Ambrosio Bautista is the author of the Declaration of Philippine Independence.
"America is in the Heart" is Carlos Bulusan's celebrated autobiography.
An allusion is a popular literary device used to develop characters, frame storylines, and help create associations to well-known works.
An apostrophe is used as a substitute for a missing letter or letters in a word (as in the contraction cannot = can't), to show the possessive case (Jane's room), and in the plural of letters, some numbers and abbreviations.
An editorial is an article written by the editorial staff from a specific perspective. The editorial will offer the newspaper's view of an issue.
An elegy is a poem that reflects upon death or loss.
An epic poem is a lengthy, narrative work of poetry.
An ad hominem argument is one that relies on personal attacks rather than reason or substance.
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of clauses or sentences.
Angel Magahum is called the Literary Colossus of the Visayas.
Animal Farm, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating "it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA."
Apollo is called "the most Greek of all the gods." He is also called the Lord of Silver Bow and the Archer-god.
Articles are a subclass of determiners, which are noun-marking words. They usually come before the nouns they modify.
Ashurbannipal Library is the name of the very first library in the world.
Assonance is a poetic device where the vowel sound in a word matches the same sound in a nearby word, but the surrounding consonant sounds are different.
At the border of two countries there is a port where fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same language, so they communicate using one that has been invented but only for the purpose of trade. This scenario most accurately describes a pidgin.
Audience is a group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
August Strindberg is a Norwegian writer best known for his problem/social play like "Ghosts."
Authors turn to tangible symbols to represent abstract concepts and ideas in their stories.
Bahasa Malaysia is the Asian language nearest to Filipino.
Balagtas is the Filipino poet snubbed by Huseng Sisiw.
Bantugan is the hero of the Maranaw epic Darangen.
Behaviorism or cognitivism is a philosophy of education that teachers can adopt.
Beowulf is considered the oldest epic in England.
Bibliography is a list of sources used in the study.
Blank verse is a poetry written with a precise meter -
almost always iambic pentameter - that does not rhyme.
Book burning is the event that marked the 1st literary demonstration in the Philippines.
Business section contains business profiles and news reports about the state of commerce.
Carpe diem is a Latin phrase translated as enjoy the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future.
Champorado with milk is my favorite snack on rainy days.
Charles Dickens wrote the novel "A Christmas Carol" which is about a man who hates Christmas.
Clemente Zulueta is the Historian of the Revolution.
Climax is the most intense or exciting moment in the story when something happens to decide the outcome of the conflict.
Colloquialism is the use of casual and informal language in writing, which can also include slang.
Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen.
Connotation is an idea that is implied or suggested.
Couplet is the name given to a pair of rhyming lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
Crispin! Basilio! My children!, is an example of apostrophe.
Critical viewing is the ability to carefully comprehend and evaluate information presented by visual media.
Dante Alighieri is the author of the work Inferno, Purgatario
and Paradiso.
Denotation is the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression.
Denouement is the outcome of a complex sequence of events.
Dionisio Salazar is the 1st Palanca Awardee for Play.
Documentary utilizes authentic evidence as its basis for portraying recent historical events.
DRTA in reading means Directed Reading and Thinking Activity.
Elizabeth Browning was a Victorian era writer who wrote the novel "Aurora Leigh" which was criticized.
Emily Dickinson is a poet that had an eccentric use of punctuations, making use of dashes liberally for emphasis.
English Sonnet: Shakespeare :: Italian Sonnet: Petrarch.
Epifanio delos Santos is the Greatest among the Great Filipino Scholars.
Estrella Alfon wrote the short story "Magnificence," about the girl abused by an older man.
Eugene O'Neill is the dramatist known as the Most Modern of Moderns.
Exposition is when the narrative provides background information in order to help the reader understand what is going on.
F. Scott Fitzgerald explored the consequences of trying to live the American dream, and questioned society's definition of success and progress in his novel "The Great Gatsby."
Faulty parallelism occurs when two or more parts of a sentence are similar in meaning but not parallel (or grammatically similar) in form.
Faust is a
character based on true to life person.
Feature articles report about an issue, person, or event with added depth and more background details.
Feedback is the receivers' verbal and nonverbal responses to a message, such as a nod for understanding (nonverbal), a raised eyebrow for being confused (nonverbal), or asking a question to clarify the message (verbal).
Filipino as a language blossomed during the Japanese occupation.
Flashbacks to previous events split up present-day scenes in a story, usually to build suspense toward a big reveal.
Foreshadowing
is when the author hints at events yet to come in a story.
Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form.
Genoveva Edroza Matute is the 1st Palanca Awardee for short story.
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was written in the 14th century.
Gilgamesh is considered as the Mesopotamian great hero and son of goddess Ninsun whose stories are told in Sumerian and Babylonian poems.
Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem with three lines and 17 syllables.
Helpful is an example of derivational morpheme.
Homer wrote the epic Iliad and Odyssey.
How Filipinos accept or treat a new family member is pointed out by the author in the story "How My Brother Brought Home a Wife" by Manuel Arguilla.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement that emphasizes the significance of the statement's actual meaning.
Imagery appeals to readers' senses through highly descriptive language.
In Hindu Mythology, a cosmic truth that "all things are simply a part of a greater whole one" is held.
In Canaanite mythology, Baal is said to be in charge of rain and weather, and that man's survival is dependent upon his provision.
In developmental reading, phonics pertains to the ability of the learner to relate the written symbols to its corresponding sound.
In developmental reading, phonemic awareness pertains to the familiarity of the students toward the sounds of the language.
In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of the god Zeus, she is best known for the part she played in causing the Trojan War.
In Hindu mythology, Brahma is traditionally depicted with four heads, four faces and four arms. He also symbolizes the supreme eternal deity whose essence pervades the entire universe.
In Hindu tradition, Vishnu is regarded as the preserver of the universe, while Shiva as destroyer.
In his Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy set the tone of his speech by opening with comments on renewal and change.
In medias res is a Latin term that means "in the midst of things" and is a way of starting a narrative without exposition or contextual information.
In Norse mythology, dwarfs often act as earthen smiths whereas beings described as jotnar, thursar, and troll are glossed as giants.
In one of his poems, the Filipino author Zulueta da Costa said that the Filipinos are like the Molave. This is an example of simile.
In reading, IRI means Informal Reading Inventory.
In the courtroom, the judge said that the findings have no bearing because they are inadmissible.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorns were commonly described as symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.
In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the traveler took the road less travelled by.
In the poem Invictus, the line "my head is bloody, but unbowed," is an example of hyperbole.
In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.
Intonation is illustrated in the following example: In English, the statement "Marian is a linguist" ends with a fall in pitch, while as a question, "Marian is a linguist?" the pitch goes up.
Jacee was confused when she read the printout of her speech because it had slashes after some words. When seeing a double slash, she should pause for a full second.
John Keats is responsible for the now immortal line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the
novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe entitled Uncle
Tom's Cabin.
Juxtaposition places two or more dissimilar characters, themes, concepts, etc. side by side, and the profound contrast highlights their differences.
Kabuki is the drama of Japanese bourgeoisie.
Kwento ni Mabuti, written by Genoveva E. Matute won Palanca Awards for short story.
Latino is the term for a person who could read and write in Spanish and Tagalog.
Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian short story writer wrote "God sees the truth but waits."
Leo Tolstoy's short Story about a man falsely judged and accused of murder is entitled "God Sees The Truth but Waits."
Leona Florentino is the 1st Poetess of the Philippine.
Lewis Carroll was the author of the famous storybook "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Li Po is the Greatest Chinese Poet before the Revolution.
Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as Macro Skills.
Lualhati Bautista as a writer became known for her honest
realism, courageous exploration of Philippine women's issues, and her
compelling female protagonists, who confront difficult situations at home and
in the workplace with uncommon grit and strength.
Magno "Carlo" Jose Caparas, widely known as Carlo J. Caparas, is a Filipino comic strip creator/writer-turned director and producer, who is best known for creating such Filipino superheroes and comic book characters.
Messages consist of both verbal and non-verbal elements. Your words and how you deliver them equally make up the balance of your message.
Mi Ultimo Adios is considered as Rizal's best work.
Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom.
Neither Jordan nor his brothers are leaving the company.
Ninay is the 1st Filipino Social Novel by Pedro Paterno.
Noise exists in all aspects of communication, thus, no message is received exactly as the sender intends, despite his or her best efforts, because of the ever-presence of noise in communication.
Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless, mostly visual, cues between people.
Oedipus successfully get rid of the Sphinx by correctly solving its riddle "What creature goes on four feet in the morning, on two feet at noonday, and on three feet in the evening."
Oscar Wilde was the champion of the "art for art's sake" philosophy, which means, roughly, that the aesthetic, or beauty, operates independently of any other consideration.
Parentheses are curved lines used to separate explanations or qualifying statements within a sentence. Each one of the curved lines is called a parenthesis. The part in the parentheses is called a parenthetical remark.
Pascual Poblete is the Father of Filipino Newspapers.
Pedro Serrano Laktaw is the Filipino Tutor of Spanish King.
Philippine mythology and superstitions are very diverse. It includes a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities like kapre, aswang, mangkukulam, duwende, tiyanak, etc.
Philippine Normal University is the First American School in the Philippines that aims in teaching the Filipinos how to use the English Language.
Poetry is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words.
Point of view is the mode of narration in a story.
Progressive tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.
Prose is defined as any writing that is not broken up into poetic lines or written in a metrical structure.
Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love, deeply, passionately in love with the thing he had made.
Quotation marks are used at the beginning and end of a phrase to show that it is being written exactly as it was originally said or written.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the essay "Self Reliance," which mentions that "envy is ignorance while imitation is suicide."
Reading comprehension involves decoding symbols with the intention of deriving meaning from the text.
Robinson Crusoe is often called the first true novel in English.
Sender is someone who encodes and sends a message to a receiver through a particular channel; the initiator of communication.
Sentence fragments are incomplete sentences that do not have one independent clause.
Simple future tense of the verb has an expression of what we think might happen or what we intend to happen.
Social aspect is the focus of Makamisa.
Soliloquy refers to the passage in a drama in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage or with the other actors keeping silent.
Speech Communication is the study of how people generate shared meaning through the use of verbal and nonverbal symbols.
Subjects and verbs must Agree with one another in number (singular or plural). Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular, if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.
Tagore is considered as the Greatest Indian writer.
The basic building block of a poem is a verse known as a stanza.
The central character in a drama is called the protagonist.
The channel is the method, either auditory or visual, that is used to transmit the message to the receiver.
The execution of GomBurza inspired Rizal's El Filibusterismo.
The father of dramatic criticism is Aristotle.
The film "Gone with the Wind" is about the American Civil War.
The fire that destroyed over one hundred homes was
believed to have been caused by loose
electrical connections.
The first page of a newspaper includes the title, all the publication information, the index, and the main stories that will capture the most attention.
The fundamental demand of a play's characters is that they make the audience care.
The hero of Ifugao in the epic Hudhud is Aliguyon.
The ideas being presented by the speaker are altogether confusing.
The line, "I shall come to you again with the starlight, and the scent of champacas, means the speaker wants his lover to keep and cherish their memories in her heart.
The literary piece which opens with the line "All children, except one grew up," is Peter Pan.
The novel Crime Punishment was Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The participants in the global warming conference are all together in the lobby.
The passive voice emphasizes the recipient of the action or sometimes the action itself. The Philippines largest drug store is named after the Roman gods' messenger.
The planets of the solar system have mythological references. They are based on Roman Mythology.
The playwright is the point of origin of nearly every production.
The Poet of Love is Jose Corazon de Jesus.
The relationship of Zeus and Jupiter is counterpart.
The Shakespeare of India is Kalidasa.
The speaker is the initiator of communication.
The type of novel which became popular in the 18th century is epistolary.
The word "renaissance" is French for rebirth.
The word theater is derived from the Greek word "theatron" which means seeing place.
The words "gym, mic, and TV" are formed through clipping.
The zero conditional is used for when the time being referred to is now or always and the situation is real and possible.
Theme is the subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
Theatrical conventions are the agreements between audience and actor wherein the audience willingly suspends belief and accepts the play as new or temporary "reality."
Theomachy is the battle among the gods of supremacy between good and evil in mythologies.
Tone refers to the overall mood and message of your book. It is established through a variety of means, including voice, characterization, symbolism, and themes.
Viewing refers to the ability to perceive meaning from visual images and presentations. Visual Literacy is the ability to interpret meaning from visual images.
Voice pertains to who or what serves as the subject in a clause.
War and Peace is a historical novel about Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812.
Washington Irving is a novelist and essayist noted for his "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses" which prompted Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against him, because Muslims considered the book blasphemous.
Waste not, want not, means do not waste things and you will always have enough.
Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero is considered the most outstanding among Filipino playwrights.
William Faulkner wrote the short story" A Rose for Emily."
William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems.
William Shakespeare wrote the line "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise."
William Tyndale is the Father of English prose while Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English poetry.
Writers use satire to make fun of some aspect of human nature or society - usually through exaggeration, ridicule, or irony.
Writing is
the process of using symbols to communicate thoughts and ideas in a readable form.