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  • Who's the Indian Shakespeare?
    Kalidasa
  • It deals with the level of meaning in language.
    Semantics
  • The Nibelungenlied is a ?
    Medieval German Epic
  • Who was always been called as the "Morning Star of English Literature"?
    Geoffrey Chaucer
  • What work of Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the first collection of short stories in English literature written in poetic form?
    The Canterbury Tales
  • "To be or not to be..." is the beginning of the soliloquy, Hamlet.
  • What does John Keats in the poem, "Bards of Passion and of Mirth" wants these writers to do?
    To avoid living double life
  • Which literary genre was used to express social protest during the early days of American regime?
    Zarzuela
  • What's the general theme of "Rubaiyat"?
    Grasp pleasure while you can
  • Who's the Bronte writer who authored "Jane Eyre"?
    Charlotte
  • In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury tales written?
    14th century
  • "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise."
    Who wrote this line?
    William Shakespeare
  • In the book "The Lord of the Rings", who or what is Bilbo Baggins?
    Hobbit
  • What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS?
    Confusion
  • What early form of writing did the Sumerians invent?
    Cuneiform
  • "Memory" is the standard song of Cats musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber. He based his play on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by whose author?
    T.S. Eliot
  • What's the pen name of Samuel Clemens?
    Mark Twain
  • Who's the Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions?
    Nick Joaquin
  • Who wrote the "Scent of Apples"?
    Bienvenido Santos
  • The Elizabethan period in English literature produced enduring literacy pieces, the most famous were written by - Shakespeare.
  • Who wrote the novel "Scarlet Letter"?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Which borrowed phrase means death blow?
    Coup de grâce.
  • Who's the Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex?
    Sophocles
  • Who's the Spanish author who wrote the novel "Don Quixote"?
    Miguel de Cervantes
  • "I fart at thee", "shit on your head", "dirty bastard"
    These taboo phrases were used by which writer?
    Ben Johnson
  • What conventions of earlier literary and artistic cycle style do both realism and naturalism oppose?
    Romanticism and idealism.
  • Who's the Ifugao hero who was immortalized in the epic Hudhud?
    Aliguyon
  • The period of American renaissance gave birth to -
    Transcendentalism
  • What is the usual ending of a comedia?
    Happy ending
  • What short narrative poem is intended to be sung?
    Ballad
  • A distinct of poetry during the age of modernism is -
    free verse
  • In Homer's epic, who kept Odysseus on her island for seven years?
    Calypso
  • Who wrote "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker"?
    Gilda Fernando
  • What assessment tool is used to measure students' reading comprehension?
    Running record
  • What activity makes use of the Elkonin boxes?
    Segmentation
  • What reading takes place when two students read a text together?
    Buddy
  • Who wrote Hesperides?
    Robert Herrick
  • What sonnet enumerates the reasons for loving Elizabeth Barret Browning?
    Sonnet 43
  • Who wrote TO LUCASTA?
    Richard Lovelace
  • Who's the Russian novelist who rote "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace"?
    Leo Tolstoy