Philippines Literature Examination

NOTE : wag pansinin numbering ko di kasi binabangit ni sir ang numbers ny kanyang mga tanong

Sa 48 natapos numbering ko di ko alam kung bakit hindi sakto basta sinulat ko lahat ng
nairecord ko

Lahat ng may bold letters na may question mark ibigsabihin di ko nadinig ng mabuti si sir.

1.

2.

3.

4.…thoughts and emotion of a man.

A. Del Castillo And Medina

A. Dr. Ronald Baitan

B. Rosalia P. Dela Cruz

C. Dr. Jaime Alm ?

5.How does literature fire one’s imagination?

A. Readers immediatly feel the emotions that writer wants the reader to feel

B. Readers are able to form imagery about the story of peom they are reading

C. Readers learn from what they are reading

D. All of the above.

6.Which of the following is NOT the importance of literature

A. It arouses deep seated feelings

B. It moves people

C. Appeals to emotion

D. It head aesthetic pleasure

Next questions are about figure of speech

7.Figure of speech is also called figurative language or _____.

A. Literary language

B. Promitative language

C. Ornamental language

D. Expressive language

8.How many metaphor become a direct comparison of two unlike things?

A. By means of referring two unlike things as if the are human beings

B. By means of being straight forward comparing the two unlike things without the use of signal of
comparison

C. By letting the two unlike things to be compared

D. By means of comparing two unlike things using the part

Next questions about rhyme.

9.I think I shall never see

a poem as lovely as a tree

a tree whos hungry mouth is pressed

against the earth sweet flowing breast

A. Abab

B. Aabb

C. Abba

D. Aabc

10.Identify the rhyme pattern of the following lines

The coolness of the night

refreshes my skin
 the stars that shine so bright

causing me to grin

A. Abab

B. Abb

C. Abba

D. Aabc

11.Upon a nice mid spring day

lets take a little hot? natures way

breathe the set of nice fresh air

feel the breeze within your hair

A. Abab

B. Aabb

C. Abba

D. Aabc

Rhyme pattern and number of lines

12.Using the rhyme pattern and number of lines at the given examples below it is categorized as
_____.

The coolness of the night

refreshes my skin

the stars that shine so bright

causing me to dream

A. Terza Rima

B. Rhyme Royale

C. Portraying

D. Ballad
13.Identify the rhythm of this line

The time of year thou mayst in me behold?

a. Ua

b. Au

c. Auu

d. Uua

14.What is the foot of the said line of the previous number? Answer: Iambic

a. Archaic

b. Anacastic

C.

E. Ductilic ???

15.Determine the meter of the line

In the sound /of a voice /there a still

A. Tetrameter

B. Dimeter

C. Tersameter

D. Trimeter

16. What is the foot of the given line on the previous number. Answer: Anapestic

A. Archaic

B. Anatastic

C. Iambic

D. Ductilic

17. Determine the given figure of speech

Im just a little bit caught in the middle life is a maze and love is the riddle
A. Similie

B. Metaphor

C. Perosnification

D. Hyperbole

18. Slow down make it stop or else my heart is going to pop.

A.Similie

B.Methapor

C.Perosnification

D. Hyperbole

19. The sun is hot in the sky just like a giant spotlight

A. Simile

B.Methapor

C.Perosnification

D.Hyperbole

20. Im freezing in the sun im burning in the rain

A. Irony

B. Paradox

C. Oximoron

D. Metaphor

21. Love cant you see im alone can you give this fool a chance.

A. Allusion

B. Oximoron

C. Apostrophe

D. Hyperbole
22. Father Father Father Help us and send us guidance from above.

A.Allusion

B. Oximoron

C. Apostrophe

D. Hyperbole

23. That you are romeo and you’re throwing pebbles and my daddy said stay away from juliet

A. Allusion

B. Oximoron

C. Apostrophe

D. Hyperbole

24. When she walks down the isle on the arm of his father on the day that I marry your daughter

A. Allusion

B. Synecdoche

C. Personification

D. Apostrophe

25. We just want to make the world dance

A. Allusion

B. Synecdoche

C. Personification

D. Apostrophe

Questions on Literary Theory

26. Which of the following question will be helpful on analysing the text using Marxist theory

What motivates the character’s action

a. What view of life that the story present

b. Which character best articulate this view point

c. How is the word structure unified

d. Does the story address issues on economic exploitation

27. Its main project is exploring the contesting the categorizing gender and sexuality.

A. Feminism theory

B. Queer theory

C. Both a and b

D. None

28. You cannot separate your reader to the interpretation of the text according to reader response
theory.

A. Absolutely yes

B. Relatively yes

C. Absolutely no

D. Relatively no

29. In what literary text you can use multiple theories that can be used in order to have trough
understanding of its content

A. Absolutely yes

B. Relatively yes

C. Absolutely no

D. Relatively no

30. In doing an analysing one must be fully aware of the author’s background.

A. Absolutely yes

B. Relatively yes

C. Absolutely no

D. Relatively no
Philippines Literature

31. There are 2 kinds of tugma, tugma sa patinig at tugma sa katinig, the letter can be tugmang
mahina and ______.

A. Tugmang kambal katinig

B. Tugmang malakas

C. Tugmang klaster

D. Tugmang malumanay

32. Identify the sesura of the given line

Sumikat na ina sa sinisilangan.

A. Sumikat na ina / sa sinisilangan

B. Sumikat na ina sa / sinisilangan

C. Sumikat / na ina sa sinisilngan

D. Sumikat na / ina sa sinisilangan

33. What is the measure of the given stanza?

Iisa ang tibok ng dalwang loob payapain irog pusong kumakabog

A. Wawaluhing pantig

B. Aaniming pantig

C. Labing dalwang pantig

D. Labing aaniming pantig

34. There are three epic heroes in Ibalon, Baltog, Aldyog and _____.

A. Bentong

B. Bintong

C. Buntong

D. Bantong

35. Who is the love interest of Lam-Ang

A. Mohan ?

B. Amburayan

C. Ines Kannoyan

D. Sumaraw

36. Who is the ruler of mantapuhin kingdom?

A. Indarapatra

B. Hilagon

C. Baltog

D. Tarabusaw

37. Ibalon is an old epic from? Answer: Bicol

A. Cebu

B. (di na tinuloy ni sir)

38. Which of the following is not an example of folksong?

A. Kudiyapi

B. Kumintang

C. Diola

D. Talindaw

39. Talindaw ; Awit sa pamamangka

Soriyanin ; ___________

A. Awit sa paglalakbay

B. Awit sa kasal

C. Awit sa mangangawa

D. Awit sa pagpapatulog ng bata

40. Kundiman ; awit ng pag ibig

 __________; awit sa pagpapatulog ng bata

A. Uyayi

B. Galit

C. Kumintang

D. Leona

41. Ating tubong simsim ; kapangpangan

Ilonggo ; _________

A. Leron lerong sinta

B. Dandansoy

C. Kumintang

D. Bahay Kubo

42. Who is the speaker of the poem title “He who sleeps on my lap”

My friend

Who sleeps on my lap

Love someone else.

He say he is a man

And a man needs a woman

And I disagree

A. The speaker’s wife

B. The speaker’s child

C. The speaker is a gay

D. None of the above

43. What is the mood or tone of the poem.

I hide my face in wheat

for when I see all my childhood friends

they have grown taller that the tops of trees

in the chipuhu and the old gropes?

but I poor me had not grown taller

than the blade of the grass on the pasture

now I am like a castaway

drift wood which none of my cousins will ever find and bring home

A. The poem is melancholic because the speaker misses his cousins

B. The poem is melancholic because of the speaker regret in life

C. The poem is melancholic because thee speaker hates? his cousins

D. The poem is melancholic because the speaker misses his past.

44. This poem is an example of ___________.

A. Dramatic poetry

B. Lyric poetry

C. Narrative poetry

D. None of the above

45. What verse is used in the poem.

A. Free verse

B. Structured

C. All of the above

D. None of the above

46. What is the image of driftwood symbolize.

A. It symbolizes the speaker’s love for his cousins

B.It symbolizes the speaker’s achievement in life

C. It symbolizes the speaker’s failure in life

D. It symbolizes the speaker’s dream in life

47. Why did he hide his face in wheat when he saw his childhood friends?

A. He didn’t increase in height

B. He was not wearing good clothes

C. He failed to reach his ambitions

D. His classmates did not care about him

48. What is the meaning of this line “ they all have grown taller that the tops of the trees in the
chipuhu in the old gropes ? “

A. They all become successful in life

B. They become taller than him

C. They loved to climb trees

D. All of the above

(chipuhu = sabi ni sir baka ibang salita daw)

49-54 (di na nabanggit ni sir)

55-60 analysis of poem. (di ko na natype kasi puro poem di ko maintindihan maigi hahaha)

55. All of the above

56. Hawk

57. long distance relationship

58. asking his woman to marry him

59. Stanza 1

60. Car

61. ABABCDCD

62. All of the above

63. Icarus
64. to the reader

65. boy

66. church

67. religion

68.