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LITERATURE BASIC QUIZ

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Is a narrative prose writing which can be read in a single-sitting producing single mood and effect.

a)

Poetry

b)

Drama

c)

Short Story

d)

A. Essay

2.

a faithful reproduction of man’s manifold experiences coached and expressed in a beautiful language.

a)

Prose

b)

Literature

c)

Drama

d)

Iliad

3.

is the most complex ingredient of studying literary work

a)

Form

b)

Point of View

c)

Subject

d)

Style

4.

Is the quality that appeals to the sensitivity of an individual for what is beautiful.

a)

Spiritual Value

b)

Intellectual value

c)

Artistry

d)

Universality

5.

a short non-fiction; non-imagery works about a subject. It may be classified by its tone and its style as formal or informal.

a)

Essay

b)

Short Story

c)

Drama

d)

A. Novel

6.

Is a literary theory which depends heavily on symbols and patterns operating on a universal scale.

a)

Marxist Criticism

b)

New Criticism

c)

Deconstructionist

d)

Archetypal Criticisms

7.

This is called the vehicle used by literature to communicate its subject and a verbal structuring of ideas.

a)

Form

b)

Subject

c)

Theme

d)

Point of View

8.

Words that illustrate mental duplication of sense impression in Poetry is called________.

a)

Rhythm

b)

Symbol

c)

Imagery

d)

Figures of Speech

9.

Is a device used by the short story writer when he/she brings in the past to bring significant action in the present events

a)

Introduction

b)

Flashback

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Conclusion

10.

Is a point of view used in telling stories wherein the author steps out of the story and watches what happens from the perception of one of the characters within the story

a)

Third Person

b)

Omniscient

c)

Limited

d)

First Person

11.

Refers to the position of the voice that the authors adopt for their works or on outlook from which the author tells what happened

a)

Climax

b)

Falling Action

c)

Conflict

d)

Point of View

12.

Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as the father of Short Stories because_______?

a)

He was the first one who ventured into writing fictions;

b)

He was the only fiction writer who used the omniscient point of view of telling stories;

c)

He has perfected the structure of the short story;

d)

All of the above

13.

In a drama or play, it is a smaller unit within an act, often signaled by the entrance or exit of a character or change in setting or focus of the action.

a)

scene

b)

setting

c)

stage

d)

dialogue

14.

When a literary piece is timely or timeless it means that its literary quality is _______.

a)

Suggestiveness

b)

Permanence

c)

Universality

d)

Artistry

15.

Is a traditional approach in studying literary piece that stresses the relationship of literature to its historical period-and for this reason, it has long life.

a)

Reader-response

b)

Archetypal

c)

Feminism

d)

Topical

16.

Michel De Montaigne is the Father of Essay

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

c)

I DONT KNOW :(

17.

" Events " are The structural base of understanding a drama as a literary work

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

c)

HINDI KO ALAM!!!

18.

Which of the following literary terms refer to the association and implications that go beyond the words literal meaning?

a)

Connotation

b)

Symbol

c)

Denotation

d)

Form

19.

Which of the following is the form of close reading that involves the analysis and evaluation of a literary work?

a)

Literary Theories

b)

Literary Approaches

c)

Literary Analyses

d)

Literary Appreciation

e)

hindi ako sure.

20.

In analyzing a literary text, when its content focuses on how gender affects a literary work and its writer or reader an approach applied is __________.

a)

Feminism

b)

Marxist criticism

c)

Marxist criticism

d)

Structuralism