SHEPHERDVILLE COLLEGE

Prelim
Philippine Literature

Name: ________________________________________________ Year: ________________ Course: ____________: Score: _______

I. True or False. Tick the box that correspond to your answer.

TRUE FALSE
1. The word literature is derived from the Latin term litera which means letter.
2. We can appreciate something that we do not understand.
3. Our written literature, which is about four hundred years old, is one of slow and evolutionary growth.
4. Myth involves reference to one/two images that symbolize the characteristics of an unknown object that is to be guessed.
5. The Colonial literature is literature of a formative past by the various groups of people who inhabited the archipelago.
6. Novels are short poems that have been customarily been used as laws or rules on good behavior by our ancestors.
7. Literature isn’t part of history.
8. Short story is a long narrative divided into chapters and events are taken from true-to-life stories.
9. Short story is an epic poem involving one or more characters, one plot and one single impression.
10. Legends are fictitious narratives, usually about origins.
11. Literature and history are closely interrelated.
12. Literature as an art is the creation of individuals and it is experienced by individuals.
13. Writers are people with visionary or prophetic insight into human life.
14. Wherever there are people there will be a literature.
15. Literature comes from human interest in telling a story, in arranging words in artistic forms, and in describing in words
some aspects of our human experiences.

II. Read the selections and then answer the question based on what is stated or implied.

He who cackled is the guilty party.

United we are strong, divided we fall.
A broom is sturdy because its strands are tightly bound.

1. The above passages are examples of _________________________.

2. Don’t they imply some lessons to be learned? ______________________.
3. Is there a comparable idea being emphasizes in the three passages? What particular passages? ________________
• katapangan at pakikipagsapalaran ng bayani • kamatayan at pagkabuhay • mga ritwal at kaugalian
• mga supernatural na gawa ng bayani • pag-ibig at romansa
• pakikipaglaban at kagitingan ng bayani • kayamanan, kaharian at iba’t ibang mga kasiyahan o pigin

4. Above are some of the examples of themes of what particular Philippines literary type? _____________________
5. In what particular era or literary period it flourished? _________________________
6. When we read this kind of literature there is no way we cannot see the characteristic of the protagonist in the story. Most of the time
he is characterized through his physical, social, or supernatural being or even in his intellectual or his moral. He as the story’s main
character is what we often called the ________________.
An "epic" is usually an epic poem. This is a long poem that tells about the feats and adventures of a (usually legendary) hero.
A legend is usually a story about the great accomplishments of a hero, or of people in earlier times that is fantastic, but also
believed to be based in history, if not actual history. The stories are fantastic, but it’s easy to see how they might have been based
on real people or events, and simply embellished.
A myth is usually a story that talks about pre-history, or the origins of a culture. It usually involves gods, or supernatural forces, or
things that could not normally happen.
Having read the passages above, kindly give an example for each of the following.
7. Riddle: _________________________________________________________________
8. Sayings: _________________________________________________________________
9. Legend: _________________________________________________________________
10. Myth: ___________________________________________________________________
 III. Read the selection carefully and filled the following spaces up to provide the story a relatively brief
analysis.

Why the Sun Shines More Brightly Than the Moon

P relim
Philippine Literature

Long, long ago there lived a fairy with two very beautiful daughters. Araw, the older daughter, was very amiable and had a kind
disposition; Buwan, unlike her sister, was dishonest, cruel, and harsh. She was always finding fault with Araw. One night, when the
fairy came home from her nocturnal rambles and saw Buwan badly maltreating her elder sister, she asked God for help against her
unruly daughter.
Before this time, God had prepared very valuable gifts for the two sisters. These gifts were two enormous diamonds that could light the
whole universe. When God heard the prayer of the fairy, he descended to Earth disguised as a beggar. Upon learning for himself how
bad-tempered Buwan was and how sweet and kind-hearted Araw was, God gave the older sister her diamond as a reward. Buwan was
greatly angered by this favoritism on the part of the Almighty, so she went to the heavenly kingdom and stole one of God's diamonds.
Then she returned to earth with the precious stone, but there she found that were jewel was not as brilliant as Araw's.
When God went back to heaven and learned what Buwan had done, he sent two angels to punish her. But the angels abused their
commission; they seized both sisters and hurled them into the sea. They they threw the two stones upward into the sky and there they
stuck. But Araw's diamond was bigger and brighter than the one Buwan stole. Thereafter, the bigger jewel was called Araw ("day" or
"sun") and the smaller one, Buwan ("moon").

1. What is the setting of the story?

2. Who are the characters? (Characterize each)

3. Why the sun and the moon shine at different times of the day?

4. Why the sun shines more brightly than the moon?

5. Why there are spots on the face of the moon, and the sun?

6. What the origin of the stars?

7. Write the summary in 3 sentences.

8. What is the central motif of the myth? (1 sentence only)

IV. Enumerate the following. (Use another sheet of paper if necessary).

1. Genres of Literature:

2. Give the types or examples of the said each Genre:

V. Essay. Explain your views in 5 meaningful sentences.

1. What is your thought about studying Philippine literature?

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
― Cliff Fadiman

Prepared by: MA. AIZA O. PENTECOSTES

Instructor
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Prelim
Philippine Literature

Name: ____________________________________________ Year: ________________ Course: ____________: Score: ______

I. IDENTIFICATION: Write the term being defined or described by each item.

__________________1. A prose composition aimed to explain or elucidate a thought, theory, an inkling or a

standpoint.
__________________2. A prose composition intended to be performed before an audience.

__________________3. The branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering
opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history and essay.

__________________4. A kind of fiction that refers to the stories that takes place in the past.

__________________ 5. Element of drama that identifies the time and place in which the events occur.

__________________ 6. A fiction that includes a magic, mythical creatures and things that just can’t happen in
everyday life.

__________________ 7. It refers to the element of the fiction that shows the sequence of events in the story.

__________________ 8. Refers to the stories that have been told and retold over many years.

__________________ 9. A type of fiction that is similar to Fantasy but focuses on special technology rather
than magic.

__________________ 10. Comes from the Latin word prosa oratorio which means “straightforward discourse”.
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Prelim
ART APPRECIATION

Name: ____________________________________________ Year: ________________ Course: ____________: Score: ______

1. _____ is the expression of human creative skill and imagination

a. Emphasis b. contour c. art d. dominance
2. In what way is art important in daily life?
a. It has personal significance
b. It reflects our society
c. It records history
d.