Enrichment Activity 1: True or False
Directions: Read each item carefully. Write True is the statement is correct
and False if otherwise. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.
1. The use of intertextuality in literary work is easy to identify even if the
reader does not possess a wide knowledge of different literary texts
and materials.
2. Intertextuality happens when a text or any work of art is indirectly or
directly referring to another text or work of art through its genre,
symbols, ideas, or even style.
3. The term intertextuality was first developed by the poststructuralist
Julia Klarete in the 1960s.
4. An implicit intertextual reference happens when the writer directly
alludes to another text through the genre, ideas, symbols and styles.
5. Explicit intertextual reference happens when the writer indirectly
states quotes or reference another text in their work.
6. The use of intertextuality has given writers the potentials to enrich
and extend the meanings of their literary work and reflect their
perspectives on issues or message in a more creative manner.
7. Intertextuality variations depend on two factors: the intention of the
significance and the writer's reference.
8. Optional intertextuality creates bigger impact on the significance of
the intertext within the work of literature.
9. Accidental intertextuality happens when readers connect a text with
another text, cultural practice, or a personal experience without any
tangible anchor point within the original text.
10. Obligatory intertextuality is done unconsciously and inflicted
directly by the writer to help enrich and extend the meanings of their
literary work.
11. Adaptation is the ‘reworking' or the ‘re-imagination' of a well-known
work of art or a piece of literature to change or extend its meanings.
12. Parody is simply referred to by most literary scholars as
‘intellectually humorous imitation' of a work of art or literature.
13. Appropriation technique refers to the use of direct reference to
another text with the use of famous lines.
14. Allusion is commonly used in intertextuality where an indirect
reference to another text through characters, symbols, and ideas are
used to extend meaning.
15. Adaptation is a technique common in TV damas or stage plays where
the stories are largely based on popular literary works such as novels
and short stories.​