Master Works of the

World
Introduction

“Literatures are everywhere

and are growing…”

“Literature is a world, and nobody

has ever own one’s world…”
 Overview
We will try to travel to different ages and different places where
prominent and significant literatures written and revealed.
1. What is the message of the short story, “The Centipede” by Rony V.
Diaz?
A. Childhood memories are treasures
b. Teasing and Taunting should be done by adults
c. Children should be responsible with what trick they do with their
siblings
d. Childhood relationships between siblings were sometimes painful
What is it?
"The Centipede" is a short story by Filipino
author Rony V. Diaz, which was published in 1953.
The story focuses on a boy who seeks revenge against his
sister for her cruel and spiteful acts toward him.

What is the summary of the centipede by Rony Diaz?

Summary of the centipede of Ronny Diaz.

The story was about a misunderstanding between Eddie

and his sister Delia. The conflict of between the two started
when Delia provoke her brother Eddie by way of attacking
and destroying Eddie's pet and other Eddie's Important
things in life.
What is the lesson?
Children should be responsible with what trick they do with their
siblings
2. What is the problem or conflict in the story “The Mats” by Francisco
Arcellana?

A. Emilia’s indifference
b. Siblings’ rivalry
c. Mr. Angeles’ emotionality
d. Hunger in the family
What is it?
The story entitled “The Mats” was written by Francisco
Arcellana, one of the meritorious literary Filipino artists.
The story depicts a typical Filipino family culture. It
portrays close family relationship, respect for the elders,
and remembering our loved ones who passed away
The type of conflict presented in the story entitled
The Mats by Francisco Arcillana is man versus himself.
The conflict starts when during the distribution of mats to
his children Mr. Angeles had still three mats unopened
that are intended to his deceased children.
THEME: We must not forget and take for granted the people
whom passed away because they contributed to our life
and we must respect them by commemorating them. For
the Angeles family, Mr. Angeles; homecoming from his
periodic inspection trips was always an occasion for
celebration.Jul
3. The “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez symbolizes ____________.
A. The love of Esperanza for Alfredo
b. The love of Alfredo for Julia
c. The love of Julia for Alfredo
d. The love of Alfredo for Esperanza
What is it?
Dead Stars' means memories of the past. That people
sometimes look at it for a while and realize that it has
already been dead, already vanished. The story was
told in the 3rd person point of view.
Dead Stars is a short story of an over thirty years old
bachelor, Alfredo Salazar who was about to get married to
his fiancée, Esperanza. His love and passion for his fiancé
started getting fade as he was attracted to another woman
named Julia Salas. As Alfredo knew that his family will
disapprove his desire of having another woman, he
unwantedly married with Esperanza and started his own
family. Later, after eight years, Alfredo went on a business
trip to Julia’s place. In his visit to Julia, to his surprise, he
recognized that he no more feel attracted to her anymore.
He compared his love for her as dead stars, his memory of
a long way to get a girl he thought he loved.
 TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
 
4. What is the poem “To a Lost One” about? I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
Haunts a re-entangled trail,
A. An appeal to be remembered by a lover And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
B. A threat to a lover Of a phantom lover’s tale,
C. Beautiful memories of a dead person You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
I shall come to you again
D. A ghost that haunts a fastidious lover With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
What is it?
Angela Manalang Gloria composed a poem which
tells and describes the feeling of being haunted. To
create such effect in the point of view of the poem, she
made the ghost as the persona instead of herself. This
poem merely conveys the true emotions of ghosts
which feel the pain and loneliness of being separated
to his beloved. Moreover, it is also dominant in the
poem that the dead does not want to be forgotten and
he would do everything just to make them
remembered by their existing loved ones. 
 TO A LOST ONE
6. What does this line “I shall come to you
Angela Manalang-Gloria
again with the starlight, and the scent of  
champacas’? I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
a. The speaker with champacas will visit his Haunts a re-entangled trail,
lover at night And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
b. The speaker wants his lover to keep and
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
cherish their memories in her heart. I shall come to you again
c. The speaker will rise from death to remind With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
his lover of their sweet moments. And the melody of rain.
d. The speaker wants to give his lover fresh You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
champacas
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
What is it?
Second Stanza
The ghost tells the woman not to forget him and if ever
she does, he will remind her through the light of stars in
the night, scent of wild champakas and the melody of
the falling rain. It is evident that the ghost definitely
does not want to be forgotten by the one he loves.
 TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
 
7. This line “You shall not forget, for I am past I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
forgetting” means ___________. Haunts a re-entangled trail,
a. The speaker wants to be left unforgotten. And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
b. The speaker wants his lover to forget her
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
past I shall come to you again
c. The speaker wants his past no to be With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
discussed And the melody of rain.
d. The speaker wants his past not to be You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
forgotten
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
What is it?
Second Stanza
The ghost tells the woman not to forget him and if ever
she does, he will remind her through the light of stars in
the night, scent of wild champakas and the melody of
the falling rain. It is evident that the ghost definitely
does not want to be forgotten by the one he loves.
 TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
 
8. The line “ I shall haunt you” I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
has a/an ______________ tone. Haunts a re-entangled trail,
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
a. Begging Of a phantom lover’s tale,
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
b.Appealing I shall come to you again
c. Romantic With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
And the melody of rain.
d.Commanding You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
What is it?
Without reading the entire poem, everyone would
conclude that the author is the one directly speaking to
a subject who has already passed away. But it’s ironic
that the ghost is actually the one speaking to the one he
had left. A kind of experience shared in this literary
piece is the feeling of being haunted by the memory of
your loved one, appealing not to forget him throughout
your existence..
 TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
 
I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
Haunts a re-entangled trail,
9. “Lost One” may be pertained to And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
____________. Of a phantom lover’s tale,
a. Lost feeling You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
I shall come to you again
b. Past lover
With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
c. Abandoned person And the melody of rain.
d. Ghost You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
10. “On the street of this position of God’s world I feel neighbour to a rat, so
brother of a worm; Forever chasing rainbows at muddy margins.” This line
on Quemada’s poem is saying that:
a. Life is fruitful
b. Life is not worth living
c. Life is empty and meaningless
d. Lise if full of challenges
Why is it?
Rationalization: One can easily infer that the
answer is letter D primarily because one can
visualize that the persona is facing difficulties
in life.
11. Manuel Arguilla is one of the most important Filipino writers of all time.
He wrote the Juan Tamad series and the short story “ How My Brother Leon
Brought Home a Wife.” He is famous in injecting themes with _________ in
his story.
a. Urbanity
b. Cosmopolitanism
c. Local Color
d. Ranch Life
What is it?
Manuel Estabilla Arguilla (Nagrebcan, Bauang,
June 17, 1911 – beheaded, 
Manila Chinese Cemetery, August 30, 1944) was
an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr.

He is known for his widely anthologized short story

"How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," the
main story in the collection How My Brother Leon
Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories,
which won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary
Contest in 1940.

He is famous in injecting rural themes in his stories.

“He’s fiction depicts rural life in the Philippines”

12. Who wrote the novel “The jungle Book”?
a. Victor Hugo
b.Rudyard Kipling
c. William March
d.K.L. Mansfield
 What is it?
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the
English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters
are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo
 the bear, though a principal character is the boy or
"man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by
wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place
mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" (Seoni), in the 
central state of Madhya Pradesh..

Rudyard Kipling wrote “The Jungle Book:. His

writings are mostly fables and set in the forest in
India.
13. The Victor Hugo’s Masterpiece that talks about the French revolution.
a. Les Miserables
b. Hunchback of Notre Dame
c. AnnaKareNina
d. Fathers and Sons
 What is it?
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and
dramatist of the Romantic movement.
Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known
French writers. Outside France, his most famous works are
the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and 
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de
Paris), 1831.

Hugo did not write Anna KareNina (wrote by Leo

Tolstoy) and Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev). Hugo
wrote Hunchbak of Notre Dame and Les Miserables,
the former is about Quasimodo and Esmeralda, while
the latter is about Jeanne Val Jeanne Cossette which is
set during the French Revolution.
14. Loreto Paras Sulit’s Short story that revolves around the theme that
beauty can be very dangerous titled __________________.
A. The harvest
B. The beautiful Stranger
C. Desire
D. Beautiful Liar
 What is it?
Theme

The short story “Harvest” by Loreto Paras-Sulit is

about the envious brother, Fabian. Due to Fabian’s envy
to his brother, he even manipulated his brother’s own
life to the point that he even talked to Ms. Francia that
his brother will have a child by accident so that she
would cancel the work, offered to his brother.

Fidel and Vidal are brothers who both got attracted to

Miss Francia, and this attraction to Miss Francia led
to heartaches of both brothers.
15. Robert Frost’s poems are commonly about _________________.
A. Beautiful girls
B. Decision making and fate
C. God and Faith
D. End of the World
 What is it?
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was
an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural
life and his command of American colloquial speech.

“Fire and Ice”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “Stopping

by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” are mainly about
taking the risk, decision making and the power of
choice.
16. F. Scot Fitzgerald’s Story that is about the boy who was born and gets
younger every day is titled ___________.
A. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
B. The Greatest Gatsby
C. The Innocent Boy
D. Growing Young
 What is it?
This story was adapted into film and stars Brad Pitt. Benjamin was
born old and died young as baby.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American

fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline
by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922
short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

At its core, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about how

we live, given the inexorable reality of death. Whether we live
forward into old age or backward into infancy, the result is the same:
We die. Taraji P.
A 21-year-old man with the body of a 160-year-old is thought to be
the world's oldest case of 'Benjamin Button'. Rupesh Kumar, who
weighs just 20kg, has aged eight times faster than normal due to
Hutchison-Gilford progeria.

Progeria (pro-JEER-e-uh), also known as Hutchinson-

Gilford syndrome, is an extremely rare, progressive
genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, starting in their
first two years of life. Children with progeria generally appear
17. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which tale talks about three friends
who killed each other for the chest filled with treasures?
a. Pardoner’s Tale
b. Knight’s Tale
c. Merchant’s Tale
d. The Nun Priest’s Tale
 What is it?
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet and author. Widely
considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he
is best known for The Canterbury Tales.

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first great English

poets. He is the author of such works as The Parlement of
Foules, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales.
Humorous and profound, his writings show him to be an
acute observer of his time with a deft command of many
literary genres

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of

Caunterbury[2]) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over
17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer
 between 1387 and 1400.
18. Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Innermost One” is take from the
collection of devotional songs titled __________.
A.. Gitanjali
b. Shakuntala
c. Ramayana
d. Mahabharata
 What is it?
Gitanjali means “Songs of Offering” which is a
collection of vespers and prayers.

Shakuntala (Sanskrit: Śakuntalā) is the wife of Dushyanta

and the mother of Emperor Bharata.

The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic which follows

Prince Rama's quest to rescue his beloved wife Sita from the
clutches of Ravana with the help of an army of monkeys. It is
traditionally attributed to the authorship of the sage Valmiki
and dated to around 500 BCE to 100 BCE.

The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of

ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
19. Paz Marquez Benitez wrote a story about a love triangle amongst
Alfredo, Esperanza, and Julia. What is the title of this masterpiece?
a. Wedding Dance
b. Dead Stars
c. Desire
d. Tatsulok
 What is it?
Dead stars is a short story by Paz Marquez Benitez, written
in 1925. The story is basically a compilation of the
complicated circumstances that every man has to go through
in life. Alfredo was torn between doing what is right and what
is in his heart. Dead stars is considered the first Filipino
literary masterpiece written in English. It is about Alfredo
who loves not love it self but only the idea of it.

"The Wedding Dance" by Amador Daguio is a short story

about a husband and wife, Awiyao and Lumnay, who had
been married for seven years. In spite of being in love with
his wife, Awiyao feels the need to marry again to have a son.
At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao goes to check
on Lumnay, knowing she is upset.
20. He is considered the father of essay.
a. Michel de Montaigne
b. Francis Bacon
c. William Shakespeare
d. George Eliot
 What is it?
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE - Father of Essay

was one of the most significant philosophers of the 

French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a 
literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual
anecdotes[6] and autobiography with intellectual insight. His
massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential
essays ever written.

Francis Bacon, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher

and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor
of England.
William Shakespeare is the best British writer of all time. His many works are about
life, love, death, revenge, grief, jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He wrote the
blockbuster plays of his day - some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and
Juliet, and Hamlet. Father of English Drama.
George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist known for the psychological depth of
her characters and her descriptions of English rural life. Her major works included
Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861),
Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876).
21. Which work of Leo Tolstoy is about the Napoleonic invasion in
Russia?
a. War and Peace
b. Anna Karenina
c. God Sees the truth but Waits
d. Father and Sons
 What is it?
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy
, first published serially, then published in its entirety in
1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary
achievements and remains a classic of world literature.

The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the

impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the
stories of five Russian aristocratic families. 
Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, even less is it a
poem, and still less a historical chronicle.“Tolstoy also said
that the best Russian literature does not conform to
standards and hence hesitated to call War and Peace a
novel. Instead, he regarded Anna Karenina as his first true
novel.
22. The film “Tatarin” is based on the short story by Nick Joaquin
titled _______________.
a. May Day Eve
b. Summer Solstice
c. Three Generations
d. Woman who had Two Navels
 What is it?
The Summer Solstice", also known
as "Tatarin" or "Tadtarin“is a short story written by 
Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. In
addition to being regarded as one of Joaquin's most
acclaimed literary works, the tale is considered to be 
controversial.[2][3] The story narrates a ritual performed by
women to invoke the gods to grant the blessing of fertility
 by dancing around a Balete tree that was already a
century old. Joaquin later turned this short story into a play
entitled Tatarin: A Witches' Sabbath in Three Acts, on
which a film adaptation has been based.
 What is it?
"May Day Eve“is a short story written by 
Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin. Written after 
World War II, it became one of Joaquin's “signature stories”
that became a classic. May day eve was a story about the man
who forgot how he loved the woman that he loved in the past, and
portraying a bitter marriage.
The term 3-Generation Family refers to multigenerational
family households where two or more adult generations live
together under the same roof; this generally includes a
grandparent, parent, and child.
The Woman Who Had Two Navels is a 1961 novella by 
Nick Joaquin. It is considered a classic in 
Philippine literature. The novel The Woman Who Had Two
Navels (1961) examines his country’s various heritages. A
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966), a celebrated play,
attempts to reconcile historical events with dynamic change.
 “That the win seraphs of heaven
Coveted here and me
23. What is the cause of death of Annabel That is the reason, not so long ago
Lee? In a kingdom by the sea
  A wind blew out of a cloud
a. Consumption Chillin and Killin my Annabel Lee”
b. Dengue
c. HIV
d. Hepatitis
What is it?
Consumption is the answer as can be inferred from
the last two lines of the excerpt. Consumption is
also known as TB.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by
bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but they
can also damage other parts of the body. TB
spreads through the air when a person with TB
of the lungs or throat coughs, sneezes, or talks.
24. Who is considered as the father of detective stories?
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. William Shakespeare
c. Robert Frost
d. Shoguna
What is it?
Edgar Allan Poe.
 was an American writer, poet, editor, and 
literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry
and short stories, particularly his tales of
mystery and the macabre. 
Father of Detective Fiction/Stories.

His story the Cask of Amontillado is one of the

examples of his detective stories.
25. In Carlos Bulosan’s “My father Goes to Court”, What is the
accusation of the rich father?
a. Stealing the Aroma of the food
b. Stealing the kitchen utensils
c. Stealing the gold bars found under the bed of the rich family
d. Cheating on his wife
What is it?

In the end of the story, the poor father

was able to pay the rich father by letting
him hear the sound of tingling sound of
coins.
26. In Paz latorena’s story “Desire”, the main character has a sexy body but a
_______________________ .
a. Homely Face
b. Twisted mind
c. Scaly Skin
d. Low I.Q.
What is it?

Rationalization: The main character

possesses a beautify body but an ugly
face. The word “homely” is a
euphemism for ugly.
27. The lines below are taken from Shakespearean play?
 
“If you prick us, shall we not bleed?
If you tickle us, shall we not laugh?
If you poison us, shall we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not seek revenge?
a. Romeo and Juliet
b. Merchant of Venice
c. Hamlet
d. Macbeth
What is it?

Rationalization: The lines are taken

from Shylock Speech.
28. Dante Aligieri’s Divine Comedy is originally titled ___________.
a. Comedia
b. Divina Comedia
c. Comedia de Divina
d. Divina de Covalandia Comedia
What is it?

Rationalization: The answer is A. Divina

Comedia is just an Italian translation. It
was originally titled “Comedia” But the
Pope and the King added “Divine” to it
because people who have read the novel
immediately repented on their sins.
29. Who is considered as the master of short story writing?
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Leo Tolstoy
c. Jose Rizal
d. Rudyard Kipling
30. The novel Crime Punishment was written by _______________.
a. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b. Leo Tolstoy
c. Anton Checkov
d. Ivan Turgenev
What is it?

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian

author Fyodor Dostoevsky. 

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral

dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in 
Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous
pawnbroker for her money. Before the killing, Raskolnikov believes
that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go
on to perform great deeds. However, once it is done he finds
himself racked with confusion, paranoia, and disgust for what he
has done. His justifications disintegrate completely as he struggles
with guilt and horror and confronts the real-world consequences of
his deed.
31. Who is considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?
a. Opelia Alcantara Dimalantra
b. Teresa Subido
c. Aida Rivera Ford
d. Angela Manalang Gloria
What is it?
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta (June 16, 1932 – November 4,
2010) was a Filipino poet, editor, author, and teacher. One of the
country's most respected writers, Dimalanta published several
books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose and edited various
literary anthologies.[1] In 1999, she received Southeast Asia's
highest literary honor, the S.E.A. Write Award. She is known as
the goddess of Philippine Poetry.

Poetry
•Finder Loser
•Montage (1974)
•Time Factor (1983)
•Flowing On (1988)
•Lady Polyester (1993)
•Love Woman (1998)
•Passional (2002)
•The Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta Reader, Volume 1, Poetry (2005)
What is it?
Born in Sulu, Aida Rivera-Ford crossed over to Negros
Oriental in 1949 for an English degree at Silliman
University. Records toast her as the first editor of Sands and
Coral, the school’s literary folio. In 1954, she flew to the
University of Michigan on a Fulbright grant to secure her
master’s degree in English.
“Love in the Cornhusks” is one of five well-crafted stories
for which Rivera-Ford won the Jules & Avery Hopwood
Prize in Michigan. In 1955, the Sunday Chronicle’s This
Week magazine featured the prize-winning story, with
illustrations by Rod Dayao. From N.V.M. Gonzalez to
Epifanio San Juan, critics were one in hailing the story with
uncommon praise, citing its masterful subtlety but also its
earnest vision—a rare case of art prevailing upon all creeds
and manners of persuasion. Two years later, Rivera-Ford
released her five stories under the title Now and at the Hour
and Other Short Stories (1957).
32. Leo Tolstoy’s short Story about a man falsely judge and
accused of murder is titled __________.
a. Murder
b. God Sees the Truth but Waits
c. The Killer and the Victim
d. The Misjudged
What is it?
"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by
Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872.

The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he didn't

commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness.[1]
 English translations were also published under titles "The
Confessed Crime", "Exiled to Siberia", and "The Long
Exile". The concept of the story of a man wrongfully
accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in
one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a
philosophical discussion between two characters who relate
the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals
with injustice and fate.
34. Who wrote the short story “ Magnificence” which is about
the girl abused by an older man.
a. Estrella Alfon
b. Kerema Tuvera
c. Nick Joaquin
d. Appositive
What is it?
Estrella D. Alfon (July 18, 1917 – December 28,
1983) was a well-known prolific Filipina author who
wrote in English. She then became a member of the U.
P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged
post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P.
Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at
the age of 66.

• Magnificence and Other Stories (1960)

• Stories of Estrella Alfon (1994) (published
posthumously)
• Servant Girl (short story)
35. Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe titled _________________
a. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
b. Les Miserables
c. Tom Sawyer
d. War of the Roses
What is it?
A. It is about the liberation of the African
American Slaves.
• Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first
published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of
the 19th century. ollows the life of Jean Valjean – an ex-convict who
seeks redemption despite being hunted for decades by his rival and
ex-guard Javert after breaking parole.

• * The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark

Twain about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi
River.
• Wars of the Roses, (1455–85), in English history, the series of
dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong
government of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster
 and York for the English throne, the wars were named many years
afterward from the supposed badges of the contending parties: the
white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster
36. What is considered the oldest epic in England?
a. Beowulf
b. Neibulgid
c. Song of Roland
d. El Cid
What is it?

The story is set in pagan Scandinavia

in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero
of the Geats, comes to the aid of
Hrothgar, the king of the Danes,
whose mead hall in Heorot has
been under attack by the monster
Grendel. After Beowulf slays him,
Grendel's mother attacks the hall
and is then defeated.
37 . Who wrote the novel “The little Prince”?
a. Niccolo Machiavelli
b.Antoine De Saint Exupery
c. Martin Luther King
d.Robert Frost
What is it?
The Little Prince is a novella by French aristocrat, writer,
and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first
published in English and French in the US by Reynal &
Hitchcock in April 1943, and posthumously in France
following the liberation of France as Saint-Exupéry's
works had been banned by the Vichy Regime.

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a

prince on a planet. Based on the story by Antoine de
Saint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a
pilot makes a forced landing on the barren
Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a "little" prince
from the planet Asteroid B-612.
38. Who wrote the epic Iliad and Odyssey?
a. Vigil
b.Homer
c. Chaucer
d.Valmiki
What is it?
The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to
rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan
captors. The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of
Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic
around the struggle of one of those Greek
warriors, the hero Odysseus.

Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the

Odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational
works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set
during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the
city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms.
39. Who wrote the short story “A Rose for Emily”?
a. William Faulkner
b.Emily Dickinson
c. Virginia Woolf
d.Mary Shelley
What is it?
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer
 and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays,
poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known
for his novels and short stories set in the fictional 
Yoknapatawpha County, based on 
Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent
most of his life.
What is it?
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little
known during her life, she has since been regarded as
one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a
prominent family with strong ties to its community.

Dickinson paved the way for many of today's poets. During

her lifetime, there was a lack of poetry writers. Even the
small amount of poets failed to express their true
emotions through poetry. Emily Dickinson was unlike the
others in how she wrote.

Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of America's greatest

poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self-
imposed social seclusion. Living a life of simplicity and
seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power;
questioning the nature of immortality and death, with at
times an almost mantric quality.
What is it?
I measure every Grief I meet (561)

The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)

A Man may make a Remark (952)

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443)

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216)

One Sister have I in our house (14)

Knows how to forget! (433)

Besides the Autumn poets sing (131)

A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)

What is it?
I like to see it lap the Miles (43)

Color - Caste - Denomination - (970)

The Outlet (162)

Hope is the thing with feathers (254)

And many more

40. Who is the Indian counterpart of William
Shakespeare?
a. Tagore
b.Kalidasa
c. Valmiki
d.Vyasa
What is it?
Kālidāsa was a Classical Sanskrit author and is often
considered ancient India's greatest playwright and
dramatist. His plays and poetry are primarily based
on the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and
the Puranas. His surviving works consist of three
plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.

Kalidasa, like Shakespeare is a writer of dramas. His famous

work is Shakuntala.

In Hindu mythology, Shakuntala (Sanskrit: Śakuntalā)

is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor
Bharata. Her story is told in the Mahabharata and
dramatized by many writers, the most famous
adaption being Kalidasa's play Abhijñānaśākuntala
(The Sign of Shakuntala).
41. English Sonner: Shakespeare, Italian Sonnet: ______________
a. Alighieri
b. Petrarch
c. Boccaccio
d. Dante
R: Francisco Petrarch is the most famous sonnet writer in
Italy
42. Who wrote the essay “Self-Reliance” which mentions that “envy is
ignorance while imitation is suicide”?
a. Hendy David Thoreau
b. Ralph Waldo Emersion
c. Walt Whiteman
d. Gertrude Stein
R: The answer is B. Emerson, Whiteman, and Thoreau are friends and
they all agree on the power of individual. Emerson wrote Self-
Reliance, Thoreau wrote Walden, and Whiteman wrote Leaves of
Grass.
43. The poem “The Road Not Taken” which road the traveller did
not take?
a. Clear road
b. Road less travelled
c. High way
d. Streets
R: The traveller chose the road less travelled and for the
persona his/her choice made all the difference.
44. Who wrote the novel “ A Christmas Carol” which is about a man who
hates Christmas?
a. Charles Dickens
b. Oscar Wilde
c. H.G. Wells
d. D.H Lawrence
R: Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English
writer and social critic. He created some of the world's
best-known fictional characters and is regarded by
many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
45. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
a. Jane Austen
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Ann Bradsheet
d. Edith Wharton
R: Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her
six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the
British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's
plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the
pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security
46. What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens?
a. Mark Twain
b. George Orwell
c. D.H. Lawrence
d. T.S. Elliot

R: Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 to 1910), known by

pen name Mark Twain.Jun 19, 2018
47. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is _____________.
a. George Eliot
b. Emily Watts
c. Jane Seymour
d. Anne Bradsheet
R: She used a male pen name because Queen Victoria
prohibits women to write
48. Mark Twain’s novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the
____________ river.
a. Nile
b. Mississippi
c. Amazon
d. Rio Grande
R: Mark Twain’s novels are set on the Mississippi river which is the
longest river in America.
49. ___________ wrote “Without Seeing the Dawn”.
a. Maximo Ramos
b. Steven Javellana
c. Paz M. Venitez
d. Magdalena Jalandoni

R: The title of Stevan Javellana's only novel in English Without Seeing

the Dawn was derived from one of José Rizal's character in the
Spanish-language novel Noli Me Tangere or Touch Me Not. Javellana's
368-paged book has two parts, namely Day and Night.
50. Identify the play which the lines are taken:
All the glitters is not told;
Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold;
Glided tombs do norms enfold.
a. Merchant of Venice
b. Hamlet
c. As you like it
d. Macbeth
51. Which psalm is a song of joy and reverence?
a. Psalm 51
b. Psalm 23
c. Psalms 8
d. Psalms 24
What is it?
Psalm 21. We sing songs that say, “Joy to the world”
and “Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant.”

Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He

maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth
me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his
name's sake.

Psalm 8. Charles Spurgeon calls this psalm "the song

of the Astronomer", as gazing at the heavens (verse 3
in KJV) inspires the psalmist to meditate on God's
creation and man's place in it.

Psalm 24. “In this song, we tried to capture a sense of

Christ's victorious rule of all the earth and the joy this
brings to His people, as told in Psalm 24
52. The body of myths highly dominated by tales of courageous
combatants, great feats, and activities related to tribal life such
as hunting and feasting is?
a. Norse Mythology
b. Morse Mythology
c. Fable
d. Mirage
What is it?
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the 
North Germanic peoples, stemming from 
Norse paganism and continuing after the 
Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the 
Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The 
northernmost extension of Germanic mythology,
Norse mythology consists of tales of various
deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous
sources from both before and after the pagan
period, including medieval manuscripts,
archaeological representations, and folk tradition.
What is it?
Who are Norse gods and goddesses?
• Odin. The supreme deity of Norse mythology and the
greatest among the Norse gods was Odin, the
Allfather of the Aesir. ...
• Frigg. Odin's wife, Frigg, was a paragon of beauty,
love, fertility and fate. ...
• Balder. ... Frigg and Odin are the parents of Balder,
who was described as living between heaven and
earth. Balder was the epitome of radiance, beauty,
kindness and fairness.
• Loki. ... Loki was a mischievous god who could
shape-shift and can take up animalistic forms.
• Thor. ... protector of humanity and the powerful
god of thunder who wielded a hammer named
Mjöllnir.
53. Two novel-like stories The Predestined Prince and Sinuhe were
written around 1200 BC in?
a. Netherlands
b. Egypt
c. China
d. Thailand
What is it?
The Story of Sinuhe (also known as Sanehat)[2] is
considered one of the finest works of 
ancient Egyptian

The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the
Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It
was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an
abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in
1949, from Swedish rather than Finnish.

The story of Sinuhe refers to a man who fled his

duties in Egypt and became a Bedouin in an
Asiatic tribe. Sinuhe was an assistant to King
Amenemhat I who was the first king of the 12th
Dynasty in Egypt (1991 – 1962 BCE). ... Word of
his death reaches the son and Sinuhe.
54. Tartarus, Elysium, Asphodel, and Erebus all pertain to
regions in the?
a. Olympus
b.Underworld
c. Athens
d.Argos
What is it?
In Greek mythology, Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Ancient Greek:
Τάρταρος, Tártaros) is the deep abyss that is used as a
dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as
the prison for the Titans.

Elysium, also called Elysian Fields or Elysian Plain,

in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which
heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were
sent. ... By the time of Hesiod, however, Elysium was a
place for the blessed dead, and, from Pindar on, entrance
was gained by a righteous life.

The Asphodel Meadows is a section of the

Ancient Greek underworld where indifferent and ordinary
souls were sent to live after death. ... Tartarus is the
section of the underworld where the dead would spend all
of eternity in the place where judgment would order them.
What is it?
In Greek mythology, Erebus /ˈɛrɪbəs/, also Erebos
(Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, Érebos, "deep darkness,
shadow" or "covered"), was often conceived as a
primordial deity, representing the personification of
darkness; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony
identifies him as one of the first five beings in
existence, born of Chaos.

Athens. Its name derives from the goddess of

wisdom, Athena, who became the city's patron
goddess after a contest with Poseidon. The two
gods competed for who would get the honour of
becoming the patron god of the city, and offered
gifts to the Athenians.
What is it?
Olympus. In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus was
regarded as the abode of the gods and the site of
the throne of Zeus. The name Olympus was used
for several other mountains as well as hills,
villages, and mythical personages in Greece.

Argus Panoptes (All-seeing; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος

Πανόπτης) or Argos (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος) is a
many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. The figure is
known for having generated the saying "the eyes
of Argus", as in to be "followed by the eyes of
Argus", or "trailed by" them, or "watched by" them,
etc.  
55. Who wrote the literary satire The Poor Christ
of Bomba?
a.Mongo Berti
b.Leo Tolstoy
c.William Wodsworth
d.Jake La Piza
What is it?
Structured through the device of a young teenager’s daily
journal, The Poor Christ of Bomba records the tour of a
French Catholic missionary, Father Drumont, and his
two assistants—Denis, Drumont’s “boy” and the
narrator, and Zacharia, the cook—through a dozen tiny
villages in the forest of the Tala region.

If you're interested in African colonial history or

cross-cultural evangelism or feminist sociology, or
if you'd just like to read a good character study told
from an interesting viewpoint, you might want to try
to find a copy of Mongo Béti's shocking 1956
novel, The Poor Christ of Bomba.
56. It is a collection of fables which was used to educate Indian
princes into becoming wise kings.
a. The Panchantantra
b.The Canterbury Tales
c. The Mirrors
d.The How’s of Wise Kings
What is it?
One of India's most influential contributions to
world literature, the Panchatantra (also
spelled Pañcatantra or Pañca-tantra) consists
of five books of animal fables and magic tales
(some 87 stories in all) that were compiled, in
their current form, between the third and fifth
centuries AD. The German Sanskrit scholar
Johannes Hertel (1872-1955) believed that the
original collection was compiled in Kashmir
about 200 BC, and that at this time many of the
stories were already ancient. The work's self-
proclaimed purpose is to educate the sons of
royalty.
57. In Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth but Waits, Aksenov was
imprisoned for how many years?
a. 20 years
b.21 years
c. 22 years
d.26 years
58. 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?
a. Chimera
b. Mermelion
c. Centaur
d. Pegasus
59. The Canterbury Tales was written in the
__________?
a.12th century
b.13th century
c.14th century
d.None of the above
60. _________ is the term for the downfall of the hero or
heroine in a story.
a. Climax
b.Heroic End
c. The Last Scene
d.Hamartia
What is it?
Hamartia is a literary term that refers
to a tragic flaw or error that leads to
a character's downfall. In the novel
Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein's
arrogant conviction that he can
usurp the roles of God and nature in
creating life directly leads to ruinous
consequences for him, making it an
example of hamartia.
61. ______________ is the flowering of African – American
Literature.
a. The Harlem Renaissance
b.The Old Renaissance
c. The New Age
d.The Modern Era
What is it?
The Harlem Renaissance was an
intellectual, social, and artistic explosion
centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York
City, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was
known as the "New Negro Movement",
named after The New Negro, a 1925
anthology edited by Alain Locke. The
movement also included the new African-
American cultural expressions across the
urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest
United States affected by the 
Great Migration,[1] of which Harlem was the
largest.
62. Paradise Lost is written by John Milton and it is based on
the popular story of the?
a. Sinning of Adam and Eve
b.The Judgement of the humankind
c. The demi-god Perseus
d.Eve’s Repentance
What is it?
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank
verse by the 17th-century English poet
John Milton (1608–1674). ... The poem
concerns the biblical story of the Fall of
Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve
by the fallen angel Satan
and their expulsion from the Garden of
Eden.
63. A writer of short stories and novels who is by general
agreement the greatest French short-story writer.
a. Guy de Maupassant
b.Leo Tolstoy
c. Kapling
d.Leonardo De Caprio
What is it?
Guy de Maupassant is regarded as
the best French writer of short
stories. His 300 stories were written
in the naturalist style and often
described the life of the lower and
middle classes. “Boule de suif”
(“Ball of Fat”) is regarded as his
best story, while the best known is
“La Parure” (“The Necklace”).
64. “ To be or not to be, that’s the question” this line is taken
from?
a. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
b.Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
c. Dante’s The Road
d.Robert’s The Road Not Taken
What is it?
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is home from school to
mourn the death of his father, King Hamlet, who
has died two months earlier. Hamlet is disgusted
by the marriage of his newly widowed mother,
Queen Gertrude, to his Uncle,
King Hamlet's brother, Claudius, who now has the
throne.
What is it?
Romeo and Juliet Summary. An age-old
vendetta between two powerful families
erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked
Montagues risk further conflict by
gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young
lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly
in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to
marry her father's choice, the County
Paris.
65. The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem written by
____________.
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b.Percy Bysshe Shelley
c. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
d.Dante Alighieri
What is it?
Dante was an Italian poet and moral
philosopher best known for the epic poem The
Divine Comedy, which comprises sections
representing the three tiers of the Christian
afterlife: purgatory, heaven and hell.
What is it?
Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the first
great English poets. He is the author of such
works as The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and
Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales. Humorous
and profound, his writings show him to be an acute
observer of his time with a deft command of many
literary genres
What is it?
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the epic poets of
the 19th century and is best known for his classic
anthology verse works such as Ode to the West
Wind and The Masque of Anarchy. He is also well
known for his long-form poetry, including Queen
Mab and Alastor.
What is it?
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( c. 1043 – 10 July 1099)
was a Castilian knight and warlord in medieval
Spain. ... Díaz de Vivar became well known for his
service in the armies of both Christian and Muslim
rulers, his exile, and his temporary conquest of
Valencia, which became independent for a brief
period in the Reconquista.
66. All of the following writers belong to contemporary world
(1946 to present) EXCEPT:
a. William Faulkner
b.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
c. Luigi Pirandello
d.Pramoedya Ananta Toer
What is it?
Luigi Pirandello(1867-1936) was born in Girgenti,
Sicily. He studied philology at Rome and at Bonn
and wrote a dissertation on the dialect of his native
town (1891). From 1897 to 1922 he was professor
of aesthetics and stylistics at the Real Istituto di
Magistere Femminile at Rome.
67. One outstanding and distinct feature of Latin America
Literature is the use of ______________.
a. The stream of consciousness technique
b.Local color
c. Magic realism
d.Flashback and flashforward
What is it?
The main periods of Latin American
literature are Pre-Colombian, Colonial,
Resistance, Modernismo, Boom, and
Contemporary. Each period has a genre
that ruled, ranging from first-person
narratives, magical realism, philosophical
short stories, anti-establishment poetry,
and experimental prose.
68. All are Nobel Prize winners except
__________.
a.William Faulkner
b.Rabindranath Tagore
c.Gabriel Garcia Marquez
d.Chinua Achebe
What is it?
One of the main reasons given for his not receiving
the prize is that he has published “only” five
novels, a book of short stories and one of poetry.

Chinua Achebe was certainly one of the greatest

writers Africa and the world ever produced. But,
like the English writer Graham Greene, the
Nigerian was denied the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Why? The unofficial deduction, heard
over and over again, was simply that in the case of
Achebe and Graham Greene, they were too
committed in their support of the oppressed to
serve the interests of the big powers, writes Peter
Jazzy Ezeh from Enugu.
69. The overriding issue tackled in the epic The Song of Roland
is ____________
a. Good versus evil
b.God is powerful
c. Loyalty to God and King
d.Man’s place in this world
What is it?
What is the message of the epic poem Song of
Roland?
The main message of the epic poem Song of
Roland is fairly simple: good will always
triumph over evil. In this poem, "good" is
represented through both honor and justice
and always prevails. In the main message,
honor as a quality of goodness is quite
important. The honor of simply being a
"Christian" is stressed. However, it is mostly
emphasizing the loyalty to God and King.
70. Which is not a lyric poem?
a.Ballad
b.Sonnet
c.Elegy
d.ode
What is it?
• A lyric poem is a private expression of
emotion by an individual speaker.
• Lyric poetry is highly musical and can
feature poetic devices like rhyme and
meter.
• Some scholars categorize lyric poetry in
three subtypes: Lyric of Vision, Lyric of
Thought, and Lyric of Emotion.
However, this classification is not
widely agreed upon.
What is it?
• Lyric poetry also has no prescribed
form. Sonnets, villanelles, rondeaus,
and pantoums are all considered lyric
poems. So are elegies, odes, and most
occasional (or ceremonial) poems.
When composed in free verse, lyric
poetry achieves musicality through
literary devices such as alliteration, 
assonance, and anaphora.
What is it?
• A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative
set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval
French chanson balladée or ballade, which
were originally "dance songs". Ballads were
particularly characteristic of the popular poetry
and song of Britain and Ireland from the later
medieval period until the 19th century.
• A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line poem,
written in iambic pentameter.
The sonnet, which derived from the
Italian word sonetto, meaning “a little
sound or song," is "a popular classical
form that has compelled poets for
centuries," says Poets.org.
What is it?
• An elegy is a poem that reflects upon
death or loss. Traditionally, it contains
themes of mourning, loss, and
reflection. However, it can also explore
themes of redemption and consolation.
• An ode is a short lyric poem that
praises an individual, an idea, or an
event. In ancient Greece, odes were
originally accompanied by music—in
fact, the word “ode” comes from the
Greek word aeidein, which means to
sing or to chant. Odes are often
ceremonial, and formal in tone.
71. These are all written by Leo Tolstoy EXCEPT_______
a.War and Peace
b.Anna Karenina
c.The Cossacks
d.Great Expectations
What is it?
• Great Expectations is the
thirteenth novel by 
Charles Dickens and his
penultimate completed novel,
which depicts the education of an
orphan nicknamed Pip (the book
is a bildungsroman, a 
coming-of-age story).
72. Identify the figure of speech use in this line: My love is like
a red, red rose.
a. Simile
b.Metaphor
c. Personification
d.Synecdoche
What is it?
• A simile is a figure of speech that
compares two different things in an
interesting way. ... The main difference
between a simile and metaphor is that
a simile uses the words "like" or "as"
to draw a comparison and a metaphor
simply states the comparison without
using "like" or "as".
What is it?
• A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used
to make a comparison between two things
that aren't alike but do have something in
common. Unlike a simile, where two things
are compared directly using like or as,
a metaphor's comparison is more indirect,
usually made by stating something is
something else
Ex. Her tears were a river flowing
down her cheeks.
What is it?
Personification means: “Giving an
object or animal human characteristics
to create interesting imagery.”
An example of personification would
be in the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle
Diddle” where “the little dog laughed to
see such fun.”

Lightning danced across
the sky.
What is it?
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which, most
often, a part of something is used to refer to its
whole.

For example, "The captain commands one hundred

sails" is a synecdoche that uses "sails" to refer to
ships—ships being the thing of which a sail is a
part.

The phrase "hired hands" can be used to refer to

workers.
73. Which of the following is NOT a Japanese poetic
form?
a.Choka
b.Tanka
c.Haiku
d.Kabuki
What is it?
• Kabuki, traditional Japanese popular
drama with singing and dancing
performed in a highly stylized manner.
A rich blend of music, dance, mime,
and spectacular staging and
costuming, it has been a major
theatrical form in Japan for four
centuries.
What is it?
The most intricate Japanese Poetry form is
the Choka, or Long Poem.
The early form consisted of a series of Katuata
joined together. This gives a choice of form
structures of
5/7/5/5/7/7… etc.  or  5/7/7/5/7…etc
The Choka could be any total line length and
indeed many exceeded 100 lines.
Looking at this, it is easy to see why Poetic
Historians believe the Katuata is the original
basic unit of Japanese poetry using either the
17 or 19 unit onji.
What is it?
The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable
poem, traditionally written in a
single unbroken line. A form of
waka, Japanese song or
verse, tanka translates as "short
song," and is better known in its
five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count
form.
What is it?
The haiku is a Japanese poetic form
that consists of three lines, with five
syllables in the first line, seven in the
second, and five in the third.
The haiku developed from the hokku,
the opening three lines of a longer poem
known as a tanka. The haiku became a
separate form of poetry in the 17th
century.
74. The characters of Kriemhild and Siegfried are found
in the epic ____________.
a.The Aeneid
b.The Nibelungenlied
c.The Shah-nama
d.El Cid
What is it?

Nibelungenlied, (German: “Song of the

Nibelungs”) Middle High German epic poem written
about 1200 by an unknown Austrian from the
Danube region. ... An early Middle High German
title of the work is Der Nibelunge Not (“The
Nibelung Distress”), from the last line of the poem.

The Nibelungenlied was the first heroic epic put

into writing in Germany, helping to found a larger
genre of written heroic poetry. ... It has been called
"one of the most impressive, and certainly the most
powerful, of the German epics of the Middle Ages."
75. These lines are taken from the poem __________ by
____________.
To see the world in a grain of sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
a. For Once Then Something – Robert Frost
b.Auguries of Innocence – William Blake
c. The Wild Honeysuckle – Philip Freneau
d.Psalm of Life – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
76. ____________ is a form of extended
metaphor, which objects, persons, and actions in
a narrative.
a.Metonymy
b.Parody
c.Satire
d.Allegory
What is it?
Allegory, a symbolic fictional narrative that
conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the
narrative. Allegory, which encompasses such
forms as fable, parable, and apologue, may
have meaning on two or more levels that the
reader can understand only through an
interpretive process.
What is it?
Metonymy is the use of a linked term to stand in for an
object or concept. ... Sometimes metonymy is chosen
because it's a well-known characteristic of the concept. A
famous example is, "The pen is mightier than the
sword," from Edward Bulwer Lytton's play Richelieu.

 a figure of speech consisting of the

use of the name of one thing for
that of another of which it is an
attribute or with which it is
associated (such as "crown" in
"lands belonging to the crown")
What is it?
While both parody and satire use
humor as a tool to effectuate a
message, the purpose of a parody
is to comment on or criticize the
work that is the subject of the
parody. By definition, a parody is a
comedic commentary about a work,
that requires an imitation of the
work.
What is it?
Although satire is usually meant to be
humorous, its greater purpose is often
constructive social criticism, using wit to draw
attention to both particular and wider issues in
society.

1 : a literary work holding up

human vices and follies
to ridicule or scorn. 2 :
trenchant wit, irony, or
sarcasm used to expose and
discredit vice or folly.
77. He is considered as England’s best novelist by
writing Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities and A
Christmas Carol.
a.Charles Dickens
b.Mark Twain
c.Hans Christian Andersen
d.Lewis Caroll
78. Robert Browning is best remembered for the
following dramatic monologues, EXCEPT:
a.My Last Duchess
b.Fra Lippo Lippi
c.Idylls of the King
d.Andrea del Sarto
What is it?
Idylls of the King, published
between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle
of twelve narrative poems by the
English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809–1892; Poet Laureate from
1850) which retells the legend
of King Arthur, his knights, his love
for Guinevere and her tragic
betrayal of him, and the rise and
fall of Arthur's kingdom.
79. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel is a satire on
human ___________?
a.Pettiness or crudity
b.Power hunger
c.Selfishness and gullibility
d.dishonesty
What is it?
What is the point of Gulliver's Travels?
The main idea behind Gulliver's
Travels is to persuade Britons to
reform their own society. Swift uses his
gullible narrator, appropriately named
Gulliver, to show through his eyes a
number of comically cruel and absurd
fictional cultures
80. Which of the following is NOT an example of
Shakespearean play?
a.Antony and Cleopatra
b.As you like it
c.Macbeth
d.Oedipus Rex
What is it?
It follows the story of King Oedipus of Thebes
as he discovers that he has unwittingly killed
his own father, Laius, and married his own
mother, Jocasta. Over the centuries, it has
come to be regarded by many as the Greek
tragedy par excellence and certainly as the
summit of Sophocles' achievements
81. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the best example of
medieval romance. Which of the following best describes
medieval romance?
a. It is a long narrative poem written about the exploits of a
supernatural hero
b.It is a long narrative poem idealizing knight errantry
c. It is a literary style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing
with horror, despair, the grotesque and other subjects.
What is it?
A popular genre in its day, Medieval
romance literature is a literary genre
comprised of fictional works of chivalry
and adventures from the Middle Ages.
... Medieval romance writers drew
their inspiration from folklore and
history, telling tales of adventure,
knightly conquests, and courtly love.
82. In the poem, “Vulture” by Chnua Achebe, the line
that represents a miserable or bleak scene is…
a.Broken bones and dead tree
b.Mortal’s fate
c.Love of a mother
d.None of the above
What is it?
Vultures is a poem by Nigerian poet Chinua
Achebe. It is a dark, sombre piece that focuses on
the concentration camp Belsen and a
Commandant that works there. It is a  gritty poem
that is hard to read due to the harrowing subject
 matter.

The vultures are described in such a disparaging and

grim fashion that could be construed as a 
metaphor for the people responsible for the
atrocities in Belsen and in particular the
Commandant. It is the longest part of the poem
and I don’t think is a coincidence. 
83. Egyptian literatures is identified as?
a.Mediterranean Literature
b.African Literature
c.Afro-Asian Literature
d.English Literature
84. The first lien of the Poem “Mind is Without Fear” by
Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the mind is without fear and the
head is held high…” It means?
a. Only fearless mind can hold its head upright
b.Only fearful mind can hold its head down
c. Nobody holds someone’s soul
d.Nobody holds someone’s heart
85. He popularized Haiku in Japan. He creates visual
and auditory sensations with a few strokes of his
writing brush.
a.Basho
b.Basha
c.Masha
d.Mosho
What is it?
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) was one of the greatest
Japanese poets. He elevated haiku to the level of
serious poetry in numerous anthologies and travel
diaries.
The name of Matsuo Basho is associated especially with
the celebrated Genroku era (ca. 1680-1730), which saw
the flourishing of many of Japan's greatest and most
typical literary and artistic personalities. Although
Basho was the contemporary of writers like the novelist
and poet Ihara Saikaku and the dramatist Chikamatsu
Monzaemon, he was far from being an exponent of the
new middle-class culture of the city dwellers of that
day. Rather, in his poetry and in his attitude toward life
he seemed to harken back to a period some 300 years
earlier. An innovator in poetry, spiritually and culturally
he maintained a great tradition of the past.
86. “Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night” is a
poem written by?
a.Omar Khayyam
b.Omar Gedi
c.Las Timosa
d.Fe Ber
What is it?
Khayyam was an astronomer, astrologer, physician,
philosopher, and mathematician: he made outstanding
contributions in algebra. His poetry is better known in
the West than any other non-Western poet. The man
himself remains something of an enigma.
As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on
the classification and solution of cubic equations,
where he provided geometric solutions by the
intersection of conics. Khayyam also contributed to
the understanding of the parallel axiom.

What is the general theme of Rubaiyat?

The poem depicts a simple man who finds solace by
escaping into material pleasures, and treats the
universal and ageless themes of doubt, fear, and
regret.
87. He is a Chinese leader whose essays and poems
depicted the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a
revolutionary movement.
a.Lao Zhu
b.Mao Tze-Tsung
c.La MiRho
d.Raw Ki
What is it?
Mao Zedong (/ˈmaʊ (d)zəˈdʊŋ/; Chinese: 毛泽
东 ; December 26, 1893 – September 9,
1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a
Chinese communist revolutionary who was
the founder of the People's Republic of China
(PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the
Communist Party of China from its
establishment in 1949 until his death ..
His works: essays and poems depicted the
totalitarian rule in China and advocated a
revolutionary movement.
What is it?
Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.) is believed to have been a
Chinese philosopher and the reputed author of the
"Tao te ching," the principal text of Taoist thought. He
is considered the father of Chinese Taoism. Lao
Tzu purportedly was an older contemporary of the
great philosopher Confucius (551-479 B.C.).

Lao Tzu is believed to have been a Chinese philosopher

(a person who seeks to answer questions about
humans and their place in the universe) and the
accepted author of the Tao te ching, the main text of
Taoist thought. He is considered the father of Chinese
Taoism (a philosophy that advocates living a simple
life).
88. It is a three-line poem with seventeen
syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count.
a.Sonnet
b.Haiku
c.Tula
d.Drama
What is it?
Sonnet has 2 syllables -
A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line
poem, written in iambic pentameter.
The sonnet, which derived from the
Italian word sonetto, meaning “a
little sound or song," is "a popular
classical form that has compelled
poets for centuries," says Poets.org.

Haiku has 17 syllables – 5/7/5

90. It is a 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic
pentameter.
a. Sonnet
b.Haiku
c. Tula
d.Drama
What is it?
Sonnet has 2 syllables -
A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line
poem, written in iambic pentameter.
The sonnet, which derived from the
Italian word sonetto, meaning “a
little sound or song," is "a popular
classical form that has compelled
poets for centuries," says Poets.org.

Haiku has 17 syllables – 5/7/5

91. It is a description on a grave stone or a short poem
in memory of a deceased person.
a. Lyric
b. Commentation
c. Rhyme
d. Epitaph
92. He is known as the greatest Chinese poetess.
a.Li Qingzhao
b.Ling Zhi
c.Yu Zhao
d.Yu Zhong
What is it?
Li Qingzhao (Chinese:  李清照 ; 
pinyin: Lǐ Qīngzhào; Wade–Giles
: Li Ch'ing-chao; 1084 – c. 1155,
– c.[1]), pseudonym Householder
 of Yi'an ( 易安居士 ), was a
Chinese poet and essayist during
the Song dynasty.[2] She is
considered one of the greatest
poets in Chinese history.
93. He is the mythological titan punished by the gods
for stealing fire.
a.Perseus
b.Hercules
c.Aphrodite
d.Prometheus
What is it?
The central theme
in Prometheus concerns the
eponymous Titan of Greek mythology
who defies the gods and gifts humanity
with fire, for which he is subjected to
eternal punishment. ... They find
superior beings who appear god-like in
comparison to humanity, and
the Prometheus crew suffer
consequences for their pursuit.
What is it?
The only son of Zeus and Danae –
and, thus, a half-god by birth
– Perseus was one of the
greatest heroes in Greek
mythology, most renowned for
beheading the only mortal
Gorgon, Medusa, and using her
severed head (capable of turning
onlookers into stone) as a mighty
weapon in his subsequent
adventures.
What is it?
Hercules is the Roman name for the
Greek hero Herakles, the most popular
figure from ancient Greek
mythology. Hercules was the son of
Zeus, king of the gods, and the mortal
woman Alcmene. ... This was because
Hera, the wife of Zeus, knew
that Hercules was her husband's
illegitimate son and sought to destroy .
What is it?
Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of
sexual love and beauty, identified with
Venus by the Romans. The Greek
word aphros means “foam,” and
Hesiod relates in his Theogony
that Aphrodite was born from the
white foam produced by the severed
genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his
son Cronus threw them into the sea.
94. The myths of the Greeks reflect?
a.A view of the universe that acknowledges the mystery
and beauty of humanity
b.A view of the world as manifested of nature’s beauty
c.A view of subjective beauty
d.None of the above
What is it?
Greek mythology reflects the world
view of human being in ancient time.
Moreover, it depicts the change in the
conscious orientation of human
being, from matriarchal to patriarchal
[1], which can be seen in the Greek
mythology stories. 
95. The following excerpt is from what epic poem?
“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the
lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man
go mad.”
a. The Iliad
b.The Odyssey
c. Paradise Lost
d.Mahabharata
96. The poem Acquainted With the Night which was written by
Robert Frost is about?
a. His definition of ideal love
b.The eternal beauty of his beloved
c. His relationship with loneliness
d.The comparison of death to rest and sleep
What is it?
One of Frost's most celebrated poems,
"Acquainted with the Night" is an
exploration of isolation, sorrow, and
despair—emotions that feel as
inescapable as the night itself. These
emotions, Frost suggests, are not
unique to the speaker of his poem, but
rather a universal part of the human
experience.
97. The first great heroic narrative of world literature
is?
a.Code of Urukagina
b.Lament for Ur
c.Epic of Gilgamesh
d.Curse of Agade
What is it?
It follows the story of Gilgamesh, the
mythological hero-king of Uruk, and his
half-wild friend, Enkidu, as they
undertake a series of dangerous
quests and adventures, and
then Gilgamesh's search for the
secret of immortality after the death of
his friend. It is considered as the
greatest heroic narrative of world
literature.
What is it?
Urukagina banned both civil and ecclesiastical
authorities from seizing land and goods for
payment, eliminated most of the state tax
collectors, and ended state involvement in
matters such as divorce proceedings and
perfume making. He even returned land and
other property his predecessors had seized
from the temple.
What is it?
The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over
the city of Ur is a
Sumerian lament composed around the
time of the fall of Ur to the Elamites and
the end of the city's third dynasty (c. 2000
BC)
The lament for Sumer and Urim or
the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem
 and one of five known Mesopotamian
 "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in
the voice of the city's tutelary goddess.
What is it?
he Curse of Agade is a story dated
to the Ur III Period of
Mesopotamia (2047-1750 BCE)
though thought to be somewhat
older in origin. It tells the story of
the Akkadian king Naram-Sin
(reigned 2261-2224 BCE) and his
confrontation with the gods,
particularly the god Enlil.
What is it?
The character of the writing, the subject
of epigraphy, is a matter quite separate
from the nature of the text, which
is studied in itself. Texts inscribed
in stone are usually for public view
and so they are essentially different
from the written texts of each culture.
Key word: Inscriptions.
98. All of the following describes One Thousand and One
Nights EXCEPT:
a. It was used to praise their own tribe or make fun of others
b.It is also called The Arabian Nights
c. Stories were compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.
d.It is a collection of Middle Eastern fold tales
What is it?
The frame story that holds all the tales of The
Thousand and One Nights together feels more
like horror than anything else. In it King
Shahrayar, after discovering that his wife has been
unfaithful to him, resolves to marry a new woman
each day, spend the night with her, and kill her
in the morning.
It is also called The Arabian Nights
Stories were compiled during the Islamic Golden
Age.
It is a collection of Middle Eastern fold tales
99. Tao Te Ching is the principal literary work of Taoism
which was written by ____________.
a.Lao Tzu
b.Confucius
c.Gautama Buddha
d.Mahatma Gandhi
What is it?
Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.) is believed to have been a
Chinese philosopher and the reputed author of the
"Tao te ching," the principal text of Taoist thought. He
is considered the father of Chinese Taoism. Lao
Tzu purportedly was an older contemporary of the
great philosopher Confucius (551-479 B.C.).

Lao Tzu is believed to have been a Chinese philosopher

(a person who seeks to answer questions about
humans and their place in the universe) and the
accepted author of the Tao te ching, the main text of
Taoist thought. He is considered the father of Chinese
Taoism (a philosophy that advocates living a simple
life).
100. The following haiku entitled On A Leafless Branch written
by Basho is about ____________________.
On a leafless branch
A crow comes to rest –
Autumn nightfall
a. Acceptance of our common humanity
b.Personal struggle with pain, lost and suffering
c. A state of silence and oneness with nature
d.Not enjoying the moment by worrying too much about the
past or future
What is it?
Written in the autumn of 1680. Matsuo Bashō was then
living in Edo (Tokyo) and teaching poetry to a group of
20 disciples. In this wonderfully simple poem, a crow
alights upon a withered branch, and Bashō is moved by
the sight to write this haiku.
Kare eda ni
A withered branch, kare eda ni. Much is implied, little is
said.
Karasu no tomarikeri
A crow, karasu, alighting on the branch, tomarikeri.
Beyond the obvious phonetic assonance of repeating
“Ks” is the symbolism of a solitary crow. Normally we
associate these noisy and annoysome birds with
flocks.  In Japanese mythology the crow symbolizes the
will of Heaven.