Republika ng Pilipinas

Kagawaran ng Edukasyon
REHIYONG BICOL
SANGAY NG CAMARINES SUR
PAMBANSANG MATAAS NA PAARALAN NG SIPOCOT
TARA, SIPOCOT, CAMARINES SUR
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
S/Y 2022-2023

21st CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

1st QUARTER EXAMINATION

Name: ___________________________ Grade/Section:__________ Date:_________Score:_________

General Directions:
1. Read carefully each item and follow directions as indicated. No point will be given for answer/s which
doesn’t comply with the given instructions.
2. Any form of erasure or alteration is strictly prohibited. A point will be deducted to the total score for
every erasure or alteration done. Think before answering.
3. Refrain from talking and asking questions to your classmates while taking the exam. Consult the teacher
if you have queries and clarifications about exam.
4. DO NOT CHEAT. If caught cheating (in any form), your examination for this subject will be void
automatically. Always bear in mind:
“Prefer even to fail with honor than to pass by cheating. There is no success without hardship.”
GOOD LUCK!!!
Read and analyze the following items, then write the best answer in the letter on your paper.

1. Which of the following is the best definition for “local color”?

a. It refers to the technique of copying the lifestyle, customs, beliefs practices and inclusion of local
symbols and images peculiar to a region or locale.
b. It is anchored to the idea that literature is an imitation of life.
c. Stories must be written using the native language or dialect to preserve cultural identity.
d. Stories must use foreign symbols and images.
2. It refers to the casual relationship between and among events of a story.
a. denouement c. rising action
b. plot d. complication
3. The total environment for the action of a fictional work which includes a time period, the place, the
historical milieu, as well as the social, political, and perhaps even spiritual realities mirrored is a story.
a. characters c. symbols
b. setting d. plot
4. A device that allows the writer to present events that happened the time of the current narration or the
current events in the fiction. Its techniques include memories, dreams, stories of the past told by the
characters or even authorial sovereignty.
a. point-of-view c. flashback
b. foreshadowing d. action sequence
5. A fictional narrative generally focusing on one climatic event and usually developing only a single
character in depth.
a. novel c. short story
b. epic d. essay
6. What sound device is evident in the lines “Threatening throngs” and “wicked and wan”?
a. onomatopoeia c. consonance
b. alliteration d. assonance
7. The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis comes to its point of
greatest intensity and is resolved; it is also the peak of emotional response from a reader or spectator,
and it usually represents the turning point in the action.
a. exposition c. rising action
b. denouement d. climax
8. It literally means the action of untying of events built upon in the rising action of the plot; it refers to the
final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.
a. exposition c. rising action
b. denouement d. climax
9. It depicts and talks about life and all its miseries and glories.
 a. Stories c. fiction
b. Parable d. literature
10. What idea about life is revealed by the last two lines of the poetic passage below?
From morning suns and evening dews
At first, thy little being came;
If nothing once, you nothing lose
For when you die you are the same
The space between is but an hour
The frail duration of a flower.

a. life is just an hour c. life is frail

b. life is like a flower d. life is short

11. A person, object, action, place or event that in addition to its literal or denotative meanings suggests a
more complex meaning or range of meanings.
a. theme c. symbol
b. point-of-view d. setting
12. It pertains to the causal relationship between and among of a fictional prose work.
a. exposition c. climax
b. plot d. denouement
13. Which of the following statements describe/s point-of-view?
a. It is the vantage point from which the story unfolds through the eyes of an authoritative narrator.
b. It refers to as how a story is told or narrated
c. All of the foregoing
d. None of the foregoing
14. It is a lyric poem that laments the death of a person or the eventual death of all people.
a. elegy c. tragedy
b. eulogy d. epic
15. What is being referred to in the riddle below?
Nang bata pa’y paruparo
Nang tumanda ay latigo.
a. banana c. belt
b. turnip d. string beans
16. The following constructs describe the nature of figurative language, except
a. highly artistic means of expression
b. suggestive and attributive
c. explicit expression
d. none of the choices
17. It is considered as Japan’s greatest contribution to world literature. A short poem of 3 lines of 5-7-5
syllables.
a. origami c. haiku
b. kabuki d. ikebana
18. A literary composition intended to amuse the viewing crowd.
a. tragedy c. comedy
b. tragicomedy d. closet drama
19. Drama bears some emotional force or effect and vitality.
a. Drama as a form of Communication
b. Drama as a form of Dramatic Art
c. Drama is a Spectator Art
d. Drama is a Continuous Art
20. It is somewhat best if a reader has the ability to situate himself/herself in the realm of the story.
a. read the entire work
b. feel the scene
c. note the flow of events
d. judge the quality of the work
21. Refers to classification or categories in which literary works are identified and grouped in accordance
with conventions and content.
a. irony c. satire
b. genre d. allusion
22. Pertains to an implicit or indirect reference to a person, event, or literary work.
a. irony c. satire
b. genre d. allusion
23. A larger work having separate narrations found within or to say it simply, a story within a story.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a good example of this.
a. en medias res c. flashback
b. frame story d. foreshadowing
24. This element involves diction or known as the word choice, imagery that can truly appeal to the senses.
a. sound c. structure
b. sense d. emotional appeal
25. Speech delivered by an individual in a dramatic performance.
a. dramatic c. soliloquy
b. monologue d. sonnets
26. A work fiction recognized for its intermediate length.
a. novel c. short story
b. novella d. flash fiction
27. It mainly involves the pacing and transition of acts.
a. music c. dialogue
b. movement d. plot
28. Usually about stories taken from the Bible or the lives of saints.
a. morality c. farce
b. miracle play d. melodrama
29. The beginning of life and of the earth.
a. Spanish colonization c. American colonization
b. Pre-colonial period d. Period of initial autonomy
30. This is a poetic joust in speaking and reasoning.
a. karagatan c. sarswela
b. duplo d. corridor and awit
31. The story line goes detailed with the society of the Philippines during Spanish colonial period and
features aristocracy behind poverty and abuse of colonialist.
a. La Liga Filipina c. Noli Me Tangere
b. El Filibusterismo d. Mi Ultimo Adios
32. Contemplations as to the conditions of the country remained as a transcending theme of most works
under such period.
a. Spanish colonization c. American colonization
b. Pre-colonial period d. Period of initial autonomy
33. This period served as the “golden period” for short stories and Tagalog drama.
a. Japanese conquest in the land c. American colonization
b. Spanish Colonization d. Period of initial autonomy
34. The display and expression of emotion were somewhat made controlled.
a. Japanese conquest in the land c. Post-War period
b. Spanish Colonization d. Period of initial autonomy
35. Themes on social issue and domestic conditions were mostly revealed by the texts written during such
period.
a. Japanese conquest in the land c. Post-War period
b. Spanish Colonization d. Period of initial autonomy
36. It highlights the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
a. Passion c. Hail Mary
b. Doctrina Christiana d. Ten Commandments
37. Playwrights can establish an intimate and very close connection to their audience.
a. Drama as a form of dramatic art c. Drama is a spectator art
b. Drama as an auditory art d. Drama is acontinuous art
38. It is mainly the art of depicting or portraying potential or imagined events and experiences.
a. fiction c. poetry
b. drama d. literature
39. This can be a commentary on a society’s unpleasant manners, behaviors, and practices that lead to
laughter and a happy ending, yet discomfort is experienced in sarcasm.
a. tragedy c. tragicomedy
b. comedy d. farce
40. A Medieval play which is mainly allegorical; represents good and evil forces highlights the conflicts of
the human soul.
a. morality c. miracle plays
b. melodrama d. farce
41. This pertains to your impressions about the poem.
a. structure c. the theme
 b. appeal d. genre
42. The receiver or the one being talked by the persona.
a. persona c. genre
b. addressed d. emotional appeal
43. Opposition of forces that may set forth the problems, issues, and challenges of various forms and
sources that the main character needs to face and to deal with.
a. symbols c. theme
b. conflict d. point-of-view
44. A style in modern writing that attempts to show the random flow of thoughts memoirs, emotions, and
associations as these as these move within the character’s mind.
a. dialogue c. satire
b. stream of consciousness d. atmosphere
45. A written work or play which is intended to be read, not performed on stage.
a. tragicomedy c. comedy
b. closet drama d. tragedy
46. This form is mainly ascribed to be composed freely.
a. poetry c. prose fiction
b. prose d. drama
47. This genre mainly attempts to present, to interpret, or to describe.
a. non-fiction prose c. drama
b. fiction d. prose fiction
48. What is the speaker’s realization based on the poetic lines below?
The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain
‘tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true.
a. The speaker realizes the value of considering other person’s advice
b. The speaker learns the disadvantages of disobeying the elders.
c. The speaker realizes the folly and pain of youthful love.
d. The speaker learns the beauty of life.
49. Based on Sanburg’s “Chicago,” how does the speaker describe the city?
They tell me that you are wicked and I believe them,
For I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
Luring the farm boys.
a. mysterious c. independent
b. peaceful d. immoral
50. Themes on morality, good and bad practices in life.
a. Pre-colonial period c. American colonization
b. Spanish colonization d. post-war period

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