STA. MARTA EDUCATIONAL CENTER, INC.

21ST Century Literature from the Philippines to the World

SUMMATIVE TEST

Name: ____________________________________________________ Year/Section: ____________________________

Teacher: __________________________________________________ Date: ___________________________________

General Direction: Strictly follow all the given instructions for each test.

TEST I.(10pts.) Write True if the statement in correct and False if not. Write your answer on the space provided.

_________________1. Literature is the significant human exploitations written in words well-chosen and arranged.
_________________2. People are fond of telling others about the things we have seen or imagined; hence the literature
of description.
_________________3. A great book is born of the brain and heart of its author; he has put himself into its pages; they
partake of his life, and are instinct with his individuality.
_________________4. People are strongly impelled to confide to others what they think and feel; hence the literature
which deals with the great drama of human life and action.
_________________5. A great book grows directly out of life; in reading it, we are brought into large, close, and fresh
relations with life; and in that fact lies the final explanation of its power.
_________________6. Literature is different from a treasure chest because literature does not only keep experiences
but also exposes relevant experiences to audiences around the world.
_________________7. A piece of literature differs from a specialized treatise on astronomy, political economy,
philosophy, or even history, in part because it appeals, not to a particular class of readers only.
_________________8. Literature is composed of those books, and of those books only, which, in the first place, by
reason of their subject-matter and their mode of treating it, are of general human interest.
_________________9. Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what
they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most immediate and
enduring interest for all of us.
_________________10. People are intensely interested in men and women, their lives, motives, passions, relationships;
hence the literature which directly expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer

TEST II. (10pts.) For each of the statements, determine if you would find the element in fiction or non‐fiction or both.
(Fiction = F, Non‐Fiction = NF). Write your answer after the sentence.

_____________1. Writer objectively with probable or possible information.

_____________2. Written with a plot line containing rising and falling actions.
_____________3. The author`s purpose is to provide factual information to the reader.
_____________4. Ideas are supported by lists of details and examples.
_____________5. Often includes photos, graphs and charts.
_____________6. Usually written to entertain your reading pleasure.
_____________7. Could take the form of an autobiography or a webpage.
_____________8. Can support essay format and structure.
_____________9. A setting is used to set the atmosphere.
_____________10. Characters can be animals, people, imaginary and unrealistic.

TEST III.(20pts.)( Identify the terms/words that are described on the following statements. Write your answer on the
space provided.
_________________________1. The time and location in which a story takes place
_________________________ 2. There are ___________ (number) kinds of conflict.
_________________________3. Don't judge a book by its cover is an example of ___________.
_________________________4. The angle from which the story is told.
_________________________5. The central, main character of a story is called the ____________.
_________________________6. The opposition of forces, essential to the plot is called__________?
_________________________7. The most exciting part of the story is called the _________.
_________________________8. What is a person or animal which takes part in the action of a story called?
_________________________9. What is the sequence of events involving characters and a central conflict called?
_________________________10. The character who opposes the main character is called the __________.
_________________________11. What type of character does not change?
_________________________12. What type of character changes point of view and develops throughout the story?
_________________________13. End of the central conflict?
_________________________14. Comparison of two unlike things that use like or as is called_________.
_________________________15. Comparison of two unlike things that does not include like or as.
_________________________16. Literary term that means giving human characteristics to something that is not
human.
_________________________17. What term means category or kind of story?
_________________________18. What is the genre name that uses characters, settings, and plots, that aren't real but
could resemble the truth?
_________________________19. What is the genre name that encompasses facts that can be proven and checked and
is true?
_________________________20. What is the name of fiction that incorporates science or technology, or both?

IV. Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Irony

1. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.
2. She is as sweet as pie.
3. The stars in the sky blinked and winked.
4. She froze with fear.
5. I'm starving.
6. He's driving me crazy.
7. She has a bubbly personality.
8. The street felt as hot as the surface of the sun.
9. This pudding is as smooth as silk.
10. A traffic cop gets his license suspended because of unpaid parking tickets.
11. The leaves on the ground danced in the wind.
12. I'll just die if I don't go to the party.
13. It flew as high as a kite.
14. A fire station burns down.
15. The internet is the information super highway.

V. ESSAY
Discuss the importance of literature to our everyday life.