LITERATURE

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)