Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V (Bicol)
BOGNABONG HIGH SCHOOL
Bognabong, Tabaco City
Final Examination in
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
GRADE 12

Name: ________________________________________________ Date: ______ Score: ______

I. Read each item carefully and write only the letter of your answer on your answer sheet.

1. What is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world’s national literatures, but usually refers to the
circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin? _______
a. Asian Literature b. World Literature c. English- American Literature d. Literature
2. What has been defeated by Beowulf? _________
a. Monster b. Dog c. dragon d. Witch
3. Written works such as poems, plays, and novels that is considered to be very good and to have lasting importance.
a. Genre b. Literature c. Composition d. Element
4. It is a literature produced in Asia.
a. Anglo- American Literature b. European Literature c. Asian Literature d. American Literature
5. A category of literary composition and can be determined by literary technique, tone, content or even (as in the case
of fiction) length.
a. Literary Piece b. Literary element c. Literary Genre d. Rhetorical
6. _______ can also be used in Generalization to describe a book.
a. Words b. idea c. text d. context
7. This term can describe the situation created within a narrative and refers to a situation (or surroundings).
a. Words b. idea c. text d. context
8. It is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines and is the oldest surviving long poem in Old
English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of English literature.
a. A man with the Hoe b. Robinhood c. Sonnet 18 d. Beowulf
9. It is a heroic outlaw in English folklore who, according to legend was a highly skilled archer and swordsman.
a. Get up and Bar the Door b. Robinhood c. Sonnet 18 d. Beowulf
10. It is a medieval Scots ballad about a battle of wills between a husband and wife
a. Get up and Bar the Door b. Robinhood c. Sonnet 18 d. Beowulf
11. Classical rhetoricians classified figures of speech into _____ categories.
a. Five b. seven c. four d. two
12. Sonnets are written in _____________, a poetic meter with 10 beats per line made up of alternating unstressed and
stressed syllables.
a. Iambic meter b. iambic pentameter c. scheme d. tone

II. Arrange the following sentences to chronological order by numbering it from 1-8. Write your answer on the
blank before each sentence.
13. _______ As the wind picks up, the husband tells her to close and bar the door.
14. ________ The song begins with the wife busy in her cooking and other chores.
15. ________ Finally, the husband shouts “ Will ye kiss my wife before my een and scad me wi pudding bree”)
16. ________ The wife having won the pact, tells the husband “ Goodman, you’ve spoken the foremost word; Get up
and bar the door.”
17. ________ They make a pact that the next person who speaks must bar the door, and the door remains open.
18. ________ The husband and wife watch them , but still neither speaks out of stubborn pride.
19. ________ At midnight two thieves enter the house and eat the puddings that the wife has just made.
20. ________ Amazed , one of the thieves proposes to molest the wife.

III. Fill in the blanks with the correct answer.

21. All sonnets have ____ lines which can be broken down into _______ sections called quatrains.
22. First Quatrain : rhyme scheme ______.
23. _____ Quatrain : rhyme scheme GG.
24. Third Quatrain : rhyme scheme ____.
25. ______ Quatrain: rhyme scheme CDCD.
26. ______________ is a kind of poem usually praising something.
27. It is a kind of poetry dealing with emotions or phase of life and the story is told in a simple, straightforward and
realistic manner. ___________
28. _______________ are narrative folksongs- simply put, they are folksongs that tell stories.
29. _______________ wrote poem “ The Man with a Hoe”.
30. The ____________ is King Arthur’s famed table in the Arthurian legend.
31. The ____________ were the Period of European history Generally comprising the 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1301-
1500).
32. The ____________, lasting from the 5th to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European
History.
33. _______________ was an artistic , literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the
end of the 18th century.
34. ______________ was an artistic movement that begin in France in the 1850’s after the 1850’s Revolution.

IV. COMPOSE YOUR OWN CINQUAIN. (10pts)

 V. Give the meaning of the following abbreviation.

ACRONYM

45.ITALY-

46.PAGASA

47.SMART

48.WATCH

49.GMRC

CLIPPING

50.UNLI-

51.BIO-

52.ELEM-

53.SPECS-

54.NEGA-

BLENDING

55.CALABARZON-

56.MIMAROPA-

57.GENSAN

58.FIL-AM -

59. LUZVIMINDA-

60. BRUNCH-

Prepared by:

KRYSTLE FRANCESS B. BARRIOS

Subject Teacher

Noted by:

RAMIR V. BOLA
HEAD TEACHER I