Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Bohol
District of Talibon II
ZOSIMO A. GULLE MEMORIAL NATIONAL BIGH SCHOOL
Bagacay, Talibon, Bohol

21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

FINAL EXAMINATION

Name: _________________________________________ Gr. & Sec.: ________________ Date: _____________

I. IDENTIFICATION. Fish out word/s from the word box which answer what is being asked and write on the
space provided before the number.

English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer Emily Dickinson Francesco Petrarch Tanka

William Shakespeare Beowulf European Literature lüshi chōka
Mahabharata Panchatantra Guy de Maupassant Du Fu Matsuo Bashō
1. A collection of Indian animal fables in Sanskrit which is a mixture of prose and verse.
2. A Naturalist who is considered as the greatest French short story writer.
3. Also called Western Literature which refers to literature in the Indo-European languages including Latin,
Greek, the Romance languages and Russian.
4. Basic form of Japanese Poetry which has five lines in a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern.
5. China’s greatest poet.
6. Has alternating lines of five and seven syllables and ends with an extra line of seven syllables.
7. Has eight lines, each of which has five or seven syllables following a strict tonal pattern.
8. Indian Epic written in Sanskrit which is known to be the longest poem in history with about 100 000
couplets.
9. Longest epic poem in Old English which is known for its use of kennings.
10. One of the riches, most developed, and most important bodies of literature in the world which
encompasses both written and spoken works by writers from the United Kingdom.
11. Perfected the Italian sonnet which became a major influence on European Poetry.
12. Regarded as the supreme haiku poet who emerged from the early Tokugawa period (1603-1770).
13. The “Bard of Avon” who is known for his best plays Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Merchant of
Venice.
14. The father of English Literature.
15. Wrote odd poems wherein she mostly used the imperfect rhyme and avoided regular rhythms.

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Identify which figure of speech is shown in the given literary excerpt. UNDERLINE
the letter and the word.

1. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.” –Khalil Gibran
a. Simile b. Metaphor c. Personification d. Synecdoche
2. “O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June;”
-"A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
a. Simile b. Metaphor c. Personification d. Synecdoche
3. “I had to wait in the station for ten days–an eternity.” –Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
a. Paradox b. Litotes c. Oxymoron d. Hyperbole
4. “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!”
–Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
a. Paradox b. Litotes c. Oxymoron d. Hyperbole
5. “The Child is father of the Man.” – "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" by William Wordsworth
a. Paradox b. Litotes c. Oxymoron d. Irony
6. “You need to die in order to live” - Unknown
a. Paradox b. Litotes c. Oxymoron d. Irony
7. ARIEL: “Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleers cry, ‘cock-a-diddle-dow!’” – from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
a. Alliteration b. Onomatopoeia c. Hyperbole d. Personification
8. Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before
–from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
a. Alliteration b. Onomatopoeia c. Hyperbole d. Personification
9. Tears of blood fell from her eyes when she saw her love kissing someone else.
 a. Paradox b. Litotes c. Oxymoron d. Hyperbole

10. “His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about
her.”
–from "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton
a. Metonymy b. Metaphor c. Personification d. Synecdoche

III. POEM ANALYSIS. ENCIRCLE THE LETTER OF YOUR ANSWER.

A Eulogy of Roaches
by Bienvenido Lumbera
Blessed are the cockroaches. quite meaningless to them
In this country they are who do not have to own
the citizens who last. their dingy crack of wall.
They need no police Not knowing dearth or taxes,
to promulgate their peace they increase and multiply.
because they tolerate Survival is assured
each other’s smell or greed. even the jobless roach;
Friends to dark and filth, his opportunities
they do not choose their meat. pile up where garbage grows.
Although they neither sow Dying is brief and cheap
nor reap, a daily feast and thus cannot affright.
is laid for them in rooms A whiff of toxic mist,
and kitchens of their pick. an agile heel, a stick
The roaches do not spin, —the swift descent of pain
and neither do they weave. is also final death.
But note the russet coat Their annals may be short,
the sluggards wear: clothed but when the simple poor
at birth, roaches require have starved to simple death,
no roachy charity. roaches still circulate
They settle where they wish in cupboards of the rich,
and have no rent to pay. the strong, the wise, the dead.
Eviction is a word

1. Based on your inference of the poem’s message, which options do you think best explains its main idea?
a. Death comes to one and all.
b. Life is full of challenges.
c. Roaches will outcast humans.
d. The tough will survive.
2. The word “Eulogy” is closest in meaning to __________.
a. Accolade b. Tribute c. Triumph d. Worship
3. The attitude of the author in the preceding poem is _____________.
a. Confused b. Detached c. Sad d. Scared
4. Roaches could be said to live with each other in peace and harmony because according to the poem, they tolerate
their own kind’s ______________.
a. Death b. Filth c. Pain d. Smell
5. The word EVICTION in line 12 is closest in meaning to _____.
a. abandonment b. departure c. expulsion d. suspension

IV. ESSAY / FREE WRITING

Of all the literatures we studied, what literature or work of literature do you like most? (at least 3 sentences)
Criteria: Content – 3 Coherence and Cohesion – 2 Organization – 2 (Total = 7)

Bonus Question:
1. What is always coming, but never arrives?
2. What can be broken but is never held?
3. What breaks and never falls, and what falls and
never breaks?
4. What word is spelled incorrectly in every single
dictionary?
 5. What gets wetter, the more it dries?

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