FIGURES OF SPEECH
Time flies when you’re having fun.
PERSONIFICATION
____ is a reenactment of the journey of Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph to Jesus’ birth.
Panunuluyan
_____ was the first short story written in English by Paz Marquez Benitez
Dead Stars
Post-war contemporary period (1946-1970) is also known as the _________.
Recovering Era or Period
It is also known as “The Queen City of the South,” which distinguishes itself with its rich and vibrant literary tradition.
CEBU
She is the apple of my eye.
METAPHOR
____is a brief yet exaggerated musical comedy wherein the characters depicted came from the lower class.
SAINETE
The Small Key was written by ______.
Paz Latorena
Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez (NVM) is a fictionist, essayist, poet, and teacher who wrote the _____ in 1959.
Bamboo Dancers
___ is the Father of Cebuano Literature.
VICENTE SOTTO
His response was as cold as ice.
SIMILE
_________ was written by the Father of Tagalog classic prose, Modesto de Castro .
Tanikalang Ginto was written by ______ .
Juan Abad
Ginto sa Makiling was the first work that appeared after the Second World War to be recorded and written by _______.
Macario Pineda
_____ is a poetic debate that required the participants (a man and a woman) to improvise and even sing their lines.
BALITAW
I have told you a million times not to touch my stuff!
HYPERBOLE
_______was the first Biblical story published in the Philippines. Fr. Antonio de Borja
Ang Barlaan at Josephat
The only contact with the outside world was through an underground radio program called ______.
Voice of Freedom
It is a period when the Philippines gained ______from both America and Japan.
Independence
_____ is the mother language of the Western Visayas and is spoken by the Ilonggos in the central and southern towns ofIloilo, all provinces of Antique, most of Capiz, and even South Cotabato, where many Western Visayans have migrated.
Kinaray-a or Hiraya
Oh, rose, how sweet you smell and how bright you look!
APOSTROPHE
Apostrophe figures of speech are situations (usually in literary worlds), when a character, author, or speaker addresses an inanimate object or even a person that does not really exist in the given scenario.
The basis for religious practices was the _______.
Christian Doctrine
“Panday Pira” was written by ________.
Jose Ma. Hernandez
In the 1950s, Guerilla warfare, also known as the HUKBALAHAP was causing problems in the government, but in the _________ administration, they’d vanished.
Magsaysay or Ramon Magsaysay
Mother of Philippine Folklore
Damiana Ligon Eugenio