This document contains a cloze test with multiple choice questions about literature terms. It asks the test taker to identify terms like prose, fiction, context, climax, protagonist, and villain. It also contains incomplete statements about literature that require filling in blanks with terms like significance, resolution, aesthetic, function, form, learning, prose, poetry, universal, inspirational, aesthetic, distinctive, enduring, thought-provoking, and evocative. The document provides homework assignments to write a paragraph on why we need to study 21st century literature and to research elements of fiction and literary devices with examples.

1. Name:__________________________________________ Section:_______________
Date:______________
I. CLOZE TEST. Use the words or phrases in the box to complete the sentences. Write the letter of your answer.
a. Protagonist d. Local Color g. Context j. Climax
b. Non-fiction e. Communication h. Prose k. Villain
c. Poetry f. Fiction i. Language l. Dulce
(1.) ____________ is a type of literature, which can be characterized by its ordinariness of form and structure and
strong resemblance to man’s pattern of everyday speech. The opposite of this is (2.) ____________.
(3.) ____________ refers to the techniques in writing by which native or indigenous symbols or images are
integrated in the
(4.) ____________ of the literary text.
(5.) ____________ is the prime medium of literature. It is both an art and a form of (6.) ____________.
(7.) A work of ____________ is said to be drawn from the author’s imagination. (8.) ____________ is the opposite
of this.
(9.) The ____________ is a character in a fictional work who is always opposed by the antagonist.
(10.) ____________ is the peak or the most important part of the plot.
II. COMPLETING STATEMENTS. Fill in the blanks with words or phrases that will complete the statements.
(11.) Literature mirrors and highlights significant ____________.
(12.) ____________ refers to the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story.
(13.) ____________ principle sees literature as a form of art that serves no other purpose than to be beautiful. It is
created for, amusement as opposed to having some sort of function.
(14.) ____________ refers to what literature can offer to its readers in effect while (15.) ____________ refers to
excellence of literary form which relates to the idea that literature must have aesthetic value or sense.
(16.) Literature is from a Latin word litteratura, which means acquaintance with ____________, and from litteratus,
learning.
(17.) Literature covers both ____________ and (18.)____________ forms of works, which manifest the Literary
Standards.
(19.) ____________- it appeals to everyone, regardless of culture, race, sex, and time which are all considered
significant.
(20.) ____________- it uplifts the spirit and the soul by bringing moral value that has power to motivate and
inspire.
(21.) ____________- it has aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty.
(22.) ____________- it presents peculiar ways on how man sees life as evidence by the formation his or her ideas,
form, and structure, and expressions, which are marked by their memorable substance.
(23.) ____________- endures across time
(24.) ____________- it stimulates critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reason, making
man realize the fundamental of truths of life and its nature.
(25.) ____________- it unravels man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images
and messages, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience.
HOMEWORK #____. Answer this in your Big Notebook. Write a 6-8 sentence paragraph to answer the question
below.
Why do we need to study 21st
Century Literature?
HOMEWORK #____. Research the elements of fiction and literary devices. Include one example for each literary
device.