1.

Are practical observations and philosophy of everyday life that are written usually in a rhyming
scheme.

2. Are like proverbs with one main difference: they demand an answer and are used to test the wits of
those who are listening to them. In filipino it is called bugtong.

3. Are beautiful songs that are informal expressions of our ancestors'experiences in life. Examples of
these is harana and lullabies.

4. Are stories of origin for certain places, their names, and their creation. These are known as myths
and legends.

5. Long-winded poems about a hero and his adventures and misadventures. It isually tells of male hero
who is born with all the pleasing qualities that your ancestors like kn a person and who also has
superhuman capabilities.

6. Is a legendary religious narrative form that usually details the lives of saints or the history of a
tradition.

7. Is a chivalric poem about a hero, usually a saint. It is also usually sung and used in religious
processions.

8. Is a narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ, beginning from birth and up to his death.

9. Is the dramatization of the passion of Christ. It higjlights the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ and it
is also done during the Lenten season.

10. Is a blood-and -thunder melodrama depicting the conflict of Christians and Muslims. It is usually
about battles to the death and the proof of faith.

11. Is a play that uses shadows as its main spectacle. This created by animating figures made from
cardboard, which are projected onto a white screen.

12. Is the dramatic reenactment of St. Helena's search for the Holy Cross. St. Helena is the mother of
Constantine and is oftentimes credited to have influenced her son to be the great Christian leader he is
known for today.

13. Are native dramas that are connected to Catholic mourning rituals and harvest celebrations.

14. Is probably one of the most famous forms of entertainment back in the Spanish era.

15. Are used by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing.

16. Is an important element in Filipino poetry. In fact writers are very careful of the way they write and
the words they use to form their poems.
17. Is the way author arranges words, meters, lines, and stanzas to create a coherent sound when the
poem is read aloud.

18. It refers to the way the interdepent parts of it are organized to form a whole poem.

19. Is either the natural or the unnatural arrangement of words in a poem.

20. Is a way for you to analyze the poem by carefully reading and rereading a text until you have found
its interpretation.

21. It is a story that is entirely made up and is not true.

22. Ths blank of the story is the one you ralate with, converse with, or listen to the thoughts of.

23. Is the beginning of the story, wherein the writer sets the scene by introducing the characters,
describing the setting, and sometimes will give a brief background of the story.

24. This is called the blank - small event and telltale signs that tell you that the conflict is about to begin.
It is also sometimes known as "the complication" of the story.

25. Is when the complication begins to show itself on the characters, setting, and events in the story.
This is when the story starts to become more exciting.

26. Is the event with the greatest tension in the story. This is when the characters know the truth, act
on their impulses, make rash decisions or decide to do something, and so on. This part usually signals
how the story will end.

27. Is the result of the climax, and it is the part when things start falling into place for the characters.

28. Is a French term that means the "ending ". This is where the story reaches its final conclusion and the
writer starts to get ready to tell the ending by way of explaining a finality, a flashback, a peace treaty, or
anything to make the story complete.

29. Blank is often defined as a short piece of writing on a particular subject.

30. Blank is an essay on ang topic available and is written in the author's own unique style.

Long, long ago there lived a fairy a fairy with two very beautiful daughters. Araw the older daughter,
was very amiable and had a kind disposition: Buwan, unlike her sister, dishonest, cruel, and harsh. She
was always finding fault with Araw. One night, when the fairy came home from her noctural rambles
and saw Buwan badly maltreating her elder sister, she asked God for help against her unruly daughter.

Before this time, God had prepared very valuable gifts for the two sisters. These gifts were two
enoumous diamonds that could light the whole universe. When God heard the prayer of the fairy, he
descended to Earth disguised as a beggar. Upon learning for himself how bad-tempered Buwan was and
how sweet and kind-hearted Araw was, was God gave the older sister her diamond as a reward. Buwan
was greatly angered by this favoritsm on the part of the Almighty, so she went to the heavenly kingdom
and stole one of God's diamonds. Then she returned to earth with the precious stone, but there she
found that were jewel was not as brilliant as Araw's.

When God went back to heaven and learned what Buwan had done, he sent two angels to punish her.
But the angels abused their commission : they seized both sisters and hurled them into the sea. They
threw the two stones upward into the sky and there they stuck. But Araw's diamond was bigger and
brighter than the one Buwan stole. Thereafter, the bigger jewel was called Araw ("day" or "sun") and
the smaller one, Buwan ("moon").

1. What is the setting of the story?

2. Who are the characters? (Characterized each)

3. Why the sun and the moon shine at different times of the day?

4. Why the sun shines more brightly than the moon?

5. Why there are spots on the face of the moon, and the sun?

6. What is the origin of the stars?

7. Write a summary in 3 sentences.

8. What is the central motif of the myth? (1 sentence only)

Essay. Explain in your views in 5 meaningful sentences.

1. What is your thought about studying 21st century literature from the Philippines and the world.