GEN-ED DRILLS Flashcards
Filipino migrant writer, whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino concept of American culture?
Bienvenido Santos
This Filipino writer in English used Hispanic- Filipino culture and traditions in his works
Nick Joaquin
A story is made out of an exchange of letters?
Epistolary
One famous Japanese poem, it is consists of 3 lines totaling 17 syllables with nature as topic?
Haiku
It is a dramatic presentation that originated from the traditional armed encounter between the Christians and Muslim Filipinos?
Moro - moro
Speech progress which was concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice using human amplifiers such as the nose, windpipe, and chest?
Resonation
He was called “Morning star of English Literature?
Geoffrey Chaucer
. “To be or not to be” is the beginning of the soliloquy of?
Hamlet
The Rubaiyat has a theme of?
grasping pleasure while you can
He was the foremost French short story writer?
Guy de Maupassant
The pen name of Samuel Clemens is?
Mark Twain
She was the reason of Trojan War. “the face that launched a thousand ship”
Helen of Troy
Where did the ancient civilization of China exist?
Yellow River
Indian sacred hymns are enshrined in this compendium?
Rig Veda
The longest epic of India?
Mahabharata
A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Egyptian literature is identified as?
Mediterranean
The Philippines lies in the ___, an area where volcanoes are active?
Ring of fire
Migrant crossed the seas from the southern Philippines there were already aboriginal settlers in the islands?
Negritos
Who first introduced the Islamic religion to the Philippines?
Mukdum
The late president Ferdinand Marcos placed the Philippines under Martial law through what laws?
Proclamation 1081
This person served as the brains behind the “arena theater”?
Severino Montano
She wrote the first Filipino modern English language short story “Dead Star”?
Paz Marquez Benitez
The famous ballerina who brought ballet to children of various economic levels?
Liza Macuja