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    The document summarizes and analyzes the short story "The Truth about Filipino Old Timers" by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. It identifies that the story uses point of view and imagery as its main literary techniques. Through imagery, the author depicts characters like Tony, described as "a quiet man with skin like stretched leather." The theme centers around love and the social conditions faced by elderly Filipinos, as suggested by the phrase "No dogs and No Filipinos allowed." Various techniques like imagery, hyperbole, and personification help the reader understand the story and its exploration of these themes.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes the short story "The Truth about Filipino Old Timers" by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. It identifies that the story uses point of view and imagery as its main literary techniques. Through imagery, the author depicts characters like Tony, described as "a quiet man with skin like stretched leather." The theme centers around love and the social conditions faced by elderly Filipinos, as suggested by the phrase "No dogs and No Filipinos allowed." Various techniques like imagery, hyperbole, and personification help the reader understand the story and its exploration of these themes.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes the short story "The Truth about Filipino Old Timers" by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. It identifies that the story uses point of view and imagery as its main literary techniques. Through imagery, the author depicts characters like Tony, described as "a quiet man with skin like stretched leather." The theme centers around love and the social conditions faced by elderly Filipinos, as suggested by the phrase "No dogs and No Filipinos allowed." Various techniques like imagery, hyperbole, and personification help the reader understand the story and its exploration of these themes.

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    The Truth About Filipino Old Timers

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    The document summarizes and analyzes the short story "The Truth about Filipino Old Timers" by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. It identifies that the story uses point of view and imagery as its main literary techniques. Through imagery, the author depicts characters like Tony, described as "a quiet man with skin like stretched leather." The theme centers around love and the social conditions faced by elderly Filipinos, as suggested by the phrase "No dogs and No Filipinos allowed." Various techniques like imagery, hyperbole, and personification help the reader understand the story and its exploration of these themes.

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    The story “The Truth about Filipino Old Timers” by Cecilia Manguerra

    Brainard, is a narrative text. Based on my understanding about this text. It can be


    seen in the text that the author uses various literary technique. Which are the point of
    view and imagery. As I observed in the text the main literary technique used in every
    paragraph is imagery. I observe upon reading the text that the author also use a
    figure of speech. The figure of speech that is being applied in this text is hyperbole
    and personification.

    As I read more and fully understand the text I Identified that the theme that the
    author used in this text is love and the social conditions of elderly. The author
    showed In the… Fifth paragraph from the phase “No dogs and No Filipinos allowed”
    which is a social issue. It also talks about the older people, where the author called
    “Old timers”. The author also utilized hyperbole in the second paragraph sentence.
    “And the author also used the literary technique imagery. When the author meet tony
    the author described him as a “quiet man with skin like stretched leather”.. Overall,
    by the help of the literary techniques that been used in the text “The Truth about
    Filipino Old timers”, it help me us a reader understand the text.
    Performance Task No.1
    (Literary Text Analysis)

    JEAN MARIE B. NAVIDAD


    12 HUMSS Caimito

    JOEYLYN A. BANOG
    Teacher II

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