Department of Education

Region III
Division of Zambales
LIPAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay Park, Poblacion South, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
PERIODICAL EXAM
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

Name: ____________________________________________ Section: ________________ Score: __________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read each statement 12. When you read a text based on biographical context,
carefully then choose the best answer. Encircle the you engage in a ______________
letter of your choice. a. Formalist criticism c. Biographical criticism
b. Psychoanalytic criticism d. Gender criticism
1. Two main types of literature are
13. In analyzing a text based on its biographical context, a
a. essays and other nonfiction
reader __________.
b. prose and poetry
a. Compares the literary work to other works.
c. informative writing and imaginative writing
b. Examines the styles and techniques used by the
d. nonfiction and poetry
author.
2. Elegies and sonnets are two types of
c. Gathers relevant facts about the authors lift.
a. essays
d. Identifies the images used by the author.
b. fiction
14. All statements describe analyzing a text through a
c. biographies
biographical context except
d. poems
a. It is important to know the literary or philosophical
3. Novels, short stories, plays, and poems are types of
movement that existed during the author’s time.
a. essays
b. It is important to know the author’s literary
b. imaginative writing
background.
c. prose
c. It is important to know the educational institutions
d. poems
the author has attended.
4. Genre is a category of literary composition that has a
d. It is important to know what is on the author’s mind
distinctive style, form, or content.
while writing the text.
a. True
15. It attempts to describe what happen in the reader's mind
b. False
while interpreting a text-how individuals see the same
5. It is a term used to denote genre fiction within women's
text differently.
fiction written for and marketed to young women,
a. Formalist criticism c. Reader Response
especially single, working women in their twenties and
b. Psychoanalytic criticism d. Gender criticism
thirties.
16. Sociological Criticism employs three approaches:
a. Chik lit c. Speculative Fiction
b. Flash fiction d. Graphic novels creative process of the arts, psychological study of
6. A style of fictional literature of extreme brevity. particular artist, and analysis of fictional characters.
a. Chik lit c. Spoken Poetry a. True
b. Flash fiction d. Graphic novels b. False
7. Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of 21st 17. -What forces are motivating the characters?
century literature
-Which behaviors of the characters are conscious ones?
a. Produced or written during the 21st century
b. Deals with current themes and reflects technological - How might a psychological approach account for
culture different responses in female and male readers?
c. Often follows the rules of traditional writing. The above questions are questions you will ask if you
d. Traces artistic representation of shared and familiar are doing what kind of criticism?
experiences a. Formalist criticism c. Reader Response
8. An oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play b. Psychological criticism d. Gender criticism
and intonation and voice inflection. 18. Which of the following questions will you ask if you are
a. Chik lit c. Spoken Poetry doing a Formalist Criticism?
b. Flash fiction d. Graphic novels
a. How is the work’s structure unified?
9. What literary genre does the following excerpt the
example below? b. What aspects of the author’s personal life are
Emily: Andrea, my God! You look so chic. relevant to this story?
Andy Sachs: Oh, thanks. You look so thin. c. How does it reflect the time in which it was written?
Emily: Really? It's for Paris, I'm on this new diet. Well, I d. What is the relationship between the characters and
don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I their society?
eat a cube of cheese. I'm just one stomach flu away 19. Why Literary Criticism is important?
from my goal weight. a. We get to experience how other people live.
a. Chiklit c. Flash Fiction b. It helps us to go inside of the text and understand
b. Spoken Poetry d. Text Talk the written work from many different viewpoints.
10. What literary genre does the following excerpt the c. NONE OF THE ABOVE
example below? d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
For sale: baby socks, never worn.- Ernest Hemingway: 20. Which of the following is not the purpose of critical
a. Chiklit c. Flash Fiction reading?
b. Spoken Poetry d. Text Talk a. Readers read texts critically to learn more about
11. Which questions allow the learners to reflect on a culture and society.
reading text? b. Readers read texts critically for amusement.
a. Which character would you like to have as a friend c. Readers read texts critically for better understanding
and why? of their meaning.
b. What event or place in the story reminds you of your d. Readers read texts critically to learn new
life and why? information.
c. What happened in the beginning of the story? 21. “The Lord of the Rings is essentially a story about the
d. What is the overall tone of the short story? struggle of good versus evil. The setting helps the story
personifies the difficulties the characters face. The
 Department of Education
Region III
Division of Zambales
LIPAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay Park, Poblacion South, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
PERIODICAL EXAM
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

Name: ____________________________________________ Section: ________________ Score: __________

characters go through the trials and share their feelings c. Novels
of fear and triumph with us. The two work together to d. Manuals
make an excellent portrayal of external and internal 29. Which of the following is true about non-literary texts?
struggles that yield an otherwise impossible effect.” a. Texts that are more accurate and correct than other
This is an example of what kind of criticism? texts and are written by academics.
a. Formalist criticism c. Reader Response b. Rely more on a strict chronology where the focus of
b. Psychological criticism d. Gender criticism the work is to provide information.
22. “In his obsession with perfection, Tolkien created an c. The devices used are more simplistic and harness
entirely new world, complete with customs, languages, the action and events more than the development of
races, songs, and countries. He also created a plethora emotional and intellectual meaning.
of individuals through which his story is carried out and d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
with which his readers identify. While he created this 30. Which of the following is NOT a difference between
world and everything in it, he could not stray from the literary and non-literary text?
characters and lands he created. Because of this, he a. Use of figure of speech, symbolism and other literary
had little control over the events once he set them in devices.
motion. Tolkien, like the Lord of the Rings in the novel, b. Structure and presentation
had little control over the actions that took place. He c. Objective or Purpose
could only set obstacles and helping hands before the d. NONE OF THE ABOVE
characters and allow them to play out the story as they
would, as if they were, in fact, real people in a real world
that began in one man’s mind and now exists in the One Flesh
minds and hearts of thousands of readers throughout the By: Elizabeth Jennings's
world.”
This is an example of what kind of criticism?
a. Formalist criticism c. Reader Response Lying apart now, each in a separate bed,
b. Psychological criticism d. Gender criticism He with a book, keeping the light on late,
23. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Why does Chillingworth She like a girl dreaming of childhood,
want to remain in Boston? All men elsewhereit is as if they wait
a. He feels there is still a chance to salvage his Some new event: the book he holds unread,
marriage. Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead.
b. He wants to open a clinic.
c. He wants to seek revenge on Hester’s lover Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion,
d. He wants to torment Hester. How cool they lie. They hardly ever touch,
24. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, which character Or if they do, it is like a confession
provides the harshest judgment of Dimmesdale’s Of having little feelingor too much.
hypocrisy? Chastity faces them, a destination
a. Hester For which their whole lives were a preparation.
b. Chillingworth
c. Pearl Strangely apart, yet strangely close together,
d. Himself Silence between them like a thread to hold
25. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, As time goes by, And not wind in. And time itself ' s a feather
Hester's scarlet letter comes to stand from adultery to Touching them gently. Do they know they're old,
_______. These two who are my father and my mother
a. amends Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
b. able 31. The persona's assessment that "time itself ' s a feather
c. articulate Touching them gently" is an example of a(n)
d. angel a. apostrophe b. metaphor
26. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter Hester decides to reveal c. personification d. simile
Chillingworth's true identity to Dimmesdale 32. The rhyming set bed, childhood, unread, overhead (lines
because_______ 1, 3, 5, 6) and the rhyming set together, feather, and
a. Otherwise Chillingworth will reveal the secret mother (13, 15, 17) exemplify the poet's use of:
himself. a. alliteration b. assonance
b. she realizes that Chillingworth is literally killing c. consonance d. onomatopoeia.
Dimmesdale. 33. Line 14 of Jennings's poem features a(n)
c. she wants Pearl to meet her real father. a. apostrophe b. metaphor
d. she wants to hurt Dimmesdale by revealing her love c. personification d. simile
for Chillingworth. 34. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you
27. Which of the following figures of speech is used in the again . . .." (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)
passage below? a. apostrophe b. metaphor
All the world's a stage, c. personification d. simile
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances, Selection 1
-from As You Like It by William Shakespeare They sat down to dinner, and after an excellent meal
a. Simile c. Metaphor adjourned to the library. Candide, seeing a copy of
b. Personification d. Irony Homer in a splendid binding, complimented the noble
28. Which of these is NOT a non-literary text? lord on his good taste.
a. Textbooks That is an author, said he, who was the special delight of
b. Recipes great Pangloss, the best philosopher in all Germany.
 Department of Education
Region III
Division of Zambales
LIPAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay Park, Poblacion South, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
PERIODICAL EXAM
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

Name: ____________________________________________ Section: ________________ Score: __________

He's no special delight of mine, said Pococurante coldly. d. abbcbccd
I was once made to believe that I took pleasure in 41. In the first line, what is the literary device in the words
reading him; but that constant recital of fights which are “warm wind, the west wind”
all alike, those gods who are always interfering but never
decisively, that Helen who is the cause of the war and a. Onomatopoeia
then scarcely takes any part in the story, that Troy which b. alliteration
is always under siege and never taken—all that bores c. rhyme
rne to tears. I have sometimes asked scholars if reading d. rhythm
it bored them as much as it bores me; everyone who 42. The words “my eyes” uses what sound device?
answered frankly told me the book dropped from his a. onomatopoeia
hands like lead, but that they had to have it in their
libraries as a monument of antiquity, like those old rusty b. alliteration
coins which can't be used in real trade. c. rhyme
d. repetition
Source: Voltaire, Candide, trans. by Robert M. Adams, Norton Critical 43. The poem is written in
Edition, 2nd ed., New York, W.W. Norton, 1991, pp. 60-61.
a. couplets
35. What figure of speech is bores me to tears? b. stanzas
a. hyperbole b. simile c. quatrains
c. metaphor d. personification d. cinquains
36. What figure of speech is the book dropped from his
44. In the last line, which word is an example of
hands like lead?
onomatopoeia?
a. hyperbole b. simile
a. Thrushes
c. metaphor d. personification
b. Song
37. What figure of speech is they had to have it [the book] in
their libraries as a monument of antiquity, like those old c. Fluting
rusty coins which can't be used in real trade? d. Nest
a. hyperbole b. simile 45. Line six has a comparison.__________ is being
c. metaphor d. personification compared to ______________
38. Bertha Bartholomew bites big bubbles. a. song to a nest
Clever Clifford clumsily closed the closet clasps. b. air to wine
Drew Driscol drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula. c. air to song
Floyd Flingle flipped flat flapjacks. d. blossoms to air
The excerpt above is an example of:
a. alliteration b. assonance
c. consonance d. onomatopoeia.
39. The air grew cold as the black night set in. The young
man began to panic. He must stay warm somehow. As
he looked through the snow covered hills he began to
understand… there was no escape. As this thought
became clear the shadow of night surrounded him into
a deep sleep.
What kind of literary device id “shadow of night”?
a. imagery b. foreshadow
c. symbolism d. flashblack

The West Wind

By: John Masefield

It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;

I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine;
Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine.

There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest;
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…

40. What is the rhyme scheme?

a. aabbaacc
b. abababab
c. aabbccdd