English monthly

• "Musée des Beaux Arts" is a poem created by Wystan Hugh Auden
• "Old Masters" in Art pertains to artists with long standing reputation for some skill or art before the modern period
• "Miraculous birth" means only one birth by an immaculate woman
• "Dreadful martyrdom" are two words contrasting each other in tone. Dreadful gives negative impression, while martyrdom gives a positive impression of sacrificing with a purpose
• "Icarus" in greek myth is Daedalus' son who had the ambition of touching the sun by using wings of wax. He flew near the sun that melted the wax, leading to his literal downfall into the sea.
• Discriminative Listening - Its objective is to distinguish sound and visual stimuli
• There are five types of listening skill: Discriminative Listening, Comprehensive Listening, Therapeutic Listening, Critical Listening, Appreciative Listening.
• Comprehensive Listening - Its objective is to understand the message being conveyed.
• Therapeutic Listening - Its objective for the listener to become sympathetic or empathetic with a little verbal response
• Critical Listening - its objective is to evaluate the message being conveyed
• Appreciative Listening - its objective is to focus on enjoying what one listens to.
• Intonation - the change in sound produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking especially when emphasizing words or phrases
• Juncture - the manner in which words come together and the flow that connects one word to another
• Stress- the accent, the harder or higher pronunciation of a syllable
• Pitch - the variation in frequency or vibration
• Criteria in writing a poem

  1. Intonation
  2. Juncture
  3. Stress
  4. Pitch
• Analyzing the Mood and Tone of the Selection.

  "Tone" is the attitude a poem takes about its subject and theme. Some words we refer for tone are: angry, furious, joyous, excited, frustrated, etc.

  "Mood" is the general atmosphere and overall feeling which a poem presents through setting, the character, the choice of words Some words referring to mood are: somber, mysterious, dark, romantic, lighthearted, etc.
• Fray Bernardino de Melendreras is the orginal writer of Ibalong and Fray Jose Castaño is the recorder and translator of the poem.
• Lyre in filipino is Kudyapi

  Bard in filipino is Lola Basyang

  Lance in filipino is machete

  Herculean in filipino is Panday

  Behemoth in filipino is Tikbalantg
• "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Divine Comedy is a poem by Dante Alighieri
• Bonsai' is a poem by Edith Tiempo
• "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost
• "The world is too much with us" is a poem by William Wordsworth
• Youth Speaks is a poem by Amador T. Daguio
• Invictus' is a poem by William Ernest Hernley
• "When You Are Old" is a poem by William Butler Yeats
• Most common types of author's purpose.

  1. Entertain
  2. Persuade
  3. Advise
  4. Analyze
  5. Argue
  6. Describe
  7. Explain
  8. Inform
  9. Instruct
• Haiku is a poem by Matsuo Basho
• Tanka is a poem created by Ono Komachi
• In a Station of the Metro' is a poem by Ezra Pound
• "Of Innovations" is a selection by Francis Bacon
• Sundry - of various kinds: several

  Weal - a red, swollen mark

  Befell - bad happen to someone

  Anon - soon, shortly

  Apprise - inform or tell someone
• stagger means stumble

  quiet means silent

  sip means drink

  flower means blossom

  dig means excavate

  glimpse means glance

  fill means pervade

  drift means wander

  drench means soak

  appearance means emergence
• haiku has 5-7-5 syllables
• prefixes of negations

  un- usually means not

  dis- means seperate to each other

  mis- means not correct

  non- means not
• ill- shapen means badly formed

  precedent means order

  perverted means corruption

  confederate means allied

  incomformity means failure to obey

  froward means disobedient

  turbulent means stormy

  reverence means high regard

  scarce means short supply

  imputeth means give blame for some person