WorksheetsPhilippine Literature
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 33mins
Literature is derived from the Latin word littera meaning "writing formed with letters".
True
False
Literature is not a part of history.
True
False
Literature helps us address human nature and conditions which affect all people.
True
False
Figurative Language is a word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition.
True
False
We are building critical thinking skills when we are reading literature.
True
False
When we are reading a country's literature, we are also reading their history.
True
False
The Philippines' history started only in 1521.
True
False
A divinity of the ancient Tagalogs where his power and goodness were devoted to the interests of the people to whom he was the almighty protector.
(a)
The two types of literature are prose and (a) .
(a) refers to any written work that follows a basic grammatical structure.
(a) are long narratives divided into chapters and events are taken from true-to-life stories.
(a) are merely products of the writer’s imagination and the main aim is to bring out lessons to the reader.
(a) deals with the life of a person which may be about himself, his autobiography or that of others.
(a) is a formal treatment of a subject and is intended to be spoken in public.
Biag ni Lam-ang is an epic story of the ___________________ people.
Maranao
Ilocano
Bagobo
Visayan
(a) is an extended narrative about heroic exploits often under supernatural control.
Elegy is a lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief and melancholy, and whose theme is ___________________.
melancholic
sky
nature
death
(a) arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character.
(a) seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines, situations are too ridiculous to be true, the characters seem to be caricatures and the motives undignified and absurd.
___________________ is a reflection of our emotions written artistically to keep readers engaged as they embark on a journey inside a poet’s complex mind.
Symbolism
Imagery
Metaphor
Poetry
(a) often have only one or two traits with little description about them.
This element of fiction can function as a main force that the characters encounter, such as a tornado or flood, or can play a minor role in the story.
Character
Theme
Setting
Plot
Gustav Freytag, a German playwright who lived during the 1800s, identified the structure (a) which was used to trace the plot of a story.
This part of the pyramid includes the events that the main character encounters wherein each event, developed in separate scenes, makes the problem more complex.
(a)
This point of view means that the narrator limits him/herself by being able to be in one character’s thoughts.
(a)
This Tagalog divinity was said to have never married after his love was spurned by a beautiful mortal maiden.
Dumangan
Amanikabli
Dumakulem
Ikapati
In Tagalog divinities, she is said to be the beautiful mortal maiden that spurned the love of the god of the seas.
Ikapati
Mayari
Tala
Maganda
As the benevolent giver of food and prosperity, she was respected and loved by the people. Who is this Tagalog divinity?
Anagolay
Idianali
Ikapati
Apolaki
The earthly belongings of the deceased person were buried with him because it was believed that the spirit of the said person would need these things during his journey to the other world.
True
False
The third agent of Sitan whose duty was to emit fire at night, especially when the night was dark and the weather was not good.
Mankukulam
Manisilat
Mangagauay
Sitan
This fiend could be seen walking along dark trails and ·lonely paths without her head, hands or feet, because her work was to frighten people to death.
Manisilat
Mangagauay
Mananangal
Hukluban
Among the Bontok and Kankanai groups of the Mountain Province, he was described to be the creator of all things and the preserver of life.
Malayari
Akasi
Manglubar
Lumawig
The minor god assisting Kabunian who is said to be the gods of household who were held to be the souls of ancestors long departed, resembling the Roman lares.
Kabigat
Bulol
Obban
Balitok
To a great extent, miscarriages among the Ifugao mothers were attributed to these deities.
Gatui
Tayaban
Kikilan
Bakayauwan
The god of death who revealed themselves to the world in the form of tiny, flying monsters covered with shiny scales, so that they look like fireflies during nighttime.
Mahipnat
Tayaban
Bibao
Halupi
The spirits of remembrance who pestered the debtors with recollections of debts, calmed the controversants to accede to the demands of their creditors, and had a wide field of usefulness in commercial transactions and love affairs.
Bibao
Mahipnat
Fili
Halupi
The Sulod of Central Panay, in Western Bisayas, conceived of the universe as divided into three regions. Which one of these is not?
lbabawnun
Pansurunun
Idadalmunun
Pagtung-an
Kaptan, who was the principal of the important deity of the early Bisayans, lived in Kahilwayan and, whenever he wanted to go down to the world, he passed through the (a) in Panay.
The god of sickness in the ancient Bisayan world who was considered by the natives as an evil god because he went out frequently to send disease to ravage the village during lean seasons.
Banig
Hidit
Hipags
Makaptan
It was also believed in those days that when a man died, his soul would have to pass the infernal regions before it could be admitted in Kahilwayan if any one of his relatives would offer sacrifice to ______________________, Sidapa' s spokesman.
Pandaque
Paigrab
Matanayon
Paiburung
The highest god of the Bagobos of Mindanao whose gifts should always be wrapped with white and should be placed in the center and above the offerings intended for other spirits.
Magsanladung Badoy
Luyong Kabig
Pamulak Manobo
Ginbitinan
The mischievous spirits who disguised themselves in the human form and abducted women and children whom they fed with snakes and worms in their mountain abode.
Pabuaya
Panlinugon
Sir'ing
Luyong Baybay
Haraya heard a giggle of a newborn baby while she was on the market.
onomatopoeia
synecdoche
oxymoron
metaphor
Alone together was my favorite movie.
Simile
Allusion
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Tarabumo was the guardian of the crops and it was for him that the shrine known as __________ was erected in the center of the rice fields.
Ikapati
Tungkung Langit
Mayari
Parobanian
She is as beautiful as a flower.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
I heard the rustling of the leaves as you walked by.
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
The (a) , written and chanted by the Mangyans, are songs about nature, childhood, human relationships, hospitality.
She was the Helen of Troy in her class.
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Allusion
Alliteration
She sells seashells
by the seashore.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
