Learning Task 1: Examining and Responding to the Texts

Directions: Read and examine the riddles above. Analyze it and answer the following questions.

A. Riddles of Three Ethnolinguistic Groups Describing the Same Object

1. Which two riddles give similar clues? Why do you think thse riddles are similar? Form-wise,
in what way do those riddles differ?

2. In what way is the remaining riddle different?

3. The riddles have the same answer. To get it, determine first what the given clues in the
three riddles seem to have in commone and where they differ. Compkete these sentences
which can help you arrive at the answer to those riddles.

a. Although the Visayan and Ibanag riddles refer to the item as a lady, the Ilocano riddle
says it is neither human nor an animal. Since it is not alive, it must be a/an
_________________.

b. The Visayan and Ibanag riddles say the item eats its own body, so although it is tall, it
must be ________________height when it eats its body.

c. The Ilocano riddle says tears flow from its eyes as it eats its own body (as the Visayan
and Ibanag versions say). We say, then, that it sheds some ______________.

B. Descriptive and Problem-Solving Riddles

1. The two riddles have to do with the same object. Which one describes the object?

2. Which one provides clues as to a process concerning that object?

3. From the details given as clues in the first riddle, and the use of the words “wrapped by”
and “covered by”, what wouldyou say must be shape of the object described in the riddle?

4. Each of these enumerated ckies refers to a part of the object. Try to guess the object by
identifying what each clue stands for:
a. The sea that is wrapped by the earth
b. The earth that wraps the sea
c. The bone that covers the earth
d. The hair that covers the bone
e. The skin that covers the hair
Learning Task 2: Noting and Appreciating Literary Craftmanship

A. Riddles of Three Ethnolinguistic Groups Describing the Same Object

1. Parallelism refers to the similarity in the wording of the lines. Of the three riddles, which
one makes use of parallelism?

2. Which one has rhyming words at the end of the lines?

3. Which of the three is simply a descriptive phrase and not a compelte sentence?

4. How does the form of the riddles create an impact on the reader? Does it make solving the
riddles easier?

B. Descriptive and Problem Solving Riddles

1. Which riddle uses parallel statements? What are the parallel statements?

2. Which one uses contrasting elements? What are the contrasting elements?

3. Which of those two types of riddles- descriptive or problem-solving- would be more difficult
to guess? Why?