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1. It refers to the basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided.

FOOT
2. This article is used when a singular noun comes after it begins with a consonant letter. A
3. A type of poetry consisting of a pair of rhyming lines that is equal in length. COUPLET
4. Here and there a man like the astronauts and the scientists (dares, dare) to venture to the
unknown.
5. O earth, please give me so much joy. APOSTROPHE
6. This punctuation mark is used when there are two adjectives belonging to the same category
utilized in the sentence. COMMA
7. Beware of Greeks bearing gift is an example of. ALLUSION
8. The Roman equivalent of the Goddess of War MINERVA
9.. To champion against poverty should be the goal of the Philippine government. The underlined
word is in what part of speech? VERB
10.. “Behind the sweet smiles” is in what type of sentence fragment? PREPOSITION FRAGMENT
11. The butter is as soft as the marble. IRONY
12. It is a form of advertisement displayed beside the streets and big establishments or buildings.
BILLBOARD AD
13. What literary device is used in the sentence? "Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?“
ALLITERATION
14. What figure of speech is used in the sentence “Parting is such a sweet sorrow.” OXYMORON
15. In the Philippine Mythology, she is considered as the goddess of lost things. ANAGOLAY
16. It is the study of the structure of poetry and the conventions or techniques involved in writing it,
including rhyme, meter, and the patterns of verse forms. PROSODY
17. Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
LEWIS CARROLL
18. Who is the author of the story “Footnote to Youth?” JOSE GARCIA VILLA
19. The words like while, on the other hand, however, and nevertheless are examples of what kind of
transitions? ADVERSATIVE TRANSITIONS
20. How many lines does a sonnet have? 14
21 The poem “The Rhodora” is written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rhodora is what kind of object?
FLOWER
22. “I enjoy reading Martin Luther King.” What figure of speech was used? METONYMY
23. The poem Africa is written by David Diop. He is an African by blood but doesn’t know much about the
place because he was born in what country? FRANCE
24. Which poet wrote the famous poem “The Road Not Taken?” ROBERT FROST
26. In the Magindanao epic Indarapatra and Sulayman, what did Indarapatra give Sulayman before he set
off to battle? MAGIC RING
27. Stephen King wrote which of these book series? THE DARK TOWER
28. Who wrote the classic children's fiction novel “The Jungle Book”? RUDYARD KIPLING
29 What does the acronym CCTV mean? CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION
30. It is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA),
often humorous and sometimes obscene. LIMERICK
31 It is a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has
just died. EULOGY
32. Tina is learning her ABC's in preschool. What figure of speech was used? SYNECDOCHE
33. What is the longest English word?. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
34. The literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word. DENOTATION
35. A form of autobiography that records the day-by-day events in a person’s life. DIARY
36. They are responsible for telling the feat and the adventures of a hero through a narrative poem during
the Anglo Saxon Period. SCOPS
37. The antagonist of the Harry Potter sequel. MALFOY
38. A verbal that is used as an adjective. GERUND
39. The Roman Goddess of Beauty. VENUS
40. A short form of poetry that contains a story within it. BALLAD
41. The tense of the verb that shows an action that is finished before another past action occurred. PAST
PERFECT TENSE
42. King Arthur pulled this sword from the stone and made him officially the King of England.
EXCALIBUR
43. A tale of a Queen (Scheherazade) who uses her cunning/wit in telling stories to delay her execution.
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
44. It is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is
often known in English as the Arabian Nights. ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
45. One of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different
meanings HOMONYMS
46. The son of Zeus and a mortal woman (Danae) who cut Medusa's Head. PERSEUS
46. . ““Milton , Milton your words have lived through my nation…” APOSTROPHE
47. A traditional and the oldest play in Japan. KABUKI
48. The Japanese word for the make-up worn by the Kabuki actors. KUMADORI
49. . Words that sound like their meanings – that imitate actual sounds’ ONOMATOPOEIA
50. The literary device in which the ending of an act, chapter, or some other discrete episode of story
leaves the action dramatically.unfinished. CLIFFHANGER
51. It is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and/or abruptly
resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. DEUS EX MACHINA
52. The contemporary author of “Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons.“ DAN BROWN
53. Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travel” created the minute citizens of _________ town where Gulliver was
lost. LILIPUT
54. ““Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I love Rome more” Who said this line from the play Julius
Caesar? BRUTUS
55. A story featuring a solution to the story's conflict, which comes out of nowhere and renders the plot
struggles irrelevant. PROLEPSIS
56. The speaker raises a question from the audience’s perspective and then answers it immediately.
PROCATALEPSIS
57. The author of The Great Gatsby. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
58.. It offers a brief description of places arranged alphabetically like entries in a dictionary. GAZETTEER
59. The study of internal structures of words. MORPHOLOGY
60. How many acts are in Romeo and Juliet? FIVE
61. Sir Walter Scott is known for his historical novels about which country? SCOTLAND
62. This genre of fiction, in which novels like Dracula are told in letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings,
and more mixed formats, came to prominence in the late 18th century. EPISTOLARY
63. Mark Twain’s beloved characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn reside in which state? MISSOURI
64. In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, which creature was used as the ball in the game of croquet?
Hedgehog
65. Which former US President wrote the memoir ‘Dreams From My Father’? Barack Obama
66. Which flowers does William Wordsworth describe in his poem ‘I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud’?
Daffodils
67. Which British author was nicknamed “The Queen Of Crime”? Agatha Christie
68.What is the name of the book of the writings of a Dutch girl and how she and her family hid from the
Nazis for two years before being caught by the Gestapo? Ann Frank’s Diary
68. Who is the National Artist in Literature who wrote the short story "Summer Solstice?" NICK JOAQUIN
69. What do you call this Bicol poetry which is monorhyming and is popular in gatherings which aims to
tease, praise, comment about any topic that one can think of? TIGSIK
70. Pre-colonial period literature characterized by mere storytelling by the use of voice, actions, gestures,
etc. ORAL LITERATURE
71. What is the folk literary song well known in the Bicol Region? SARONG BANGUI
72. A narrative song and poetry in a form of ballad which depicts lives of the moral and farewell of the
singer itsThis is very similar to tanaga which is unique and that in a stanza should be a complete,
grammatically complete sentence. AWIT
73. A statement or a question with unveiled meaning or doubled meaning. BUGTONG
74. This is a genre fiction which consists of heroine-centered narratives that focuses on the trials and
tribulations of their individual protagonists. CHICK LIT
75. This is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological
order. BLOG
76. A folk drama performed in the villages throughout the Philippines during fiestas. MORO-MORO
77. A type of non-fiction literary genre. It is a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or
point. A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally
analytic, speculative, or interpretative. ESSAY
78. A humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with an here
of nonchalance. TALL TALE
79. An important figure at the center of the story’s action or theme. PROTAGONIST
80. The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader, subject, and/or the people, places, and events in a
work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style. TONE
81. This is a passage spoken by the speaker in a poem or by a character in a play except that there is no
one present to hear him except the reader or the audience. SOLILOQUY
82. It is literature focusing on the culture, dialects, as well as other features particular to a specific region.
REGIONALISM
83. "Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of ALLITERATION
84. "Hope is the things with feathers That perches on the soul, And sings the tune without words And
never stops at all." (Emily Dickinson) This poem contains an example of: SLANT RHYME
85. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..." (Paul Simon, The Sounds of
Silence) APOSTROPHE
86. It means a reminder of one’s mortality. MEMENTO MORI

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