LIT 1

Which statement best reflects the theorist’s answer to the question "What is Literature?"

• Literature is only stories, poems, and plays.

• Literature is a social and historical construct that serves specific functions.

• Literature is any text written after 1800.

• Literature is defined solely by rhyme and meter.

During the Romantic movement, how was literature principally redefined?

• As all written works, including speeches and history

• As an ideological tool promoting national pride

• As imaginative writing with aesthetic value

• As scientific writing focused on prediction

Which example from the material best illustrates "Literature as Fiction" creating imagined worlds?

• Kant: literature bridges material and spiritual ideas.

• Hopkins’ poetry uses unusual word combinations and rhythms.

• Wordsworth’s "I wandered lonely as a cloud" where the “I” is a literary construct.

• Historical writing builds logical narratives like science.

Which function exemplifies literature used as an ideological tool?

• Labeling a text as literature to foreground language patterns

• Fiction allowing multiple interpretations

• Stories reinforcing marriage norms or challenging slavery through Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Crafting texts with purposiveness without purpose

Why has the definition of literature been less central to modern literary theory, according to the material?

• Because non-European cultures agree on universal definitions

• Because modern criticism studies both literary and non-literary texts, and rhetoric/metaphor blur distinctions

• Because only poetry is considered literature today

• Because historical writing has no resemblance to literature

Which element of literature refers to the overall structure of a work?

• Theme

• Form

• Mode

• Tone

In contemporary literary forms, which best describes Flash Fiction?

• Romance with a woman protagonist

• Video storytelling

• Very short stories of a few hundred words

• Poems written in SMS/text format

Creative Nonfiction in this section includes which types?

• Epic, drama, and poetry

• Memoir, travel writing, and personal essay

• Text Tula and Chick Lit

• Blogs and vlogs

Baybayin is identified in the material as a native syllabary. Which key feature is listed?

• 5 vowels and 21 consonants

• 3 vowels and 14 consonants

• 4 vowels and 16 consonants

• No vowels, only consonants

Which group is cited as part of the uniqueness of indigenous culture that resisted colonial rule?

• Tagalog lowlanders

• Maranaos and Tausogs

• Spanish friars

• Chinese traders