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7. Vowels are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to
give the sound a particular color or timbre.
11. The indirect speech “I’m studying English a lot at the moment” means
he was studying English a lot at that moment.
12. Term, which represents the role of interlocutors, is NOT among the
variable of functional grammar.
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13. Systematic Functional Linguistics has three variables: Tenor, Field, and
Mode.
14. “We put it off too long” is a structure that uses “off” as an adverbial
particle.
18. English is MOST interesting subject for Rizza. The adjective that
expresses supreme value is called Superlative Adjectives.
19. “Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point” is an official sign in
the passive voice.
20. The THIRD child is the most brilliant. The capitalized word is an
example of ordinal adjectives.
25. The type of paragraph for the topic “The day I won the oratorical title
changed my self-perception” is Narrative.
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27. Imagery is BEST explained as when the author sends mental images in
the minds of the readers using words.
28. In a novel or short story, when the point of view assumed by the
narrator is able to tell everything that happens in the story, he is
omniscient.
32. “Bad credit” and “Debit Card”, “The earthquake” and “the queer
shake” are examples of anagrams.
37. Silent Way method makes use of rods and colorful charts.
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39. Use of grade readers is one approach applied in ESP to teach students
with a low level of knowledge of English. These materials refer to
different version of books with simplified grammar and vocabulary.
40. The strategy using examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and
illustrations based on local culture, history and reality is called
localization.
43. Substituting different sounds for the first sound of a familiar song can
help in developing phonological awareness.
46. The study of the ways non-native speakers acquire, comprehend, and
use linguistic patterns or speech acts in a second language is known as
Inter-language Pragmatics.
50. An example is the term room for someone who stays in a dormitory or
shared room of a boarding house without meals provided is known as
bed spacer.
55. The boy and the girl’s uncle is an example of a sentence fragment.
56. “Don’t make any comment unless you are fully aware of the issue.” is
an example of a complex sentence.
57. Josh dreads wild animals in the zoo. The function of the underlined
constituent is optional modifier.
60. “The man with a tall hat sits rather uncomfortably at the dinner table”
is syntactically ambiguous.
64. New Criticism excludes the reader’s response, the author’s intention,
historical and cultural contexts, and moralistic bias from their analysis.
It does not allow inter-textual reading of literature.
67. In the excerpt “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey / Dost
sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.”, Alexander Pope used
a literary device called Anticlimax.
70. The literary movement known as the era of “decadence” which was a
reaction against realism, naturalism, and highly structured poetry is
called Symbolism.
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72. A word can have associated mental images and meanings, often these
cannot be found in dictionaries. These are called Connotations.
73. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” In the opening lines of the
novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens used juxtaposition.
74. “The time is out of joint, O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it
right.” The two lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet which is
characterized by having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and
the same meter to form a complete thought is called a couplet.
76. Appeal to Ethos means that the author convinces the audience using
his credibility, character or expertise. These include enumerating work
experiences, accomplishments, and character.
77. Appeal to Pathos means that the author convinces the audience using
emotions. The author aims to gather the audience’s sympathy and
draw pity or sometimes makes them angry.
78. Appeal to Logos means that the author convinces the audience using
logic and reason. The author presents facts, evidences and data to
convince the audience’s minds to accept his arguments.
80. The MOST important sentence in any essay is the thesis sentence.
81. Self-fulfilling Prophecy is where the prophecies are realized due to the
actions of a character who tries to prevent them (for example:
Oedipus Rex)
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83. The person assigned to dictate the actor’s line if he forgets is called a
prompter
86. Nemesis is a literary device is where the good characters are rewarded
for their virtues, and the evil characters are punished for their vices.
87. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie, the rocking horse in “The
Rocking-Horse Winner,” and the road in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
are examples of subjects.
89. The words spoken by an actor directly to the audience watching a play
that the characters in the play do not hear are called aside.
90. The myths of the Greeks reflect a view of the universe that
acknowledges the mystery and beauty of humanity.
91. Antigone is sentenced to death for the crime of performing the burial
rituals of her brother.
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94. The presence of the three gods: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in Greek
Mythology symbolize that mortals’ fate depends on the gods.
95. In Greek Mythology, Jason sailed the long ship Argo in search for the
Golden Fleece.
96. Prometheus is the mythological titan punished by the gods for stealing
fire.
97. In the poem, “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe, the line that represents a
miserable or bleak scene is “Broken bones and a dead tree”
100. The first line of the Poem “Mind is Without Fear” by Rabindranath
Tagore “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high…” It
means only the fearless mind can hold its head upright.
102. “Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night” is a poem written by Omar
Khayyam.
103. Mao Tze-Tsung is a Chinese leader whose essays and poems depicted
the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary
movement.
105. The oldest Indian document of Sanskrit Literature is the Rig Veda.
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109. The forest in the play Midsummer Night’s Dream symbolize a place to
face trials for the characters to pass.
111. In Maya Angelou’s 'On the Pulse of Morning', it is suggested that each
new day gives people new chances.
114. A story told in verse by unknown writers and usually meant to be sung
is a ballad.
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117. A book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters and
often complex plot is called a novel.
119. Half rhyme is one of the major poetic devices. It is also called an
“imperfect rhyme,” “slant rhyme,” “near rhyme,” or “oblique rhyme”.
123. All materials from the real world not intended for classroom use but
used in the classroom are called authentic materials.
125. The use of song, the worksheet, pair group, the teacher and the
students’ talk are provisions of the comprehensible input hypothesis
of Krahsen’s Monitor model.
126. Paul Grice’s cooperative principle is a set of norms that are expected
in conversations. It consists of four maxims: quality, quantity,
relation, and manner.
127. Maxim of quality: Utterance must tell the truth or something that is
provable by adequate evidence.
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131. The generalization in the area of phonology that can be drawn from
the following linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordion
is that a voiceless stop can be aspirated if it begins a syllable of a
stressed vowel.
132. The title of Leo Tolstoy’s short story about a man falsely judged and
accused of murder is “God Sees the Truth but Waits.”
135. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George
Orwell entitled 1984.
136. When you use a fraction (one-third) with a countable noun, you use
the plural 'are'. If it was referring to a non-countable noun then it
would need to be singular 'is'.
138. The first school established by the Americans in the Philippines that
aims to teach Filipinos how to use English is the Philippine Normal
School.
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139. Direct Testing requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill
that the test wishes to measure.
145. The date line in a news story refers to the time when the story was
filed.
146. According to Wilson, the “heart of the theatre experience” is the live
relationship between the performers and the audience.
147. One way to see if translation communicates what the source text
communicates is by translation checking. The subjects of such activity
are called speakers with receptive language ability.
149. The first-ever printed material using the printing press is the Latin
Vulgate or Gutenberg Bible.
150. In creative non-fiction, you use essays and memoirs to support a fact-
based narrative.
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151. The speaker’s use of highly jargonized words falls under speaker-
created interference.
153. To enhance the power of the mind, learners read literary texts in the
target language and memorize vocabulary lists translated into the
native language. Explicit grammar instruction of rules and their
exceptions is the main focus to master the target language. This
method is Grammar-Translation.
159. The three monstrous sisters with snakes for hair, hands of brass and
bodies covered with impenetrable scales and turns to stone those who
look at them are the Gorgons.
160. The subjects in Mythic history portrayed in the “Musee des Beaux
Arts” are Daedalus and Icarus.
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162. Magic Realism is a term borrowed from art criticism and applied to a
kind of fiction that mixes realism with flights of fantasy and myth. It is
associated with Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
164. Aenid, an epic poem in twelve books recounting the story of Aeneas,
was the crowning achievement of Virgil.
165. “It is true but arguable” does NOT make a good idea for an essay.
171. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment
but also understanding.
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172. Fashionable is NOT among the qualities needed by the teacher in the
preparation, selection and utilization of instructional materials.
173. Allophone is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/ in top
is aspirated, /t/ is stop is released, and /t/ in pot is unreleased.
177. Cliffhanger is a plot device that ends abruptly that the main characters
are left in a difficult situation without offering any resolution or
conflict.
178. Roman a clef is a novel where real people are represented in the guise
of fictional characters.
182. The figure of speech that Hawthorne used in making Rev. Dimmesdale
metaphorically dim as the novel progresses, while making
Chillingworth have a chilled heart is Charactonym.
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196. Children who have been watching TV a lot would likely suffer from
short attention span.
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197. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret.” This is a good advice for those who are ill-tempered and
impulsive.
202. Pitch level 3 must be used in emphasizing the main idea in a sentence.
203. The intensification of the conflict of the story or play is called rising
action.
204. The National Heroes’ Day reminds us about heroes worth emanating.
206. The sentence “She drives an expensive white European sports car.”
follows the correct order of adjectives.
207. English has been the Lingua Franca of the world since America gained
its international power. Lingua Franca means Language of the World.
209. The poem which the quote “Nevermore” is taken is The Raven.
211. The smallest unit of sound of any language that causes a difference in
meaning is called a phoneme.
213. When the coach said “Bring home the bacon!”, he meant that the
team has to win the competition.
214. “What you said does not hold water with me.” The statement means it
is unbelievable / illogical.
215. 64.26% of the cases in a normal curve fall between +1 and -1.
216. Divine Comedy is the work of Dante Alighieri that narrates his journey
through Hell (The Inferno), purgatory, and finally, paradise.
218. In Nick Joaquin’s short story, May Day Eve, the technique he used in
developing the plot was Flashback.
221. “Teachers should correct errors during the time they are committed
as error correction is valuable” is NOT an implication of Krashen’s
Monitor Model.
225. Intonation is the rise and fall of pitch which may contrast meanings of
sentences.
229. Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years. The category of
illocutionary act demonstrated in this sentence is assertive /
representative.
232. “To be or not to be, that’s the question” this line is taken from
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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237. A distinct feature of poetry during the age of modernism is free verse.
238. To punish himself for murdering his father to have sexual relationships
with his mother, Oedipus gouged his eyes.
239. The playwright who used alienation effect to educate the audience
and not rely upon their emotion is Bertolt Brecht.
240. What is true about textually authentic materials is that they are NOT
written for teaching.
241. Sophocles wrote Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus and Colonus, but NOT
Agamemnon.
245. Echo reading takes place when the teacher reads each line then the
learners repeat it.
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249. I have been teaching for 32 years, and I can’t imagine doing anything
else.
250. The period considered as the Golden Age of the Filipino Language is
the Japanese Regime.
251. One implication on listening and speaking for language teaching is link
listening and speaking task to provide opportunities for students to
notice how language is used in different contexts.
252. When the word “consumables” refers to resources such as toner, ink,
and paper which can get used up, it is regarded as a/an ICT jargon.
255. The FENCE in the story written by Jose Garcia Villa refers to walls
representing hindrances that separate families.
257. In “I Hear America Singing” by Whitman, the workers sing varied carols
to express happiness in work and the uniqueness of contribution.
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259. In a study comparing the effect of studying with music versus no music
on reading comprehension. The independent variable is the presence
or absence of music during studying.
262. The function of language test which aim to motivate students pertains
to learning.
264. In Paz Latorena's short story "The Small Key", what Soledad’s second
wife found in the small chest is old clothes and other things of his first
wife.
267. Pidgin refers to language that emerged between two speakers who do
not share a common language.
271. Edgar Allan Poe is popular for his gothic style in his compositions.
273. Leo Tolstoy is known as the world’s greatest novelist for writing War
and Peace, and Anna Karenina.
278. Paradise Lost is written by John Milton and it is based on the popular
story of the Sinning of Adam and Eve.
279. In Paz Marquez Benitez’s “Dead Stars”, the dead stars represent
Alfredo’s love for Julia.
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283. Hamartia is the term for the downfall of the hero or heroine in a story.
284. "The self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late
1980s." The underlined word means excessive pride or self-
confidence.
285. The Filipino writer whose short stories depic Filipino-Spanish culture is
Nick Joaquin.
286. The phenomenon where people share the same false memory about
something is called the Mandela Effect. (e.g. The dash between KitKat)
294. “Touch me one more time, and I swear—” this breaking-off of speech
usually because of rising emotion or excitement is called Aposiopesis.
295. Chiasmus refers to two phrases in which syntax is the same but the
placement of words is reversed.
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297. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own ways.” This line is taken from Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
305. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine to
form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to
make sentences.
306. Fricatives are produced by bringing the articulators near each other
such that the flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked.
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310. The concept of universal grammar states that all languages are built
upon a common grammar.
314. Milton’s Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English.
315. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorn was commonly described
as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace,
which could only be captured by a virgin.
319. The K-W-L chart can be used to document what students know, what
they want to know, and what they learned.
320. Petrarchan sonnet is form of poetry that has an 8-line stanza with the
rhyme scheme abbaabba followed by 6 lines with various rhyme
schemes, usually cdcdcd or cdede.
322. Wolvin and Coakley (1992) listed four different kinds of listening:
Comprehensive (Informational), Critical (Evaluative), Appreciative
(Aesthetic), and Therapeutic (Emphatic).
326. Wash-back effect happens when what was assessed became what
was taught.
327. The factors that affect learners listening are: (1) Background
Knowledge or Schematic, (2) Knowledge of the situation or Context,
and (3) Knowledge of the language system or Systematic.
328. Life after Death is what was depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
333. George Eliot is the pen name of the female writer Mary Evans.
334. James Joyce wrote Ulysses and uses the literary style of stream of
consciousness.
337. When a teacher LOCALIZES the curriculum, it means that she relates
the curriculum to local information and material.
339. The main theme of Bonsai by Edith Tiempo is enjoy the little things.
345. When the narrator said he could not stop for death, he means he is
too busy.
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347. All sentences are clauses, but not all clauses are sentences. Both of
these statements are true.
348. Schema is a theory in reading that describes the ways mind acquires,
categorizes, and organizes knowledge.
349. Snowball Toss activity do a quick write or quick draw, then crumple,
throw, and read the pieces of paper.
350. Chaucer’s collection of stories in verse showing his skill as a story teller
in giving a vivid picture of English society in 1300’s is The Canterbury
Tales.
352. “On the day of Silician July, with Etna Smoking” is a Geographical
Allusion.
353. In Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth but Waits, Aksenov was imprisoned for
26 years.
354. A huge fire-breathing monster that has the head of a lion, the body of
a dragon, and the hind legs of a goat is called Chimera.
355. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 talks about love as Love never wanes even
in old age.
357. Tribble (1996) enumerates the range of knowledge that writers need
to know in order to write effectively when undertaking a specific task.
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361. “I’ll meet you at the library at 10:00 am” is an example of Commissive
illocutionary act.
362. “Mercury is the nearest planet from the sun.” Mercury and “the
nearest planet” are called co-referential.
363. The generalization that can be made from the group of words:
“responsible officers, trusted friend, impartially conducted…” is
Structure of Modification.
366. Flashforward is the other term for “prolepsis” which is a scene that
temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point
of the story in literature, film, television, and other media.
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367. In the first scene of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches said
“Something wicked this way comes.” The plot element employed here
is foreshadowing.
368. In teaching the works of James Joyce and Virginia Wolf to 3 rd year HS
students, you need first to orient the students with stream of
consciousness.
376. The preposition under denotes a figure at a lower point than the
landmark, while the preposition over denotes a figure that is at a
higher point that the landmark. Under and Over are referred to as
Vertical-space preposition.
378. Their abilities fall several levels below their current level. This
characterizes remedial students in general.
384. The speaker can convey interest in communicating with his audience
through establishing eye contact.
386. The student was sad because he was called off for his late submission
of his school project.
388. The teacher considers feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame that may
hinder second language acquisition. The method that can help address
this concern is Communicative Language Teaching.
389. The first thing that a child must know to know a word is word sound
and sequencing.
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390. Tartarus, Elysium, Asphodel, and Erebus all pertain to regions in the
underworld.
392. A teacher wrote in her lesson plan for teaching Oedipus the King this
“What qualities make a good king? Fill up the web below with words
that describe an ideal king.” The primary purpose of this activity is to
build the students’ schema.
393. Annabel Lee was written by Edgar Allan Poe which people speculate
he dedicated to his wife.
394. “Drink me only with thine eyes,” This poem is written by Ben Jonson.
395. Vanity Fair is a novel satirizing society in early 19th Century Britain and
is written by William Makepeace Thackeray.
396. In teaching the works of Edgar Allan Poe, what should be given prime
consideration is Atmosphere.
398. If you are teaching students with literature of the writer O’ Henry, you
should highlight the use of surprise endings.
399. Two novel-like stories The Predestined Prince and Sinuhe were written
around 1200 BC in Egypt.
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401. Among the basic types of speaking task, Extensive Speaking requires
students to present Oral Reports.
406. You ask your class the question “Do you like the poem” after it has
been discussed.
412. The principle in grammar teaching that is applicable for ESP context is
teaching structures related to language functions.
413. The K-12 envisions holistically developed learners equipped with 21st
century skills.
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415. The “t” before *n+ in words like “button” and “written” is pronounced
as glottal stop by most American English speakers.
417. “When she arrived, Diane was surprised to find her apartment door
open.” The underlined pronoun is cataphoric.
418. “Diane was surprised to find her apartment door open.” The
underlined pronoun is anaphoric.
420. Words with the same spelling and related meanings are called
polysemes.
421. “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and
drink that they may live.” This is an example of chiasmus.
422. “Marvin is probably at school now.” The modality used in the sentence
is epistemic.
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426. “The teacher asks a question ___ me.” The best preposition to
complete the sentence is OF.
431. Class size might be affected in remedial instruction when class size
gets smaller.
432. Upon learning the past tense of call is called and talk is talked, the
child writes singed for sing. This kind of language error is called
overgeneralization.
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438. Testing lend itself well to teaching when testing provides tangible
reasons for pedagogic changes.
441. Mateo is not yet comfortable about speaking English with his
colleagues. He has learned to insert fillers such as, “uh”, “well”, when
he speaks. The characteristic of spoken language that Mateo has taken
advantage of is PERFORMANCE VARIABLES.
442. Testing creates different learning groups is NOT TRUE about testing.
444. Action Research is at the instructional level and has classroom as its
locale.
446. Aira received her paper with the mark 4 before the sentence “They
will go to Paris next month.” The teacher wants Aira to indent four
spaces.
450. Among the four basic types of assessment task in speaking, Imitative
requires “parroting” back words, phrases, and sentences that students
hear.
453. Students went to the library and looked into the title, synopses,
introduction, first sentence, and parts of the book. This is Survey
Reading.
454. The kind of questions that must be asked after presenting a lesson on
animal protection and situations that endanger species is general
queries on animal protection.
455. Teacher Keith learned in his graduate degree that language learning
could also be a result of cognitive processes, or the act of knowing
something. This is a result of Content-based Instruction.
456. The vocal variable that dictates the highness and lowness of your voice
is Pitch.
457. The percentage allotted for written output in the K-12 grading system
specifically the language subject is 30%.
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461. The teacher gave the class a group assignment. The class must come
up with a possible solution to the vandalism problem in school. Each
group is expected to come up with a proposal. The speaking task she is
using is Interactive.
466. You want to explore the effective methods used in improving the
children’s way of using the language in the classroom. The best
respondents of your study would be the Teachers.
467. If you want to discuss about Ballad in your class, you should NOT teach
your students that ballad typically is historical and condensed.
469. The type of words that a child may be able to comprehend using
context clues are known as potential/marginal vocabulary.
470. The Critical Foundation for reading, writing, and spelling and is the
engine of learning and thinking is cognitive development.
471. One cosmic truth holds in Hindu Mythology that “all things are simply
a part of a greater whole One.”
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478. Cavalier Poems are known as “carpe diem” or “seize the day” poetry.
480. Both Realism and Naturalism oppose the earlier literary and artistic
cycle Romanticism.
481. Panday Pira is the play of Jose M. Hernandez that tells of an artisan
who forged cannons for the use of the Spaniards.
482. Among the Elizabethan playwrights, Dante does NOT belong in the
group.
483. Gnomic verses are the earliest form of literacy expressed during the
pre-colonial period in Philippine Literature. Riddle is NOT an example
of Gnomic verse.
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485. The two groups at war in The Iliad are the Trojans and Achaens.
488. Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and short story writer
whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1991.
489. The story of a scholar who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for
knowledge is entitled Faust.
491. The Greek alphabet is adopted from the consonantal writings of the
Phoenicians.
492. Fine arts and literature flourished during the T’ang dynasty which is
viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
495. Rousseau’s The Social Contract is among the most important works in
political philosophy.
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499. “Have a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Rousseau is pertaining to security.
500. In the “Fall of the House Usher”, the name of the woman who is
entombed alive is Lady Madeline.
501. Manuel Arguilla is known for using local color in his stories.
502. Comedia was used to express social protest during the early days of
American regime
504. Parang Sabil is an epic about the exploits of early Muslim warriors
who fought in defense of Islam.
506. Buddhism was imported from India to China during the Han Dynasty.
509. Hector died at the end of the Iliad. Achilles’ death was never
mentioned in the epic.
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519. The problem of a student who constantly reads pat as bat and got as
dot is graphophonic correspondence.
525. A reader got 30 correct answers out of 40-item cloze test. This reader
can be categorized under independent reading level.
526. A listener who hears sounds in the background but ignores them is
into marginal listening.
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528. Philippine Literature and World Literature are compulsory subjects for
Grade 12 students in the K-12 curriculum.
530. The two categories of a literary test are Literary Information and
Literary Interpretation.
537. Among the basic types of speaking task, extensive speaking requires
students to present ORAL REPORTS in the classroom.
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