☻Learning Activities of World Literatures ☻

Module I
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TRUE 1. A child who has bruised his mouth needs a dentist.

TRUE 2. The plumes of an ostrich are found on its head.
TRUE 3. To lave means “to desire someone.”
TRUE 4. A rebellion is not a peaceful means of getting what you want.
TRUE 5. The death of a father leaves a void in the file of his family.
FALSE 6. The son is buffeted by his loving father.
TRUE 7 .The penitent student hurled insults at his teacher.
TRUE 8. One way to remove mote in your eye is to wash it out.
FALSE 9. A forgiving heart is full of vengeance.
TRUE 10. The temple is the place of worship.

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1. We are no more than a moving row

Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the sun illuminated lantern held
At midnight by the Master of the Show.

a. The shadow shapes are the PEOPLE on earth.

b. The lantern held to light us is the SUN.
c. The Master of the Show is GOD.
d. The quotation means that Life of people depends on God’s will depending if
He let you live longer or not.
2. Come wealth or want, come good or ill,
Let young and old accept their part,
 And now before the awful will
And bear it with an honest heart.
Who misses or who wins the prize-
Go, lose or conquer as you can,
But if you fail, or if you rise,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

a. Contrasting ideas in the quotation.

wealth or want
good or ill
Who misses or who wins
lose or conquer
if you fail, or if you rise
b. What should each man strive to be at all times?
- Face all trials, challenges, fears, and difficulties or even joy with strength
and with faith in God. We must believe to Him and do our best.

c. The quotation means that, we must fight, believe, and trust God to whatever
obstacles we met. Remember God in everything you do.

3. Give me look, give me a face,

That makes simplicity a grace,
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,
Such sweet neglect more taketh me me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

a. Does the poet enjoy looking at artificial beauty?

 - no, because he looks beauty by a means of having a wonderful heart
and not the external part of beauty.

b. What line tells that the poet does not like tight clothes?
- Line 3

c. Should a girl neglect care of her body in order to appeal to the poet?
Explain line 4.
- Yes, because the poet describes the girl which doesn’t care or give
attention to her own, and the poet compare the art to one another.

d. What does the quotation mean?

- A girl who lack attention to herself, not thinking on what other people
think about her.

4. If a task is once begun,

Never leave it till it’s done.
Be the labor great or small
Do it well or not at all.

a. Another word for task is work.

b. An example of antithesis: give me a look or give me a face.
c. According to the poet, any task you undertake must be done well.

5. When duty comes a knocking at your gate,

Welcome him in: for if you bid him wait,
He will depart only to come once more
And bring seven other duties to your door.

a.1. In the quotation, what is personified? Duty

 a.2. What human action does it do? “Maňana habit”, finish your works
immediately don’t set it aside.
b. The word bid means an attempt ( to seize power)
c. What must you do when duty comes? Perform it immediately
d. The quotation means Do your work immediately never set aside the things you
can do now.

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1. “Envy lurks in the human heart, like a viper in its hole.”

a. Envy is compared to a snake.
b. This quotation means that at the bottom of many actions is envy.
2. “The word that floats on the surface is as the tossing buoy that betrays where an anchor
is.”
a. One person betrays his feelings just as the floating buoy betrays the ships.
b. This means that Man’s words reveal his thoughts.
3. “Spare moments are the gold dust of time.”
a. The two things compared are moments and gold.
b. This means that Time is gold.
4. “The wine of life keeps oozing, drop by drop,
The leaves of life keep failing one by one.”
a. Life is compared to two things, wine and leaves.
b. The lines mean Each passing day is off the span of life.
5. “He has a muscle of iron.”
a. The quality of hardiness or strength is found in both muscles and bones.
b. The line means The man is strong.
6. “Life is a leaf of paper white
Wherein each one may write
His word or two.”
a. Just as we write one or two words on paper, as do we fill each day of our life
with memories.
 b. The lines mean that A man fills each day of his life with things he says and
does.
7. “Black were the eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside.”
a. The berry is black and the girl’s eyes are black too.
b. This means that The girl saw the black berries.
8. “Where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland
The voice of the huntsmen?”
a. The hearts are compared to the roe because they both sensitive and afraid in
ecstasy or in fear.
b. The passage refers to Hearts which beat fast.
9. “How far that little candle throws its beams
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
a. The two things compared are the little candle and naughty world.
b. The lines mean that A good deed stands out in an evil world like a lighted
candle in the dark night.
10. “Her mind is a sundial which records only pleasantness.”
a. What is the girl’s mind compared to sundial.
b. The quotation is about A girl whose thoughts are always pleasant.
11. While the kettle boils, let’s drink a glass and smoke the pipe.
a. Kettle refers to a man.
b. What are they going to do? Making argumentations or war fights .
12. It’s the knife or the coffin.
a. Knife refers to danger.
b. Coffin refers to death/casket.
c. What is the doctor making the man choose? Knife and coffin.
13. The poor workman had ten mouths to feed.
a. Mouths stands for his Children.
b. This statement means that the workman is poor and need to feed his 10
children.
14. “Lord, how often shall brother sin against me and I forgive him?
Up to seven times? Asked Peter. Jesus replied, “I do not say seven times, but seven
times seven.” – Matt 18:22
a. Seven times seven means again and again
b. How many times must we forgive? Everytime people make sin on you.
15. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
- Shakespeare.
a. Ears are a part our body. They are associated with hearing.
b. What does Mark Anthony mean when he said this? Listen to him.
16. When a man is rich and successful, others climb sycamore trees to see him.
a. Who was the man who climbed the sycamore tree in the Bible? Zaqueo/s
b. Why did he climb it? Because he is small and don’t believe that Jesus is true.
c. What does the statement mean? Wealth is useless if you don’t have God in you.
17. Suffer not yourself to be betrayed by a kiss.
a. Who in the Bible used a kiss as a signal to the enemies? Judas
b. “To be betrayed by a kiss” means betrayal signaled by a kiss.
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19. “I should die homesick at home.”
a. The statement means that He misses his family and hometown.
20. The mate was drunk and the captain wrote in the ship’s log, “Mate drunk today. The
mate begged him to delete this but the captain was adamant in his refusal. The next day
the mate was the officer on the deck and he wrote in the log, “Captain sober today.”
a. “Mate drunk today.”
b. “Captain sober today.”