GENERAL EDUCATION 1

• Unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively

  Haiku
• Tanka


  Composed of 5 lines, with a structure of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables each
• Epistolary


  A story is made from exchange of letters
• Famous epistolary in the Philippines

  • Urbana at Feliza by Padre Modesto de Castro
• Moro-moro


  A dramatic presentation that originated from the traditional armed encounter between the Christians and Muslim
• Bienvenido Santos is a Filipino migrant writer whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino concept of American culture
• Bienvenido Santos' famous work was Scents of Apples
• Nick Joaquin is a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English languages and used Hispanic – Filipino culture and tradition in his works
• Resonation


  Speech progress which was concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice using human amplifiers such as nose, windpipe, and chest
• Larynx


  Also known as voice box
• Geoffrey Chaucer was called the "Morning Star of English Literature"
• Geoffrey Chaucer's most famous work was Canterbury Tales
• Edgar Allan Poe was the Author of Annabel Lee and The Raven, and is known as the Father of Horror and Detective stories
• Homer wrote the Iliad and Odyssey, and was called the "Mythical geographer"
• Divine Comedy


  The plot is simple: a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
• The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost describes a person standing at a fork in the road in a wood, unsure which one to take
• Robert Frost's poem "Acquainted with the Night" is about isolation and loneliness
• Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens, and he was the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
• William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar, and is considered the Greatest English writer
• George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, and her novel Silas Marner follows the life of Silas, a weaver who works tirelessly and hoards his gold
• Confucius was the 1st Teacher in China and wrote The Analects
• Plato wrote The Republic and founded the Academy
• Guy De Maupassant's story "The Necklace" tells the story of Mathilde Loisel, a young woman who borrows a necklace from a wealthy friend to wear to a high-society event, only to lose it and spend the next ten years of her life in poverty trying to replace it
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince
• J.K. Rowling's pen name was Robert Galbraith, and she wrote the Harry Potter series
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was the inspiration for Jose Rizal in writing Noli Me Tangere
• The ancient civilization of China existed in the Yellow River
• In 1565, Legaspi concluded a Blood Compact with the chief of Bohol, who was referred to as Sikatuna
• Padre Pedro Pelaez was the pioneering leader of the native secular clergy in the Secularization Movement in the 18th and to late 19th century, and after his death Padre Jose Burgos continued the movement
• The Rubaiyat was the theme of "Grasping pleasure while you can"
• Helen of Troy was the reason for the Trojan War, described as "the face that launched a thousand ships"
• The Mahabharata is the longest epic in the world
• The Egyptians' literature was identified as Mediterranean Literature
• The Philippines lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area where volcanoes are active
• The aboriginal settlers of the Philippines were the Negritos/Aetas, who were part of the AIMS (Aeta, Indonesian, Malays) group
• Miguel Lopez de Legaspi was the First Governor-General of the Philippines
• Diego de los Ríos was the Last general in the Spanish colonization of the Philippines
• Narciso Claveria was responsible for the "Spanish surname" system in the Philippines
• Carlos Maria De la Torre was the Most loved Governor-General of the Philippines
• Rafael Izquierdo was the Governor-General that executed the GOMBURZA