ACHIEVEMENT

TEST
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and
the World
I. TRUE OR FALSE
 1. Literature teaches the significance of life.
 2. Local color refers to the technique in writing by
which native or indigenous symbols or images are
integrated in the context of the literary text.
 3. In poetry, the one speaking in the lines of the poem
is known as the persona.
 Poetry is a type of literature which can be
characterized of its ordinariness of form and structure
and strong resemblance to man’s pattern of everyday
speech.
 An essay tells a story as its prime purpose.
 6.Literature is both an art and a form of
communication.
 7.“Dulce” refers to excellence of literary form which
relates to the idea that literature must have aesthetic
value or sense while “utile” refers to what literature can
offer to its readers in effect.
 8.Drama refers to the story being acted and presented
on stage while play refer to the text in which the story
sequence appears.
 9.. The essay “what is an Educated Filipino” by
Francisco Benitez is an example of a critical essay.
 Jose Garcia Villa was regarded as the master of local
color in Philippine Literature in Engish.
 10. . Literature mirrors and highlights significant
human experiences.
 11.. The timelessness of thought and of idea relates to
the notion that a work of literature must reveal a
theme and must reflect a condition which is applicable
to the world as a whole.
 12.A flat character is known to be dynamic and
developing.
 13.A work of fiction is said to be drawn from the
author’s imagination.
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE
 Who among the following literary icons was known for
his idea of art for art’s sake? He is the author of the
short story “footnote to Youth” and of the poem, “The
bashful One”.
 Manuel E. Arguilla c. F. Sionil Jose
 Jose Garcia Villa d. Bienvenido Santos