English Major
writer to receive the noble prize
1 Past perfect tence – there must be two
past action
2 comedia – dante aligieri’s divine
comeday original titled
3 edgar allan poe – master of short story
4 abase – demote
5 persiflage – praise glowingly
6 dexterity – manual skill
7 amorphous – shapeless
8 transcendal – supernatural
9 randor – bitterness
10 carnal – wordy dispotic
11 penchat pondness
12 pulchritude – loveliness
13 profanity – obscenity
14 apocalyptic – prophetic
15 impertinent – irrelevant
16 mundane – ordinary
17 conflagration – large fire
18 Abandoned – left behind
19 Voracious – very eager
20 aplomb – composure
21 esoteric – understandable by few
22 queue – line
23 baduy – akward looking
24 rabindranath – he is the first asian
25 william shakespears - bard of avon
26 macbeth – this shakespear’s play is a
story of aman whose downfall was caused
by overwhelming for fower
27 edgar allan poe – father of horror
stories
28 francis bacon – father of english essay
29 rubaiyat – grasping pleasure while you
can
30 the cask of amontillado – edg
ar allan poe “poison tree”
31 jose garcia villa – “comma poet”
32 panchatantra - collection of indian
beast fable originally written in sanskrit
33 beowulf – first great work of english
literature
34 psalms of king david – greatest lyric
poem in the literature of the world
35 atin cu pung singsing – folksong that
origenated in pampanga
36 kalidasa – greatest indian writer of all
time
37 geoffrey chaucer – “morning star”
38 thales of melitus – he is the man to
replace myth with natural laws
38 rig veda - collection of indian sacred
hymns
39 upanishad – collection of indian
religious
40 amando hernandez – “ibong
mandaragit’
54 Adventure of huckleberry finn – is a
41 rhyme – poetry during the of work of samuel langhorn clemen
modernism
55 culture goes beyond love – the truth
41 death of the queens – a comedia about life was presented in the story “the
usually ends with the wedding dance” by amador daguio”
42 aligaynon – the ifugao epic “hudhud” 56 ousmane sembene – his works reveal
immortalized the hero an inteanse commitment to political and
social change
43 kalidasa – who is considered the indian
counterpart of shakespeare 57 leopold sedar senghar – he is a
cofounder of the negritude movement in
44 the canterbury tales – this is geoffrey
african art and movement
chaucer’s collection of stories in poetic
form 58 africa – is apoem written by david diop
that achieves its impact by a series of
45 filipino folk narrative’s function is - to
climate sentence s and rhetorical quations
explain natural phenomena
59 pitch – it is the auditury property of a
46 trojan and pnonicians – are at the war
sound the anables us to place it on a scale
in the illiad
it on a scale that manages from low to
47 regret – “while a cold hand snactched high
you away like a kite
60 this refers to the pauses or breaks
48 vowel are chacterized by - the little between syllables
obstruction in the vocal tract
61 how many morphemes are there in the
49 fourth – where is the primary stress in word “unhappines”
the word “characterization”
62 the word motel is a example of – blend
50 if a teacher wants to teach about the
63 edit – is a good example of back
range of meaning between opposite
formation
words, he/she mays use
64 when you read “governor” as
51 pnoneme – this is the smallest unit of
governor, you probably diong or using –
sound
dissimilation
52 Minerva – is the roman goddess of
65 true about lexical ambiguity – a word
wisdom
that has several meaning
53 the “dead stars” by paz marquez
benitez – the love of alfredo for julia
66 declaration – this is an utterance used
to change the status of some entity
67 perlocutionary act – it is the effect on
the hearer after a speaker says something
to him or her
68 inflectional morphemes – stays, stayed
and staying are example of what
morphemes
69 classicism – terms discrebes the subject
matter, style, tone and attitutude of
literature of ancient greek and room
70 plato’s idea about the art poetry is
expressed in treatise
71 plato – he believes that reality exists
when the things, objects or emotion is
lasting
72 media res – it I a narrative technique
utelized by homer and sophocles in their
plot of scheme
73 ben johnson “I fart at thee”, shit on
your head”, shit on your head”, dirty
bastard
74 the parson – is presented as the most
honest and moral of chaucer’s
75 ellipses – a mark or series of marks that
usually indicate an inetrnational omission
of some parts
76 acronym - words formed from the
letters of more than one word
77 evolutionary linguistics – it is the study
of the origin and subsequent development
of language by the human species
78 task – based approach – this concept
equates the idea of “learning task” to a
language learning technique in self
79 howes – according to him, the teacher’s
role is to guide and facilitaterather than to
direct
80 contemporary novels – according to
surveys, is the reading interest of high
school student today
81 he is a decision maker, mentor and
coach – is the role of the teacher in
literature – based instruction
82 when a teacher shows a happy facial
expression, nod or verbal acknowledge of
a correct response, he – let them talk and
ask for answer to one another
83 anthropomorphic – these are human
characters who are mythically mortals
having divine father and a mortal mother
84 after hearing commercial a voter
remarked “I am used to the same tales this
means – there is nothing new in the story
85 “history never cited a leaderless
nation” – leader are matched with
hishorical even
86 constructivist – this theory of language
learning and literacy views children
capable of relating new information
87 sympathy for a cause – the activists
exclamed “join the mass demonstration”
what was asked of the listeners
88 replace – when a president is
succeeded by another president
89 pulchritude – beauty
90 loquacious – verbose
91 Hiatus – lapse
92 culpable – guilty
93 emulating – the national hero day
celebration reminds us about historical
personalities worth
94 erratic – inconsistent
95 ductile – if a thing doesn’t break that
easy, it is
96 ersatz – artificial
97 hudhud – commotion
98 high – minded – honorable
99 frivalous – worthless
100 william makepeace thackeray – vanity
fair
101 linear - the plot development of the
ramayana
102 unicorns – symbol of purity love and
beauty
103 tell – tale heart – title of mary
wollstonecraft shelly’ ‘tale of horror’
104 harriet beecher stowee - who did
abraham lincoln call “ the little woman
who started the civil war”
105 t’ang – fine arts and literature
flourished during this dynasty which is
viewed as the golden age of chinese
civilization
Samuel richardson – the good soldier
106 honore de balzac novel – the black
sheep
107 that life has a beginning and an end –
birth, death and after life are constant
stories in the mythologies of the world
108 hera – she is the wife of zeus and
considered as the goddes of fertility and of
the earth
109 henry james masterpiece – the
portrait of a lady
110 record of a journey to the west – this
novel is based on the pilgrimage of the
buddhist monk xuanzang to the india in
search of sacred texts
111 gilda cordero fernando – the food
expert who wrote on filipino cuisine
Cirilo bautista – the writer acknowledge to
have introduced modernism in philippine
poetry in english
112 anne rice – wrote the interview with a
vanpire
113 little – novel features josephine “jo”
march
114 matsou basho – he is regarded as the
greatest haiku poet
115 luis san pedro – he is a famous
composer from angono, rizal, who was
given a national award
116 the king james bible – this is regarded
as the most influencial book in the history
of english civilization
117 korido – this is popular philippine
secular poetry in octosyllablic quatrain
118 nibelungelied – it is a medieval
german epic
119 charles dickens – he is known as the
master “local color” because of his picked
papers
119 beowulf – it is king from a monster
120 gullever’s travel – it is jonathan swift’s
satire on human folly and stupidity
121 jose garcia villa – he is a philippine
national artist awardee for literature who
used free verse and espoused the dictum
“art for art’s sake”
122 hud – hud – this known as the epic of
ifugao
123 cavalier poems – these poems are
often erotic and spouse CARPE DIEM or
“sieze”the day”
124 dead stars – this is known to be the
very first short story in english written in
1925 by paz marquez benites
125 she wrote the most exquisite love
poems of her in “sonnets from the
portuguese”
126 canterbury tales – this is a very long
poem about a pilgrimage from london to
canterbury
127 yasunari kawabata – he is a japanese
poet who won the noble prize for
literature in 1968
128 mahabharata – this indian epic which
is made up of almost 100,000 couplets
divided into 18 sections, is consedered as
the longest epic ever written
129 middle ages – this was the era of
knights, chivalry and castles in english
literature
130 maragtas - this is known as the epic of
visayas
131 awit – this is popular philippine
secular poetry in dodecasyllabic quatrians
132 jose dela cruz – he is popularly known
as “huseng sisiw’”
133 renaissance – this the period of
english literally means “rebirth” in french
134 child of sorrow – this is the novel in
english written by zoilo galang, a filipino
writer, in 1921
135 beowulf – it is considered as the
national epic of england
136 christopher marlowe – he is known as
the father of english tragedy
137 romeo and juliet – from which
shakespear’s plays are this taken “good
night, parting is such a swwet sorrow that I
shall say good night till it be morrow
138 wole soyinka – he is the black writer
to be awarded the noble prize for
literature in 1968
139 biag ni lam-ang – this epic of ilocanos
Without seeing th dawn – what is
javellana’s 1947 novel the captured the
moving tale of the cruelty and the bravery
of the war years
140 simulation – least prioritized or used
in an esp class
141 pedagogy – is a jargon of academe dealswith the appropriate use of
communication and coping strategies
142 english for technicians – course for
english for occupational purpose (EOP) 151 connect communication – the deped
secretary admits that text messaging
143 an important step in ensuring the
keeps aware of their children’s
relevance of the curriculum is to keep a list
whereabouts. He registered concern on
of – goals and objectives of the school
the effects on
144 task – based syllabus – is following
152 after hearing the campaign
activies: writing notes and memos,
commercial, a voter remarked, “I am used
reports, and reply letters
to the same tales”this means: - there is
145 oral proficiency – the primary end of nothing new in the story
school language teaching using the
153 “history never cited a leaderless
audiolingual method
nation” – leader are matched with
146 authentic materials – newspaper historical events
article,advertisement, radio
154 pragmatics - the study of illocutionary
announcement, etc . in the real world
acts is an area
when used in the real world when used in
the classroom situations 155 anaphora – mary thinks that he is the
only girl who can sing the song. Obviously,
147 course syllable - a plan of what to be
“she” refers to mary. What concept in
achieved through the teaching and
referential semantics explains the italized
learning process which contains the course
word
description, objectives, the prerequisites,
the requirements, and the topics to be 156 lexical bound morpheme – is the
taught classificassion of the morphene in each of
the following linquistic data: invert, covert,
148 skill-based syllabus – is a collection of
revert, subvert, divert
specific that play a part in using language
157 which is a sense property in which two
149 quality – which conversational maxim
words features? Example: “teacher” and
is violated in this utterance? In this
“instructor” – synonymy
classroom, the students are noisy, the
teacher spoke loud, “class, I really 158 – prototype – american: are you a
appreciate your behaving quitely today. filipino? Filipino: yes, I am. American: so
You see we can smoothly and clearly you must be a nurse. What concept
discuss our lesson.” explains the conversation?
150 strategic commpetence – the aspect
of communicative competence that’s
159 a polite expression such as, “can you
give me a glass of water?” – it is an
indirect illocutionary act
160 nativization of assimilation – in second
acquisition, what is the the route to
pidginization of fossilization of errors?
161 monitor model - betty justifies the
inclusion of grammar in her lessons.
According to her, it should be an integral
part of the curriculum. What theory of
second language acquisition explains
teacher betty’s justification?
162 i+1 hypothesis – teacher judy
examinesthe reading selection that she
will discuss in her class. She reads the
selection to check whether the language
and vocabulary might be too difficult for
the student to understand. What theory
explain this?
163 content – based instruction – teacher
mary learned in her graduate degree class
tha lanquage learning could also be a
result of cognitive processes, or the act of
knowing something. Which of the
following is the result of this principle?
164 cl/cll – the teacher considers feelings
of anxiety, fear, and shame that may
hinder second language acquisition. Which
method can help the teacher address the
concern
Pedginization – teacher eric believes that if
the student in school would force their
habit of speaking in english in the manner
they speak kapampangan, including accent
and vocabulary, it might lead to
fossilization of errons and eventually lead
to a linguistic phenomenon
165 – commucatives classroom – is a class
codes witching allowed
166 error – is the indication of
hyphothesis testing in language learning?
167 audio lingual method – is a
manisfestation of covert grammar
teaching?
168 competency – based education –
supports english for specific purpose?
169 present progrssive – based on
principles of first language
acquisition,which of the following should
be taught first to students?
170 taboo – what semantic change is
reflected in the word “queer”? “a queer
case was solved by sherlock homes.” “he is
such aquerr.”
171 we put it off too long – the word “off”
function as an adverbial particle in which
structure?
172 optional modifier - “jake dreads wild
animals in the zoo”?
173 conversation - jo removed dust from
the desk. = jo dusted the desk
174 mississipi – mark twain’s novel tom
sawyer and huckleberry finn are set in the
river
175 hyperbole - “I can eat a whole cow!”
176 metaphor - “she is a star in the
heavens above.”
176 george eliot – pen name of mary ann
evans
177 mark twain – is the pen name of
samuel clemns
178 jane austen – who wrote pride and
prejudice
179 the reign of queen elizabeth
180 charles dickens – who wrote the novel
“a christmas carol” which about a man
who hates chrismas?
181 ponology – in the cueing system, this
pertains to the formation of sounds of the
language.
182 semantics – in the cueing system, this
is about vocabulary and coming up with
meanings in a contex
183 morphology – in the cueing system,
this pertains to the formation of words
184 syntax – in the cueing system, this
pertains to the structure of grammar
185 informal reading inventory (IRI) – in
reading, IRI stands for:
186 ralph waldo emerson – who wrote the
essay “ self reliance” which mentions that
“envy is ignorance while imitation is
suicide?”
187 kalidasa – who is the indian
counterpart of willian shakespear?
188 william faulkner – who wrote the story
“a rose for emily”?
189 phonics – in devopmental reading, this
pertains to the ability of the learner to
relate the written symbol to its
corresponding sound
190 phonemic awareness – in
developmental reading, this pertains to
the familiarity of the students toward the
sounds of the language
191 Directed Reading and Thinking Activity
– ( DRTA )
192 minerva – who is the roman godess of
wisdom
193 homer – who wrote the illiad and
odyssey?
194 macro skills – listening,speaking,and
writing are collective known as
195 jose garcia villa – he is the advocate of
art’s sake in the philippines
196 philippine normal college – is the first
american school in the philippines that’s
aims in teaching the filipinos how to use
the english lanquage
197 ashurbanipal – first library in the
world
198 beowulf – oldest epic in england
Heroic couplet – last lines of the sonnet
199 a sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter
lines which means that – there are 10
syllables in line
200 ophelia demalanta – who is
considered the goddes of the philippines
Poetry
201 methaphore – “mercy is a gentle rain
that drops from heaven”
202 it is a strange language – among
filipino, what characteristic makes english
difficult to understand?
203 genre – esp is the centered on the
language appropriate to various activities
that relate well with grammar lexis
register,discourse and
204 oral interview – an english teacher
may administer a performance-based
assessment in esp using a rubic as a
measure instrument . in which of the
following tests is a rubric best applicable?
205 iron : metal : :granite:-rock
206 make a bold decision – there are times
when you must decide and “take the bull
by the horns.”
207 fyodor dostoyevsky – the novel crime
was written by
208 progressive tense – this tense
connotes action that are happening at
present time, meaning right now.
209 thomasites are- teacher from america
210 leo tolstoy’s short story about a man
falsely judge and accused of murder is
titled – god sees the thruth but waits
211 estrella alfon – who wrote the short
story "magnificence” which about the girl
abused by an older
212 jose rizal’s novel me tangere is
inspired by the novel written by harriet
beecher stowe titled – uncle tom’s cabin
213 the film “ gone with the wind”is about
american – civil war
214 the reality Tv show big brother is
based on the novel by george orwell titled
– 1984
215 /b/ - sound is a voice bilabial stop?
216 the execution of GOMBURZA –
inspired rizal’s el filibusterismo?
217 jose garcia villa – he is the advocate of
art’s sake in the philippines.
218 patroclus – in the epic iliad, who is the
most friend of archilles
219 phonemic awareness – familiarity of
the students toward the sounds of the
language
220 phonics – ability of the learner to
relate the written symbols to its
corresponding sounding sound.
221 william faukner – who wrote the story
“a rose for emily”
222 english sonnet : shakespear , italian
sonnet: petrarch,
223 what is not true about the presence
perfect tense? – the action is happenning
at present and may still happen in the
future
224 war and peace – work of leo tolstoy is
about the napoleonic invasion in russsia?
225 Consumption – cause of death of
annabel lee
226 the velum is also known as the – soft
palate
227 stealing the aroma of the food – in
carlos bulosan’s “ my father goes to court”
what is the accusation of the rich father?
228 in paz latorena’s story “desire” , the
main character has a sexy body but a –
homely face
229 true about the past perfect tense? –
there must be two past actions