21st Century Literature

Question 1

__________ operates on the idea
that any literary text is autonomous
- that is, it should be read as
something beyond the influence of
culture or society.

Answer 1

Formalism

Question 2

▪ This means that good literature,
through competent language, renews
our perception of familiar things.
▪ In the poem, “The God We
Worship Live Next Door,” the
person defamiliarizes the gods by
making them powerless, human-like
and die like any human being.

Answer 2

Russian Formalism

Question 3

(defamiliarization)

Answer 3

Victor Shklovsky

Question 4

“Close Reading” – textual
reading that leaves out authorial
and other external influences

Answer 4

New Criticism

Question 5

mistake
of reading a text based on the
author’s “intended” meaning.

Answer 5

Intentional Fallacy

Question 6

mistake
of reading a text based on the
author’s “intended” meaning.

Answer 6

Intentional Fallacy

Question 7

mistake
of reading a text through the
reader’s emotions.

Answer 7

Affective Fallacy

Question 8

It is a critical approach that
relates the text to the larger,
wider structure through inter-
textual connections or repetitive
patterns.

Answer 8

Structuralism

Question 9

He introduced the concepts of
language and parole.

Answer 9

Ferdinand de Saussure

Question 10

26 November 1857–22February1913

Answer 10

Ferdinand De Saussure

Question 11

Pertains to
the universal
structure of a
language

Answer 11

Langue

Question 12

Consists of
specific
speech
utterances.

Answer 12

Parole

Question 13

_____ ____ a German philosopher and scholar
who theorized about society and history.
➢ With his collaborator and fellow German
______ _____ they wrote books, articles, and
pamphlets declaring that all of history has been
a history of class struggles.

Answer 13

Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels,

Question 14

He believed that society is based on an unjust
system that privileges capitalism over the working
class, and this system, because of capitalism’s
insatiable desire for profit, will inevitably
collapse.
➢Concerned with understanding the role of
power, politics, and money in literary text.

El Filibusterismo through a Marxist
lens, he/she will have to see how
social divisions are depicted in the
text, say, in the opening chapter
entitled “On the Upper Deck.
”

Answer 14

Marxism

Question 15

The term
“Deconstructionism”
was coined by?

Answer 15

French
philosopher Jacques
Derrida.

Question 16

“It rejects the binary
opposition of
Structuralism, thus shows
that
meaning is indefinite and
undecidable.

Answer 16

POSTSTRUCTURALISM: DECONSTRUCTION

Question 17

New Historicism

Answer 17

MICHAEL FAUCALT

Question 18

In this approach, history is nothing
but a narrative text that is
contaminated by people’s personal
biases, assumptions, etc., under the
influence of the culture to which they
belong.

Answer 18

New Historicism

Question 19

In this approach,
a text was read
within a social
context.

In particular; it analyzes textual
representations from the
woman’s perspective like
stereotyping and
“objectification” of womanhood.

Answer 19

Feminism

Question 20

Feminism

Answer 20

Simone de Beauvoir, Rosa Luxemberg, and Hannah Arendt

Question 21

Imaginative awareness of
experience
❑ A specific emotional response
❑ Meaning, Sound, and Rhythm.

Answer 21

Poetry

Question 22

It is an area of a city where poor
people live and the buildings are in
bad conditions.

Answer 22

Slum

Question 23

It means to burn slightly.

Answer 23

Singe

Question 24

It means to burn and damage the
surface of something with strong
and sudden heat.

Answer 24

Sear

Question 25

It is a strong or
disagreeable fume or odor.

Answer 25

Reek

Question 26

It is the quality or state
of being improper.

Answer 26

Impropriety

Question 27

It means to give pleasure
or amusement to someone.

Answer 27

Regale

Question 28

It means to fill with
food to capacity.

Answer 28

Gorge

Question 29

It is a feeling to desire or need
for food; lacking money or
material possession.

Answer 29

Famish

Question 30

COUP DE
GRACE by?

Answer 30

DR. NOEL CHRISTIAN
MORATILLA

Question 31

He finished his Bachelor of Arts
in Education degree at
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng
Maynila in 1999.

Answer 31

DR. NOEL CHRISTIAN
MORATILLA

Question 32

This is the shortest type of prose fiction.
❖ It is also known as “Short story,”
“Micro-Fiction,” “Micro-Narrative,” and
“Sudden Fiction.

Answer 32

Flash fiction

Question 33

It is also known as
“Smoking-Long” story
in China.
➢ Daglit

Answer 33

BOB BATCHELOR

Question 34

What are
the three themes
of the poem
“coup de grace?

Answer 34

✓ Dictatorship
✓ Government
✓ Empty promises of dictator

Question 35

• Is a group of words that
uses mobile gadgets.
• It is consisting of four lines and
seven syllables, and every ending
of lines has rhyme words.

• In 2009, the National
Commission for Culture and the
Arts (NCCA) organized a
Textula Competition as part of
the celebration of the National
Arts Month and the
International Arts Festival.

Answer 35

Text Tula or Textula

Question 36

Textula

Answer 36

FRANK RIVERA

Question 37

The Basic Rhyme Scheme or
____

Answer 37

AAAA

Question 38

The Enclosed Rhyme Scheme or
____

Answer 38

ABBA
(Also known as INIPIT)

Question 39

The Alternate Rhyme Scheme or
____

Answer 39

ABAB
(Also known as SALITAN)

Question 40

The ____ Rhyme Scheme
(Also known as SUNURAN)

Answer 40

AABB

Question 41

Flip top/Rap Battle

Answer 41

•Rap
•Disc jockeying
•Break dancing
• Old Balagtasan
• Poetic Debate
• Poetic Jousting
• Poetic Wrestling

Question 42

Which is the
poetry
component.

Answer 42

Content

Question 43

The use of
rhythm and
rhyme.

Answer 43

Flow

Question 44

Pertains to
the
performance.

Answer 44

Delivery