SUMMATIVE TEST

21ST CENTURY
I. Identification
1. A literary movement or genre (in the late 19th century to the early 20th century in Europe and America)
characterized by very self conscious break from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and fiction.

2. A literary movement that believed to have emerged in period after the Second World War. As an aesthetic,
this genre reworked a host of themes and strategies that allowed writers to engage representation in a
manner different from verisimilitude that was assumed by realism.

3. It is a literary style where real life is depicted in an unusual or striking manner.

4. It is a literary style/mode which means a “re – creation” or a “rendering”, as when a painter captures a subject
realistically” in an oil portrait.

5. A postmodern mode of literature which is a Greek word for hyperreal.

6. A literary device used self-consciously and systematically to draw attention to the workʻs status as a work of
imagination, rather than reality.

7. It is mode in literature that is considered the most honest, most effective and most sportaneous type of
representation.

8. It is defined as likeness to the truth, such as the resemblance of a fictitious work to real events, even if it is a
far-fetched one.
9. A style in writing narrative in which a characterʻs thoughts, feelings and reactions are depicted in a continuous
flow.

10. A phenomenon that describes how the world has become more deeply interconnected and how this
different form of human contact has transformed the economic, political, and cultural lives of the people.

11. The movement of a person or a group of people from one place to another with intension of settling,
permanently or temporarily in a new location.

12. An international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they
do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there.

13. A cultural or historical phenomenon which involves a fusion of separate races or cultures.

14. A system of segregation an separation and discrimination on grounds of race.

15. A phenomenon which was referred to as the “polyphonic qualities of black cultural expression. It describes
the fusion of black culture from around the Atlantic or also known as the “double consciousness.

16. It describes the production of many sound simultaneously.

17. A Greek word which means to scatter about – a large group of people with a similar moved out to places all
over the world. A common example of the this phenomenon of the experience of the Jews before the founding of
the nation of Israel in 1948.

18. A pattern of consciousness provoked by globalization is derived from the Greek word “Kosmopolites” the
means “citizens of the world”. One of its tenets states that, “all human beings regardless of their national or
religious affiliations, are member of a single community or one humanity.

19. It refers to a transformations of cultural practices via the integration of foreign cultural objects and
expressions.

20.
II. Identify the significant personalities in the literature of the Global North and of the Global South.
(Write the complete name).

1. She employed the stream of consciousness in her story, “ The New Dress”.

2. The French critic who coined the term “simulacra” which refers to “the generation by models of a real without
origin or realify?

3. An author from New Zealand, wrote “Miss Brill”. She also employed stream of consciousness in her narrative.

4. The proponent of the concept of the “Black Atlantic”.

5. He popularized the term “magical realism” in his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967) in Latin
American Literature.

6. Together with Sergio Gomez, he published the anthology “McCondo” (1996) which means, “a word of Mc
Donaldʻs, Machintoshes, and condos”McOndo refers to the gritty sir.

7. The Dominican American , author of ane of the most impressive novels written in “The Brief Wordous Life of
Oscar Wao”(2007)

8. Known as the “father of the African novel”. In his novel, “Things Fall Apart”, English language into articulating
not just Africa words but an indigenous African World view.

9. The Post- Apartheid South African author of the novel “The Heart of Redness” which depicts African
characters in full local color, as humanly complex and living in communities burdened by history.

10. The non-violence anti-apartheid activist, politician and philanthropist who became South Africaʻs first black
president from 1994-1999.

III. Enumeration

1-5. Countries included in the Global North.

1-6. Countries included in the Global South.

7-9. Factors affecting the modes of literature of Postmodernism

10-14. Challenges that countries in the Global South face, hence, affecting the modes and style of the literature
of the Global South

15-17. Characteristics of stream of consciousness as a literary style in writing narratives.

18-20. Give at least 3 proponents of stream of consciousness.

IV. Discussion

A. Compare and contrast these two literary movements: Modernism and Post modernism. (15 pts.)

B. Explain why the countries of the Global South are referred to as “globalization losers”. (10 pts.)

C. Why is a narrative in Stream of consciousness best written or presented in the third person omniscient? (5pts.)

D. Differentiate “reality” and “representation”. (5pts.)