Philippine Literature Quiz on José Rizal
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This effect disappears when Mrs Lacson-Locsin translates the words as ‘any schoolchild knows that.’ Rizal quotes three lines of the much-loved 19th-century Tagalog poet Francisco Balthazar in the original, without translating it into Spanish, to create the necessary ______ jarring; but quoting the poem in the same language as the text surrounding it erases the effect.

intercultural

The ironical chapter heading ‘Tasio el loco ó el filósofo’ shrinks to ‘Tasio’, and one would not suspect that the chapter heading ‘A Good Day is Foretold by the Morning’ was originally in ______.

Italian

The translator also has difficulties with Rizal’s use of untranslated ______.

Latin

There are a few prophets who are honoured in their own country, and José Rizal is among them. But the condition of this honour has for decades been his ______.

<p>unavailability</p> Signup and view all the answers

Mrs Lacson-Locsin has changed this by giving the great man back his sad and seditious ______.

<p>laughter</p> Signup and view all the answers

And it is badly needed – if one thinks of all those ‘social parasites: the pests or dregs which God in His infinite goodness created and very fondly breeds in ______.

<p>Manila</p> Signup and view all the answers

This effect disappears when Mrs Lacson-Locsin translates the words as ‘any schoolchild knows that.’ Rizal quotes three lines of the much-loved 19th-century Tagalog poet Francisco Balthazar in the original, without translating it into Spanish, to create the necessary ______ jarring; but quoting the poem in the same language as the text surrounding it erases the effect.

<p>intercultural</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ironical chapter heading ‘Tasio el loco ó el filósofo’ shrinks to ‘Tasio’, and one would not suspect that the chapter heading ‘A Good Day is Foretold by the Morning’ was originally in ______.

<p>Italian</p> Signup and view all the answers

The translator also has difficulties with Rizal’s use of untranslated ______.

<p>Latin</p> Signup and view all the answers

There are a few prophets who are honoured in their own country, and José Rizal is among them. But the condition of this honour has for decades been his ______.

<p>unavailability</p> Signup and view all the answers

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