21st Century Literature

Question 1

Legendary and religious poems

Answer 1

Octosyllabic

Question 2

Verses composed and sung about romance

Answer 2

Dodecasyllabic

Question 3

Involves reference to one or two images that symbolize
the characteristics of an unknown object that is to be
guessed and may consist of 4 to 12 syllables

Answer 3

Bugtong (Riddle)

Question 4

Short poems that have been customarily been used and
served as laws or rules on good behavior by our ancestors. Allegories or parables that impart lessons for the young

Answer 4

Salawikain

Question 5

Often expressing a single idea, that is usually satirical and
had a witty ending

Answer 5

Sawikain

Question 6

Rhyming couplets (5,6,8 syllables)

Answer 6

Maxims

Question 7

A quatrain with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line

Answer 7

Tanaga

Question 8

Traditional poetry of the Hanunoo Mangyans of
Oriental Mindoro which is normally inscribed on
bamboo using a pre-Colonial syllabic writing system
called the Surat Mangyan .

Answer 8

Ambahan