MAJORSHIP_Important Terms

Fairytale

story about kings, queens, princes and princesess with a touch of magic

Myth

story about gods and goddesses

Legend

story about origin of a place or thing

Novel

a long narrative with an organized plot usually with a maximum of 500 pages

Novelette

a narrative with an organized plot usually with a maximum of 300 pages

Short Story

a narrative with an organized plot usually with a maximum of 100 pages

Fable

story that uses animals as characters with moral

Parable

story used by Jesus in teaching the Good News

Allegory

story that uses symbolism to represent an idea

Skimming

• Gist

• To get the main idea or overall sense of a text.

• Quick overview

Scanning

• Specific info

• Particular fact or detail.

• Searching for specific answers

Synthesize

• Combining similarities and differences

• Putting together different ideas or pieces of information from multiple sources to form a new understanding or insight

Generalizing

• Broad statement

• Making a broad conclusion based on specific examples or patterns.

Semantic Interference

• Jargonized

Epitaph

• description on a grave stone

• short poem in memory of a deceased person

National Children’s Book Day (PH)

Third of July

J.M. Barrie

Author or Peter Pan

Twelfth Night

Shakespearean comedy features a love triangle where Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario?

Merchant of Venice

“The quality of mercy is not strained…” is a famous line from which courtroom scene in a Shakespearean play?

The Pardoner

In The Canterbury Tales, who tells the most honest and moral tale among the pilgrims?

Shakespearean

Which sonnet structure consists of three quatrains and a concluding couplet with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?

Spenserian sonnet

What poetic form did Edmund Spenser invent, as seen in The Faerie Queene?

The Monkey’s Paw

Which American short story ends with a knocking at the door that symbolizes irreversible consequence?

Beloved

Which novel by Toni Morrison uses magical realism to portray slavery’s lasting trauma?

John Donne

The metaphysical poet who wrote Death Be Not Proud is:

John Dryden

Which Restoration figure is known for satirical wit and for being the first English Poet Laureate?

Romantic

Which literary era is marked by emotional depth, imagination, and nature worship?

Johnathan Swift

Which Enlightenment writer proposed eating babies to solve poverty in Ireland?

The English translation of the New Testament

What did William Tyndale contribute to literature?

Charles Dickens

Which Victorian writer is known for serialized novels like Oliver Twist and Great Expectations?

Nevermore

“The Raven” repeats which haunting word as a refrain?

Italian Sonnet

The sonnet’s octave-sestet structure (ABBAABBA CDECDE) is characteristic of the:

The Battle of Brunanburh

Which Anglo-Saxon work is a nationalistic poem celebrating victory over Vikings?

No man of woman born shall harm him

In Macbeth, which prophecy fuels Macbeth’s false sense of invincibility?

Christian’s spiritual journey

What is the allegorical message of The Pilgrim’s Progress?

Mr. Darcy’s proposal

In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s character arc begins to shift during:

Walt Whitman

Which author is known as the "father of free verse"?

Jane Eyre

Which of the following works was written by a Brontë sister?

Ben Jonson

The poem “Drink to me only with thine eyes” was written by:

Acceptance of death

The central theme of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is:

Romantic Age

Which period follows the Age of Johnson and precedes the Victorian Age?

Madness and family decline

What is symbolized by the collapsing house in Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher?

Iago

In Othello, who says, “I am not what I am”?

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Which novel portrays love’s irrational power, featuring Oberon, Titania, and Puck?

Ezra Pound

Which poet is associated with the Imagist movement?

Herman Melville

Which author uses dense, symbolic prose and philosophical reflections in a whaling epic?

Hamlet

In what literary work does a character fake madness to uncover a regicide?

Jason

Sailed in the long ship Argo to search for the Golden Fleece

Hera

wife of Zeus; goddess of marriage

James Joyce

Author of Ulysses

Self-fulfilling prophecy

device in literature which is usually employed where visions are realized due to the action of the characters who try to prevent them

Ex: Oedipus Rex

Monomyth

• fundamental structure of all folklore of the olden days

• Term by Joseph Campbell

Brahman

• for Hindus he created the universe

• god that preserves the world and humans

Shiva

• Destroyer god

Omar Khayyam

• Writer of the poem, “Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night”

• Also famous for Rubaiyat

Egypt

• Sinuhe

• The Predestined Prince

The Poor Christ of Bomba

Mongo Beti

Telephone Conversation

Wole Soyinka

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

 The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tale of Genji

Novel

“I, Too”

Langston Hughes

The Roaring Twenties or The Jazz Age

 American literature from the 1920s is often called:

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Book of the Dead

African literary work that deals with postcolonial identity

Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes’ poetry is most associated with

Use of slant rhyme and dashes

Emily Dickinson's poetry is known for its

The Illiad

magical realism

Civil Disobedience

 foundational in American Transcendentalism

Enlightenment

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse explores what philosophical concept rooted in Asian thought

Korean nationalism and divided identity

The Crane by Hwang Sun-won is known for its reflection of

Racial Injustice

To Kill a Mockingbird highlights

John Steinback

Which American writer is known for realist fiction portraying working-class struggles

Emily Dickinson

 Which American poet is best known for breaking traditional rules of syntax and capitalization

Chorus and repetition

narrative technique commonly used in African oral literature

Coming of age story

bildungsroman

Alienation and fragmentation

literary characteristics of American modernism

Jose Garcia Villa

Filipino writer recognized internationally for incorporating both Western and Eastern influences