ECAS N GE 1ST GRADING

• Volume


  Loudness and softness of voice
• Pitch


  Highness and lowness of voice
• Colloquialisms


  Informal expressions used in everyday conversations, e.g. idioms and contractions
• Slang


  Words or expressions that have only been invented or derived from more formal words or phrases
• Skimming


  A type of reading technique to get the main idea, the author's purpose and the method of organization of the material
• Scanning


  A type of reading technique that enables you to search for specific information
• Close reading


  Also called serious reading, enables you to extract detailed information
• News


  • Tells you about things that happened today and features the tourist spots in the Philippines
• Proverbs


  Pithy sayings that contain advice or state a basic truth
• Rain

  • Has no eyes, but it can cry, it has no feet but can walk by
• Legends


  • About creation and tribal beginnings
• Fables


  • Types of animal tales that teach a moral using animal characters that have human personalities
• Riddles


  Presents an object indirectly by stating its characteristic features or peculiarities
• Figurative language


  A word or phrase used to express a meaning other than the literal meaning
• Personification


  • Why does the sea laugh, Mother?
• Metaphor


  • Youth is the virgin morning, the seedtime of life
• Simile


  • Lumnay danced like a bird, graceful and light as in flight
• Stress


  Characterized by force or intensity, pitch or tone and duration
• Epic


  • A legendary hero of the region where the epic originated
• Courting song


  • What did the rooster-like dance of Aliguyon serve as?
• Aliguyon


  • Son of Amtulao and Dumulao, he fought Pumbakhayon
• Pumbakhayon


  • Son of Pangaiwan, he fought Aliguyon for three years
• Bugan


  • Wife of Aliguyon and sister of Pumbakhayon
• Could


  Modal verb: I could stay longer, but Mom wanted to come home right away
• Bantugan


  • His name means "one who makes history". He is the foremost hero of the Maranao epic Darangen, which is the longest recorded epic in the Philippines
• Princess Datimbag


  • The sister of the king in the Kingdom Between the two Seas
• Idiomatic expressions


  A group of words whose meaning is different from the definition of each individual word in the said expression
• Heads up


  • Meaning: Warning
• Feather in one's cap


  • Meaning: Something to be proud of
• Knock oneself out


  • Meaning: To work very hard
• Sit on one's hands


  • Meaning: To do nothing
• Back's against the wall


  • Meaning: To be trapped
• Behind one's back


  • Meaning: Dishonesty
• Apple on one's eye


  • Meaning: Favorite person
• Tone


  The author's attitude towards a subject
• Card catalog


  A series of cards listing books by author, title, and subject
• Thesaurus


  Contains synonyms and antonyms of words
• Atlas


  A collection of detailed maps
• Encyclopedias


  Contains detailed articles on nearly every subject
• Online public access catalog


  A computerized listing similar to a card catalog in the library but faster and more convenient to use