How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife

How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife

Multiple Choice

Who is the author of the story?

• Jose Rizal

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa

• Manuel Arguilla

• Michael Jude Tumamac

​The Philippine Context

​Our country, being agricultural, the farm is the locus of families whose children started to drift into the city, disrupting life in the countryside.

​Arguilla used figurative language in the story to depict the lives of ordinary farmers in their simple existence.

Multiple Choice

Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:

Labang was fairly dancing with impatience. 

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Multiple Choice

Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:

The sounds of his insides was like a drum.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Multiple Choice

Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:

She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Multiple Choice

Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:

The wind whistled against my cheeks and the rattling of the wheels on the pebbly road echoed in my ears.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Multiple Choice

Who is the narrator of the story?

• Leon

• Baldo

• Labang

• Maria

Multiple Choice

What is the POV (Point-of-view) used in the story?

• First person

• Third person

• Omniscient

Multiple Choice

What is the setting of the story?

• The rural Ilocandia countryside

• The busy streets of Malate, Manila

• The seashore in an unknown barrio

• A city overseas

​The Philippine Context

Arguilla is known for writing stories of local color. His descriptions of setting, depictions of characters, and his choice of words depend on sensory images to create the rural life.

​Sensory images are used to capture the vibrant life of the Ilocano peasants in Bauang, La Union.

Read and identify the sensory experience:

​1. And a small dimple appeared momently high up on her right cheek.

​2. Ca Celin drove away hi-yi-ing to his horse loudly.

​3. He rattled the handle of his braided rattan whip against the spokes of the wheel.

​4. His hand was heavy on my shoulder.

​5. The thick, unpleasant smell of the dangla bushes and the sun-heated earth mingled with the sharp scent of arrais roots exposed to the night and of the hay inside the cart.

Story Discussion

What was Baldo's errand?

Multiple Choice

Where did they pass? (What was the route used by Baldo?)

• waig

• camino real

Story Discussion

Why did Father suggest that Leon and Maria pass through the waig?

Story Discussion

What are the limitations of the narrator?

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​Why do you think Arguilla told the story from the POV of Baldo?

Poll

Do you think Maria is acceptable to Leon's father?

• Yes

• No