Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
SURIGAO DEL SUR DIVISION
HINATUAN WEST DISTRICT
Bigaan, National High School
Bigaan, Hinatuan

21st CENTURY LIT. FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

FIRST SEMESTER
S.Y. 2019-2020

I. Multiple Choice. Write the letter of your choice.

1. What are practical observations and philosophies of everyday life that are usually written in rhyming
scheme?
a. Riddles b. Folktales c. Proverbs d. Songs
2. What is a form of comedic Philippine theater in which Spaniards used to capture the imaginations and
hearts of the colonized Filipinas?
a. Zarzuela b. Loas c. oracion d. komedya
3. Who is the Goddess of the eastern sky?
a. Alunsina b. Paubari c. halawod d. Bungot-Banwa
4. What do they call the stories of origin for places, their names and their creation?
a. Folksongs b. Tales c. Epics d. Riddles
5. In the Hinilawod epic, for Labaw Donggon to complete his trip, he needed to use biday inagta. What is
this?
a. Black Boat b. Wings c. Magic Carpet d. strength
6. In poetry, what is the denotative and connotative meaning of the words in a sentence, phrase, paragraph,
or poem?
a. Rhyme Scheme b. Sense c. Images d. Diction
7. Which of the following Spanish literatures that deals with native dramas connected to Catholic
mourning rituals and harvest celebrations.
a. Zarsuela b. Duplo or karagatan c. tibag d. cenaculo
8. Which of the following is NOT a description of what literature is?
a. Literature is the best way to understand human nature fully and to know a nation completely.
b. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material
c. Literature came from the French word “litera” which means letter.
d. Literature deals with ideas, thoughts, and emotions of man.
9. It Moro-moro is a blood-and-thunder melodrama depicying the conflict of Christians and Muslims. It is
also called what?
a. Komedia de Espada b. Capa de Espada c. Comedia de capa y espada d. Lenten Rites
10. How did Saragnayan defeated Labaw Donggon?
a. He submerged Labaw Donggon under water for seven years.
b. He imprisoned Labaw Donggon.
c. Saragnayan used the power of pamlang(amulet).
d. All of the above.
11. “The battering of the restlessness of the sea, insists a tidal fury upon the beach at Gabu, and its pure
consistency havocs the wasteland hard within its reach.” What imagery is used in the underline
sentence?
a. Visual Imagery b. Auditory c. Gustatory d. tactile imagery
12. These are used by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing.
a. Diction b. Senses and Images c. Rhyme Scheme d. Structure
13. This focuses on the society and culture as reflected and affected by the catholic faith.
a. Spanish colonial literature
b. Philippine Pre-Colonial literature
c. American Colonial literature
d. Japanese Colonial literature
14. The Pre-Colonial Literature of the Philippines was marked by what?
a. Ancestors’ daily observations about life
b. explanations for natural phenomena
c. beginning of rituals.
d. all of the above
15. Datu Paubari was very happy when he was reunited with his three sons and prepared a feast in their
honor. After the celebration, the three brothers left for the different parts of the world. In what location
did Humadapnon went to?
a. East b. South c. West d. North
16. Labaw Donggon, the eldest of the three, asked his mother to prepare his magic cape, halt, belt and
kampilan for he heard a place called Handug where a beautiful maiden named Angoy Ginbintinan
Lived. What does the italicized world mean
a. Arrow b. weapon c. sword d. gun
17. He could hear footsteps of doom nearing. What kind of imagery used in a sentence?
a. visual b. gustatory c. auditory d. tactile
18. When the first zarzuela in the Philippines was staged?
a. 1893 b. 1880 c. 1855 d. 1878
19. What do you call the art by which a poet project feeling and experience on an imaginative plane, in
rhythmical words, to stir the imagination and emotions?
a. Literature b. short story c. poetry d. novel
20. Farther than sight itself, the rock stones part and drop the elemental wound. What imagery is used in the
sentence?
a. Tactile b. Visual c. gustatory d. auditory
21. The legendary religious narrative form that usually details the lives or saints of the history of a tradition
is ___.
a. Cenaculo b. Awit c. Pasyon d. corrido
22. This play uses shadows as its main spectacle.
a. Carillo b. Moro-moro c. cenaculo d. tibag
23. These stories have been passed on from one generation to another orally.
a. Spanish colonial literature
b. Philippine Pre-Colonial literature
c. American Colonial literature
d. Japanese Colonial literature
 24. Are like proverbs with one main difference: they demand an answer and are used to test the wits of those
who are listening to them.
a. Folksongs b. Riddles c. Epics d. tales
25. Are beautiful songs that are informal expressions of our ancestors ‘experiences in life.
a. Folksongs b. Epics c. Riddles d. tales
26. Long-winded poems about a hero and his adventures and misadventures.
a. Riddels b. Folksongs c. epics d. tales
27. The mighty ruler of Halawod.
a. Maklium-sa-t’wan b. Paubari c. alunsina d. bungot-banwa
28. Things necessary for childbirth.
a. Bungot-banwa b. siklot c. madya-as d.Maklium-sa-t’wan
29. Used by the writer to describe their impressions of their topic or object of writing.
a. Senses and images b. Rhyme Scheme c. Diction d. imagery
30. The way the author arranges words, meters, lines, and stanzas to create a coherent sound when the poem
is read out loud.
a. Structure b. word order c. rhyme scheme d. diction

II. True or False. Write T if the statement is correct and write F if not.
31. Cenaculo is the narrative poem about the life of Jesus Christ. _____
32. Tibag is the dramatic reenactment of ST. Helena’s search for the Holy Cross. ______
33. Awit is a chivalric poem about a hero, usually about a saint.. _____
34. Pasyon is the dramatization of the Passion of Christ. ______
35. The structure of the poem is the arrangement of words and lines, either together or apart. ______

III. Identification. Identify the types of figures of speech used in the sentence. (OXYMORON,
SIMILE, METAPHOR, ANAPHORA, APOSTROPHE, HYPERBOLE, PERSONIFICATION,
IRONY AND ALLITERATION)

36. The sun greeted me with a smile.

37. Oh rain, how long will you fall upon me?
38. She is a tiger when she is furious.
39. Eat like a bird.
40. The defeaning silence can be felt inside a room.
41. Rivers move even mountain into the sea… rivers hardly ever are in a hurry…
42. It will take a million years to solve this problem.
43. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled paper
44. The molave tree is short.
45. My birthday will never come.
IV. Describe the poetry in the philippines

49-50. Poetry in the Philippines then and now.