First Summative Test in 21st Century Literature

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DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your answer sheet.

____1.What are proverbs?

A. words of wisdom handed down from one generation to another
B. literary accounts in verse or in prose which have animals as characters
C. songs that express patriotism
D. literary output which call for the audience to guess the thing being described
____2. Why were patriotic songs and verses popular during Rizal’s time?
A. During that time of poverty, people’s basic needs were neglected
B. During that time of war, many people were killed
C. During that time, writing was not fully developed yet
D. During that time of colonialism, the cry for freedom was expressed through songs and verses
____3.Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which an absent person or an abstract entity or thing is addressed.
Who is Rizal addressing in the first stanza of his poem “Mi Ultimo Adios”?
A. his first love B. his mother C. his country D. his countrymen
____4. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
The land has need
of young blood
A. Anastrophe B. simile C. metaphor D. personification
____5. What pattern of development is used in this paragraph in I.V. Mallari’s essay “Pliant like a Bamboo?”

The Filipino, in fact, has a way of escaping from the rigorous problems of life. Most of his art is escapist in
nature. His forefathers wallowed in the *moro-moro, the awit, and the kurido. They loved to identify themselves
as gallant knights battling for the favors of fair ladies or the possession of hallowed place. And now he himself
loves to be lost in the throes and modern romance and adventure.

A. comparison and contrast C. reason-result

B. cause and effect D. exemplification
____6. In the six-word story “For sale: baby shoes never worn,” what could be the story behind it?
A. The child is too old to wear baby clothes
B. The baby did not want to wear shoes
C. A couple lost a baby and they had to sell the things which the baby was supposed to use
D. A group of criminals is selling babies
____7. Which among the following uses metaphor?
A. Not being able to agree as to which was stronger than the two, they called upon the wind to make the
decision.
B. The Spaniards came and dominated him for more than three hundred years.
C. The bamboo tree was wiser.
D. This may give you the idea that the Filipino is a philosopher.
____8. What refers to the word choice and the style of expression that a writer employs in a work?
A. contraction B. diction C. enunciation D. figure of speech
____9. What figure of speech is used in the line: Not yet Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in peace.
A. Anaphora B. Anastrophe C. Apostrophe D. Personification
____10. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
yet the molave will stand
yet the molave monument will rise
and gods walk on brown legs
A. Anaphora B. Anastrophe C. Apostrophe D. Personification
____11. How was the earliest type of literature in the Philippines transmitted from person to person?
A. by writing on tree trunks C. by printing on clay tablets
B. by word of mouth D. by drawing in caves
____12. What characteristics do Filipinos and a bamboo tree share?
A. Both are very tall.
B. Both know that they are not strong enough to withstand the onslaught of superior forces so they yield
and bend their heads gracefully.
C. Both are escapist in nature when they know they could not fight the enemy.
D. Both are proud and would not yield to anything because they know they are strong and sturdy.
____13. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
Not you alone, rizal. O souls
And spirits of the martyred brave, arise!
A. Anastrophe B. simile C. metaphor D. personification
____14. In H.O. Santos’ poem Dead Stars, what of these feelings is expressed in all three stanzas?
A. curiosity B. regret C. disappointment D. surprise
____15. Legends are stories that depict …..
A. patriotism among the people living in a place
B. accounts for the creation of something and the origins of its name
C. stories with animals as characters
D. moral lessons
____16. What similarities do riddles and flash fiction share in common?
A. both are long B both are short C. both have lessons D. both use simile
____17. Which among the riddles uses parallelism?
A. A tall white lady C. Not human nor animal
Eating her own body Yet tears flow from its eyes
B. Who can that lovely lady be D. The one sent to fetch someone
Who eats her own body has not yet returned,
but the one fetched,
has already arrived
____18. What does the expression “turning to” mean in the opening line poem “Death of the Just?”
A. facing B. returning C. becoming S. changing
____19. What does ‘sod’ in the last line refer to?
A. sun B. sand C. soil D. sea
____20. Which among the following uses simile?
A. The wind blew its hardest.
B. Much less has he put them down into a book, like Kant, for example, or Santayana or Confucius.
C. Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a plague of locusts, like a pestilence―rude, relentless
cruel.
D. Everything is as if the Japanese had never been in the Philippines.
____21. Anaphora is a figure of speech characterized by the repetition of a word or expression in two or more
lines. Which among the following uses anaphora?
A. If over my tomb someday, you see blow,
A simple humble flow’r amidst thick grasses
B. And should a bird descend on my cross and alight,
Let the bird intone a song of peace o’er my site.
C. Hail! Cries out the soul to you, that will soon part from thee;
Hail! How sweet ‘tis to fall that fullness you may acquire;
D. Farewell, parents, brothers, beloved by me,
Friends of my childhood, in the home distressed;
____22.What are riddles?
A. words of wisdom handed down from one generation to another
B. literary accounts in verse or in prose which have animals as characters
C. songs that express patriotism
D. literary output which call for the audience to guess the thing being described
____23. What characteristics do proverbs and riddles share in common?
A. both are extremely long C. both are humorous
B. both are short D. both contain moral lessons
____24. What does the figurative expression “Had the final word been said?” mean?
A. problem B. promise C. apology D. decision
____25.What is the implication of the Philippines being an archipelago (composed of many islands) to the
development of stories such as legends?
A. The legends became very different with one another
B. The legends all involved supernatural beings
C. Some details differ from one legend to another
D. No two legends are the same