1. He is the first Asian writer to receive
the Nobel Prize. (Rabindranath Tagore)
2. He is considered as the greatest
English writer and also known as the “Bard of Avon”. (William Shakespeare)
3. This Shakespeare’s play is a story of a
man whose downfall was caused by overwhelming ambition for power. (Macbeth)
4. He is known as the father of horror
stories. (Edgar Allan Poe)
5. He is known as the Father of English
Essays. (Francis Bacon)
6. This Omar Khayam’s work has the theme
“Grasping pleasure while you can”. (Rubaiyat)
7. This short story by Edgar Allan Poe has
the theme which is similar to the theme of “Poison Tree”. (The Cask of
Amontillado)
8. He is a Filipino writer whose stories
and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions. (Nick
Joaquin)
9. He was the first Filipino National
Artist for Literature awarded in 1973. (Jose Garcia Villa)
10. He is a Filipino migrant whose fiction
stories reflect the Filipino’s concept of American culture. (Bienvenido Santos)
11. He is called a “comma poet” because he
used commas extensively in his works. (Jose Garcia Villa)
12. This is a collection of Indian beast
fables originally written in Sanskrit. (Panchatantra)
13. This is the first great work of
English literature. (Beowulf)
14. This is the greatest lyric poem in the
literature of the world. (Psalms of King David)
15. This is a folk song that originated in
Pampanga. (Atin Cu PungSingsing)
16. He is known as the greatest Indian
writer of all time.” (Kalidasa)
17. He is called the “Morning Star” of
English literature. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
18. He is the first man to replace myth
with natural laws. (Thales of Melitus)
19. This is a collection of Indian sacred
hymns. (Rig Veda)
20. This is a collection of Indian
religious text. (Upanishad)
21. He is regarded as the greatest haiku
poet. (Matsuo Basho)
22. He is recognized as the father of
American literature. (Washington Irving)
23. He was the first mythical geographer
who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people
encountered by his
hero, Ulysses. (Homer)
24. He is a famous composer from Angono,
Rizal, and was given a National Artist Award. (Luis San Pedro)
25. This is regarded as the most
influential book in the history of English civilization. (The King James Bible)
26. This is a popular Philippine secular
poetry in octosyllabic quatrains. (Korido)
27. It is a medieval German epic.
(Nibelungenlied)
28. He is known as the master of “local
color” because of his Pickwick Papers. (Charles Dickens)
29. It is a story of a man’s effort to
save his King from a monster. (Beowulf)
30. It is Jonathan Swift’s satire on human
folly and stupidity. (Gulliver’s Travel)
31. He is a Philippine National Artist
awardee for Literature, and used free verse and espoused the dictum, "Art
for art's sake“. (Jose
Garcia Villa)
32. This is known as epic of Ifugao.
(Hud-hud)
33. These poems are often erotic and
espouse CARPE DIEM or “seize the day”. (Cavalier Poems)
34. This is known to be the very first
successful short story in English written in 1925 by Paz Marquez Benitez. (Dead
Stars)
35. She wrote the most exquisite love
poems of her time in “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. (Elizabeth Barrett
Browning)
36. This is a very long poem about a
pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. (Canterbury Tales)
37. He is a Japanese poet who won the
Nobel Prize for literature in 1968. (Yasunari Kawabata)
38. This Indian epic which is considered
as the longest poem ever written is made up of almost 100,000 couplets divided
into 18
parvans or sections. (Mahabharata)
39. This was the era of knights, chivalry,
and castles in English literature. (Middle Ages)
40. This is known as epic of Visaya.
(Maragtas)
41. This a popular Philippine secular
poetry in dodecasyllabic quatrains. (Awit)
42. He is popularly known as
“HusengSisiw”. (Jose Dela Cruz)
43. This period of English literature
literally means “rebirth” in French. (Renaissance)
44. This is the first novel in English
written by a Filipino writer in 1921. (Child of Sorrow, ZoiloGalang)
45. From which Francis Bacon’s essay is
this line taken “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and
some few to
be chewed and digested”? (Of Studies)
46. This is the National Epic of England.
(Beowulf)
47. He is known as the Father of English
Tragedy. (Christopher Marlowe)
48. From which Shakespeare’s play are
these lines taken “Good night, good night! Parting is such a sweet sorrow that
I shall say good night till it be morrow”? (Romeo and Juliet)
49. He is the first black Nigerian writer
to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. (Wole Soyinka)
50. This is an epic of Ilocanos. (Biag Ni
Lam-Ang)
51. What is StevanJavellana’s 1947 novel
that captured the moving tale of the cruelty and the bravery of
the war years? (Without Seeing the Dawn)
52. What is Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 literary
work that tells about the painful reality of the American dream? (America Is in
the Heart)
53. He has been described as
"arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history”.
(Samuel Johnson)
54. This is the National Epic of America.
(The Song of Hiawatha)
55. This poem commemorates the life of a
public leader, Abraham Lincoln. (O Captain! My Captain!)
56. This literary work is believed to have
triggered the American Civil War. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)