SET 3

• Basho popularized Haiku in Japan. He creates visual and auditory sensations with a few strokes of his writing brush.
• "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night" is a poem written by Omar Khayyam.
• Mao Tze-Tsung is a Chinese leader whose essays and poems depicted the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary movement.
• Haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count.
• The oldest Indian document of Sanskrit Literature is the Rig Veda.
• Thomas Jefferson refered to the Native Americans as "merciless Indian savages."
• New Criticism is characterized by emphasis on craft over content.
• The forest in the play Midsummer Night's Dream symbolize a place to face trials for the characters to pass.
• The "Declaration of Independence" is best described as accusatory and subjective.
• In Maya Angelou's 'On the Pulse of Morning', it is suggested that each new day gives people new chances.
• Shakespeare's technique of showing equivocation in his play "Macbeth" is Irony.
• According to Lincoln in "The Gettyburg Address", the premise of the war being fought is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
• A story told in verse by unknown writers and usually meant to be sung is a ballad.
• The repetition of similar sounds usually consonant in a group of words like "Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before?" is called Alliteration.
• Sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.
• A book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters and often complex plot is called a novel.
• Epitaph is a description on a grave stone or a short poem in memory of a deceased person.
• Half rhyme is one of the major poetic devices. It is also called an "imperfect rhyme," "slant rhyme," "near rhyme," or "oblique rhyme".
• An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional material to the rest of the curriculum is to keep a list of the goals and objectives of the curriculum.
• To home independent study strategies through prescribed tasks is NOT a goal of K to 12 language teaching in the secondary level.
• K to 12 language teaching in secondary school is NOT described as literature-based and genre-focused.
• All materials from the real world not intended for classroom use but used in the classroom are called authentic materials.
• The target language is used as an auxiliary / support language. This statement DOES NOT characterized Direct Method of language teaching.
• The use of song, the worksheet, pair group, the teacher and the students' talk are provisions of the comprehensible input hypothesis of Krahsen's Monitor model.
• Benjamin Franklin added Humility in his 13 vitues because he is reminded of his friend Quaker about how overbearing and insolent he is.
• Paul Grice's cooperative principle is a set of norms that are expected in conversations. It consists of four maxims: quality, quantity, relation, and manner.
• Maxim of quality: Utterance must tell the truth or something that is provable by adequate evidence.
• Maxim of quantity: Utterance have to be adequate in speaking, not more or less.
• Maxim of relation: Response has to be relevant to the topic of discussion.
• Maxim of manner: Utterance has to avoid ambiguity or obscurity; it

  should be direct and straightforward.
• The generalization in the area of phonology that can be drawn from the following linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordion is that a voiceless stop can be aspirated if it begins a syllable of a stressed vowel.
• The title of Leo Tolstoy's short story about a man falsely judged and accused of murder is "God Sees the Truth but Waits."
• Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta is considered as the Goddess of Philippine Poetry.
• "Magnificence", the story about a girl abused by an old man, is authored by Estrella Alfon.
• The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George Orwell entitled 1984.
• When you use a fraction (one-third) with a countable noun, you use the plural 'are'. If it was referring to a non-countable noun then it would need to be singular 'is'.
• /b/ sound is a voiced bilabial stop.
• The first school established by the Americans in the Philippines that aims to teach Filipinos how to use English is the Philippine Normal School.
• Direct Testing requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill that the test wishes to measure.
• The Structuralist Approach views that language learning is chiefly concerned with a systematic acquisition of a set of "building blocks".