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1. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and attitude of
literature of ancient Greek and Rome?
A. Romanticism
B. Realism
C. Classicism
D. Naturalism
E. Existentialism
2. Platos idea about the art of poetry is expressed in treatise _________?
A. The Republic
B. Poetics
C. Ars Poetica
D. On The Sublime
E. Ion
3. He believes that reality exists when the thing or object or emotion is lasting.
A. Aristotle
B. Sophocles
C. Plato
D. Longinus
E. Sappho
4. It is a narrative technique utilized by Homer and Sophocles in their plot scheme.
A. flashback
B. media res
C. unity
D. foreshadowing
E. discovery
5. Longinus advanced his theory on poetry in which writings?
A. Ion
B. The Republic
C. Poetics
D. On The Sublime
E. Ars Poetica
C. The Reeve
D. The Wife of Bath
E. The King
17. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
A. The Sergeant /Man of Law
B. The Wife of Bath
C. The Reeve
D. The Pardoner
E. The Knight
18. In Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, what does the sea associate?
A. long life, freedom and rebirth
B. strong reflection, life and rebirth
C. searching, vision and rebirth
D. spiritual mystery, death and rebirth
E. life, death and rebirth
19. He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.
A. Soren Kierkegard
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Jonathan Edwards
E. Daniel Defoe
20. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary
day, 16 June 1904.The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homers Odyssey. Name
the author of Ulysses.
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Kenneth Grahame
C. Laurence Strene
D. James Joyce
E. Jonathan Swift
21. He is a king who ruled with the help of the knights of the round table.
A. King Henry I
B. King Arthur
C. King Alfred
D. King George IV
E. King Charles I
D. Phonetics
E. Phonemes
28. Oliver Cromwell belong to what party?
A. royalist
B. religious
C. peasants
D. round head
E. land owners
29. It refers to making art and literature accessible to the masses.
A. Popularization
B. Imagism
C. Formalism
D. Structuralism
E. Modern Criticism
30. The play Hamlet is a ________.
A. feminist
B. naturalist
C. existentialist
D. formalist
E. none of the above
31. It is also called The Apocalypse in Bible.
A. Genesis
B. Proverbs
C. Revelations
D. Psalm
E. Acts
32. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and childrens
poems.
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Edith Hamilton
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Christina Georgina Rossetti
E. Mary Shelley
33. The belief that the meaning or value of work may be determined by the authors
intention.
A. Tension
B. Intentional Fallacy
C. Affective Fallacy
D. Organic Unity
E. None of the above.
34. What work contains these lines:
There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . .
Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.
A. As You Like It
B. Morte Darthur
C. Piers Plowman
D. Canterbury Tales
E. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
35. It is the repetition of words at the beginnings of neighbor clauses.
A. cataphora
B. anaphora
C. conjunction
D. ellipses
E. parallelism
36. This is used to describe an expression that co-refers with a latter expression.
A. conjunction
B. anaphora
C. cathapora
D. coherence
E. cohesion
37. The repeated words with the same text.
A. coherence
B. cohesion
C. partial recurrence
D. recurrence
E. proform
38. A mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of some
parts.
A. paraphrase
B. ellipses
C. coherence
D. subordination
E. conjunction
39. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?
A. Animal Farm
B. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Uncle Toms Cabin
E. The Cask of Amontillado
40. A restatement of a text or passages.
A. parallelism
B. paraphrase
C. ellipses
D. conjunction
E. subordination
41. All of these statements are true except one.
A. The Mohenjo-Daro civilization flourished on 3000-2500 BC.
B. Inhabitants of these cities were dark-skinned.
C. Africans believe that hope for a better Africa lies in its ability to integrate.
D. A Picture in the Cellar discusses about of keeping memoirs.
E. The educated Africans are the hope of the African nations.
42. He is an essayist exemplified Elizabethan ideal of intellectual versatility in the 17 th
Century.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Oliver Cromwell
C. John Milton
D. John Donne
E. Francis Bacon
43. Which of these statements is false?
A. Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark novels.
B. Ramayana is attributed to Valmki.
C. Geoffrey Chaucer is the unofficial father of English Literature.
49. This approach attempts to explain the hows and whys of human action and can
exist side by side with any other critical method of interpretation.
A. New Criticism
B. Symbolism
C. Modern Criticism
D. Moral Criticism
E. Psychoanalytic Criticism
50. He translated The Fall of Princes from the French.
A. William Langland
B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. Geoffrey of Monmouth
D. John Lydgate
E. Giovanni Boccaccio
51. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is
called ____________?
A. Morphology
B. Phonology
C. Typology
D. Semantics
E. Syntax
52. How many Inflectional Morphemes are there in English?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8
53. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is
called ________________?
A. Morphological Typology
B. Word Based Morphology
C. Lexeme Based Morphology
D. Event Semantics
E. Linguistic Typology
54. These words are created by adding affixes to roots.
A. Word Borrowing
B. Compound Words
C. Trade Names
D. Clipping
E. Blending
55. It involves snipping a part of a word to create a shortened form.
A. Trade Names
B. Word Borrowing
C. Compounding
D. Blending
E. Clipping
56. The meaningful units of language are called ____________?
A. syntax
B. phoneme
C. allomorphs
D. morpheme
E. predicate
57. Words formed from the first letter or letters of more than one words is called
__________?
A. Derivation
B. Compounding
C. Blending
D. Clipping
E. Acronyms
58. Which one is NOT an open class of words?
A. noun
B. adjective
C. pronoun
D. verbs
E. adverbs
59. It is a relatively recently devised word/phrase that has not been accepted into
mainstream usage.
A. Allomorphs
B. Back Formation
C. Trade Names
D. Compounding
E. Neologism
60. It refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed
affixes.
A. Clipping
B. Word Borrowing
C. Back Formation
D. Blending
E. Trade Names
61. It is a morpheme that only appears as part of a larger word and the one that can
stand alone.
A. Free Morpheme
B. Bound Morpheme
C. Inflectional Morpheme
D. Derivational Morpheme
E. Allomorphs
62. It can function independently as words and can appear with other lexemes.
A. Free Morpheme
B. Bound Morpheme
C. Derivational Morpheme
D. Inflectional Morpheme
E. Allomorphs
63. It is the study of how languages change over time and the relationship among
different languages.
A. Applied Linguistics
B. Evolutionary Linguistics
C. Stylistics
D. Psycholinguistics
E. Historical Linguistics
64. It is a branch of linguistics that study of the cognitive processes and representations
underlying language use.
A. Neurolinguistics
B. Historical Linguistics
C. Stylistics
D. Psycholinguistics
E. Sociolinguistics
65. It is the study of the origin and subsequent development of language by the human
species.
A. Historical Linguistics
B. Developmental Linguistics
C. Evolutionary Linguistics
D. Sociolinguistics
E. Applied Linguistics
D. There are two components which contributes to language acquisition, these are
universal grammar and the environment.
E. Morphological Typology has divided into two main types: the analytic and semantic.
81. Which of the following are places of articulation?
A. nasal
B. plosive
C. dental
D. fricative
E. palatal
82. Which of the following statements are correct?
A. happy is a homonym of sad
B. finger is an antonym of hand
C. blue is a synonym of color
D. soccer is a hyponym of sports
E. The White House is a metonym of The United States Government
83. Which of the following is a common linguistic problem for someone learning a
second language?
A. attitude of the learner
B. age
C. phonology
D. ability to hear
E. cultural background
84. Egyptian hieroglyphics can best be characterized as
A. a phonological writing system.
B. a combination of a syllabic writing system with symbols representing important
religious concepts.
C. a logographic writing system.
D. a pictographic writing system.
E. a combination of ideographic elements with symbols representing linguistic sounds
85. Which of these sections of the brain plays an important part in language
production/comprehension?
A. Wernicke's area
B. Johnson's area
C. Parietal lobe
D. Broca's area
E. Motor cortex
86. Mark those of the examples below which are minimal pairs in English
A. thick /sick
B. sled / red
C. rope / rose
D. war / tore
E. miner / minor
87. Which one of the following demonstrates a sentence combining with a subordinator?
D. syntax
E. semantics
97. It is a writing system where the written graphemes correspond to phonemes.
A. Complex Orthography
B. Morpho-Phonemic Orthography
C. Phonemic Orthography
D. Lexicon
E. Graphology
98. __________ are sentence which are very long but it is needed to divided.
A. enjambment
B. run-on
C. lexeme
D. lexicon
E. phoneme
99. Which of the following is NOT an elements of the fields of orthography?
A. capitalization
B. pronunciation
C. word breaks
D. punctuation
E. hyphenation
100. It is a branch of linguistic analysis that consists of the study of phonemes and often
includes a study of their allophone.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonemes
C. Lexicon
D. Phonemics
E. Semantics
101. The branch of semantics that deals with the meaning of words.
A. Lexeme
B. Lexicon
C. Grapheme
D. Lexical
E. Structural
A. He wanted to do homework.
B. She did the homework.
C. The girl wanted to do the homework.
D. The boy did the homework.
E. The teacher went home early after her last subject.
106. Which sentence is an example of hypercorrection?
A. The meal was just right for you and I.
B. You and I had a great time at dinner.
C. Our friends waited until you and I got there.
D. Our friends are just right for you and me.
E. You and me are true friends for life.
107. In etymology of words, which of the following words can best describe as a form of
drinking substance like wine?
A. liquor
B. liquid
C. water
D. ice
E. alcohol
108. Which of the following sentence structure matches the sentence given above?
Listening to the music as a hobby is enjoyable.
111. It is a visual model and a pictorial device that presents the bands of experience
arranged according to degree of abstraction and not the degree of difficulty.
A. Blooms Taxonomy of Learning
B. Dales Cone of Experience
C. Bruners 3-Tiered Model of Learning
D. Gagnes Outcomes of Learning
E. Carrols Model of School Learning
112. According to him, the teachers role is to guide and facilitate rather than to direct.
A. Howes
B. Jacetot
C. Silberman
D. Patterson
E. Greene
113. Which of the following is NOT an Effective Teaching?
A. A strong supportive head
B. Systems of monitoring students progress
C. High expectations for students achievement
D. Available/ Sustainable
E. Level of Cognitive Instruction
114. He is the proponent of the Three-Tiered Model Of Learning.
A. Jerome Bruner
B. Edgar Dale
C. Eliot W. Eisner
D. Noam Chomsky
E. Robert Gagne
115. It serve as the foundation of learning; first hand experiences through seeing,
touching, tasting and smelling.
A. Contrived Experiences
B. Dramatic Experiences
C. Direct Purposeful Experience
D. Demonstrations
E. Exhibits
116. It serve as representative model or mock-up for reality so as to make the real life
accessible to students perception and understanding.
A. Contrived Experiences
B. Dramatic Experiences
C. Direct Purposeful Experience
D. Demonstrations
E. Exhibits
117. These are educational visits to observe event that is unavailable within the
classroom.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
118. These are displays for the spectators, consist of working models arranged
meaningfully or photographs with models, charts, or posters.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
119. These are highly abstract and no longer in realistic reproduction of physical things
like charts, graphs, maps and diagrams.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
120. It shows how things are done to visualize explanations o a fact, idea or process by
use of photos, drawings, films, displays, or guided motions.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
126. This uses understanding human behavior and the reason that govern such
behavior.
A. Qualitative Research
B. Descriptive Research
C. Developmental Research
D. Experimental Research
E. Quantitative Research
127. This serve as answer to the questions raised to the beginning of the investigation.
A. Hypothesis
B. Synthesis
C. Research Problem
D. Conclusion
E. Theoretical Framework
128. It is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time
under study.
A. Primary Sources
B. Secondary Sources
C. Related Studies
D. Related Literature
E. Research Problem
129. It interprets and analyses the primary source and these sources are one or more
steps removed from the event.
A. Primary Sources
B. Secondary Sources
C. Related Studies
D. Related Literature
E. Research Problem
130. It focuses on the discussion regarding a certain phenomena that could be testable
descriptively or experimentally.
A. Primary Sources
B. Secondary Sources
C. Related Studies
D. Related Literature
E. Research Problem
131. It is for the reason that students become familiar with many different linguistic
forms, communication functions and meanings.
A. Literature for cultural enrichment
B. Literature as a valuable authentic material
C. Literature for language enrichment
D. Literature for personal involvement
E. Literature as a venue for learning for other skills
132. It is for the reason that a work explains how communication takes place in such
country.
A. Literature for cultural enrichment
B. Literature as a valuable authentic material
C. Literature for language enrichment
D. Literature for personal involvement
E. Literature as a venue for learning for other skills
133. It is for the reason that a text can introduce a wide range of individual lexical or
syntactic items.
A. Literature for cultural enrichment
B. Literature as a valuable authentic material
C. Literature for language enrichment
D. Literature for personal involvement
E. Literature as a venue for learning for other skills
134. For this reason, a student begins to inhabit the text or he is drawn into it.
A. Literature for cultural enrichment
B. Literature as a valuable authentic material
C. Literature for language enrichment
D. Literature for personal involvement
E. Literature as a venue for learning for other skills
135. This characteristic is done by establishing lifelong reading habits.
A. Encourages his students to read and motivates a positive outlook towards it.
B. A creative, innovative, inquisitive, and prudent teacher.
C. Practices what he preaches.
D. Establishes an appropriate environment on learning.
E. Appreciate literature as an art.
136. The teacher seems to have read all books and knows what suits the students.
A. Encourages his students to read and motivates a positive outlook towards it.
B. A creative, innovative, inquisitive, and prudent teacher.
C. Practices what he preaches.
D. Establishes an appropriate environment on learning.
E. Appreciate literature as an art.
137. Here, the teacher guides the students as a community of learners to explore and
find meaning in their reading.
A. Encourages his students to read and motivates a positive outlook towards it.
B. A creative, innovative, inquisitive, and prudent teacher.
C. Practices what he preaches.
D. Establishes an appropriate environment on learning.
E. Appreciate literature as an art.
138. Here, she has an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter; she observes students
behavior and preferences, gathers data and analyzes the findings to improve learning.
A. Encourages his students to read and motivates a positive outlook towards it.
B. A creative, innovative, inquisitive, and prudent teacher.
C. Practices what he preaches.
D. Establishes an appropriate environment on learning.
E. Appreciate literature as an art.
139. According to surveys, what is the reading interest of high school students today?
A. Classical or traditional novels
B. Science fiction, adventure, mystery, sports
C. Romances, mystery, adventure, among others
D. Contemporary novels
E. All kinds of books
140. What kind of literature do boys prefer to read?
A. Classical or traditional novels
B. Science fiction, adventure, mystery, sports
C. Romances, mystery, adventure, among others
D. Contemporary novels
E. All kinds of books
141. On the other hand, what kind of literature do girls prefer to read?
A. Classical or traditional novels
B. Science fiction, adventure, mystery, sports
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Theriomorphic
153. These are stories of gods and goddesses that explained natural events.
A. Myths
B. Epics
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Theriomorphic
154. Mythical beings which include gods and goddesses who resemble animals.
A. Mythology
B. Theriomorphic
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Epics
155. A knowledge that is transmitted from one generation to another by word of mouth
or imitation.
A. Mythology
B. Creation Myths
C. Explanatory Myths
D. Folklore
E. Legend
156. He is the first person to use the term Folklore.
A. Homer
B. Stith Thompson
C. William Thoms
D. Max Muller
E. Euhemerus
157. It is said that myths began as allegories for natural phenomena.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowskis Theory
158. All people recognize that a frontier exists between what man can do and cannot
explain logically.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowskis Theory
159. In its most extreme form, this theory claims that myth arose to explain rituals.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowskis Theory
160. It is said that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowskis Theory
161. It is also known as Theory of Mythopoeic thought resulted from the personification
of inanimate objects and forces.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowskis Theory
162. Try to explain geographical features such as rivers, lakes and oceans and the
death of man.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
163. Try to explain the origin of the world and the birth of the gods and goddesses.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
164. It is the gods and goddesses who resembles human being.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
165. People use symbols to explain the world and they used humans, animals and
plants symbolizes some events.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
166. It is the place where demons, gods and goddesses and also the souls of the dead
live.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
167. It tells the story of heroes in the ancient time.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
168. It explains how to live a human life under any circumstances.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
169. This function explains the social aspects of human by supporting and validating a
certain social order.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
170. It is the function that explains the shape of the universe.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
171. It has experiencing the awe of the universe.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
172. He is the supreme ruler of the Olympians and the lord of the sky.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
173. He is the ruler of the sea and commonly called Earth Shaker.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
E. Hestia
180. In Roman Mythology, he is the ruler of the gods.
A. Saturn
B. Jupiter
C. Mercury
D. Mars
E. Bacchus
Which part of the sentence is erroneous?
181. My friends and my neighbors cooperates in the livelihood project. No error.
A
B
C
D
E
182. Either Porfirito or the engineers extends assistance to the aged and the sick.
A
B
C
D
No error.
E
183. President De Leon present the accomplishments of the University
A
B
C
annually. No error.
D
E
184. I am sorry. I am already tired. I cannot walk any further. No error.
A
B
C
D
E
185. Several was invited but few attended the birthday party. No error.
A
B
C
D
E
186. The following statements about communication are true except one.
A. Communication is a continuous process.
B. Communication is a multilevel of activity.
C. Communication is unpredictable.
D. Messages, not meanings are communicated.
E. Every communication has two messages, a content message and a relational
message.
190.
191.
192.
Directions: Read the following poem of Sappho. Use the theory of Longinus in analyzing
its content and structure. Then synthesize its pronouncements/stand in the art of poetic
aesthetics.
Ode to a Loved One
(1) He appears to me like unto the gods,
(2) That man, who opposite you
(3) Sits and to you speaking a sweet word.
(4) He replies,
(5) To your lovely daughter. Truly that
(6) Flutters my heart in my breast
197. What vehement emotions are expressed by the poem in lines 13 and 14?
A. love
B. jealousy
C. awe
D. envy
E. anger
Directions: Read the excerpt. Answer the questions after it by encircling your choice.
I like the one who fights back, he said, pleased with himself, At least, my son-inlaw is going to stand up and fight You wonder why can I talk freely? I have influenced
and, most important, money. These give me a sense of true freedom. I see nothing
wrong in appreciating money. Every priests appreciate money.
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Prepared by:
Jessica Marie S. Borromeo
BSE-English/ IV-E
Answer Key
1. C
2. E
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