Prelim Review

Question 1

are a collection of a variety of spoken forms that include proverbs,riddles,tales,legends,myths,
epic songs, and poems, prayers, chants, dramatic performances, and a lot more. They are serve to pass on the knowledge, cultural and social values and collective memory of people.

Answer 1

Oral Traditions

Question 2

He is a respected name in the Philippine Anthropology, cited “traditionality” as an important feature of oral traditions.

Answer 2

E. Arsenio Manuel

Question 3

According to Manuel what is the best way to secure oral traditions?

Answer 3

To use the original language because translations are at best just approximations.

Question 4

Different regions of poetry

Answer 4

Tagalog
Ilocano
Cebuano
Bicol
Ilonggo

Question 5

Consist of two-liner statements, questions or phrases that have double or hidden meanings.

Answer 5

Riddle

Question 6

It uses symbolism to describe a specific object which one can guess by using imagination

Answer 6

Riddle

Question 7

Three Ethnolinguistic groups

Answer 7

Visayan,Ilocano,Ibanag

Question 8

A type of riddle that describes the object’s appearance, shape, texture and not its function

Answer 8

Descriptive Riddle

Question 9

A riddle where you solve what object is by its function, process, or action described

Answer 9

Problem-Solving riddle

Question 10

Are short but meaty sayings prescribing accepted norms of behavior.

Answer 10

Proverbs

Question 11

A type of text that uses factual information and artifacts to account for the origin of nations and how they got their names.

Answer 11

Historical Texts

Question 12

A type of text that likewise cite facts thats indicate what led to inventions and discoveries

Answer 12

Scientific texts

Question 13

A type of text that uses the imagination and show the origin of things and their names by way of legends.

Answer 13

Literary texts

Question 14

3 types of texts

Answer 14

Historical Texts
Scientific Texts
Literary Texts

Question 15

These are passed down orally from one generation another and saw print only in ethnographic studies of different cultural groups

Answer 15

Legends

Question 16

It highlights cause-effect relationship to show how and why things came to be

Answer 16

Legends

Question 17

What are the 3 elements of a narrative/legends

Answer 17

Setting
Characters
Plot

Question 18

What is setting?

Answer 18

The time and place of a story/legend

Question 19

What is characters composed of?

Answer 19

Protagonist and Antagonist

Question 20

What is plot composed of?

Answer 20

Conflict and
Resolution of the conflict

Question 21

He is an American anthropologist, researcher and teacher in Philippine Indigenous Culture in the Cordillera Mountains

Answer 21

Henry Otley Beyer (1883-1966)

Question 22

What work did Henry Otley Beyer do?

Answer 22

Field work and teaching Philippine Indigenous Culture

Question 23

Where did Henry Otley Beyer teach?

Answer 23

Cordillera Mountains

Question 24

He headed the “Department of Anthropology in UP” at what year? and retired at what year?

Answer 24

1925-1954

Question 25

Henry described his collection of oral traditions and literature of different ethnolinguistic groups as?

Answer 25

“An effort to preserve and conserve the evidence of the abundant ancient culture”

Question 26

What year was Henry Otley Beyer was born and what year did he die?

Answer 26

July 13 (1883)
December 31 (1996)

Question 27

What are the two different accounts of the creation of the world coming from two bikol groups?

Answer 27

“The creation of the world”
“On the origin of Earth and Man”

Question 28

What volume where these two accounts appeared in?

Answer 28

Second Volume of “Beyer’s Ethnography of the Bikol people”

Question 29

In the “Creation of the world” story what was the setting?

Answer 29

Space in the universe
Thousand of years ago

Question 30

What are the characters in the “Creation of the world”

Answer 30

Languit
Tubigan
Dagat
Paros

Question 31

He is the great god and ruler of the kingdom and sky

Answer 31

Languit

Question 32

The sea and the wife of Paros and also the daughter of Languit

Answer 32

Dagat

Question 33

The god and ruler of the water

Answer 33

Tubigan

Question 34

The wind, The son of Tubigan and the Husband of Dagat

Answer 34

Paros

Question 35

Dagat and Paros had 4 children who were they?

Answer 35

Daga
Aldao
Bulan
Bitoon

Question 36

Son who is a young man but possessed a body of a rock

Answer 36

Daga

Question 37

Son who is a jolly fellow but had a body of gold

Answer 37

Adlao

Question 38

Son who is a weakling but was made out of copper

Answer 38

Bulan

Question 39

Daughter who is beautiful and was made out of pure silver

Answer 39

Bitoon

Question 40

In the “Creation of the world story”
they are the first parents of the human race

Answer 40

Man and woman

Question 41

A child of the first parents (Man and woman) who invented a fish trap and caught a whale

Answer 41

Maisog

Question 42

In the story “On the Origin of Earth and Man“ what is the setting?

Answer 42

Sky and universe

Question 43

In “On the Origin of Earth and Man” who are the characters

Answer 43

Bulan
Adlao
Man and woman

Question 44

A character who is proud and hated his older brother

Answer 44

Bulan

Question 45

The older and stronger brother

Answer 45

Adlao

Question 46

The first hans who came from Bulan’s cut arm

Answer 46

Man and Woman

Question 47

What type of theme and point of view are both stories the “Creation of the world” and “On the origin of earth and man”

Answer 47

Both are Creation myth and has a third person point of view

Question 48

A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings or tell a story in a specific form. It is the art of expressing one’s thoughts in verse and it can rhyme and not rhyme too

Answer 48

Poetry

Question 49

It is the appearance of the words on the page

Answer 49

Form

Question 50

It is a group of words together on one line of the poem

Answer 50

Line

Question 51

A group of lines arranged together, that develops and differentiates ideas, gives a poem structure.

Answer 51

Stanza

Question 52

Beginning of a new stanza often signals beggining of a new _______, _______, ________

Answer 52

Image, thought, idea

Question 53

A two line stanza

Answer 53

Couplet

Question 54

A three line stanza

Answer 54

Triplet

Question 55

Four line stanza

Answer 55

Quatrain

Question 56

Five line stanza

Answer 56

Quintet

Question 57

Six line stanza

Answer 57

Sestet

Question 58

Seven line stanza

Answer 58

Septet

Question 59

Eight line stanza

Answer 59

Octave

Question 60

What are the 8 kinds of stanzas

Answer 60

Couplet
Triplet
Quatrain
Quintet
Sestet
Septet
Octave

Question 61

It is Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sound

Answer 61

Rhyme

Question 62

Two types of rhymes

Answer 62

End rhyme
Internal rhyme

Question 63

A rhyme where the word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Ex.Upon a midnight dreary,while I pondered weak and weary.

Answer 63

Internal rhyme

Question 64

A rhyme where the word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line.

Answer 64

End rhyme

Question 65

It is a pattern of rhyme, where the letters of the alphabet are used to represent sounds
to be able to visually see the pattern, usually its for end rhyme but not always

Answer 65

Rhyme scheme

Question 66

Types of poetry

Answer 66

Free Verse
Limerick
Cinquain
Dimante
Haiku
Lyric

Question 67

It is a form of human expression both oral and written that expresses what one thinks and feels about his society, beliefs, values, mores, ideals and aspirations.

Answer 67

Literature

Question 68

Two types of literature

Answer 68

Prose
Poetry

Question 69

“Literary works in the form of sentences and paragraphs”

Answer 69

Prose

Question 70

“Literary works in the form of lines and stanzas”

Answer 70

Poetry

Question 71

Two types of prose

Answer 71

Fiction (fantasy)
Nonfiction (reality)

Question 72

Pro

Question 73

Existed before the colonization of spaniards, where it is us oral in nature and is full of lessons and ideas about life, blessings and consequences. The source are usually the local native town folk

Answer 73

PHILIPPINE PRECOLONIAL LITERATURE

Question 74

When did the Spanish colonized the Philippines?

Answer 74

1500s

Question 75

Examples of PHILIPPINE PRECOLONIAL LITERATURE

Answer 75

Proverbs
Riddles
Folksongs
Tales
Epics

Question 76

Are practical observations and philosophy of everyday life that are written usually in a rhyming scheme. it is obviously meant to entertain while teaching basic skills in surviving local life.

Answer 76

Proverbs (Salawikain)

Question 77

Are beautiful songs that are informal expressions of our ancestors’ experiences in life. These range from courtship( which they sing in a harana or a serenade for a girl), to lullabies, harvests, funerals, and others.

Answer 77

Folktales (Mga awiting bayan)

Question 78

are stories of origin for certain places, their names, and their creation. They usually are used to explain certain events or phenomena in our ancestors’ lives that cannot be explained by the limited practical kind of science they knew back then.

Answer 78

Tales (myths and legends)

Question 79

-Are like proverbs with one main difference: they demand an answer and are used to test the wits of those who are listening to them.
- Are used in a battle of wits, where locals young and old join and /or watch to see who is the smartest.

Answer 79

Riddles (bugtong)

Question 80

-are long-winded poems about a hero and his adventures and misadventures. It usually tells of a male hero who is born with all the pleasing qualities that your ancestors like in a person and who also has superhuman capabilities.
Ex. Bi-ag ni Lam-ang & Hinilawod

Answer 80

Epics