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21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
Grade12
st
1 Quarter - Week One
Diagnostic Test

OBJECTIVES: At the end of this lesson, the learners are expected to:
1. define literature from various writers; and
2. understand literature from pre-colonial to contemporary periods.
3. make a graphical timeline focusing on how the literatures for each literary period
proliferated.

SELF TEST: Check all that applies to you.

1. What types of stories do you love to read?

Mysteries science fantasy

fiction
Romance history Current events
Sports War stories adventures
Biographies Short plays
stories
Novels poems

Others (please specify___________________________

2. what reading materials do you have at home?
Newspapers Newspapers (broadsheets)
(tabloids)
Comic books Novels (English)
dictionaries encyclopedias
Novels (tagalog) Children’s books

Others (please specify___________________________

3. Where do you feel more comfortable to read?
classroom bedroom library
Living room playground kitchen
mall garden park
Biographies

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4. How often do you read?
Very often occasional never
often

5. How much do you love to read?

To a Great Above average Below Average
Extent Average

6. When do you usually read better?

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7. How do you perceive library books?

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8. What are your perceptions and views about literary readings?

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I. Read and analyze the following items, then encircle the letter of the best
answer.
1. Who among the following literary icons was known for his of art for art’s sake? He is
the author of the short story “footnote to Youth” and of the poem, “The Bashful One”.
a. Manuel E. Arguilla c. F. Sionil Jose
b. Jose Garcia Villa d. Bienvinido Santos
2. Which of the following is the best definition for “local color”?
a. It refers to the technique of copying the lifestyle, customs, beliefs, practices
and inclusion of local symbols and images peculiar to a region or locale.
b. It is anchored to the idea that literature is an imitation of life.
c. Stories must be written using the native language or dialect to preserve
cultural identity.
d. Stories must use foreign symbols and image.
3. It refers to the casual relationship between and among events of a story.
a. denouement c. rising action
b. plot d. complication
4. The total environment for the action of a fictional work which includes a time period,
the place, the historical milieu, as well as the social, political, and perhaps even spiritual
realities mirrored in a story.
a. characters c. symbols
b. setting d. plot
5. A device that allows the writers to present events that happened before the time of
the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Its techniques include
memories, dreams, stories of the past told by the characters or even authorial
sovereignty.
a. point-of-view c. flashback
b. foreshadowing d. action sequence
6. A fictional narrative generally focusing on one climatic event and usually developing
only a single character in depth.
a. novel c. short story
b. epic d. essay
7. What sound device is evident in the lines “threatening throngs” and “wicked and
wan”?
a. onomatopoeia c. consonance
b. denouement d. assonance
8. The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis comes
to its point of greatest intensity and is resolved; it is also the peak of emotional response
from a reader or spectator, and it usually represent the turning point in the action.
a. exposition c. rising action
b. denouement d. climax

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9. What sound device is evident in the lines “threatening throngs” and “wicked and
wan”?
a. onomatopoeia c. consonance
b. alliteration d. assonance
10. It literary means the action of untying of events built upon in the rising action of the
plot; it refers to the final outcome complication in a play or story.
a. exposition c. rising action
b. denouement d. climax

11. What idea about life is revealed by the last two lines of the poetic passage below?
From morning suns and evening dews
At first, thy little being came;
If nothing once, you nothing lose
For when you die you are the same
The space between is but an hour
The frail duration of a flower.

a. life is just an hour c. life is frail

b. life is like a flower d. life is short
12. It depicts and talks about life and all its miseries and glories.
a. stories c. fiction
b. parable d. literature
13. What emotion is conveyed in the lines of the poetic passage below?
Midnight, not a sound of a pavement.
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone.
In the lamp light the withered leaves
Collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moon

a. confusion c. loneliness
b. optimism d. eagerness
14. Which of the following statements describe/s point-of-view?
a. It is a vantage point from which the story unfolds the eyes of an authoritative
narrator.
b. It refers to as how a story is told or narrated
c. all of the foregoing
d. None of the foregoing
15. A person, object, action, place or event that in addition to its literal or denotative
meaning suggest a more complex meaning or range of meanings.
a. theme c. symbol
b. point-of-view d. setting

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16. It pertains to the casual relationship between and among events of a fictional prose
work.
a. exposition c. climax
b. point-of-view d. denouement
17. Who us regarded as the “Bard of Avon”?
a. Edgar Allan Poe c. Ernest Hemmingway
b. Homer d. Williams Shakespeare
18. It is a lyric poem that laments the death of a person or the eventual death of all
people.
a. elegy c. tragedy
b. eulogy d. epic
19. what is being referred to in the riddle below?
Nang bata pa’y paruparo
Nang tumanda ay latigo.

a. banana c. belt
b. turnip d. string beans
20. The following constructs describe of figurative language, except
a. highly artistic means of expressions
b. suggestive and attributive
c. explicit expression
d. none of the choices
21. what is the speaker’s realization based on the poetic lines below?
The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
‘tis paid with sighs a plenty
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ‘tis true, tis true.
a. the speaker realizes the value of considering other person’s advice.
b. the speaker learns the disadvantages of disobeying the elders.
c. The speakers realizes the folly and pain of youthful love.
d. The speaker learns the beauty of life.
22. Which statement regarding love is closest to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116?
Love’s not time’s fool. Though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass com:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
But bears it out even to the edge of doom
a. Love dissipates when lovers live apart
b. love adapts to changing circumstances
c. Love never wanes even in old age
d. Love grows even to the edge of doom
23. What is prevailing tone of the following lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
When a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculties in form and moving, how express and admirable
a. mysterious c. sarcastic
b. reverence d, disappointment

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24. Based on Sanburg’s “Chicago,” how does the speaker describe the city?
They tell me that you are wicked and I believe them,
For I have seen your pointed women under the gas lamps
Luring the farm boys.
a. mysterious c. independent
b. peaceful d. immoral
25. It is considered as Japan’s greatest contributions to world literature. A short poem of
3 lines of 5-7-5 syllables.
a. origami c. Haiku
b. Kabuki d. ikebana

II. Read and analyze the descriptions hereunder, then identify the construct
being referred to in each item. Select the letter of the best answer from the
pool of answers.

________1. This is the technical term for the epic convention “in the middle of things,” rather than
at the very start of the story.
________2. A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of
the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Its techniques include memories, dreams,
stories of the past told by the characters or even authorial sovereignty.
________3. A literary mode based on criticism of people and society through ridicule
________4. An analytic or interpretative literary composition dealing with subjects and has the
purpose of sharing opinions, insights, experience or observations.
________5. A person, object, action, place or event that in addition to its literal or denotative
meanings suggest a more complex or range of meanings.
________6. It is considered as the majestic type of literature that can be described of its artistic
form. It is primarily composed of lines and stanzas and the use of figurative language adds
aesthetic effect to its overall form and effect.
________7. A narrative strategy used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come
________8. A general type of literature which is described of its variety of rhythm, irregularity and
close resemblance to man’s everyday pattern of speech.
________9. A term which was coined by Aristotle which means imitation of action and of life.
________10. It is determined through the use of rhyme, repetition, and other sound devices.

A. satire B. en medias re C. essay

D. flashback E. frame story F. symbols
G. tone color H. poetry I. mimesis
J. figurative language K. prose L. foreshadowing

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