General Education

• General Education Boosters:

  • Great ends meet: limited/di mapagkasya
  • Green thumb: good at gardening
  • The face that launched a thousand ships: Helen of Troy
  • A stitch in time saves nine: maagap
  • Waste not, want not: magtipid
  • Mountain out of a mole: eksaherado
  • Storm in a teacup: balewala
  • In the red: malapit na maubos
• Literature Terms:

  • Didactic: with moral lessons - fables
  • Epistolary: exchange of letters
  • Allegory: symbolic meaning - Noli and El Fili
  • Frame story: story within a story
• Philippine Literature:

  • Spanish Influence: Nick Joaquin (Hispanic)
  • American culture: Bienvenido Santos (Scents of Apples)
  • Cultural icon: Gilda Cordero Fernando
  • 1st National Artist for Literature (1973): Jose Villa - Comma Poet
• World Literature:

  • Father of English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer - Morning Star
  • Horror stories/Detective: Edgar Allan Poe
  • French Short Story: Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace
  • Greatest Haiku Writer: Matsuo Basho
• Famous Authors and Their Works:

  • Dr. Zhivago: Boris Paternak (rule in Russia)
  • Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Harry Potter: J.K. Rowling
  • The Little Prince: Antoine Exupery
  • Purgatory: Dante Alighiero - Divine Comedy
  • Rubaiyat: Omar Khayyam - pleasure
  • How do I love Thee: Elizabeth Browning - Robert Browning (husband)
• Famous Writings:

  • 1st epic: Gilgamesh - great flood of Noah
  • Longest epic: Mahabharata
  • Medieval German epic: Nibelungenlied
  • Collection of stories: A thousand and one Arabian nights
  • Collection of sacred hymns: Rig Veda
  • Collection of fables: Aesop
• Pen Name/Pseudonyms:

  • Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens
  • George Eliot: Mary Ann Evans
  • Robert Galbraith: J.K. Rowling
  • O. Henry: William Sydney Porter (plot twists)
• Panitikang Filipino:

  • Ama ng Maikling Kwento: Deogracias Rosario
  • Sarswelang Tagalog: Severino Reyes (Lola Basyang)
  • Balarilang Pilipino: Lope K. Santos (Banaag at Sikat)
  • Makata ng Manggagawa: Amado Hernandez (Luha ng Buwaya)
  • Urbana at Feliza: Fr. Modesto de Castro (kagandahang asal)
  • Ang Sampaguitang Walang Bango: Iñigo Ed Regalado (pagtataksil sa asawa)
  • Florante at Laura: Francisco Baltazar (for MAR) Maria Ascuncion Rivera
  • Biag ni Lam-ang: Pedro Bukaneg (Father of Ilocano Literature)
• Philippines Facts:

  • Only Christian Nation in Asia
  • Philippine Monkey Eating Eagle: Largest eagle
  • Mt. Apo: Highest peak
  • Aeta: Indigenous people in Zambales
  • Davao: Largest City
  • Cebu: Oldest City
  • Mindanao: Land of Promise
  • Coron, Palawan: Best scuba diving site
  • Pagadian: Little Hongkong
• Renaissance:

  • Human body "rebirth"
  • Humanism: revival of the classics "forever beautiful"
  • Romanticism: emotion
  • Impressionism: light and color
• Rizal Facts:

  • Genius in both arts and science: Polymath
  • Conversant to many languages: Polyglot
  • Pen name: Laong Laan and Dimasalang
  • Execution: firing squad
  • Used writings: Pen is mightier than the sword
  • Birthplace: Calamba, Laguna
  • Imprisoned: Fort Santiago
  • Exiled: Dapitan, Zamboanga Del Norte
  • Fired: Bagumbayan
  • Buried: Paco Cemetery
  • Entombed: Luneta Park
• Philippine History:

  • Triumvirate: Rizal, Jaena, del Pilar
  • Del Pilar: Dakilang Political Analyst
  • GOMBURZA: Martyred priest (GOMZABUR)
  • Mabini: Brains of the Phil. Revolution, Sublime Paralytic
  • Andres Bonifacio: Father of Phil. Revolution
  • Armed Struggle
  • Gregorio del Pilar: Boy General
• Altogether - adverb: entirely/completely
• All together - gathered in the same room
• Advice - noun (binibigay)
• Advise - verb
• Emigrate - going out (Exit)
• Immigrate - going in
• Lay - put something down
• Lie - recline
• Breathe - verb: to inhale
• Breath - noun: air
• Compliment - praise
• Complement - match/praise
• Dessert - sweet dish
• Desert - dry
• Stationary - not moving
• Stationery - writing supplies
• Cite - to quote
• Site - a location
• Elizabethan - Era/Period of Shakespeare
• Gilgamesh - first epic
• Mahabharata - longest epic of India
• Nibelungenlied - medieval German epic
• Beowulf - National epic of England
• The Song Hiawatha - national epic of America
• Psalms of King David - greatest lyric poem
• A Thousand and One Arabian Nights - collection of stories (Aladdin)
• Rig Veda - collection of Indian sacred hymns
• Upanishads - collection of Indian sacred text