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English Flashcards

1
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Life of a person

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Biography

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2
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Opinion or view point

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Essay

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3
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One plot and impression

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Short story

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4
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Author of “Dead Stars”

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Paz Marquez Benitos

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5
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Type of prose with chapters

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Novel

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6
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First tagalog Novel published in the Philippines

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Barlaan at Josaphat

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7
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Author of Barlaan at Josaphat

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Fray Antonio de Borja

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8
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Exchange of letters

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Epistolary

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9
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Example of Epistolary

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Urbana at Felisa

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10
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Author of Urbana at Felisa

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Modesto de Castro

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11
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Father of classical prose in Tagalog

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Modesto de Castro

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12
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Based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Noli Me Tangere

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13
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Based on The Court of Monti Cristo

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El Filibusterismo

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14
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Maximo Viola

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Noli Me Tangere

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15
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Valentine Ventura

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El Fili

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16
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Life lesson (type of prose)

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Anecdote

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17
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Animals or inanimated object as characters

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Fable

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18
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Heroic exploits

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Epic

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19
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Epic in Ilocos

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Biag ni Lam ang

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20
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Epic in Ilo-ilo Antique Akla

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Hinilawod

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21
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Epic in Greece

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Iliad and Odyssey

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22
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Epic in England

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Beowulf

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23
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Imaginary Narrative

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Tale

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24
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Narrative poem intended to be sung

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Ballad

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25
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Awiting Bayan

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Folksong

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26
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14 lines

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Sonnet

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27
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Greatest sonnet writer

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William Shakespeare

28
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Love sonnet writer in the Philippines

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Ophelia Dimalanta

29
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Ceremonious lyric poem

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Ode

30
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Greatest Lyric Poetry

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The Psalms of King David

31
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Poem for the Dead

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Elegy

32
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Elegy by Edgar Allan Poe

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Anabelle Lee

33
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Slow pace, reality, 12 syllables

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Awit

34
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Florante at Laura

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Awit

35
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Fantasy, 8 syllables

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Corrido

36
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3 lines, 17 syllables, Matsuo Basho

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Haiko

37
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5 lines, 31 syllables

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Tanka or tanaka

38
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Struggling Hero

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Tragedy

39
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Like, as

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Simile

40
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Human attributes

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Personification

41
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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

42
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Direct comparison

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Metaphor

43
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Sounds ( figures of speech)

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Onomatopoeia

44
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Repetition of letter or sound

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Alliteration

45
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Exclamatory calling,

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Apostrophe

46
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Check out my new wheels

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Synecdoche

47
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The pen is mightier than the sword

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Metonymy

48
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Two opposite words placed side by side

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Oxymoron

49
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Contradicting statement with truth

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Paradox

50
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In english verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is …..

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Trochaic

51
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Book written by Boris Paternak that talks about totalitarianism rule over Russia

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Doctor Zhivago

52
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Who won the nobel price collection “Gatanjali”, which express faith, hope and beautyif of the world

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Rabindranath Tagore

53
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Poem of Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler which he was most know for?

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Olympian Spring

54
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Collection of religious poetry written by Rabindranath Tagore

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Gitanjali

55
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A novel by Leo Tolstoy about the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia.
Greatest novel ever written

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War and Peace

56
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Fables used to educate Indian princes into becoming wise king

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The Panchatantra

57
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Pen name: George Eliot

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Mary Evans

58
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Delivers the Gettysburg address to give tribute to the union soldier of civil war

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Abraham Lincoln

59
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Adventure if Huckleberry Finn

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

60
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Les Miserables

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Victor Hugo

61
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Indian Shakespeare

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Tagore

62
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The Jungle Book

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Rudyard Kipling

63
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Edgar Allan Poe’s short story about revenge and murder

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The Cask of Amontillado

64
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A political realist rather than political idealist.

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Julius Caesar

65
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A medieval German Epic

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Nibelungenlied

66
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Manila film festival

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Antonio Villegas

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