AB ENGLISH

SAMUEL JAMEZ B QUINTE

ENGLISH 12
MODULE 2

1) What are the four qualities of the vernacular language? Define each. (10
points)
o It has prestigious variety; economic, social, and political
influences
o High prestige
o It can be used in variety of areas
o Codified from grammar and dictionaries

2) Explain: If in their natural sluggishness they are but geese, let them
abstain from imitating the eagles soaring to the stars. (2 points)
o The statement strongly suggests that If one individual does not
acquire specific characteristics of an individual that belongs to
the higher hierarchy, one must refrain from imitating what others
had been. Same goes with the idea another way around.
3) "Writings," said Dante, "can be expounded in four dimensions: literal,
allegorical, moral, and anagogical." Explain the literal approach with an
illustration. Explain and exemplify the literal. (5 points)
o
the literal approach, according to Dante, refers to the writers’
utilization of words purely by their primary meaning, contradicting
the other meanings we individually give the word.
4) Explain the allegorical. (5 points)
o This refers to the narrative which includes character, place or
events which are used by the author to deliver a message regarding
world issues and occurrences.

5) Explain: "However deeply the poetic impulse stirs the soul to which it is
granted," says Boccaccio, "it may rarely accomplish anything commendable
if the instrument by which its concepts are to be wrought out are wanting
points)
o The statement by Boccaccio strongly suggest that writers rarely
accomplish an exemplary writing if one does what he doesn’t really
want to do or in some cases forced to finish one specific task.

6) Aside from mastering the mechanics of poetic composition, what four or

five elements must a poet possess? (10 points)
o Knowledge on how to attract readers, tricky placing the ideas on
the work, mastery of choosing mood to apply, fragile on choosing
words to use; these characteristics that a poet must possess.

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