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SMCC LITERATURE LET REVIEW

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Thinkers of the European Enlightenment would agree with all of the following statements except: 
a)
people have certain natural rights, which cannot be turned over to the king
b)
people should rebel against governments that become too oppressive
c)
people can use reason to understand society and politics
d)
people who undergo a religious awakening make the best leaders
2.

Who is the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia"

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

C.S. Louis

c)

George Orwell

d)

C.S. Lewis

3.

The major element(s) of an epic is/are

a)

there is a hero meets friends and foes.

b)

they go on a quest.

c)

they do various deeds that reflect the values of the culture they're from.

d)

all of the above

4.

Figurative Language

a)

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

b)

A central idea of a work of literature

c)

Information that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

d)

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

5.

One of the following countries, it is the world`s oldest surviving civilization:

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Korea

6.

In what language did Rabindranath Tagore write?

a)

Tamil

b)

Arabic

c)

Bengali

d)

Hindi

7.

_________ was the first noble prize winner from India?

a)

RABINDRANATH TAGOERE

b)

KUSWANT SINGH

c)

ERICK MATTI

d)

FAISAL SINGH

8.
Author of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 
a)
Mary Rowlandson
b)
Anne Bradstreet
c)
Jonathan Edwards
d)
Olaudah Equiano
9.

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

a)

Epic

b)

Narrative Poem

c)

Sonnet

d)

Limerick

10.

A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

a)

Petrarchan Sonnet

b)

Shakespearean Sonnet

c)

Spenserian Sonnet

d)

Italian Sonnet

11.

A four line stanza.

a)

couplet

b)

refrain

c)

quatrain

d)

octave

12.

A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

a)

Shakespearean Sonnet

b)

Italian Sonnet

c)

English Sonnet

d)

Spenserian Sonnet

13.

Which of the following of Poe's work made him a household name?

a)

"The Raven"

b)

"The Cask of Amontillado"

c)

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

d)

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

14.

Which of these works belongs to Nathaniel Hawthorne

a)

Sensitivity and common sense

b)

Bleak house

c)

The Scarlet Letter

d)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

15.

Who is the author of Harry Potter's books?

a)

Agatha Christie

b)

Cecelia Ahern

c)

J.K. Rowling

d)

Charles Dickens

16.

Known for her novel, Pride and Prejudice, which author wanted to change the society of that moment?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Agatha Christie.

c)

Cecelia Ahern

d)

J.K. Rowling

17.

Who wrote the novel "Great Expectations"?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

Roald Dahl

d)

Dan Brown

18.

Dan Brown has written Angels and Demons, and The Da Vinci Code. What kind of genre does he write in his novels?

a)

thriller fiction

b)

science fiction

c)

crime

d)

fantasy

19.
Romanticism believed in...
a)
Emotions and Imagination
b)
Conformity
c)
Romantic Love
d)
Logic and Facts
20.

Who wrote “Olivier Twist”?

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Geoffrey Chaucer

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Agatha Christie

21.

Who wrote books about romantic fiction, showing how woman depend on marriage and about moral problems?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

The Bronte Sisters

c)

Agatha Christie

d)

George Elliot

22.

Sir Thomas More wrote the work

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Gulliver's Travels

c)

The Canterbury Tales

d)

Utopia

23.
  An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.
a)
Florence
b)
city-state
c)
Leonardo Da Vinci
d)
Brunelleschi
24.
Who wrote Animal Farm?
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
Arthur Miller
c)
George Orwell
d)
Emily Dickinson
25.

She became the first woman who win the Pulitzer Prize in literature.

a)

Bret Harter

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Edith Warton

26.

He was a famous Filipino author in English and some of his works are: “Summer Solstice”, “The Woman who had Two Navels” and “May Day Eve.”

a)

Amado V. Hernandez

b)

Bienvenido Lumbera

c)

Francisco Sionil Jose

d)

Nick Joaquin

27.

He was a recipient of both National Artist of the Philippines in Literature and Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature and Creative Communications.

a)

Alejandro Roces

b)

Amado V. Hernandez

c)

Bienvenido Lumbera

d)

Virgilio Almario

28.

A distinguished poet who was known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks.

a)

Amado V. Hernandez

b)

Bienvenido Lumbera

c)

Jose Garcia Villa

d)

Nick Joaquin

29.

He is a National Artist of the Philippines in 2003 and currently serves as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF).

a)

Jose Garcia Villa

b)

Nick Joaquin

c)

Francisco Arcellana

d)

Virgilio Almario

30.

What is the title of the work of Juan C. Laya that won the first Commonwealth Literary Award in 1940 about the Filipino repatriate who finds himself a stranger in his hometown.?

a)

How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife

b)

The Bread of Salt

c)

His Native Souls

d)

Work on the Mountain

31.

Which form of writing became popular for the first time during the 18th century?

a)

Sonnets

b)

Memoir

c)

The Novel

d)

Epic Poetry

32.

What does Afro-Asian literature mirror aside from customs and traditions?

a)

political realms

b)

philosophy of life

c)

aspirations

d)

hope

33.

It was the strong influence Indian culture was subjected to.

a)

Buddhism

b)

Jainism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Islamic

34.

What theme is shown in these lines from the poem, Africa?

"That is your Africa springing up anew

springing up patiently, obstinately

Whose fruit bit by bit acquires

The bitter taste of liberty."

a)

Identity And Awareness

b)

Effects Of Colonialism

c)

Oppression And Humiliation

35.
Where the true meaning behind a statement is intentionally quite the opposite of its literal meaning.
a)
pun
b)
hyperbole
c)
irony
d)
simile
36.

It is the perspective from which a story is told.

a)

Literary terms

b)

characterization

c)

Point of View

d)

narrator

37.
Name another book written by Mark Twain besides The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
a)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b)
The Adventures of a River Pilot
c)
The Adventures of a Hopping Frog
d)
The Adventures of My Life
38.

Doctor Faustus seeks the power of

a)

money

b)

rule

c)

forbidden knowledge

d)

love

39.

Poems written by Christopher Marlowe include

a)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, a pastoral poem

b)

Hero and Leander, mythological poem about two ill-fated lovers

c)

The Flea

d)

The Merchant of Venice

40.

What poetic form is Robert Browning most known for?

a)

Elegies

b)

Epics

c)

Pastorals

d)

Dramatic Monologues

41.

How does the poetic style of Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess' reinforce the poem's thematic focus?

a)

The free verse mirrors the poem's focus on how art allows people to free themselves from death.

b)

The free verse mirrors the poem's focus on freedom that goes beyond the bounds of morality.

c)

The obvious rhyming couplets mirror the poem's preoccupation with deliberate, artificial framing.

d)

The rhyming couplets that sound like natural speech mirror the poem's preoccupation with art and reality.

42.

Which of the following is a re-rendering of 'Loan and Cythna'?

a)

Alaster

b)

Zastrozzi

c)

Prometheus Unbound

d)

Adonais

43.

What are the two parts of a Petrarchan sonnet?

a)

octave and sestet

b)

octave and sextet

c)

quartet and couplet

d)

quartet and quatrain

44.

What type of sonnet is John Milton's works?

a)

Petrarchan

b)

Spenserian

c)

Elizabethan

d)

Shakespearean

45.

What part of John Milton's sonnets represent the conflict he is suffering from?

a)

Couplet

b)

Octave

c)

Sestet

d)

Quatrain

46.

Who are the two most prominent figures in the English literature?

a)

William Blake and John Milton

b)

Jane Austen and John Milton

c)

J.K. Rowling and William Blake

d)

William Shakespeare and John Milton

47.

John Keats is known as -----------

a)

Romantic poet

b)

Realistic poet

c)

Modern poet

d)

none

48.

Who is the writer of the following lines mentioned below:


My mother bore me in the southern wild,

And I am Black, but oh! my soul is white;

a)

William Blake

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

None of the above

49.

Which one is not a work written by William Shakespeare?

a)

A Midsummer night's Dream

b)

Hamlet

c)

Macbeth

d)

Robinson Crusoe

50.

Who is called as Morning Star of Renaissance?

a)

Chaucer

b)

Milton

c)

Dryden

51.

Who is the author of Holy Sonnets?

a)

John

b)

John Milton

c)

John Donne

52.

Who is the author of "Why Are Filipinos So Poor"?

a)

Francisco Balagtas

b)

Francisco Sionil José

c)

Jose Rizal

d)

Manuel Quezon

53.

Who is the author of "Footnote to Youth"?

a)

Francisco Sionil Jose

b)

Jose Garcia Villa

c)

Amadis Ma. Guerrero

d)

Jose Rizal

54.

Which one of the following descriptions most accurately describes George Orwell?

a)

Socialist

b)

Capitalist

c)

Tsarist

d)

Bourgeosie

55.

Which of the following is not written by Shakespeare?

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Venus and Adonis

c)

Othello

d)

Macbeth

56.

Who wrote Sherlock Holmes?

a)

Poe

b)

King

c)

Austen

d)

Doyle

57.

Which writer is known for the heroic couplet?

a)

Jonathan Swift

b)

Alexander Pope

c)

Daniel Defoe

d)

Joseph Addison

58.
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or in a stresses syllable.
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
oxymoron
d)
pun
59.

The Romantic Age was the age of

a)

Prose Fiction

b)

Lyric

c)

Drama

d)

Epic

60.

ANALOGY:

If Formalism is to Literary Devices,

then ____ is to Ladies' Lives.

a)

Structuralism

b)

Feminism

c)

Marxism

61.

LITERARY CRITICISM:

Identify the approach used...

The song FIREWORK by Katy Perry is rich in the use of the METAPHOR.

a)

Formalism

b)

Feminism

c)

Marxism

d)

Structuralism

e)

Historical

62.

It refers to the genre of writing whereby an author critiques a literary text. Literary texts include poetry and works of fiction like short story, fables, fairytales, plays, myths, and novels.

a)

literature

b)

master piece

c)

critiquing

d)

literary criticism

63.

Why is it important to criticize a literary piece?

a)

helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature

b)

allows study different points of view

c)

enables judge if A certain literary work is worth reading

d)

all of the above

64.

It analyzes a work in its eventful context and understanding the its period, author’s background and how it directly affect the author and possibly the characters of the text.

a)

HISTORICAL

b)

FEMINIST

c)

MORALIST

d)

FORMALIST

65.

Which of the following does not talk about historical criticism?

a)

It sees literature as both a reflection and product of the times and circumstances in which it is written.

b)

It describes everything the characters see or gives a complete history of where the scene occurs.

c)

It gives enough information to help readers understand a text better using its history as background.

d)

It criticizes historical figures who played part in treachery and betrayal.

66.
The message of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is that lying is bad.
--
What is this an example of?
a)
Mood
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Rhythm
d)
Theme
67.
What is RHYME SCHEME?
a)
The beat of a poem.
b)
Rhymes occurring inside the LINES of a poem.
c)
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ENDS of the LINES of a poem. (Marked with A, B, etc.)
d)
The "paragraph" of a poem.
68.

What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem?

--

Roses are red,

We have the flu.

I can't smell anything

And neither can you.

a)

A, C, A, B

b)

A, B, C, B

c)

A, B, C, C

d)

A, B, A, B

69.
A sentence, phrase, or word arranged into a single row.
a)
line
b)
stanza
c)
rhythm
d)
anonymous
70.

The very first book printed in the Philippines in 1593.

a)

DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA

b)

QURAN

c)

HOLY BIBLE

d)

NINAY

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