FIRST PRELIM EXAMINATION

IN ENGLISH 17

NAME:______________________________ SCORE: /50

TEST I- IDENTIFICATION. Provide what is asked in each item below.

__________________1. The meaning of this work is dependent on the perceptions, imagination,

and feelings of the reader.
__________________2. The literary styles of this time are reality-based stories, modern setting,
and well structured.
_________________3. It is a narrative prose which has a connected series of events.
_________________4. A type of drama which has lighter tone than ordinary works, and
provides a happy conclusion.
_________________5. It is a nonsensical genre of drama, which often overacts or engages
slapstick humor.
_________________6. A drama that uses darker themes, such as disaster, pain, and death.
__________________7. A drama which not only tell their stories through dialogue, but through
dance as well as music.
__________________8. It is an exaggerated drama, which is sensational and appeals directly to
the senses of the audience.
_________________9. A prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such
as biography or history.
________________10. This time is the most destructive and disruptive ice storm in Canadian
history.

Test II- Summarize the (18) eighteen challenges in Contemporary Literature. Do not copy
what is written in the module, you must explain it on your own.

CRITERIA: RELEVANCE OF IDEAS-10 CONTENT- 20

GRAMMAR & SPELLING-10 = 40 POINTS