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involves the reading, interpretation and commentary of a specific text or texts which have been designated as literature

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Literary criticism

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This theory is premised on the idea that literature is an imitation of life.

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Classical Literary Theory

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Greek word for imitation.

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Mimesis (Plato)

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refers to whether a piece of literary work aims to entertain (dulce) or to teach or to instruct (utile)

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Function (Horace)

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written in a low, middle, or high style

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Style (Longinus).

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refers to purgation, purification, clarification, or structural kind of emotional cleansing.

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Catharsis (Aristotle)

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an issue for Plato for literary works that show bad mimesis.

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Censorship (Plato)

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The book tells the story of a ritual performed by women to call upon the gods to grant fertility

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Summer Solstice

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  • customs and traditions in everyday life
  • word of mouth
  • communal and functional
  • written records were either burned or easily perished
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Pre-Hispanic Period

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First ancient alphabet in PH

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Baybayin

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A form of prose which is about the origin of a thing, place, location, or name

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Legends

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Stories about life, adventure, love, horror, and humor where one can derive lessons about life

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Folk tales

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Oldest forms of Philippine Literature that emerged in the Pre-Spanish Period

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Folk Songs

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Long narrative poems in which a series of heroic achievements or events, usually of a hero, are dealt with at length

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Epic

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It celebrates the epic story of the town of Ibalong with three legendary heroes [Baltog, Handiong, Bantong]

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Ibalon [Bicol Epic]

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Life of Lam-ang [Ilocano Epic]

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Biag ni Lam-ang [Pedro Bucaneg]

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It narrates the story of the Muslims defending their Freedom/Liberty, known as Kamaruan, from the colonizers, such as the Spaniards

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Parang Sibil [Tausug Epic]

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Long narrative that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society

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Indarapata and Sulayman

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Pre- Hispanic Literature

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  • Legends
  • Folk Tales
  • Folk Songs
  • Epics
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20
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  • Religious and Secular
  • Liberalism and Internationalism
  • Comedia (Moro-moro), Sarsuwela, and Senaculo
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Spanish Period

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It depicts battles, in rather comedic way, between Christians and (Moros) Muslims

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Comedia

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A play with music, deriving it’s name from the Palacio de Zarzuela near Madrid

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Zarzuela

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23
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Who introduced Zarzuela?

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Alejandro Cubero, Severino Reyes, and Hermogenes Ilagan

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24
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The place where Jesus Christ celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples

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Senaculo

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25
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  • first establishment of English as the medium of instruction in all schools
  • free verse [in poetry]
  • seditious works in Liwayway and Bisaya
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American Period

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26
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Golden Age of Filipino Literature and Filipino Language

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Japanese Period

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  • Revolutionary form of literature attacked the ills of the society
  • Provided a venue in reviving traditional drama and in creating original plays
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New Society

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  • Prince of Tagalog Poets
  • Filipino Counterpart of Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Francisco Baltazar/Balagtas

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  • Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature
  • The bridge from oral to literary tradition
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Leona Florentino

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30
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  • Father of Philippine Journalism
  • First editor of La Solidaridad
  • Father of Philippine Masonry
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Marcelo H. Del Pilar

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Father of Tagalog Short Story

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Deogracias Rosario

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  • Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry
  • Father of Modern Tagalog Prose
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Alejandro G. Abadilla

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  • Goddess of Philippine Poetry
  • Author of Love Poems
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Ophelia Dimalanta

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34
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Father of Ilocano Literature

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Pedro Bukaneg

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35
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Father of MODERN Ilocano Literature

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Leon Pichay

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36
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Prince of Ilocano Poets

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Claro Caluya

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37
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Father of Kapampangan Literature

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Crisostomo Sotto

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  • First National Artist of The Philippines for Literature in 1973
  • Comma poet, advocate of “art for arts sake” [inverse consonance]
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Jose Garcia Villa [Doveglion]

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39
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Author of Footnote to Youth and The Fence

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Jose Garcia Villa

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40
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It is a brief reminder for the Filipinos especially the youth of what a real life could be today

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Footnote to Youth

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41
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Two nipa huts are only visible houses — unyielding fence between them to stay at arm’s length from each other

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The Fence

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42
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  • National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1986
  • Filipino-Spanish fiction writer
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Nick Joaquin [Quijano de Manila]

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43
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Author of May Day Eve and Summer Solstice

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Nick Joaquin

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44
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The main characters in the story both believe in superstition — fate. They believed that they saw each other in the mirror that fated night, which they are bound to be with each other.

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May Day Eve [Nick Joaquin]

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45
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  • Foremost Filipino Local Colorist
  • Author of How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
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Manuel Arguilla

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  • National Artist for Literature in 2001
  • Novels and Short Stories (class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society)
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F. Sionil Jose

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47
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Rosales Tetralogy

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F. Sionil Jose

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48
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National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1997

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Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzales

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49
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Author of Bread and Salt

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Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzales

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The story is about a teenage boy who buys pandesal or “bread salt” because of its wonderful flavor

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The Bread of Salt

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Fil-Am fiction writer whose writings depict the loneliness and disillusionment of Filipinos in a strange and alien land

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Bienvenido Santos

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52
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Author of Scent of Apples

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Bienvenido Santos

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53
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It tells the story of one man and his family’s unique experience as Filipino immigrants to the US

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Scent of Apples

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54
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  • Most respected Filipino woman fictionist in prewar days
  • Convicted for pornography in writing “Fairy Tale in the City”
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Estrella Alfon

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55
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Author of Magnificence

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Estrella Alfon

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56
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The story mainly talked about the protection given by the mother to her children. She saved her child from the hands of a pervert (Vicente).

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Magnificence

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She was the editor of the Woman’s Journal, the first feminine literary magazine in English published in the Philippines

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Paz Benitez

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58
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Recognized as one of the best short stories yet written by a Filipino

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Dead Stars

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59
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  • English Filipino Novelist
  • famous for his autobiographical novel America is in the Heart (1946) which he wrote when he went to the US during the Great Depression
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Carlos Bulosan

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60
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Author of My Father Goes to Court

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Carlos Bulosan

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The young narrator begins by describing his large family. Then, a rich man brings a charge against the narrator’s family for stealing the spirit of his family’s food

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My Father Goes to Court

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  • Her short stories won two Palanca Awards and two Free Press Awards
  • Author of The Visitation of the Gods
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Gilda Cordero-Fernando

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63
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The story is about the visitation of the superintendent, the district supervisors and the division supervisors for the purposes of inspection and evaluation to the public schools, specifically the Pugad Lawin School

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The Visitation of the Gods

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64
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  • The Virgin won first prizes in the Palanca and the Free Press
  • The Hand of the Enemy (1962) won the Stone hill award for Filipino novel in English
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Kerima Poloton-Tuvera

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65
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Having spent most of her adult life caring for an ailing mother, Miss Mijares is past her youth.

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The Virgin [Kerima Poloton-Tuvera]

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66
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First novel written by a Filipino in 1885 by Pedro Paterno

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Ninay

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67
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The life and love story of Ninay, a heartbroken young woman who died of cholera — heartbreak was due to her separation from her lover Carlos Mabagsic

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Ninay

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68
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First English Novel written by a Filipino in 1921.

By: Zoilo Galang

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A Child of Sorrow

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69
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An extremely sentimental romance in which the lover, consumed by gnawing sadness, soon followed his beloved to the grave.

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A Child of Sorrow

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70
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The first novel written by a Filipino after World War 2

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Without Seeing the Dawn

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71
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Author of the Wedding Dance

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Amador Daguio

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72
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It is a short story about a husband and wife, Awiyao and Lumnay, who had been married for 7 years. Awiyao feels the need to marry again in order to have a son

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The Wedding Dance [Amador Daguio]

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73
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It is a story about a young girl who falls in love with her teacher while he teaches her how to be a lady.

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Zita [Arturo Rotor]

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74
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It deals with the illusions of love — a young woman with so much promise brought low by love

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Love in the Cornhusks [Aida Rivera]

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75
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  • two main characters: SITA and Clara
  • SITA: consumed by hunger
  • Clara: widow — her husband left this mortal world
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The Bolo [Loreto Paras Sulit]

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76
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Author of the Small Key

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Paz Latorena

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77
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It is about Soledad, a woman in her mid-twenties who is married to a man named Pedro Buhay. They lived in a hut within a prosperous farm away from neighbors. — abundant harvest with familiarity and discontent

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The Small Key [Paz Latorena]

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78
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Epics of the World

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  • Beowulf
  • Song of Roland
  • Aeneid
  • Iliad and Odyssey
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Mahabharata
    -Shah-namah
  • El Cid El Compeador
  • Epic of Gilgamesh
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79
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Epic of England: 3 antagonist — grendel, Grendel’s mother, dragon

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Beowulf

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80
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Epic of France: Roland led the army of King Charlemagne in fighting the Saracens

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Song of Roland

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Epic of Italy: narrated the story of Aeneas as was exile and discovered the ‘to be’ city of Rome.

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Aeneid

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82
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Epic of Greece: Iliad and Odyssey

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Homer

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  • narrated the feud between the Trojans and Achaeans (10 year siege)
  • hector killed Patroclus; Achilles killed hector; Paris killed Achilles
  • Hector: Tamer of Horses
  • Achilles’ heel - weakness
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Iliad

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84
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Homer’s epic of ‘Odysseus’ 10 year struggle to return home after the Trojan War

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Odyssey

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85
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Epic of Germany: story of Kriemhild and Siegfried

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Nibelungenlied

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86
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Epic of India: Longest Epic in the world

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Mahabharata

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87
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Epic of Persia

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Shah-namah

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88
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Epic of Spain

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El Cid El Compeador

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89
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Epic of Babylon: oldest epic in the world

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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90
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Narrates Dante’s journey through inferno, purgatorio, and Paradiso guided by Virgil (Inferno and Purgatorio) and Beatrice (Paradiso)

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Divine Comedy by Dante Alhigieri

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91
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Father of Italian literature

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Dante Alhigieri

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92
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Frame story narrated by Scheherezde to save herself from the wrath of King Sharayar

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1001 Arabian Nights

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93
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Famous stories of 1001 Arabian Nights:

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Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Alibaba and the 40 Thieves

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94
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young lovers — families hate each other and forbid them to get married — crack in the wall

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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95
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Ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills.

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Orpheus

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96
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His music and grief so moved Hades — allowed to take Eurydice with him back to the world of life and light

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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97
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He is fated to kill his father and marry his mother.

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Oedipus Rex

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98
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Aphrodite: Goddess of love and beauty

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Roman: Venus

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99
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Apollo: God of music, poetry, and the sun

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Roman: Apollo

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100
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Ares: God of War

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Roman: Mars

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101
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Artemis: Goddess of the moon

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Roman: Diana

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102
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Asclepius: God of Medicine

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Aesculapius

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103
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Athena: Goddess of Wisdom

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Roman: Minerva

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104
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Cronus: God of the Sky and agriculture

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Roman: Saturn

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105
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Demeter: Goddess of fertility and crops

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Roman: Ceres

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106
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Dionysus: God of wine; ecstasy

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Roman: Bacchus

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107
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Eros: God of Love

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Roman: Cupid

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108
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Gaea: Mother Earth

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Roman: Terra

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109
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Hades: God of the Underworld

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Roman: Dis

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110
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Hephaestus: God of fire; craftsman for the Gods

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Roman: Vulcan

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111
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Hera: Queen of the Gods; Goddess of Marriage

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Roman: Juno

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112
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Hermes: Messenger of the Gods; travel

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Roman: Mercury

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113
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Persephone: Queen of the Underworld

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Roman: Proserpina

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114
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Poseidon: God of the Sea

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Roman: Neptune

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115
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Zeus: Ruler of the Gods

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Roman: Jupiter

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116
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Reflected the humans as the center of the universe.

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Greek Mythology

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It incorporated those of conquered people but was in many respects an adaptation of the Greeks.

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Roman Mythology

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118
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Indian Literature is called

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Verdic after Vedas

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119
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A collection of sacred poem in India

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Vedas

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120
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Central Concepts of Hinduism

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Dharma, Karma, Reincarnation

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121
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Dominant religion of India

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Hinduism

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122
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The soul and the original source of the universe in Hindu

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Purusha

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Virtue, duty, righteousness, moral law

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Dharma

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124
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Wealth

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Artha

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125
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Love or pleasure

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Kama

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126
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renunciation of duty, love, and wealth to seek spiritual perfection — achieved after the release of samsara [the cycle of births and deaths]

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Moksha

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127
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Caste system in India

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  • Brahmins
  • Ksatriyas
  • Vaishyas
  • Sudras
  • Dalits
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128
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Mainly teachers and intellectuals and are believed to have come from Brahma’s head

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Brahmins

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129
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Warriors and rulers from Brahma’s arms

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Ksatriyas

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Traders who came from Brahma’s thighs

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Vaishyas

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All who did menial jobs and came from Brahma’s feet

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Sudras

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132
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Untiuchables

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Dalits

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133
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Originated in India — based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) the enlightened one

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Buddhism

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Human beings are bound to the wheel of life which is a continual cycle of birth, death, and suffering. — effect of Karma in which a person’s present life and experiences are the result of the thoughts and actions

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Buddhism

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Four Noble Truths

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  • life is suffering l
  • the cause of suffering is desire
  • removal of desire is the removal of suffering
  • the eightfold path leads to the end of suffering
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Eightfold Path

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  • right understanding, thought, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, concentration, meditation
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137
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Hymns of supreme sacred knowledge — made up of 1,028 hymns

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Rig Veda

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An anthology of basic Buddhist teaching in a simple aphoristic style — verses are compared with the Letter of St. Paul in the Bible or that of Christ’s Sermon on the mount

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Dhammapada (Way of Truth)

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139
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Sitting at the feet of the Teacher

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Upanishads

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140
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Consists of a mass of legendary and didactic material that tells of the struggle for supremacy between two groups of cousins — Kayravas and Pandavas

100, 000 couplet — 18 parvans

Exposition on dharma [codes of conduct]

A

Mahabharata [Vyasa]

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141
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One of the greatest and most beautiful of the Hindu scriptures — somewhat the same as the Gospels of Christians

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Bhagavad Gita [The Blessed Lord Songs]

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142
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Consists of some 24, 000 couplets divided into 7 books.

It reflects the values of Hindu — the theory of Karma, the feelings of honor and promises

The poem describes the royal birth of Rama — his tutelage under Visvamitra — winning Sita

A

Ramayana (Valmiki)

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Collection of indian beast fables originally written in Sanskrit

Called The Fables of Bidpai in Europe

  • a learned Brahman named Vishnusarman used animal fables to instruct the 3 dull-witted sons of the King.
A

Panchatantra [Frame Story]

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144
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A Sanskrit drama by Kalidasa — a love story between Sakuntala and King Dushyanta

A

Sakuntala

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145
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A noble and pious King who upholds his duties above his personal desire

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King Dushyanta [Sakuntala]

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A young girl who matures beautifully because of her Kindness, and courage, and strength of will

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Sakuntala

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147
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Is attributed to Shudraka, a king — a Brahman merchant who has lost his money because of liberality

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The Little Clay Cart [Mrcchakatika]

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148
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  • more on short stories
  • oral tradition [orature]
  • epics and poems and narratives
A

African Literature

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149
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Keepers of Oral Literature in West Africa

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Griots

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150
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Features of African Oral Literature

A
  • repetition and parallel structure
  • repeat and vary technique
  • tonal assonance
  • call-and-response format
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151
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Memory aids — creates rhythm, builds suspense, and adds emphasis

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Repetition and parallel structure

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152
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Lines are repeated with slight variations

A

Repeat and vary technique

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153
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Determine the meanings of words [repetition of vowel sounds]

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Tonal Assonance

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154
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  • do not tell a story
  • speaker’s thoughts or emotional state
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Lyric Poems

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155
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Offered to the sun god Aten

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Hymns of Praise Songs

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156
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Essence of people’s values and knowledge

A

African Proverbs

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157
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African moral tale — intended for debate and discussion

A

Dilemma or Enigma Tale

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158
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From Ashanti — about the common occupations of the Ashanti

A

Ashanti Tale

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159
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  • religious and social beliefs used to entertain, to teach, and explain
A

Folk Tales

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160
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Creation stories ex. Truth and Falsehood

A

Origin Stories

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161
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Both the hero and the Villain

Ex. Anansi the Spider

A

Trickster

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162
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Attempt to teach a lesson

ex. The Tortoise and the Hare

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Moral Stories

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163
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Primarily intended to amuse

A

Humorous Stories

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164
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means blackness

  • protest against french colonial rule and policy assimilation
A

Negritude

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165
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Egypt is the Gift of Nile

A

True

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166
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Ezeulu compared himself to an arrow in their God’s bow

A

Arrow of God [Chinua Achebe]

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167
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A question of power

A

Bessie Head

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168
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The Rain Cane

A

Grace Ogot

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169
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Maria Makiling is a Legend

A

True (legend is half truth-half fiction)

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170
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God’s Bits of Wood Chronicle by Ousmane Sembene

A

Railroad strike in colonial senegal

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171
Q

1991 Nobel Laureate

A

Nadine Gordimer

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172
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A key figure in the Negritude movement

A

Leopold Senghor

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173
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It explodes the cultural and emotional impact of the snow on the poet — powerful metaphor for the meeting of different cultures and the sense of displacement

A

Paris in the Snow by Leopold Senghor

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174
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It shows the eternal linkage of the living with the dead.

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Totem by Leopold Senghor

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175
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A leading figure in the anti-apartheid movement [racial segregation]

A

Dennis Brutus

176
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The poems are addressed to his wife, Martha, and they reflect the speaks of humiliation, the despondency l, the indignity of prison life

A

Letters to Martha by Dennis Brutus

177
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The poet’s social commitment, as he reacts to the poverty around him amidst material progress

A

Train Journey by Dennis Brutus

178
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A satirical poem between a Black man seeking the landlady’s permission to accommodate him in her lodging house — however, the landlady showed deep-rooted prejudice against the colored people

A

Telephone Conversation by Whole Soyinka

179
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First African Nobel Laureate in 1986

A

Wole Soyinka

180
Q

First won the Nobel Price from France in 1901

A

Sully Prudhomme

181
Q

Igbo Novelist

A

Chinua Achebe

182
Q

Who wrote ‘Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease?

A

Chinua Achebe

183
Q

Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

A

Nelson Mandela

184
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Expatriate south African writer — charting complex issues of the non-whites struggle

A

Peter Abrahams

185
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A poem that achieves it’s impact by a series of climactic sentences and rhetorical questions

A

Africa by David Diop

186
Q

What type of literary form is Africa?

A

Lyric Poem

187
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A poem about the clash between African and Western values — first important poem in English to emerge from Eastern Africa

A

Song of Lawino

188
Q

Author of Song of Lawino

A

Okot P’Bitek

189
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Author of Africa

A

David Diop

190
Q

Letters to Martha and Train journey was written by

A

Dennis Brutus

191
Q

Paris in the Snow and Totem author

A

Leopold Senghor

192
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Telephone Conversation by

A

Wole Soyinka

193
Q

Other term for Old English

A

Anglo-Saxon

194
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Old English literature survived in 4 manuscripts:

A

-Caedmon’s hymn
-Vercelli Book
-Exeter Book
-Nowell’s Codex

195
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Who is The Father of English History

A

Venerable Bede

196
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Greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English people

A

Venerable Bede

197
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  • King of the Southern Anglo-Saxon and he wrote in his native tongue and encouraged scholarly translations from Latin into Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
A

King Alfred the Great

198
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  • an unlearned cowherd
  • his only surviving work is Caedmon’s Hymn — a praise poem in honor of God
A

Caedmon

199
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Author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People

A

Venerable Bede

200
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Caedmon’s Hymn

A

Caedmon

201
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Pre-eminent figures of Old English Christian Poetry

He used a cypher, or anagram, made up of ancient figures called Runes.

A

Cynewulf

202
Q

Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, and Christ II or The Ascension

A

Cynewulf

203
Q

The National Epic of England which blends Christianity and Paganism

A

Beowulf

204
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The three monsters in Beowulf

A

Grendel, Mother of Beowulf, and the Fiery Dragon

205
Q

Beowulf cause of death

A

The tooth of the dragon has poison

206
Q

A long narrative poems written about the exploits of a supernatural hero

A

Epic

207
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Epic heroes have no immortality

A

True

208
Q

It uses dream vision to narrate the death and resurrection of Christ — perspective of the Cross Rood itself.

A

Dream of the Rood

209
Q

Characteristics of Dream of the Rood

A
  • Christ as a warrior
  • crucifixion as a battle
  • Tree as a symbol of Excellence
210
Q

Its characteristics are divine and spiritual

A

Middle English

211
Q

Other terms for Middle English

A

Medieval Period

212
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A heroic old English Poem that records, in nationalistic tone, the triumph of the English against the combined forces of the Scots, Vikings, And Britons

A

The Battle of Brunanburg

213
Q

Recounts the fall of the English army led by Birhtnoth in the hands of the Vikings invaders

A

The Battle of Maldon

214
Q

The lyric poem composed of 115 lines of alliterative verse that reminisces a wanderer’s past glory in the company of his lord and xomrade

A

The wanderer

215
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An Old English recorded in the Exeter Book that begins by recounting in elegiac tone the perils of seafaring— ends with a praise in of God

A

The Seafarer

216
Q

Most popular literary form of Midieval Age

A

Metrical Romance

217
Q

A long narrative poem idealizing knight errantry — chivalrous knights engaged in a number of adventure to protect, visit, and love

A

Medieval Romance

218
Q

The best example of a metrical Romance, that is, a long rambling love story presenting Knightly adventures and courtly love

A

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

219
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Middle English literary works are

A

Divine and spritual

220
Q

It became popular since they were performed as whole cycles of short plays in religious festivals

A

Religious Drama

221
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Life, miracles, or martyrdom of SAINTS

A

Miracle Plays

222
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represent a scene from the Old or New Testament — Corpus Christi plays

A

Mystery Plays

223
Q

Personified, abstractions — offered practical instruction in morality

A

Morality Plays

224
Q

It is a concept of using abstract characters

A

Religious Allegory

225
Q

It is regarded as the best of the morality Plays.

A

Everyman

226
Q

Who helped everyman?

A

Good Deeds helped him when he faced Death.

227
Q

It comes from the Greek word renaitre and it means rebirth

A

Renaissance

228
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Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

A

Pearl Poet

229
Q

He was one of the world’s greatest storytellers who is best remembered for his frame narrative The Canterbury Tales

A

Geoffrey Chaucer

230
Q

He is the Father of English Literature

A

Geoffrey Chaucer

231
Q

Morning Star of English Literature

A

Geoffrey Chaucer

232
Q

The author of The Canterbury Tales

A

Geoffrey Chaucer

233
Q

Who wrote Le Morte d’Arthur

A

Sir Thomas Mallory

234
Q

It is a collection of stories about King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table culled from the Arthurian legends

A

Le Morte d’Arthur

235
Q

What is the symbol of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

A

Equality

236
Q

The Golden Age of English Literature

A

The Renaissance

237
Q

14 line poem in iambic pentameter

A

Sonnet

238
Q

Man is the measure of all things

A

Humanism

239
Q

Father of the English Tragedy

A

Christopher Marlowe

240
Q

He sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge

A

Dr. Faustus

241
Q

Who wrote Dr. Faustus?

A

Christopher Marlowe

242
Q

The demon in Dr. Faustus

A

Mephistopheles

243
Q

The Poet’s Poet

A

Edmund Spenser

244
Q

English poet whose allegorical poem The Faerie Queene

A

Edmund Spenser

245
Q

It is a poem honoring Queen Elizabeth I

A

The Faerie Queene

246
Q

Spenserian Stanza

A

Abab-bcbc-cdcd-ee

247
Q

8 lines of iambic pentameter, 5 feet followed by a single line of iambic hexameter — alexandrine with 6

A

Spenserian Stanza

248
Q

He popularized the comedy of humors

  • his supporters were called Sons of Ben
A

Ben Jonson

249
Q

He wrote Song to Celia

A

Ben Jonson

250
Q

He is the Father of English Comedy

A

Ben Jonson

251
Q

“Drink to me, only with thine eyes”

A

Song to Celia

252
Q

He is the greatest writer in the English language

A

William Shakespeare

253
Q

Birthday of William Shakespeare

A

1564

254
Q

It is an example of a frame story — a story within a story

A

The Canterbury Tales

255
Q

The final destination of the pilgrims

A

St. Thomas Becket Cathedral

256
Q

The pilgrims rest to this place

A

Tabard Inn

257
Q

How many pilgrims are there?

A

31

258
Q

How many stories are there in Canterbury Tales?

A

29 stories

259
Q

The Canterbury Tales is for spiritual renewal

A

True

260
Q

Iambic

A

Unstress, stress

261
Q

Trochaic

A

Stress, unstressed

262
Q

Anapestic

A

unstressed, unstressed, stress

263
Q

Dactylic

A

Stress, unstress, unstress

264
Q

Pyrric

A

unstress, unstress

265
Q

Spondaic

A

Stress, stress

266
Q

Types of Drama

A
  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Farce
  • Melodrama
267
Q

The main characters always die in the end

A

Tragedy

268
Q

Happy Ending

A

Comedy

269
Q

Very funny like Mr. bean

A

Farce

270
Q

Good vs. Evil and the good always win

A

Melodrama

271
Q

(Shall I) (compare) (thee to) (a su) (mmer’s day)

A

Sonnet 116 - iambic pentameter

272
Q

Spenserian Sonnet (eye rhyme)

A

ABAB-BCBC-CDCD-EE

273
Q

Last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet [GG] is called

A

Heroic Couplet

274
Q

He is called “The Bard of Avon”

A

William Shakespeare

275
Q

What period is William Shakespeare?

A

Renaissance [Elizabethan]

276
Q

Total number of plays of William Shakespeare:

A

38

277
Q

Total number of sonnets of William Shakespeare:

A

154

278
Q

Total Number of Narrative poems:

A

2

279
Q

Tragedy of Revenge

A

Hamlet

280
Q

Tragedy of young love:

A

Romeo and Juliet

281
Q

Tragedy of Jealousy

A

Othello

282
Q

The most evil character among Shakespeare’s works?

A

Iago from Othello

283
Q

Important concept of Hamlet:

A

Doppelganger

284
Q

Important concept of Othello:

A

Triangular Conflict

285
Q

Tragedy of Ambition

A

Macbeth

286
Q

Important concept of Macbeth:

A

Ambiguity

287
Q

Tragedy of Parental Love:

A

King Lear

288
Q

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son to avenge his murder by killing the new king, his uncle

A

Hamlet

289
Q
  • star-crossed lovers
  • long feud between the Montague and Capulet families
A

Romeo and Juliet

290
Q

He killed the king, became the new king, and killed more people out of paranoia.

A

Macbeth

291
Q

He divides his Kingdom among the two daughters Goneril and Regan who flatter him and banishes the third one Cordella, who loves him.

A

King Lear

292
Q

The most controversial work of Shakespeare?

A

The Merchant of Venice because of Shylock’s speech

293
Q

The 17th Century (Age of Reason)

A
  • age of transition
  • age of revolution
  • age of exploration
  • age of prose
294
Q

Father of Inductive Reasoning and Father of the English Essay

A

Francis Bacon

295
Q

Father of Essay

A

Michel de Montaigne

296
Q

“Reading maketh a full man”

A

Francis Bacon

297
Q

God’s English Poet

A

John Milton

298
Q

It is about Adam and Eve. (old testament)

A

Paradise Lost

299
Q

Jesus’ temptation in the desert by Satan [New Testament]

A

Paradise Regained

300
Q

The greatest metaphysical poet

A

John Donne

301
Q

Who wrote Holy Sonnets

A

John Donne

302
Q

Conceits (not connected) or farfetched similes and metaphors

A

Metaphysical Poetry

303
Q

Equivocation — ambiguity

A

Macbeth

304
Q

“No man is an island” means

A

Brotherhood — by John Donne

305
Q

It is a concrete poetry

A

Easter Wings by George Herbert

306
Q

The author of To His Coy Mistress

A

Andrew Marvell

307
Q

Their poetry is often frankly erotic — strength was the short lyric poem, and a favorite theme was carpe diem, “seize the day.”

A

Cavalier Poems

308
Q

Who are the erotic writers?

A

RAR

  • Richard Lovelace
  • Robert Herrick
  • Andrew Marvell
309
Q

To Lucasta, on Going to Wars is written by

A

Richard Lovelace

310
Q

Age of Enlightenment

A

18th Century

311
Q

Father of English Satire (attack issues with humor)

A

Jonathan Swift

312
Q

A satire on human folly and stupidity — by the tiny Liliputians and huge Brodingnans

A

Gulliver’s Travel

313
Q

Precursor to Epistolary Literature

A

Samuel Richardson

314
Q

He wrote Pamela and Clarissa

A

Samuel Richardson

315
Q

He is known for his Tom Jones — a young foundling who is driven from his adopted home, wanders to London, eventually , for his suffering, he wins his lady

A

Henry Fielding

316
Q

The Father of English Novel

A

Henry Fielding

317
Q

A novel of formation or development in which the protagonist transforms from ignorance to knowledge, innocence to maturity

A

Bildungsroman

318
Q

Father of English Dictionary

A

Samuel Johnson

319
Q

Adventure fiction story focusing on a rogue character who travels from place to place

A

Picaresque

320
Q

Important tenets of Romanticism

A
  • individual, imagination, intuition, and nature
321
Q

Horror + Romance

A

Gothic writers

322
Q

The Castle of Otranto

A

Horace Walpole

323
Q

The Mysteries of Udolpho

A

Ann Radcliffe

324
Q

The Monk

A

Matthew Gregory Lewis

325
Q

Frankenstein

A

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

326
Q

Father of Romantic Poetry

A

William Wordsworth

327
Q

Written Works: I wandered lonely as a cloud, She dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, and She was a Phantom of Delight

A

William Wordsworth

328
Q

He is the author of Pride and Prejudice

A

Jane Austen

329
Q

A novel of manners, deals with the issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage

A

Pride and Prejudice

330
Q

Established the romantic verse as a poetic trDition

A

Percy Bsyshe Syllable

331
Q

A poem allegories — a voice of change and revolution

A

Ode to the West Wind

332
Q

Author of Ode to the West Win and ozymandias

A

Percy Bysshe Shelley

333
Q

A large fragment of a statue of Rameses IÍ

A

Ozymandias

334
Q

Written during Victoria’s Reign

A

The Victorian Age

335
Q

Poet Laureate — wrote seriously with a high moral purpose

A

Alfred Tennyson

336
Q

A disguised study of ethical and social conditions

A

Idylls of the King (Lord Alfred Tennyson)

337
Q

It deals with conflicting scientific and social ideas

A

Locksley Hall, In Memoriam, and Maud

338
Q

Wrote the most exquisite love poems for her husband Robert Browning

A

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

339
Q

Author of Sonnets from the Portuguese and Sonnet 43

A

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

340
Q

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

A

Sonnet 43 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

341
Q

He is best remembered for his dramatic monologue

A

Robert Browning

342
Q

My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo Lippi, and Andrea del Sarto are works of

A

Robert Browning

343
Q

A long speech by an imaginary character used to expose pretense and reveal a characters’ inner self

A

Dramatic Monologue

344
Q

He is considered as England’s best-loved novelist

A

Charles Dickens

345
Q

He pioneered serial literature

A

Charles Dickens

346
Q

Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities are works of

A

Charles Dickens

347
Q

Paris and London during the French Revolution

A

A Tale of Two Cities

348
Q

Vanity Fair — heroine: Becky Sharp

A

William Makepeace Thackeray

349
Q

Their pseudonyms are called Bell Brothers: Ellis Bell, Currer Bell, Acton Bell

A

Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte

350
Q

Who wrote Jane Eyre?

A

Charlotte Bronte

351
Q

Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

A

Emily Bronte

352
Q

One of England’s greatest women novelists — her real name is Mary Anne Evans. What is her pen name?

A

George Eliot

353
Q

Silas Mariner and Middlemarch are works of

A

George Eliot — Mary Anne Evans

354
Q

Who wrote Treasure Island— buccaneers and buried gold for his stepson Lloyd Osbourne

A

Robert Louis Stevenson

355
Q

He is the author of The Jungle Book

A

Rudyard Kipling

356
Q

Mancub — Mowgli
Bear — Baloo
Bagheera — panther

A

True

357
Q

Combines fantasy and satire — Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

A

Lewis Caroll

358
Q

Who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through a Looking Glass?

A

Lewis Caroll

359
Q

Who is the antagonist in the story of Alice?

A

The Jabberwocky

360
Q

Used of loud and unpleasant sound

A

Cacophony

361
Q

Used of soft and pleasant sound

A

Euphony

362
Q

Known for their attacks on Victorian prejudices and attitudes

A

George Bernard Shaw

363
Q

He wrote the Importance of Being Earnest — two men: Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. He is imprisoned for being a homosexual.

A

Oscar Wilde

364
Q

Precursor of Detective Fiction:

A

Edgar Allan Poe

365
Q

Author of historical novels and plays — famous for his short stories about Sherlock Holmes

A

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

366
Q

An Irish expatriate noted for his experimental use of the interior monologue and the stream of consciousness technique

A

James Joyce

367
Q

It presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.

A

Stream of consciousness

368
Q

Who pioneered the stream of consciousness?

A

Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

369
Q

One of the most notable bildungsroman in English literature.

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

370
Q

Also believed that reality, or consciousness, is a stream — also wrote Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse

A

Virginia Wolf

371
Q

Is world-renown, for the powerful anti-communist satire Animal Farm and anti-totalitarian novel entitled 1984

A

George Orwell

372
Q

It is the inspiration of Big Brother or PBB

A

1984 by George Orwell

373
Q

His real name is Eric Arthur Blaire

A

George Orwell

374
Q

They begin with orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures — no written literature

A

American Literature

375
Q

They are called merciless Indian savages

A

Native Americans

376
Q

He wrote Epistola printed in 1493 which recounts his voyages.

A

Christopher Columbus

377
Q

led the Jamestown colony and wrote the famous story of the Indian maiden, Pocahontas

A

Captain John Smith

378
Q

Pocahontas [Amonute] born about 1596 — means playful one

A

True

379
Q

First American Poet

A

Anne Bradstreet

380
Q

Her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) shows the influence of Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, etc.

A

Anne Bradstreet

381
Q
  • rationality
  • scientific inquiry
  • government
A

The American Enlightenment

382
Q

America’s first great man of letters — professional writer

A

Benjamin Franklin

383
Q

He used the pseudonym Poor Richard or Richard Saunders in Poor Richard’s Almanacs — proverbs and aphorisms

A

Benjamin Franklin

384
Q

America’s Greatest Pamphleteer (Common Sense)

A

Thomas Paine

385
Q

“The Cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind”

A

Thomas Paine

386
Q

Poet of the American Revolution, wrote The Wild Honeysuckle — life is short, live meaningfully.

A

Philip Freneau

387
Q

First American Man of Letters

A

Washington Irving

388
Q

His Pseudonym is Geoffrey Crayon and he wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — a headless horseman

A

Washington Irving

389
Q

He wrote the Leather Stocking Tales — renowned character: Natty Bumppo

A

James Fenimore Cooper

390
Q

First famous frontiersman in American literature and the literary forerunner of countless cowboy and backwoods heroes

A

Natty Bumppo

391
Q

First African-American author who wrote of religious themes.

A

Phillis Wheatly

392
Q

“Early to bed, and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

A

Benjamin Franklin

393
Q

O Captain! My Captain! (Abraham Lincoln)

A

Walt Whitman

394
Q

His greatest novels are The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

395
Q

Use letter A for adultery

A

The Scarlet Letter

396
Q

Moby Dick is the masterpiece of

A

Herman Merville

397
Q

A noiseless patient spider — truth about humans — people naturally search for their meaning.”

A

Walt Whitman

398
Q

A character of the Moby Dick whose obsessive quest for the white whale Moby Dick leads the ship and its men to destruction

A

Captain Ahab

399
Q

Father of American Short Horror Stories

A

Edgar Allan Poe

400
Q

Gothic style of writing

A

Edgar Allan Poe

401
Q

His famous works The Cask of Amontillado, Masque of the Red Death — also wrote poetry like Annabel Lee, The Raven, and The Bell

A

Edgar Allan Poe

402
Q

He said short stories can be ready in one-sitting

A

Edgar Allan Poe

403
Q

Hero wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin — issue: Negro Slavery — civil war of America

A

Harriet Beecher Stowe

404
Q

A leading exponent of the transcendentalist movement — birth of American individualism inspired by nature

A

Ralph Waldo Emerson

405
Q

both transcendentalist and realist ideas — wrote Leaves of Grass

A

Walt Whitman

406
Q

she wrote 1, 775 poems but only ten were published in her lifetime.

A

Emily Dickinson

407
Q

Cause of death of Annabel Lee

A

Consumption or Tuberculosis

408
Q

Hypochondriac living in morbid fear

A

The Fall of the House of Usher

409
Q

Reply of the Raven to the narrator

A

Nevermore

410
Q

Death — Immortality, capitalize because unexplainable concepts
— Emily Dickinson

A

True

411
Q

He is responsible for the misty, ahistorical, legendary sense of the past that merged American and European traditions

A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

412
Q

It focuses on the harsh realities of life and gives the reader a true sense of “local color”

A

The Rise of Realism

413
Q

Pseudonym of Samuel Clemens

A

Mark Twain

414
Q

He wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A

Samuel Clemens or Mark Twain

415
Q

He wrote a haunting Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage

A

Stephen Crane

416
Q

United States traumatic coming of age

A

Modernism and Experimentation

417
Q

Termed this age as the “Period of the Lost Generation”

A

Gertrude Stein

418
Q

It focuses on the text and text alone

A

Formalism/New Criticism

419
Q

Olfactory Sense

A

Nose

420
Q

Premier Imagist Poetry

A

Ezra Pound

421
Q

Cats musical based on Old Possum’s Book of Cats by T.S Eliot

A

True

422
Q

T.S Eliot full name

A

Thomas Stearne Eliot

423
Q

His poems are deceptively simple but suggest a deeper meaning

A

Robert Frost

424
Q

Robert Frost’s common theme

A

Decision making and fate

425
Q

“Acquainted with the night”

A

Loneliness

426
Q

His novels are known for protagonists that are disillusioned by the great American dream.

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald

427
Q

He wrote The Great Gatsby and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald

428
Q

He received the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his The Old Man and the Sea — also won Pulitzer Prize in 1953

A

Ernest Hemingway

429
Q

First American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930

A

Sinclair Lewis

430
Q

Shortest Poem Ever [6 words]

“For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” is written by

A

Ernest Hemingway

431
Q

Comma Poet

A

Jose Garcia Villa

432
Q

Mark Twain of the Philippines

A

Manuel Arguilla

433
Q

Edgar Allan Poe of PH (drunkard) — Icon of Filipino Beer Drinkers

A

Nick Joaquin

434
Q

Pen name of Christopher Marlowe

A

Kit Marlowe

435
Q

Living

A

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