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While Reading Guide Questions

INSTRUCTIONS: During ILT, students will team up and brainstorm the answers to their assigned question only. Multiple
interpretations are welcome. Write your answers in the provided below.
Group 1 In the first paragraph, what does Kaplan say about adolescents' identity formation and its
connection to literature?
Group 2 Based on paragraph 2, what do you think are the dramatic world changes that influence identity
development? Explain why you think so and write examples from your life.
Group 3 From Par3, how does consumerism affect a person's "quest for power"?
Group 4 According to Bean and Moni in Par4, what is the effect of fluid spaces (malls, train stations, etc) to
adolescents' minds/interior worlds?
Group 5 According to Bean and Moni in Par4, how do adolescents construct identity?
Group 6 From Par5, what does "Youths no longer live life as a journey toward the future but as a
condition?"
Group 7 In Par7, what is the effect that youth is "sanitized and kept free from the poor"?
Group 8 In Par9-11, what solution does CDA provide in terms of understanding a contemporary teenager?

"Youth no longer live life as a journey toward the future but as a condition". Youth or adolescents tend
to live life, not as a journey or a path of knowing oneself and discovering life and what lies ahead. Still,
instead, youngsters tend to see life in such light that it is lived in such a condition of following their own
condition in life associated with the superficiality of a perfect life created by our post-modern society.
Teenagers tend to conform in our society's own condition following the ideals of our contemporary
world being in such a trance of a non-existent fabricated life curated by our materialist society. This is
evident for today's generation that most youths have been dependent on growing up, knowing that they
are financially stable and don't need to discover things that will make them enthusiastic. Today's youth
are taking this life for granted and are reliant on things such as technology, not assuring their future.
Youngsters should be ultimately perceived as significant partners in all degrees of decision-making
processes that influence them, not only because they should persevere through the world's outrageous
economic and social results. Yet, they should know what life should be is.

Activity: UNDERSTANDING THE FOCUS TEXT

Pre-Reading Guide Questions
1. What is “hugot”?

Hugot is sayings or lines that show sentimental expressions 'pulled' from our deep reservoir of
emotions that use day to day experiences as metaphors for one's ill-fated romance. It can be a
contemporary expression or expression of feelings using rhetoric in comparison/comparison. Usually,
the subject is people, things, events, etc. which is the comparison of experience. It also becomes a
famous word, and the usage of the hashtag has been incorporated into it. The usage of the hashtag
"#hugot" become popular not so long ago and is usually used along with song lyrics, a quote, etc. that
the person tweeting relates top; "#hugot" means the accompanying words draw emotions out of
him/her.

2. What is “sawi”?

Sawi literally means ‘ill-fated’ or ‘doomed’ or linked to love “ill-fated in love.” It can be mean by when a
person fails from what he wants to get or get.
While Reading Guide Questions
What are some of the allusions found in the
essay?
Part 1 3. “Crush” a story of unrequited love.
4. Another video, “Vow,” was that of love lost to the
unexpected but inevitable finitude of life itself
5. Eraser heads iconic song, “Ang Huling El Bimbo” is
likewise of a love that is not realized
Part 2 1. Andres Bonifacio, the “Father of the Revolution”
who idolized Rizal,
2. We still pressed on in our adulation of Uncle Sam.
3. The face of that new Japan was not Musashi, master
of combat, but Murakami, master of prose.
Part 3 1. The Pinoys of Winnipeg to brave a frigid winter day
for the opening of a Jollibee store.
2. Abelardo’s “Nasaan Ka Irog” and the same-titled
film that grew out of it are based on the true story of a
thwarted love affair between an impoverished maiden
and a rich heir - Abelardo’s friend.
3. Yolanda, alas, has been politicized beyond
recognition, but to the people of Tacloban, it remains
raw - and is populated not by politicians that marred
the relief efforts but loved ones that they lost - or
lived through the situation with
Part 4 1. Our heroes, thus, could easily be the guys who failed
to realize their loves - not just the victors
2. Kundiman lyrics past and ‘hugot lines’
What could they mean?
This video is all about the protagonist has had many
years of sweet moments with his beloved, but in the
latter’s wedding, he turns out to be a guest, not the
groom - the proverbial best friend who would have
preferred to be the boyfriend.
Dying of terminal illness, the protagonist-husband
nonetheless manages to live on in a most bittersweet
way: by carefully choreographing his wife’s first
Valentine’s Day without him.
In that song, the protagonist relives the past as a way
of preempting the future, and the ‘huling El Bimbo’
- the last dance - is the one that plays forever in the
protagonist’s head.
He was ignominiously executed by his fellow
revolutionaries in a mountain in Cavite, with not
even a grave to mark his remains.
It means that the allusion “Uncle Sam” is a
personification of the United States; hence Filipinos
continue the relationship with the United States.
It means that Japan is not a warmonger country
anymore, but a country rich in arts and culture
Pinoys of Winnipeg means Filipinos in the city of
Winnipeg, Canada.
This trope of wealth differences between lovers:
housemaid and haciendero’s son, houseboy and rich
heiress, has been carried on by various actors and
actresses, from Nora Aunor to Nadine Lustre.
It means what they remember the most is not the foul
stench of corruption, but that of dead bodies lying on
the streets for several weeks.
Not because of his wealth or physical superiority -
but because of his love itself: its passion, its
ingenuity, and its capacity to transcend even its
perceived limits.
Present our emotions have been transmuted into
humor and sublimated to art. Undeterred by our
failings, we continue; unencumbered by the weight
of our feelings, we press on.
 3. Republic of sawi It can be means by a literary or state of place here
there is heartbroken or ill-fated in love.

8 QUIZ

Which of the following is NOT a technique the writer used in Art of Hugot in Our Republic of Sawi to create a strong beginning? The
writer...

Select one:

a.
Used a variety of references that can relate to various types of people.

b.
Elaborated ideas that used a wide range of vocabulary to express the writer's thoughts well.

c. Identified a universal point of interest among young people.

d.
Highlighted examples/illustrations that everyone in his expected audience is probably familiar with.
What is the tone of Art of Hugot in Our Republic of Sawi?

Select one:

a. objective, bitter

b. hopeful, confident

c. eager, energetic

d. depressed, melancholic
Complete
The following statements describe an essay, EXCEPT:

Select one:

a. It typically has an introduction, body, and conclusion.

b. It must have an interesting opinion that imbeds a claim or an assertion.

c. It is merely recording facts rather than of the writer's opinion and experiences.

d. It refers to a group of paragraphs that work together to present a main point.
Which of the following BEST defines Creative Non-Fiction?

Select one:

a. It is based on the experience of the writer.

b. It puts premium on the work's creativity more than its factuality.

c. It is fiction that borrows the elements of journalism.

d. It combines the authority of literature and the authority of facts.

Which of the following statements are TRUE about Creative Non-Fiction?
I. The writer of CNF may alter facts in the interest of improving his/her story.
II. It is different from fiction because it is necessarily and meticulously accurate in the presentation of information.
III. CNF demands spontaneity and an imaginative approach while remaining true and integrity of the information it contains.
IV. It differs from traditional reportage because balance is unnecessary and subjectivity is not only permitted but encouraged.

Select one:

a. II and III

b. II, III and IV

c. III and IV

d. I and II
What type of Creative Nonfiction is Susan writing?
Susan writes an essay that includes her childhood life, time and place of her birth, overview of her personality, likes and dislike, and
special events that shaped her life.

Select one:

a. Memoir because it contains an overview of her personality.

b. Autobiography because it contains special events that shaped her life.

c. Personal essay because it contains personal experiences.

d. Literary Journalism because it contains the time and place of her birth.
Feedback

What type of Creative Nonfiction is Mark writing?

During summer, Mark is always writing about the places he visits; he writes on his journals the tradition, culture, language, and
history of the people and place. He also includes his personal experiences in any activity that he joins during his stay.

Select one:

a. Literary Journalism, because he writes something about the tradition, culture, language, and history of the people and place he
visits.

b. Memoir, because he writes about his personal experiences within his period of stay.

c. Travel writing, because he writes about his visits to different places and his personal experiences.

d. Personal essay, because he writes an essay that includes his personal experiences during his visit to the places.
What type of Creative Nonfiction are the students writing?

As part of Campus Journalism, Ateneo students deliver the hottest issues and current events that are relevant to the students. One of
those issues is the ‘No Homework’ policy bill proposed by the lawmakers. But instead of simply writing the report, the students
combine factual reporting and some narrative techniques to catch the attention of the readers.

Select one:

a. Personal Journalism, because they write about current issues that are connected to their surroundings.

b. Topical Journalism, because they write about political issues that affect them as students.

c. Memoir, because they write about how the policy bill would affect them as students.

d. Literary Journalism, because they write about real issues with narrative techniques.
Question text

Identify the thesis statement from the introduction below.

Select one:

a. Finally, in “Developing Students’ Critical Literacy: Exploring Identity Construction in Young Adult Fiction,” authors Thomas W.
Bean and Karen Moni challenge how young adult literature is traditionally read and taught in most secondary classrooms. As Bean
and Moni state, most adolescent readers view characters in young adult novels as living and wrestling with real problems close to their
own life experiences as teenagers.

b. At the center of all these themes are questions of character and identity and values.

c. They argue that an alternative way of looking at these novels, and perhaps, a more engaging technique in a postmodern
world, is an exploration through a critical literacy framework. Bean and Moni argue that a critical stance in the classroom
empowers students to consider “what choices have been made in the creation of the text” (Janks and Ivanic, 1992, p. 316).

d. Their argument is that, through discussion of such choices, young adults may also better understand how they, as teenagers, are
being constructed as adolescents in the texts they are reading, and how such constructions compare with their own attempts to form
their identities.
Question text

Based on the sample thesis statement below, identify the supporting details.
They argue that an alternative way of looking at these novels, and perhaps, a more engaging technique in a postmodern world, is an
exploration through a critical literacy framework. Bean and Moni argue that a critical stance in the classroom empowers students to
consider “what choices have been made in the creation of the text” (Janks and Ivanic, 1992, p. 316).

I. Critical Discourse Analysis asks the reader to look at the novel, not as a novel, but as a work in which to identify with the lead
characters.
II. In today’s times, teenagers do everything on the run. Hence, this new dynamic—true, always present in the lives of young adults
since the end of the Second World War, but now ever heightened by modern technology—governs their lives.
III. Instead, in a postmodern world where the stability of life as a factory worker as experienced by their working class parents or life
in a town where everybody grows up and nobody leaves, has been replaced by a life of constant change and uncertainty.
IV. The apparent need to shape a different critical look at young adult literature, insist Bean and Moni, is driven by, of all things,
dramatic world changes. The world globalization of markets, they underscore, has resulted in the challenging of long-established
ideologies and values related to the traditional ideals of work and family.

Select one:

a. I and II

b. III and IV

c. I and IV

d. II and IV

Activity: UNDERSTANDING THE FOCUS TEXT

Pre-Reading Guide Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle by writing your answers on the blanks provided.
Across Answers
1. god Across
3. warrior 1. MAGBAYA
4. wild and menacing 3. BAGANI
6. people 4. SAVAGE
8. princess 6. SAKOP
9. dog 8. BAE
10. priestess 9. TALAMUOD
10. BAYLAN
Down
2. species of brown migratory DOWN
pond bird with long legs and 2. BALANGKAWITAN
a long bill 5. HIGAONON
5. language of Higaonons 7. PAGAN
7. a person who does not
acknowledge god

While Reading Guide Questions

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the best answer by highlighting the letter and choice.
1. Who is the speaker of the poem?
a. One of the colonizers
b. One of the Higaonons
c. an advocate of human rights
2. Who is the speaker talking to? He/she is speaking to…
a. the news anchors
b. the remaining people of the tribe
c. the Christian colonizers
3. What is the tone of the speaker’s voice?
a. Furious
b. Elated
c. Frightened

Post Reading Guide Questions

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose your answers from the given box below:
angry delightful discrimination and harassment

victims of land grabbing justice hopeful

distressed scared subject to judgement and imprisonment

1. What is the situation of the Higaonons based on the poem, I, Higaonon?
a. Victims of land grabbing
b. Discrimination and harassment

2. What does the speaker feel about it?

a. distressed
b. angry
3. What does the speaker want?
a. justice

The Literary Work as a Representation

INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question and answer it in the space provided. Prepare to share your answers in class.
1. What/Who is represented in the poem I, Higaonon?
 The Higaonons are the ones who are represented in the poem. They are one of the Lumads or
indigenous tribes living in the mountainous areas of Northern Mindanao. The poem also shows how
these indigenous people being discriminated against and harass. Sad to say, these actions are still
evident in some places.

2. How was it/How were they represented?

They were represented as people who are being harassed, oppressed, and laughed by Christian
Colonizers. It was also represented in the way that the speaker is a Higaonon. Which hook us
immediately knowing the content of the text.

3. What were the literary devices used in the representation?

The literary devices used in the representation are tone, repetitions, and imagery. Tone because there
is a strong emotion coming from the author conveyed through words, anger. Repetitions because
there are lines such as “I knowing,” “I angry you,” and “you killed” repeating in the poem. There is
imagery as well because there are visual descriptions in the poem, such as “big tree,” “dead tree,”
“skin also brown,” etc.

4. What is the power or effect of the poem on you, the reader?

As a reader, the poem really got through our emotions and understanding because of how the author
conveyed his message using literary devices. The poem moved us to become be sensitive to different
cultures in our country. We realized that when someone is being discriminated against and harass, it is
really hard for the person to fight back because of the enemy's power. That is why we need to stand
up for ourselves and fight back for what is right.

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Activity: UNDERSTANDING THE FOCUS TEXT

Pre-Reading Guide Questions
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle by writing your answers on the blanks provided.
 Across Answer Key
1. slightly salty
3. container used to shape Across
something into a particular shape
1. brackish
5. well known as a food
preservation, seasoning, flavoring, 3. mould
and nutrient
6. a quality belongs to a person 5. salt
who appears to be experienced
with worldly knowledge 6. sophistication

Down
2. a person who either participates Down
or advocates radical change in a
particular society 2. revolutionaries
4. leader of India’s non-violent
movement against British rule 4. Gandhi
7. a water that contains salt 7. saline

While Reading Guide Questions

INSTRUCTIONS: Fill the table to help you make sense of the poem.
Lines What figure of speech was used? What do you think it means?

Line 1  Metaphor  Salt has two sides, both good and

bad. Sorrow refers to its bad sides,
while on the other hand, when
something fits your taste, it means
you like it, and it is good.
Lines 2-3  Personification  ”Earth’s three-fourths is brackish
water, and men’s heart a salt
mountain,” I think it means that
men also feel mentally hurt fast.
That is why the poem also states
that men also represent salt
because they quickly melt fast. Like
when a person is hurt, they
emotionally rapidly breakdown.
Lines 4-8  Personification  The stanza gave out human-like
characteristics to a salt. Salt doesn't
have a heart, but since in the
poem, it meant that we are all salt,
that's why salt had a heart. And like
salt, we, regardless of what gender
has a weak heart, and there will
always be a time when we feel
ashamed and want to sink in
shame, for we are fragile and
delicate.
Lines 9-12  Simile  Line 9-12: “There stands- a
government building - like a salt
shaker with much sophistication,
sprinkles salt my wound.” It means
that a government ruled them in
such a way they cannot feel being
free. It is also like from the video of
Salt March, in 1835, they were
under the British government’s rule
where they are not allowed to
 produce, collect, and sell their salt.
Line 14  Literary Metaphor  Women embody the earth's salt
because they are most likely to
show their feelings of wanting to
disperse, melt, and sink, like a salt.
Line 15 Metaphor line 15: “ they have all the salt in
the mould of their face.” From this
line, it represents to all women on
Earth that women’s emotions can
be easily reflected on their faces
which they can be easily broken
Lines 19-22 Metaphor In the stanza, the words "seven
seas" and "revolutionaries" were
there. Seven seas meant the whole
ocean, in which it contains salt in it.
If there is something that
revolutionaries want, it would be
"change." As the world normalizes
equality because of the feminist
revolutionaries, change becomes
evident, especially at this time. We
are all salt because we dominate
the world just as the seven seas do;
that's why, like salt, our price to
pay is our emotions and inevitability
to sink in them. However, some
cease to disregard it to save their
masculinity, in which everyone
ceases to break that mindset, for it
is a sign of sexism among men,
which many do not tolerate
because it wastes the efforts of the
revolutionaries who fought for
equality
Lines 23-24 Simile lines 23-24: “Gandhi knew the salt’s
worth as the girl-guava-sellers.”
From this line, it reflects the Salt
March video, which is the people of
India fight for the value of salt and
freedom since the British
Government ruled them. It is like it
is portraying the worth of salt. It
may be small but can make a
difference as usual.
Lines 28-30 Literary Metaphor "God's tears and man's sweat"
means hardships and sorrow, and
these things are what salt feels,
which signifies us humans, and our
sufferings and hardship balance the
earth because happiness isn't the
only one a person should feel, the
feeling of sadness is also valid.

Post Reading Guide Questions

INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question and answer it in the space provided. Prepare to share your answers in class.
1. What/Who is represented in the poem Salt?

In Salt's poem, Anamika, both men, women, and the Earth, are represented in the
poem. Because as you read along the lines of the poem itself expresses sadness felt
here on Earth, which also balances the Earth, which means the Salt represents good
and bad essence. Like from the story of "Love like a Salt," salt was defined by her
Father( the King) as an ordinary object, but later on, he sensed the salt's value.

2. How was it/How were they represented?

The poem represented the salt as the one that balances the earth, which we perceive
are men and women. Brackish water contains salt, and it dominates over the planet,
just as we humans are looming over the world. The representation of salt was both
sorrow and a taste, meaning it has two sides, both good and bad. It is undeniable that
we, the salt of the earth, contribute bad and good things. We are salt for salt
preserves, and in the bible, God made us so we could preserve his creation on earth.
We are all humans, regardless of gender, we are bound to feel emotions inevitably,
just like salt, our heart's weak, it quickly melts and sinks in shame, and the poem
represented how we, the salt, can be mountains or mould of our faces, which shows
how we choose to show our emotions.

The representation of women was the salt with the mould in their faces; for women
are expressive with their feelings, you can see how it reflects in their faces. Women
got viewed as vulnerable and delicate. While on the other hand, the representation of
men's heart was salt mountains; men tend to hide their emotions more than women,
they act all tough and strong outside, and they try to hide what's inside of them as
much as possible, like a mountain but deep inside, all our hearts are salt. We balance
and dominate the earth, and the hardships that we go through are what make us salt,
which balances the world, and that's how the salt got represented in Anamika's Salt.

3. What were the literary devices used in the representation?

The literary devices are used in the representation, first the use of simile. Second, the
use of metaphors. Thirdly, the use of personification. The use of simile defines the
lines in the poem as which the people of India fight for the value of salt and freedom
since the British Government ruled them. It is like it is portraying the worth of salt. It
may be small but can make a difference as usual. On the other hand, the use
metaphors defines the lines from the poem as line 15: “ they have all the salt in the
mould of their face.” From this line, it represents to all women on Earth that women’s
emotions can be easily reflected on their faces which they can be easily broken.
Lastly, ”Earth’s three-fourths is brackish water, and men’s heart a salt mountain,” I
think it means that men also feel mentally hurt fast. That is why the poem also states
that men also represent salt because they quickly melt fast. Like when a person is
hurt, they emotionally rapidly breakdown.
 4. What is the power or effect of the poem on you, the reader?

As we read the poem, it wasn't apparent because the words were profound, and we
had to re-read it again, but we realized it's the essence of the poem. It depends on
how we interpret and perceive it without being far from the author's main point. We
realized that we all have different lives and different perspectives, in which that
perspective reflects on how we view the poem. The poem was indeed compelling, for
we started searching for what the author meant, and we realized that we encountered
a moment of serendipity while searching.

The poem was indeed powerful, for many interpretations could be viewed from it, and
our understanding alone affected our lives and the way we think, especially about
masculinity. We are feminists, which means we demand gender equality; that's why
we want to normalize how men could freely show their emotions without being
viewed as "weak" by society. Nobody should feel like a mountain hurdling and keeping
all of their feelings deep inside, and at the same time, women shouldn't be
generalized as weak just because they would most likely show their emotions rather
than man. Nobody is weak for expressing what they feel because all of us indeed feels
emotions, some don't show it, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
The poem's power made us realize all these things because we realized it is time to
change. It is time to avoid stereotyping. We preserve and keep the world balanced;
we should have fair judgment and treatment to everyone regardless of gender.

In the lines "Men's heart a salt mountain" salt mountain is LEAST LIKELY a metaphor for?

Select one:

a. death

b. hardwork

c. danger

d. abuse of power
In the line, "Women are the salt of the earth.", salt means MORE LIKELY that?

Select one:

a. Women are the source of power in the world.

b. Women bring beauty to the world.

c. Women bring deliciousness to the world.

d. Women are powerful in the world.

Which line best illustrates the abuse of power by the powerful?

Select one:

a. All those who couldn’t betray their masters have annoyed the seven seas

b. Men’s heart a salt mountain.

A. Men’s heart a salt mountain.

B. There stands a government building like a salt shaker
C. Gandhi knew the salt’s worth as the girl-guava-sellers.
D. All those who couldn’t betray their masters have annoyed the seven seas

A. Men’s heart a salt mountain.

B. There stands a government building like a salt shaker
C. Gandhi knew the salt’s worth as the girl-guava-sellers.
D. All those who couldn’t betray their masters have annoyed the seven seas

c. There stands a government building like a salt shaker.

d. Gandhi knew the salt’s worth as the girl-guava-sellers.

Which of the following does NOT show verbal irony?

Select one:

a. Belle flirtatiously tells Gaston "I just don't deserve you!"

b. Lemony Snicket says "Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a
cup of hot chocolate."

c. Wow, this Physics lesson is crystal clear! I perfected the exam!

d. Harry Potter says "Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor

drawback of him having Lord Voldemort (antagonist) sticking out the back of his
head!"
Which of the following does NOT show verbal irony?

Select one:

a. When the air conditioning goes out on a hot summer afternoon, a tenant

says “It’s as hot as hell!”

b. A food critic says “Your steak is as tender as a leather boot.”

c. Someone shopping for a mattress lays down on a really firm one and says, "This bed's about as soft as a brick."
Which of the following does NOT show a dramatic irony?

Select one:

a. In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear thinks he is a real space ranger.

b. In Star Wars, Luke does not know Darth Vader is his father until Episode V. But, the audience who has watched Episodes
I-IV first already knows.

c. In Hamlet, the readers are aware that Hamlet knows his uncle killed his father and are watching the clueless uncle's
reaction to the play Hamlet staged to trap his uncle's guilt. 

d. In the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, throughout the books, Harry
Potter is expected to kill Lord Voldemort, but in the last portion of the last
book, he and the audience finds out that he must allow Voldemort to kill
him instead.
Which of the following does NOT show dramatic irony?

Select one:

a. In How I Met Your Mother, Season 8-9, the identity of the mother is revealed and
all the other characters meet the mother. Narrator/Father is the last to know the
identity of the mother.
b. In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and the audience knows the

killer is in the house.

c. A man wants to surprise his girlfriend by putting on a scary mask and
shouting “boo!”. But, in fear, the girl ran out of the house, into the street,
and the audience sees she was hit by a car.

d. Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is
planning to run away with another woman.

Which of the following does NOT show situational irony?

Select one:

a. A traffic cop gets his license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets.

b. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Water, water,

everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

c. The pilot has a fear of heights.

d. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo kills himself in anguish after he finds out
Juliet is dead.
Clear my choice

Which of the following does NOT show situational irony?

Select one:

a. A drunk driver got into an accident.

b. The teacher fails the test.

c. A fire station burns down.

d. A marriage counselor files for a divorce.

Clear my choice

Which sentence CANNOT be the theme of the poem?

Select one:

a. The poor are powerless.

b. Power can be good or bad.

c. Power and powerlessness are balanced by God's love and man's hard work.

d. There will always be powerful and abusive leaders.

Summative reviews

Who is the father of the essay, calling his writings “essais,” or attempts ?
Select one:

a. Michael de Montage

b. None of the above

c. Michel de Montaigne

d. Michel de Montagne
Clear my choice

Question text

What kind of imagery is used in the seventh and eighth lines? 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways  

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
 
A violet by a mossy stone  …
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
 
She lived unknown, and few could know‰
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
-William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”

Select one:

a. Visual

b. Olfactory

c. Gustatory

d. Auditory
Clear my choice

Question text

The italized part of the essay indicates what part? 

The apparent need to shape a different critical look at young adult literature, insist Bean and Moni, is driven by, of
all things, dramatic world changes. The world globalization of markets, they underscore, has resulted in the challenging
of long-established ideologies and values related to the traditional ideals of work and family. In a world of constant
movement and flow, media images of advertising and commerce seep into our lives and strongly influence identity
development. Hence, young adult literature and our interpretation of it as a genre of literary study have been profoundly
altered as a result of this dramatic shift in world affairs.

Select one:

a. Body

b. Introduction

c. Conclusiom

d. Thesis Statement
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What feeling is being expressed by the speaker below:

“What happens to a dream deferred?”

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun
Or crust and sugar over-
Like a syrup sweet?
Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does it  exlode?
-A dream deferred by Langston Hughes

Select one:

a. Bitter

b. Helpless

c. Insensitive

d. Worthless
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The state of being sawi or ill-fated or doomed resonates with many Filipinos because of..
I. our personal experiences
II. our culture romantizes brokenheartedness
III. our country's historical experiences left us ill-fated.
IV. our existence is bounded or fated to experience heartaches and heartbreaks.

Select one:

a. None of the above.

b. All of thr above.

c. I, II and III

d. I, III, and IV

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 In one sunny afternoon, Delilah spots Samson sipping a cup of hot coffee. Delilah then remarks, “Wow, isn’t it so cold
today? I’m literally freezing to death.”

Select one:

a. Verbal Irony

b. Situational Irony

c. Cosmic Irony

d. Dramatic Irony
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What figure of speech is used in the fifth line of the poem?

She dwelt among the untrodden ways  

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone  …

Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
 
She lived unknown, and few could know‰
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
-William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”
 

Select one:

a. Metaphor
b. Personification

c. Irony

d. Simile
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According to the text, "The Art of Hugot in our Republic of Sawi", what is the art/strength of hugot in the republic of sawi?

Select one:

a. When all else fails, there's always hugot which may not be a way to find love, but can help find a way out of it- and
perhaps back again.

b. The underdog-ness of the Filipino that makes his achievements all the more remarkable.

c. Despite the nation's hurts and pains, we [Filipinos] remain ready to hope, ready to believe, and ready to love.

d. The state of being sawi does not diminishes a person's worth. Rather, it enhances his stature in the eyes of others.
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In the story, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Della and Jim sell their most prized possessions in order to buy the other a
special Christmas gift. Della buys a chain for Jim’s watch, and Jim buys Della a special comb. However, in the later part of
the story, both will learn that Jim had sold his watch to buy Della a comb, and Della has sold her hair to buy Jim a chain,
making their gifts somehow useless at this point. What kind of irony is shown in the story?

Select one:

a. Verbal Irony

b. Cosmic Irony

c. Dramatic Irony

d. Situational Irony
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What kind of essay is being used in the example provided?

In today’s times, teenagers do everything on the run. Hence, this new dynamic—true, always present in the lives of young
adults since the end of the second World War, but now ever heightened by modern technology—governs their lives. So,
this new life-force of power shaped by social forces beyond traditional boundaries, as Bean and Moni underscore,
demands a new language to interpret what students are reading, and more importantly, how they interpret what they
read. The language is embedded in a new dialogue for literary interpretation called Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

Select one:

a. Both A and B

b. Familiar/Informal Essay

c. Formal Essay
 d. None of the above.
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Which statement below about Higaonon is not true?

Select one:

a. Higaonons’ strive for peace is expressed in their traditional fabric called hinabol.

b. Higaonon means people of the living moutains.

c. Higaonons are one of the lumad communities who inhabit Northern part of Central Mindanao.

d. Higaonon’s art of weaving is characterized  by the typical stripes varying in brightness, unique colors with unlimited
combined patterns.
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Which line represents intertextuality best?

Select one:

a.
 "Then there's our original genre of love songs - the kundiman - said to derive from 'kung hindi man' (if it's not meant to be):
both a reference and tribute to the uncertainty of love."

b.  "'Ang Huling El Bimbo' is likewise of a love that is not realized. In that song, the protagonist relives the past as a way of
preempting the future, and the ‘huling El Bimbo’ - the last dance - is the one that plays forever in the protagonist’s head."

c. "Jose Rizal, who wrote of the failed romance between Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara, himself experienced what loss
of love felt like when he and his childhood sweetheart Leonor Rivera were prohibited from seeing each other by their
families, effectively dooming their relationship." 

d. And who can forget the 'Boy General', Gregorio del Pilar, dead at 24? His farewell note, written in a cave in Tirad Pass
on the eve of his death, may not be as literary as Rizal’s, nor his death as glorious, but it is equally haunting,"
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What is the Rhyme Scheme of the lines presented below:

I come from haunts of coot and  hern,
    I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
    To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,

    Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty  thorpes, a little town,
    And half a hundred bridges.
-The Brook by Alfred Tennyson

Select one:
a. ABCA ABCA

b. ABAB CDCD

c. AAAA BBBB

d. ABAB ABAB
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Which among the figure of speech is used in the seventh line of the poem?

She dwelt among the untrodden ways  

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
 
A violet by a mossy stone  …
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
 
She lived unknown, and few could know‰
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
-William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”

Select one:

a. Irony

b. Personification

c. Metaphor

d. Simile
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 In the lines below, one is not a literary allusion. What type of allusion is it?
I. Our very first novel, Pedro Paterno’s “Ninay” (1885), involved not one, but two tales of ill-fated love.
II. Shakespeare, of course, touched on the theme of uncertain love ("For never was a story of more 128 woe / Than this of
Juliet and her Romeo.”)
III. Jose Rizal, who wrote of the failed romance between Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara, himself experienced what loss
of love felt like when he and his childhood sweetheart Leonor Rivera were prohibited from seeing each other by their
families, effectively dooming their relationship.

Select one:

a. Pop Culture Allusion

b. Religious Allusion

c. Historical Allusion

d. Mythological Allusion
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What is the feeling being expressed by the speaker in the poem I, Higaonon by  Telesforo SungkitJr?

Select one:

a. Hope

b. Apathy

c. Nonchalance

d. Anger
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What type of Literary Sound Device is being applied to the lines below:

‘ll swing by my ankles.

She’ll cling to  you  knees.
As you hang by your nose,
From a high-up trapeze.
But just one thing, please,
As we float through the breeze,
Don’t sneeze.
-The Acrobats by Shel Silverstein

Select one:

a. Consonance

b. Alliteration

c. Assonance

d. Repitition
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 In Act IV, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the Capulets think their daughter is dead, when the audience
knows that Juliet is alive and the potion she took only makes her seem dead. What time of irony is exemplified by this
scene?

Select one:

a. Situational Irony

b. Dramatic Irony

c. Verbal Irony

d. Cosmic Irony
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What does the speaker say about Lucy?

She dwelt among the untrodden ways  

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
 
A violet by a mossy stone  …
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
 
She lived unknown, and few could know‰
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!
-William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways”

Select one:

a. Lucy has died and the speaker only realizes by then, how beautiful Lucy was.

b. Lucy is only beautiful when no one else is compared to her. 

c. Lucy’s beauty is only seen when one looks closely on how she deals with people.

d. Lucy used to be very attractive when she was still alive.

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The Art of Hugot in our Republic of Sawi qualifies as Creative Non-Fiction because?
I. It was primarily based on research.
II. It was based on fact rather than fiction.
III. There were a lot of literary devices in the text.
IV. The text was full of emotions that are relatable to its readers.

Select one:

a. I and II

b. II only

c. II and III

d. III only
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Which statement about creative non fiction is true ?

i) The writer must write compelling stories about real life by using all devices and strategies available to a fictionist.

ii) The writer of creative nonfiction presents the world (or the slice of it that he wishes to focus on) – through the prism of
his own personality.

iii) The writer of creative nonfiction may alter facts in the interest of improving his story (misquote his sources, misconstrue
statements, mislead readers).

iv) Creative nonfiction combines the authority of literature and the authority of opinions. It demands spontaneity and an
imaginative approach while remaining opinionated to the validity and integrity of the information it contains.

Select one:

a. All of the above.

b. I only

c. I, II, III

d. I and II
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Teacher Jona wants to add a nonfiction prose  activity to her English class that utilizes the techniques and strategies of
fiction. Which activity should she add?

Select one:

a. Defamiliarization

b. Magic Realism

c. Spoken Poetry

d. Literary Journalism Essay

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