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TABLE OF SPECIFICATION IN
CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND OF THE WORLD
QUARTER 3
S.Y. 2023-2024
Most Essential Learning Competencies
No. of
days
COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION
EASY
AVERAGE
DIFFICULT
(60%=30 items)
(30%=15 items)
(10%=5 items)
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Total
No. of
Items
Writing a close analysis and critical interpretation of literary texts, applying a reading approach and doing an adaptation of these, require from
the learner the ability to:
1. Identify representative texts and authors
1,2,3,4,5,
from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin
5
10
6,7,8,9,10
America, and Africa
2. Explain the texts in terms of literary
21,22,23,
3
5
elements, genres, and traditions
24,25
3. Situate the texts in the context of the
31,32,33,
3
5
region, nation and the world.
34,35
4. Appreciate the cultural and aesthetic
46,47,48,
3
5
diversity of literature of the world
49,50
5. Compare and contrast the various 21st
century literary genres and their elements,
41,42,43,
3
5
structures, and traditions from across the
44,45
globe
6. Distinguish the literary uses of language
from the non-literary and understand their
11,12,13,
3
5
use as well as the formal features and
14,15
conventions of literature
7. Identify figures of speech and other literary
16,17,18,
3
5
techniques and devices in the text.
19,20
8. Explain the biographical, linguistic, sociocultural and discuss how they enhance the
texts meaning and the reader’s
understanding
9. Examine the relationship between text and
context.
Total
26,27,28,
29,30
3
5
36,37,38,
39,40
3
35
20
10
5
5
5
5
5
50
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND OF THE WORLD
QUARTER 3
Name: __________________________________
Grade & Section: ______________
A. Below is the list of 21st century literary pieces and authors from Asia, North America,
Europe and Latin America written by different featured authors. Write A if you think
it is from Asia. Write NA for North America, Eu for Europe, LA for Latin America,
and Af for Africa.
_______1. Goblin
________6. Noel Coelho
_______2. Ant-man
________7. J.K. Rowling
_______3. Harry Potter
________8. Stan Lee
_______4. The Alchemist
________9. Lang Leav
_______5. Sea of Strangers
________10. Kim Eun Sook
B. True or False. Write LT if the sentence describe the features of literary text
and NLT if it describes non-literary texts.
______________11. These are texts that are typically written to convey
information, provide instructions, or persuade readers.
______________12. These are texts that have a less clear structure and may use
techniques such as flashbacks, stream of consciousness, or
non-linear narratives.
______________13. It uses clear and direct language as well as technical or
specialized vocabulary.
______________14. Uses a variety of tones depending on author’s purpose, such
as humorous, sarcastic or melancholic.
______________15. These are texts that use more complex and figurative
language often with poetic or symbolic symbols
C.
Identify the figures of speech used in the sentences below.
16. The dragonfly huge like a blue thread loomed from the sky.
17. Each flower has wept and bowed toward the east.
18. Ten thousand daffodils saw I at a glance.
19. Mighty Hades, why, they power hovers!
20. Her speech is a newly sharpened scythe.
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D. Read the poem and explain the the texts in terms of literary elements, genres,
and traditions. Complete the table after the poem.
ATLANTIS-A Lost Sonnet
Eavan Boland/ Ireland
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city —
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
Genre/Elements
used in the sonnet
Example:
Figure of speech
21. Point of View
22. Attitude
23. Theme
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to conveyAnswers
that what is gone is gone foreverExplanation
and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
Extended
Compares the lost city of Atlantis
and drowned it.
Metaphor
to the sorrows of people
24. Genre
25. Speaker’s Tone
E. Read the following statements. Write the letter with the correct answer in your
answer sheet.
26. Which of the following best describes a text’s biographical context?
a. The text’s vocabulary, sentence structures, and literary form.
b. The beliefs, education, culture, and experiences of the author.
c. The reader’s own experiences, culture, education, and beliefs.
d. The events and ideas that surround an author and help shape his or her writing.
27. In analyzing a text based on its biographical context, a reader ________.
a. Identifies the images used by the author
b. compares the literary work to other works
c. gathers relevant facts about the author’s life
d. examines the style and techniques used by the author
28. Which of the following should not be considered in reading through a biographical context?
a. Educational background
c. political
b. Figurative language
d. social
29. What do you call a term which means goes beyond words in understanding the meaning of
a literary text?
a. context
c. linguistic
b. biographical
d. socio-cultural
30. Which factor does not influence by context?
a. author’s life
c. society
b. language
d. concept
31. Which book contains a number of speeches by Confucius written down by his disciples?
a. Analects
c. Great learning
b. Doctrine of Mean
d. Spring and Autumn Annals
32. Asian literature includes works produced in the following languages except one. Which one
is it?
a. Chinese
c. Filipino
b. Hindu Filipino
d. French
33. Which of the following is considered as the golden age of art and literature in Chinese
history?
a. Qin Dynasty
c. Tang Dynasty
b. Shang Dynasty
d. Zhou Dynasty
34. Which of these works is written in Middle English?
a. The Canterbury Tales
c. The Merchant of Venice
b. The Importance of Being Earnest
d. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
35. Which period is the golden age of lyric poetry?
a. Elizabethan Period
c. Twentieth Century Period
b. Romantic Period
d. Victorian Period
36. What does the persona likely feel about his situation?
A Poem by Du FU
The river’s blue, the bird a perfect white,
The mountain green with flowers about the blaze,
I’ve watched the spring pass away again,
When will I be able to return?
a. Contentment
b. Excitement
c. Fear
d. Weariness
For numbers 37-40, read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Song VII
My song has put off her adornments,
She has no pride of dress and decoration.
Ornaments would mar our union;
they would come between thee and me;
their jingling would drown thy whispers.
My poet’s vanity dies in shame before thy sight.
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet.
Only let me take my life simple and straight,
37. What tone does the phrase, “O master poet” help create?
a. A casual, personal tone
c. a formal, respectful tone
b. A dark, threatening tone
d. a sad, regretful tone
38. The speaker of the poem believes that the addressee is superior to him or her. What lines
from the poem support this conclusion?
a. Lines 1 and 2
c. Lines 4 and 5
b. Lines 3 and 4
d. Lines 6 and 7
39. What might be an example of the “jingling” ornaments that the speaker refers to lines 3-5?
a. A bell
c. a diamond necklace
b. A keychain
d. rhyme
40. What is the theme of the poem?
a. Expensive jewellery is often a sign of vanity.
b. Music is more worthwhile art than poetry.
c. Uncertainty is a necessary evil in art and life.
d. One should try to achieve simplicity in art and in life.
H. Compare and contrast 21st Century literary genre with their elements, structures and
traditions using the graphic organizer below. (41-45).
Science Fiction versus Digi-Fiction
I. After learning the different features of literature from Asia, North America, Latin America,
Europe, and Africa, write a stanza poem with 4 lines each to show your appreciation of
the beauty of their culture presented in their masterpieces. (46-50)