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Life of a person

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Biography

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Opinion or view point

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Essay

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One plot and impression

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Short story

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Author of “Dead Stars”

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Paz Marquez Benitos

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Type of prose with chapters

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Novel

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First tagalog Novel published in the Philippines

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Barlaan at Josaphat

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Author of Barlaan at Josaphat

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Fray Antonio de Borja

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Exchange of letters

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Epistolary

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Example of Epistolary

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Urbana at Felisa

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Author of Urbana at Felisa

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Modesto de Castro

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Father of classical prose in Tagalog

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Modesto de Castro

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Based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Noli Me Tangere

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Based on The Court of Monti Cristo

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El Filibusterismo

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Maximo Viola

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Noli Me Tangere

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Valentine Ventura

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El Fili

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Life lesson (type of prose)

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Anecdote

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Animals or inanimated object as characters

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Fable

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Heroic exploits

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Epic

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Epic in Ilocos

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Biag ni Lam ang

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Epic in Ilo-ilo Antique Akla

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Hinilawod

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Epic in Greece

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Iliad and Odyssey

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Epic in England

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Beowulf

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Imaginary Narrative

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Tale

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Narrative poem intended to be sung

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Ballad

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Awiting Bayan
Folksong
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14 lines
Sonnet
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Greatest sonnet writer
William Shakespeare
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Love sonnet writer in the Philippines
Ophelia Dimalanta
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Ceremonious lyric poem
Ode
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Greatest Lyric Poetry
The Psalms of King David
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Poem for the Dead
Elegy
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Elegy by Edgar Allan Poe
Anabelle Lee
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Slow pace, reality, 12 syllables
Awit
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Florante at Laura
Awit
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Fantasy, 8 syllables
Corrido
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3 lines, 17 syllables, Matsuo Basho
Haiko
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5 lines, 31 syllables
Tanka or tanaka
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Struggling Hero
Tragedy
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Like, as
Simile
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Human attributes
Personification
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Exaggeration
Hyperbole
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Direct comparison
Metaphor
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Sounds ( figures of speech)
Onomatopoeia
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Repetition of letter or sound
Alliteration
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Exclamatory calling,
Apostrophe
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Check out my new wheels
Synecdoche
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The  pen is mightier than the sword
Metonymy
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Two opposite words placed side by side
Oxymoron
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Contradicting statement with truth
Paradox
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In english verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is .....
Trochaic
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Book written by Boris Paternak that talks about totalitarianism rule over Russia
Doctor Zhivago
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Who won the nobel price collection "Gatanjali", which express faith, hope and beautyif of the world
Rabindranath Tagore
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Poem of Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler which he was most know for?
Olympian Spring
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Collection of religious poetry written by Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali
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A novel by Leo Tolstoy about the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia. Greatest novel ever written
War and Peace
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Fables used to educate Indian princes into becoming wise king
The Panchatantra
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Pen name: George Eliot
Mary Evans
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Delivers the Gettysburg address to give tribute to the union soldier of civil war
Abraham Lincoln
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Adventure if Huckleberry Finn
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
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Indian Shakespeare
Tagore
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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
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Edgar Allan Poe's short story about revenge and murder
The Cask of Amontillado
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A political realist rather than political idealist.
Julius Caesar
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A medieval German Epic
Nibelungenlied
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Manila film festival
Antonio Villegas

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