake of Senakulo. This is an example

of _____________.
a. Allusion b. Appropriation c. Parody d. Citation
_______4. Which of the following would not be an example of intertextuality?
a. A translation of one work into a different language
b. A poetic homage to an earlier writer by adopting the writer’s theme
and tone.
c. The main characters of two unrelated works coincidentally both
named Bob
d. Movies having different titles but same characters and content
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______5. Which of the following statements is not an example of intertextuality in
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
a. Tom Stoppard used the same character names as in Shakespeare’s
original play.
b. The Disney movie The Lion King is also somewhat based on
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
c. Parts of the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are exact
quotes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
d. None of the above.

Task 2-TASK CARD

Directions: Complete the task card below by providing an example for each of
the following intertextuality type: Appropriation, Allusion, Parody, Quotation and
Adaptation.

Appropriation Allusion Parody Quotation Adaptation

Task 3
Directions: Choose from the pool of words the intertextuality type that applies
to the following plays.

Appropriation Allusion Parody

Quotation Adaptation

Plays Intertextuality Type Applied

1. Carlos A. Arejola wrote Kuwintas
play based on Linda Ty-Casper’s
short story The Transparent Sun.

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 2. In his Sakristan Mayor play,
Bernardo O. Aguay gave more
depth and substance to one of
Noli Me Tangere’s minor but
important characters.

3. Teatro Ragayano explores

dramatic monologues making
comedic and exaggerated
versions of popular poems and
quotes.

B. Assessment
Directions: Put a check (  ) on the blank before each sentence that states
appreciation for the importance of intertextuality as a technique in drama.
_____1. It aids in understanding a play and the time and culture in which it is set.
_____2. It enhances a play’s popularity and appeal to the audiences.
_____3. It indicates the influences the playwright has that might have added texture
to the drama.
_____4. It makes the setting up of production design easier.
_____5. It allows for the highlighting of cultural influences.

IV. REFERENCES
Shakib, M. (2013). International Journal of English and Literature Vol. 4(1)
Bartelson, S. (2020). Hartford Stage. Retrieved from Hartford Stage:
https://www.hartfordstage.org/stagenotes/hamlet/synopsis/
Practical Lesson For the New English Syllabus. (n.d.). Retrieved from
Band 6 HSC
English Resources: https://www.ignitehsc.com.au
Moore,K. Six Most Important Qualities of An Effective Writer. Retrieved from
https://www.inc.com/kaleigh-moore/the-6-most-important-qualities-of-
an-effective-writer.html
Shattock, A. (2016, Aug 1). Youtube. Retrieved from Aimee Shattock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9I3WoEHBo
https://www.matrix.edu.au/literary-techniques-allusion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_adaptation#:~:text=In%20a%20theatric
al%20adaptation%2C%20material,into%20a%20play%20or%20musica
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https://www.wisesayings.com/theatre-quotes/#ixzz6qUGk7SFc
https://literarydevices.net/parody/

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 SLM Written by:
CARLENN P. MERIN
Teacher, Bicol Regional Science HS
SDO-Ligao City

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DIEGO A. PERCIANA
Teacher I, DPPMHS
SDO-Ligao City

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JOE-BREN L. CONSUELO, EdD
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SDO-Ligao City

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DIEGO A. PERCIANA MARY JANE S. SAN AGUSTIN
Teacher I, DPPMHS SDO-Ligao City T-II, Fundado ES, SDO Cam. Sur

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Master Teacher I- RNAFS, SDO Cam. Sur

ANGUSTIA P. ORAA
Principal I- VdsHS, SDO Cam. Sur

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EPS I-English, SDO Cam. Sur

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