Representative Texts
The Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio is about an Igorot couple who failed to concieve a child and ended up separating. Which region in the Philippinesdid this work come from?
CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
The famous Southern Luzon oral literature whose authorship is mostly attributed to Jose Rizal.
LEGEND OF MARIA MAKILING
ANANSI
A 21st century form of prose that an informative webpage presenting random topics on the internet.
BLOG
This element of short story refers to any complications or issues that build up the story.
CONFLICT
This oral literature from the Ilocos Region tells the story of the hero who is already able to talk upon birth.
BIAG NI LAM-ANG
Which Filipino author is known for his moniker "comma poet"?
JOSE GARCIA VILLA
Don Quixote, tagged as the "First Modern Novel", is a famous work of which global author?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
An interesting and amusing detailed write-up about a real life incident that took place.
Anecdote or Memoir
We call it "Dagli" in Filipino, which refers to a fictional literary work that is brief in form and is written under 1500 words.
FLASH FICTION
Graciano Lopez-Jaena was the author of the famous satirical work that highlights the greediness and corruption of Spanish Friars?
FRAY BOTOD
What are the two most famous work of Lualhati Bautista?
DEKADA '70
BATA BATA PA'NO KA GINAWA?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a work written by Mark Twain, which is a pseudonym used by the author to hide his identity. What is the true name of Mark Twain?
SAMUEL CLEMENS
What element of poetry refers to the ability to say little and mean much through the use of metaphors?
DENSITY
This 21st century science-fiction subgenre is characterized by "high-tech and lowlife".
This simple poem by Edith L. Tiempo is symbolic, with a central metaphor representing distilled, concentrated love seen in the simplest forms
BONSAI
Who are the three Great Triumvirate of the Propaganda Movement?
GRACIANO LOPEZ-JAENA
MARCELO H. DEL PILAR
JOSE RIZAL
What literary piece tells the story of liberal white South African family who are forced to flee a violent Black uprising in Johannesburg and seek refuge in the remote native village of their longtime servant, July?
July's People
What is the difference of biography and autobiography?
BIOGRAPHY - a piece of work written by an author about the life of ANOTHER person.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY - a piece of work written by an author about their PERSONAL life.
Digi-fiction is a combination of what three materials or platforms?
BOOK, WEBSITES, VIDEO
The Netflix series Anne with an E is an adaptation of the North American literary piece of what title?
ANNE OF THE GREEN GABLES
What are the two famous pseudonyms of Jose Rizal?
DIMASALANG AT LAONG LAAN
In the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, what are the three Italian terms that refers to the levels of the afterlife that Dante visited with Virgil?
INFERNO, PURGATORIO, PARADISO
Differentiate prose and poetry.
PROSE - continuous sentences, whose group is called a paragraph.
POEM - collection of lines that rhymes and make up a stanza or verse
Differentiate GRAPHIC NOVELS from ILLUSTRATED NOVELS.
Graphic novels - the narrative of the story are all written
Illustrated Novels - there are some drawings or illustrations that complements the specific part of the text.