ENG 158 SURVEY OF PHILIPPINES LITERATURE
1. In writing essay we follow a standard writing procedure, which one below tells the
reader what essay is focus on? *
A. maid body
B. introduction
C. conclusion
D. supporting elements
2. What is the textual elements that the writers use to be able to convey meaning
and create effects to this writings. *
A. literary device
B. narrative voice
C. structure
D. textual evidence
3. In writing an essay what will you provide to the reader for them to see briefly
what a paragraph is all about? *
A. textual evidence
B. topic sentence
C. paragraph structure
D. writing conclusion
4. In a typical structure of a literary essay, how many paragraphs it consist? *
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
5. What do you call an attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work’s
central theme or subject, which shows as to what it is intended? *
A. tone
B. structure
C. narrative voice
D. setting
6. Which literary period where literary pieces is oral in nature and is full of lessons
and ideas about life, blessings and consequences. *
A. BC-1564 THE PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
B. 1521-1898 THE SPANISH PERIOD
C. 1900-1942 THE AMERICAN PERIOD
D. 1987 PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION
7. What do you a person lives in a civilized and urbanized during the Spanish
period? *
A. taga bayan
B. taga bukid
C. taga ilog
D. taga diri
8. Which period where Philippines experience the great leap in education nd
culture. *
A. Japanese period
B. American period
C. Spanish period
D. Revolutionary period
9. Which particular years where the period they called Republic began? *
A. 1910-1940
B. 1945-1985
C. 1965-1986
D. 198 -present
10. At what period where using English language was forbidden? *
A. Japanese period
B. Spanish period
C. The Republic
D. American Period
11. It establishes the characters and setting of the story. Which element of the plot is
described? *
A. exposition
B. rising action
C. conflict
D. climax
12. This is where the problem reaches its most crucial point. Which element of the
plot is described? *
A. conflict
B. climax
C. exposition
D. falling action
13. Which literary element explains the mood is defined as the emotion or feeling
that readers get from reading the words on a page. *
A. setting
B. mood
C. theme
D. point of view
14. What is the most typical form of language, applying ordinary grammatical
structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure. *
A. prose
B. poetry
C. non fiction
D. fiction
15. What form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with
information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary. *
A. fiction
B. non-fiction
C. elegy
D. sonnet
16. What are these forms of satires, editorials, and news articles that aimed to attack
the Spanish Rule. *
A. korido
B. myths
C. pasyon
D. propaganda literature
17. Short stories that use animals as characters in representing a value or
characteristic for children. What is described? *
A. korido
B. awit
C. lullaby
D. fables
18. What are tales of chivalry in which a knight saves a princess where Florante at
Laura is a good example. *
A. fables
B. awit
C. epic
D. lullaby
19. What are locally known as “hele”, these are sung to put babies into sleeps. *
A. awit
B. korido
C. lullaby
D. pasyon
20. The passion (journey and suffering) and the death of Jesus Christ is called
_________.
A. korido
B. pasyon
C. lullaby
D. proverbs
21. Which point of view is used in the following lines? "When she talked with the
jobless across her desk, asking them the damning questions that completed their
humiliation, watching pale tongues run over dry lips, dirt crusted handkerchiefs
flutter in trembling hands, she was filled with an impatience she could not
understand." *
A. first person point of view
B. second person point of view
C. third person point of view
D. my point of view
22. Which point of view is used in the following lines? "You’re the mother of two
children, but now one of them is dead and the other is missing. Maybe she’s
dead, too. You discover all of this when you come home from work one day.
House empty, too empty, tiny little boy all bloody and bruised on the den floor." *
A. first person point of view
B. second person point of view
C. third person point of view
D. my point of view
23. What is written or spoken language made in an ordinary form without metrical
structure. *
A. poetry
B. prose
C. rising action
D. falling action
24. What is being referred to a performance of written dialogue and stage action, a
literary genre that allows actors to act out a writer's words directly to an audience.
*
A. tragedy
B. narrative
C. elegy
D. drama
25. Which story is an example of a folktale? *
A. The Second Creation
B. The Moneky and a Turtle
C. How the Angels Built Lake Lanao
D. The Virgin
26. What folklore dictates the recitation of the following chant? Tabi-tabi po, Ingkong
You there, whoever and wherever you are; Makikiraan po lamang. Stay Away. *
A. The Tikbalang lives on tops of trees. He might be hovering nearby.
B. There are unseen spirits guarding certain places of the world, including parks.
C. It is discourteous to not ask permission to pass in front of or beside another
person.
D. One way to excuse oneself when in a crowd
27. What theme can be drawn from the following short poem? When one submits
himself to wounding, the intense pain is bearable; when one is unwilling, even
the merest scratch can fester. *
A. Problems and trials make us stronger
B. Love is a person’s mightiest weapon
C. Success is the prize of hard work
D. Expectation versus reality
28. Which of the following poems is considered as a sonnet because it has 14 lines?
*
A. Poem 10
B. To the Yankee
C. Song for a Dry Season
D. You Asked Me How much I Love You
29. What figurative language is dominantly used in the poem Poem 10 to directly
compare a good poem to things which would make God smile from its cover? *
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Synecdoche
D. Metonymy
30. Which of the following poems highlights a persona who finds no worlds beyond
her love’s embrace? *
A. The Spouse
B. To a Lost One
C. We Kept A Jarful of Keys
D. Letter to Pedro
31. Which of the following poems gives its readers concerning the dominant role of
women in the early time which is to stay at home and wait for their husbands to
come home which eventually at some point would make them unhappy? *
A. The Spouse
B. A Kind of Burning
C. I Have Begrudged the Years
D. You Asked Me How much I Love You
32. Which of the following poems is represented by these lines: "If u defeat us, with
the powerful weight of weapons, You will not live happily, because you are hated
Even by the air of my native land." *
A. To A Lost One
B. To the Yankee
C. We Kept A Jarful of Keys
D. I Have Begrudged the Years
33. Which of the following Filipino poets wrote the poem The Spouse? *
A. Luis Dato
B. Benito Reyes
C. Cirilo Bautista
D. Estrella Amper
34. What figurative language is used in Mariano Kilates’ poem Love is a Ghost
Lurking in the Daylight as reflected in this line: Crumpled paper like the hem of a
skirt *
A. Alliteration
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Personification
35. According to the poem Man of Earth, which of the following is considered to be
where we, human, had our first birth? *
A. Bamboo
B. Green leaf
C. Sin
D. God
36. In poem The Spouse, what characteristic is described in the word "husband" in
the this line? “She looks far down to where her husband plows.” *
A. Hardworking
B. Busy
C. Lack of time
D. Loveless
37. Which of the following poems is represented by these lines: Therefore behold me
now, a Timon bent On hoarding each coin of love that should be spent *
A. A Kind of Burning
B. Song for a Dry Season
C. I Have Begrudged the Years
D. You Asked Me How much I Love You
38. Which of the following poems is represented by these lines: As your full breast
tames that babe’s loud hunger and Your thighs conceive of islands green with
legend. *
A. A Kind of Burning
B. Song for a Dry Season
C. I Have Begrudged the Years
D. You Asked Me How much I Love You
39. Which of the following poems highlights a persona who would not want to be
forgotten and that the scent of wild champakas will remind them of him/her?
A. Letter to Pedro
B. To a Lost One
C. I Have Begrudged the Years
D. Song of the Tear gassed Man
40. Which of the following poems described the persona to be pliant like a bamboo
that’s willing to be bent? *
A. I Have Begrudged the Years
B. Song of the Tear gassed man
C. Man of Earth
D. A Kind of Burning
41. Which of the following poems is represented by these lines: If u defeat us, with
the powerful weight of weapons, You will not live happily, because you are hated
Even by the air of my native land. *
A. To A Lost One
B. To the Yankee
C. Man of Earth
D. I Have Begrudged the Years
42. Whose point of view is used in Angela Manalang Gloria’s poem, To the Lost
One? *
A. The one left behind
B. The lost one
C. The dancer
D. The neighbor
43. Which of the following Filipino poets wrote the poems Man of Earth and Wedding
Dance ? *
A. Cecilio Apostol
B. Angela Gloria
C. Emmanuel Torres
D. Amador Daguio
44. What is the implied meaning of Dry Season? *
A. Poverty
B. Sadness
C. Happiness
D. Chaos
45. Which of the following refers to a five-line poem which was said to be invented by
Adelaide Crapsey who was an American poet who took her inspiration from
Japanese haiku and tanka? *
A. quatrains
B. cinquain
C. octave
D. septet
46. What form of poems expresses strong thoughts and feelings not necessarily
written by the poet? *
A. narrative poetry
B. descriptive poetry
C. lyric poetry
D. ballad
47. Which of the following refers to a long narrative poem in elevated style
recounting the deeds of a legendary hero? *
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. ballad
48. Which of the following refers to an unrhymed verse form having three lines and
usually is has 5, 7, 5 syllables? *
A. ode
B. limerick
C. epic
D. haiku
49. What rhyme scheme do the lines below manifest? "Roses are red, Violets are
blue. Shakespeare is dead? I had no clue." *
A. ABAB
B. AABB
C. ABBA
D. BCBC
50. Which of the following refers to a systematic regularity in rhythm; that is usually
identified by examining the type of "foot" and the number of feet? *
A. rhythm
B. meter
C. rhyme
D. word sound
51. A line is distinguished as a recurring pattern of two or three syllables. Which is
described? *
A. rhythm
B. meter
C. rhyme
D. feet
52. Which word below is being referred to as wide array of positive and negative
associations that most words naturally carry with them? *
A. connotation
B. denotation
C. images
D. figure of speech
53. If the poem doesn’t’ have rules about meter or rhyme, this may be described
as________.
A. blank verse
B. free verse
C. irregularity
D. number of feet
54. When Awiyao stirs the embers in Lumnay’s dark hut, he stirs up both of these
feelings in her. This statement represents which of the following symbolic
elements of the story “The Wedding Dance”. *
A. the night
B. the fire
C. the floor
D. the beads
55. Which among the following does NOT belong to the symbolic elements in the
story “The Wedding Dance” *
A. Gangsas
B. The fire
C. Dancing
D. Singing
56. In "The Wedding Dance" Awiyao, Lumnay, Madulimay are the people who make
important decisions and actions in t he story. How do you call these people, who
gave life to the story? *
A. Character
B. Plot
C. Mood
D. Narrator
57. In The Wedding Dance, the main character Awiyao says, “I’m sorry this had to be
done. I am really sorry. But neither of us can help it.” *
A. Mood
B. Conflict
C. Plot
D. Setting
58. Which story where an offspring is a product of an incest? *
A. Welostit
B. Old Movies
C. Tropical Winter's Tale
D. We Won't Cry About This
59. What poem written by Rolando Tinio that is rather complex because it uses two
languages which is Filipino and English. *
A. Sorrow
B. Valediction at Hillcrest
C. Depression
D. Kunlun
60. What does "blood compact" mean for both the Tagalogs and the Spaniards in
Bonifacio's "What the FIlipino Should Know" *
A. binding oath of genuine sincerity not to be traitorous to their agreement
B. fraternity/sorority for both parties to practice brotherhood and sisterhood
C. form of welcoming the Spaniards in our land
D. a pact to act like Spaniard
