J.H.

CERILLES STATE COLLEGE- DUMINGAG CAMPUS

MIDTERM EXAM
MASTERPIECES OF WOLD LITERATURE

Name:_____________________________________ Date:________________ Score:_____________

I. Directions : Identify what is asked. Choose your answer from the given and write it on the space
provided.
Poetry Ode Prose Essay
Sonnet Epic Short story Comedy
Elegy Ballad Novel Tragedy
Spiritual value Intellectual value Artistry Suggestiveness
Masterpiece Biography Autobiography History
__________1. Puts our spirit back by bringing out the understanding of moral values which led us to become better
__________2. Is associated when the essential aspect moves as deeply and tries our imagination to work above and
beyond the level of ordinary
__________3. Refers to a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the
greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill, or workmanship
__________4. Has a happy ending because the thing producing the discord is removed
__________5. Is a prose composition of moderate length, usually expository in nature aiming to explain an idea,
theory, impression or point of view
__________6. Appeals to our sense of beauty
__________7. Stimulates the thoughts and makes out mental life rich by making as realize the different fundamental
truths about life and human nature
__________8. Refers to the expressions in verse with measures, rhymes, lines and stanzas and melodies
__________9. Is a fourteen line poem with a formal rhyme
__________10. Is a lyric poem expressing grief, lament for the dead
__________11. Is a lyric poem of praise and worship
__________12. Is a narrative poem about deeds and adventures of a hero
__________13. Is a narrative poem intended / composed to be sung
__________14. Is a brief narrative form of prose fiction centered on a single main incident and is intended to produce
a single dominant impression
__________15. Is a more extensive form of prose with greater complexity of theme revealing broader and deeper
view
__________16. Is a person’s life story written by himself
__________17. Is a person’s life story written by someone else
__________18. Is a type of literature written in the form of ordinary spoken language and within the common flow of
conversation
__________19. Is the aggregate of past events
_________20. Is the body of all written works

II. Directions : Choose the letter of the answer; write A- meaning of literature, B- viewpoints in
literature, C-aims of literature or D-literary standards. Write only the letter on the space before the
number.

_______1. We can get the meaning of a piece of literature by having lived it because literature is a product of and
about life.
_______2. Literature is the total of preserved writings belonging to a given language or people.
_______3. Life illumines literature just as literature illumines life.
_______4. It is the peculiar way in which a writer writes, sees life forms his ideas and expresses them.
_______5. Great literature is timeless and timely.
_______6. Literature elevates the spirit by bringing out moral values which make us better persons.
_______7. Literature is an eternally burning flame, exuding light that renders significance to civilization.
_______8. Literature refers to the practice and profession of writing. It comes from human interest in telling a story.
_______9. Literary forms exist because writer have fashioned them to serve their needs.
_______10. We study literature so that we can better appreciate our literary heritage.