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1. Among Filipinos, the characteristic that makes English difficult to

understand is that it is a strange language.

2. ESP is centered on language appropriate to various activities that can

relate well with grammar, lexis, register, discourse, and genre.

3. In a performance-based assessment in ESP, using a rubric is best

applicable to oral interview.

4. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is known as a shopper’s paradise.

5. An example of word-formation processes that changes “kindergarten”

to kinder and “air conditioning” to “aircon” is known as clipping.

6. A speaker should change the language according to the needs of the

listener or based on the dictate of the situation. This is NOT done by
sophisticating the language by using high terminologies for basal
learners.

7. Vowels are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to
give the sound a particular color or timbre.

8. “PROFLIGATE as the spring sunshine.” The capitalized word means

overabundant.

9. An example of a bound morpheme ending in –ion that changes a verb

into a noun is action.

10. Everyone is an example of indefinite pronoun.

11. The indirect speech “I’m studying English a lot at the moment” means
he was studying English a lot at that moment.

12. Term, which represents the role of interlocutors, is NOT among the
variable of functional grammar.

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13. Systematic Functional Linguistics has three variables: Tenor, Field, and
Mode.

14. “We put it off too long” is a structure that uses “off” as an adverbial
particle.

15. “Alex is giving his boss a headache” is a structure that contains a

ditransitive verb group.

16. Course outline is the summary of main points of a text, lecture, or

course of study.

17. Audio-lingual method anchors on behaviorist assumption that

language learning is the acquisition of a set of correct language habits.

18. English is MOST interesting subject for Rizza. The adjective that
expresses supreme value is called Superlative Adjectives.

19. “Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point” is an official sign in
the passive voice.

20. The THIRD child is the most brilliant. The capitalized word is an
example of ordinal adjectives.

21. Dwindle : increase :: stiffen : relax (Contrasting Analogy)

22. Farce is a type of comedy based on far-fetched humorous situation

often with ridiculous or stereotyped characters.

23. Life is like a roller coaster is an example of SIMILE.

24. Sounds like bam, bang, booing are examples of onomatopoeia.

25. The type of paragraph for the topic “The day I won the oratorical title
changed my self-perception” is Narrative.

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26. “How long is the poem?” is NOT included in a poem’s context.

27. Imagery is BEST explained as when the author sends mental images in
the minds of the readers using words.

28. In a novel or short story, when the point of view assumed by the
narrator is able to tell everything that happens in the story, he is
omniscient.

29. When a scene in a story, novel, or play is interrupted to show an event

that happened in the past, it is known as flashback.

30. The resolution of the conflict of a story is called denouement.

31. In fiction, the transformation of a character from arrogance to

humility or the purgation and purification of character is known as
catharsis.

32. “Bad credit” and “Debit Card”, “The earthquake” and “the queer
shake” are examples of anagrams.

33. My head is bloody but unbowed is an example of Alliteration.

34. Juxtaposition is when a funeral home was built next to a children’s

nursery.

35. “O! Wild west wind!” is an example of Apostrophe.

36. Cliché is a colloquial expression that has been overused.

37. Silent Way method makes use of rods and colorful charts.

38. Skill-based Syllabus is a type of syllabus that is a collection of specific

abilities that may play a part in using language.

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39. Use of grade readers is one approach applied in ESP to teach students
with a low level of knowledge of English. These materials refer to
different version of books with simplified grammar and vocabulary.

40. The strategy using examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and
illustrations based on local culture, history and reality is called
localization.

41. The Philippine Qualifications Framework is very significant in the

development of content and performance standards.

42. An Act Enhancing the Philippine Basic Education System by

Strengthening Its Curriculum and Increasing the Number of Years for
Basic Education, Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other
Purposes,” otherwise known as the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of
2013”

43. Substituting different sounds for the first sound of a familiar song can
help in developing phonological awareness.

44. Listening to classical music is one of his preferred leisure activities.

45. The past tense of hang is hung. Hanged is for death.

46. The study of the ways non-native speakers acquire, comprehend, and
use linguistic patterns or speech acts in a second language is known as
Inter-language Pragmatics.

47. Linguistic interference occurs when students learn another language

or dialect.

48. A summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study is

called Course Outline.

49. Learning for empowerment and better self-image is an example of

intrinsic motivation.
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50. An example is the term room for someone who stays in a dormitory or
shared room of a boarding house without meals provided is known as
bed spacer.

51. The primary aim of second language teaching using Audio-Lingual

Method is oral proficiency.

52. The aspect of Communicative Competence that deals with the

appropriate use of communication and coping strategies is known as
Strategic Competence.

53. Interpretability is the ability of the listener to understand the

speaker’s intentions behind the word or utterance.

54. A teaching practice which is compatible with Communicative

Approach is one that gives priority to oral communication.

55. The boy and the girl’s uncle is an example of a sentence fragment.

56. “Don’t make any comment unless you are fully aware of the issue.” is
an example of a complex sentence.

57. Josh dreads wild animals in the zoo. The function of the underlined
constituent is optional modifier.

58. Descriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as it's

actually used by speakers and writers.

59. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain

people think it should be used.

60. “The man with a tall hat sits rather uncomfortably at the dinner table”
is syntactically ambiguous.

61. “Shakespeare is a literary titan” exemplifies the literary device

Allusion.
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62. Motif in literary writing is an image or idea repeated throughout a

work or several works of literature.

63. The focus of Medieval Literature is Religious, Divine and Spiritual.

64. New Criticism excludes the reader’s response, the author’s intention,
historical and cultural contexts, and moralistic bias from their analysis.
It does not allow inter-textual reading of literature.

65. Neoclassicism is characterized by a re-examination and imitation of

classical models, literary styles and values of the ancient Greek and
Roman authors.

66. All interpretations and meanings of a text are correct as accepted by

a Reader-Reception Critic.

67. In the excerpt “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey / Dost
sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.”, Alexander Pope used
a literary device called Anticlimax.

68. Aesthetic Distance is the audience’s ability to remove themselves so

that they can contemplate and evaluate the performance and the
play.

69. Translatability is the capacity for some kind of meaning to be

transferred from one language to another without undergoing radical
change.

70. The literary movement known as the era of “decadence” which was a
reaction against realism, naturalism, and highly structured poetry is
called Symbolism.

71. Naturalism emphasized the hereditary psychological component of

characters and experimenting the connections between human
psychology and external environment.

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72. A word can have associated mental images and meanings, often these
cannot be found in dictionaries. These are called Connotations.

73. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” In the opening lines of the
novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens used juxtaposition.

74. “The time is out of joint, O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it
right.” The two lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet which is
characterized by having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and
the same meter to form a complete thought is called a couplet.

75. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration is Hyperbole.

76. Appeal to Ethos means that the author convinces the audience using
his credibility, character or expertise. These include enumerating work
experiences, accomplishments, and character.

77. Appeal to Pathos means that the author convinces the audience using
emotions. The author aims to gather the audience’s sympathy and
draw pity or sometimes makes them angry.

78. Appeal to Logos means that the author convinces the audience using
logic and reason. The author presents facts, evidences and data to
convince the audience’s minds to accept his arguments.

79. Epiphora, also known as “epistrophe,” is a stylistic device in which a

word or a phrase is repeated at the ends of successive clauses.

80. The MOST important sentence in any essay is the thesis sentence.

81. Self-fulfilling Prophecy is where the prophecies are realized due to the
actions of a character who tries to prevent them (for example:
Oedipus Rex)

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82. Antanaclasis is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is

repeated, but in two different senses.

83. The person assigned to dictate the actor’s line if he forgets is called a
prompter

84. A poem that tells a lively or tragic story is called ballad.

85. The characteristic of a formalist’s criticism is that criticism is focused

on the work itself.

86. Nemesis is a literary device is where the good characters are rewarded
for their virtues, and the evil characters are punished for their vices.

87. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie, the rocking horse in “The
Rocking-Horse Winner,” and the road in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
are examples of subjects.

88. “It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Teresa in

the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere, from
the streets to her own friends.” This is an example of an Allusion.

89. The words spoken by an actor directly to the audience watching a play
that the characters in the play do not hear are called aside.

90. The myths of the Greeks reflect a view of the universe that
acknowledges the mystery and beauty of humanity.

91. Antigone is sentenced to death for the crime of performing the burial
rituals of her brother.

92. Maria Makiling is a famous Filipino legend.

93. Malakas at Maganda is a famous Filipino creation myth.

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94. The presence of the three gods: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in Greek
Mythology symbolize that mortals’ fate depends on the gods.

95. In Greek Mythology, Jason sailed the long ship Argo in search for the
Golden Fleece.

96. Prometheus is the mythological titan punished by the gods for stealing
fire.

97. In the poem, “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe, the line that represents a
miserable or bleak scene is “Broken bones and a dead tree”

98. Li Qingzhao, the greatest Chinese poetess, is NOT known for

dominance of hyperbole.

99. Egyptian literature is identified as Mediterranean literature.

100. The first line of the Poem “Mind is Without Fear” by Rabindranath
Tagore “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high…” It
means only the fearless mind can hold its head upright.

101. Basho popularized Haiku in Japan. He creates visual and auditory

sensations with a few strokes of his writing brush.

102. “Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night” is a poem written by Omar
Khayyam.

103. Mao Tze-Tsung is a Chinese leader whose essays and poems depicted
the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary
movement.

104. Haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5

syllable count.

105. The oldest Indian document of Sanskrit Literature is the Rig Veda.

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106. Thomas Jefferson refered to the Native Americans as “merciless

Indian savages.”

107. Benjamin Franklin added Humility in his 13 vitues because he is

reminded of his friend Quaker about how overbearing and insolent
he is.

108. New Criticism is characterized by emphasis on craft over content.

109. The forest in the play Midsummer Night’s Dream symbolize a place to
face trials for the characters to pass.

110. The “Declaration of Independence” is best described as accusatory

and subjective.

111. In Maya Angelou’s 'On the Pulse of Morning', it is suggested that each
new day gives people new chances.

112. Shakespeare’s technique of showing equivocation in his play

“Macbeth” is Irony.

113. According to Lincoln in “The Gettyburg Address”, the premise of the

war being fought is the government of the people, by the people, for
the people.

114. A story told in verse by unknown writers and usually meant to be sung
is a ballad.

115. The repetition of similar sounds usually consonant in a group of words

like “Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before?” is called Alliteration.

116. Sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic

pentameter.

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117. A book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters and
often complex plot is called a novel.

118. Epitaph is a description on a grave stone or a short poem in memory

of a deceased person.

119. Half rhyme is one of the major poetic devices. It is also called an
“imperfect rhyme,” “slant rhyme,” “near rhyme,” or “oblique rhyme”.

120. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional

material to the rest of the curriculum is to keep a list of the goals and
objectives of the curriculum.

121. To home independent study strategies through prescribed tasks is

NOT a goal of K to 12 language teaching in the secondary level.

122. K to 12 language teaching in secondary school is NOT described as

literature-based and genre-focused.

123. All materials from the real world not intended for classroom use but
used in the classroom are called authentic materials.

124. The target language is used as an auxiliary / support language. This

statement DOES NOT characterized Direct Method of language
teaching.

125. The use of song, the worksheet, pair group, the teacher and the
students’ talk are provisions of the comprehensible input hypothesis
of Krahsen’s Monitor model.

126. Paul Grice’s cooperative principle is a set of norms that are expected
in conversations. It consists of four maxims: quality, quantity,
relation, and manner.

127. Maxim of quality: Utterance must tell the truth or something that is
provable by adequate evidence.
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128. Maxim of quantity: Utterance have to be adequate in speaking, not

more or less.

129. Maxim of relation: Response has to be relevant to the topic of

discussion.

130. Maxim of manner: Utterance has to avoid ambiguity or obscurity; it

should be direct and straightforward.

131. The generalization in the area of phonology that can be drawn from
the following linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordion
is that a voiceless stop can be aspirated if it begins a syllable of a
stressed vowel.

132. The title of Leo Tolstoy’s short story about a man falsely judged and
accused of murder is “God Sees the Truth but Waits.”

133. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta is considered as the Goddess of

Philippine Poetry.

134. “Magnificence”, the story about a girl abused by an old man, is

authored by Estrella Alfon.

135. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George
Orwell entitled 1984.

136. When you use a fraction (one-third) with a countable noun, you use
the plural 'are'. If it was referring to a non-countable noun then it
would need to be singular 'is'.

137. /b/ sound is a voiced bilabial stop.

138. The first school established by the Americans in the Philippines that
aims to teach Filipinos how to use English is the Philippine Normal
School.

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139. Direct Testing requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill
that the test wishes to measure.

140. The Structuralist Approach views that language learning is chiefly

concerned with a systematic acquisition of a set of “building blocks”.

141. The function of language test which aims to motivate students

pertains to learning.

142. Sociolinguistic component assesses the use of linguistic forms in

language performance.

143. The application of social and behavioral science research method to

the practice of journalism is called precision journalism.

144. In journalism, copy refers to any piece of material that makes it to

print.

145. The date line in a news story refers to the time when the story was
filed.

146. According to Wilson, the “heart of the theatre experience” is the live
relationship between the performers and the audience.

147. One way to see if translation communicates what the source text
communicates is by translation checking. The subjects of such activity
are called speakers with receptive language ability.

148. A foil is a character who contrasts with another character.

149. The first-ever printed material using the printing press is the Latin
Vulgate or Gutenberg Bible.

150. In creative non-fiction, you use essays and memoirs to support a fact-
based narrative.

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151. The speaker’s use of highly jargonized words falls under speaker-
created interference.

152. Audio-lingual method assumes that the over-learning of patterns

through choral repetition and drilling is the key to learning a target
language.

153. To enhance the power of the mind, learners read literary texts in the
target language and memorize vocabulary lists translated into the
native language. Explicit grammar instruction of rules and their
exceptions is the main focus to master the target language. This
method is Grammar-Translation.

154. The literary criticism that highlights how meaning, interpretations,

frameworks, system, and structural beliefs break apart is post
structuralism or deconstruction.

155. The most prominent figure in deconstruction is Jacques Derrida.

156. Antagonist is the character or force in conflict with the main

character, who is the protagonist.

157. Folk Literature is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs,

riddles, sayings, and other works arising out of the oral traditions of
the peoples around the world.

158. Sisyphus is the king of Corinth who is condemned in the underworld

by forever rolling a huge stone up a hill.

159. The three monstrous sisters with snakes for hair, hands of brass and
bodies covered with impenetrable scales and turns to stone those who
look at them are the Gorgons.

160. The subjects in Mythic history portrayed in the “Musee des Beaux
Arts” are Daedalus and Icarus.

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161. Among the typical characteristics of epic heroes, immortality is NOT

one of them.

162. Magic Realism is a term borrowed from art criticism and applied to a
kind of fiction that mixes realism with flights of fantasy and myth. It is
associated with Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.

163. Plot is by which a narrative sequence of events (story) is structured

and organized.

164. Aenid, an epic poem in twelve books recounting the story of Aeneas,
was the crowning achievement of Virgil.

165. “It is true but arguable” does NOT make a good idea for an essay.

166. Asking someone to repeat something helps students to get to process

information received.

167. Language is inseparable from Literature.

168. Annotating is a strategy for reading literature where the reader

responds to the literary and cultural impact of the text b identifying
images and themes and writing marginal notes about them.

169. Classicism is an approach t literature and other arts that stresses

reason, balance, clarity, ideal beauty, and orderly form in imitation of
the arts of ancient Greece and Rome.

170. The prime consideration of instructional materials is to link materials

to the curriculum.

171. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment
but also understanding.

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172. Fashionable is NOT among the qualities needed by the teacher in the
preparation, selection and utilization of instructional materials.

173. Allophone is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/ in top
is aspirated, /t/ is stop is released, and /t/ in pot is unreleased.

174. Wash-back Effect refers to the impact of testing on teaching and

learning.

175. Writing letters is NOT an example of discrete point testing.

176. A novel about the education and development of a young hero is

called Bildungsroman.

177. Cliffhanger is a plot device that ends abruptly that the main characters
are left in a difficult situation without offering any resolution or
conflict.

178. Roman a clef is a novel where real people are represented in the guise
of fictional characters.

179. Philosophic and religious belief in reincarnation is based on the

mythical character Orpheus.

180. Poverty can be the subject matter of humanism literature.

181. In literary parlance, decorum refers to the appropriateness of a work

to intended subject, genre, and audience.

182. The figure of speech that Hawthorne used in making Rev. Dimmesdale
metaphorically dim as the novel progresses, while making
Chillingworth have a chilled heart is Charactonym.

183. Euphemism is a substitution of a term considered offensive or might

bring the audience too close to an uncomfortable reality.

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184. Cecile gave a donation to charity is an example of sentence depicting

a dative case.

185. Prepositions would NOT fit into the category of determiners.

186. Code-switching is allowed in a CLT (Communicative Approach) class.

187. Language games and quiz bees is a practice of desuggestopedia.

188. A Filipino student writes a sentence: The book is new. This is an

example of positive transfer.

189. Negative Transfer happens when L1 complicates or impedes the use

of L2. Example: A Filipino student writes: Beautiful is Mary (the
structure is influenced by the student’s L1 which says “Maganda si
Mary”)

190. Formalism is NOT a criticism for meaning.

191. Hermeneutics is known as the science of interpretation.

192. Error is an indication of hypothesis testing in language learning.

193. An example of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) is English for

Technician.

194. Infants, during the pre-linguistic developmental stage, communicate

by crying, cooing, and babbling.

195. In the story, who is slow? This is an example of a question on the

Literal comprehension level.

196. Children who have been watching TV a lot would likely suffer from
short attention span.

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197. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret.” This is a good advice for those who are ill-tempered and
impulsive.

198. The phrase associated with President Magsaysay is For Democracy

will die.

199. The Philippines is considered as an ESL nation.

200. IRI (Informal Reading Inventory) reading technique is being utilized

when a teacher asks his student to read a particular passage, and he
marks mispronounced words.

201. In a school paper, the Editor-in-Chief is in-charge of everything.

202. Pitch level 3 must be used in emphasizing the main idea in a sentence.

203. The intensification of the conflict of the story or play is called rising
action.

204. The National Heroes’ Day reminds us about heroes worth emanating.

205. Mended, Blocked, Recommended, Postponed. The word among the

following that has a /t/ sound is blocked.

206. The sentence “She drives an expensive white European sports car.”
follows the correct order of adjectives.

207. English has been the Lingua Franca of the world since America gained
its international power. Lingua Franca means Language of the World.

208. The Deductive method is a Teacher-dominated method.

209. The poem which the quote “Nevermore” is taken is The Raven.

210. Semantics is a language system focused on vocabulary.

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211. The smallest unit of sound of any language that causes a difference in
meaning is called a phoneme.

212. The smallest unit of meaning is a morpheme.

213. When the coach said “Bring home the bacon!”, he meant that the
team has to win the competition.

214. “What you said does not hold water with me.” The statement means it
is unbelievable / illogical.

215. 64.26% of the cases in a normal curve fall between +1 and -1.

216. Divine Comedy is the work of Dante Alighieri that narrates his journey
through Hell (The Inferno), purgatory, and finally, paradise.

217. The highest in the Three-level Approach to teaching is Values,

followed by Concept, and lastly, Facts.

218. In Nick Joaquin’s short story, May Day Eve, the technique he used in
developing the plot was Flashback.

219. The word synonymous with ecstatic is blissful.

220. Input hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model proposes that when

learners are exposed to grammatical features a little beyond their
current (i.e., I + 1), those features are “acquired.

221. “Teachers should correct errors during the time they are committed
as error correction is valuable” is NOT an implication of Krashen’s
Monitor Model.

222. Structuralists view the language as a system of related elements or

“building blocks” for the encoding of meaning, the elements being
phonemes (sounds), morphemes (words), tagmemes
(phrases/sentences/clauses).
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223. Interactionalists believe that language is a vehicle for establishing

interpersonal relations.

224. The functional view of language (Functionalism) has resulted in

communication-based methods such as Communicative Language
Teaching/Communicative Approach, Notional/Functional Approach,
Task-Based Language Teaching.

225. Intonation is the rise and fall of pitch which may contrast meanings of
sentences.

226. Dissimilation is a morphophonemic process that results in two sounds

becoming less alike in articulatory or acoustic terms; a process in
which units which occur in some contexts are “lost” in others; e.g. “l i
b a r y” instead of “l i b r a r y”.

227. The syntactic structure shown in the examples, “responsible officers,

trusted friend” is Modification.

228. Anaphora, in linguistics, is an expression that refers to another

linguistic expression (point backwards). The pronoun refers back to its
antecedent.

229. Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years. The category of
illocutionary act demonstrated in this sentence is assertive /
representative.

230. Overgeneralization errors such as “goed” and “keeped” are common

in children’s speech. Such errors suggest that children induce the rules
for the past tense from the language to which they are exposed.

231. The period of American Renaissance gave birth to Trancendentalism.

232. “To be or not to be, that’s the question” this line is taken from
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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233. Carlos Bulosan’s celebrated autobiography is entitled America is in the

Heart.

234. Self-monitoring and playing attention belong to Metacognitive

category of learning strategies identified by Oxford I. 1989.

235. Neoclassicism movement is a reaction against the stylistic excess and

superfluous artistry and ornamentation of Renaissance writers.

236. Guy de Maupassant is a writer of short stories and novels who is by

general agreement the greatest French short-story writer.

237. A distinct feature of poetry during the age of modernism is free verse.

238. To punish himself for murdering his father to have sexual relationships
with his mother, Oedipus gouged his eyes.

239. The playwright who used alienation effect to educate the audience
and not rely upon their emotion is Bertolt Brecht.

240. What is true about textually authentic materials is that they are NOT
written for teaching.

241. Sophocles wrote Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus and Colonus, but NOT
Agamemnon.

242. Gothic Novels became popular in the 19th Century.

243. One feature of Suggestopedia is that learners are in a relaxed and

reclining position.

244. The press is referred to as “fourth state” because it checks all

branches of the Government.

245. Echo reading takes place when the teacher reads each line then the
learners repeat it.
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246. Juncture influences the pronunciation of “ice cream” and “I scream”.

247. A paragraph is believed to have coherence if the sentences are

smoothly connected with each other through transitional devices.

248. Type-study method is inductive in nature.

249. I have been teaching for 32 years, and I can’t imagine doing anything
else.

250. The period considered as the Golden Age of the Filipino Language is
the Japanese Regime.

251. One implication on listening and speaking for language teaching is link
listening and speaking task to provide opportunities for students to
notice how language is used in different contexts.

252. When the word “consumables” refers to resources such as toner, ink,
and paper which can get used up, it is regarded as a/an ICT jargon.

253. The Trojan War can be seen today as Women’s Empowerment.

254. “The Answer” by Bel Dao reflects slavery as a pressing concern.

255. The FENCE in the story written by Jose Garcia Villa refers to walls
representing hindrances that separate families.

256. During the 1800s as reflected in American Literature, the US

government expanded its territory NOT by the use of Invasion
(conquest).

257. In “I Hear America Singing” by Whitman, the workers sing varied carols
to express happiness in work and the uniqueness of contribution.

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258. Indirect illocution is when the speaker expresses another illocutionary

for other that literally expressed the utterance by relying on
background knowledge, principles of convention.

259. In a study comparing the effect of studying with music versus no music
on reading comprehension. The independent variable is the presence
or absence of music during studying.

260. Iconic Learning involving instructional audio-visual materials refers to

visual images for the real thing.

261. When a research is conducted to assess the linguistic forms in

language performance, it is after the linguistic component.

262. The function of language test which aim to motivate students pertains
to learning.

263. Juncture refers to pauses or rests in speech.

264. In Paz Latorena's short story "The Small Key", what Soledad’s second
wife found in the small chest is old clothes and other things of his first
wife.

265. According to Krashen, the function of knowledge of grammatical rules

in language performance is as monitor.

266. The Cooperative Principle is proposed by H. Paul Grice.

267. Pidgin refers to language that emerged between two speakers who do
not share a common language.

268. Creole is a developed pidgin that established a definite structure and

has native speakers.

269. “Apologized” has an alternate correct spelling shown in any good

dictionary. (Apologised)
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270. The primary aim of Direct Method is vocabulary development.

271. Edgar Allan Poe is popular for his gothic style in his compositions.

272. Burlesque is a humorous imitation of a serious work of literature.

273. Leo Tolstoy is known as the world’s greatest novelist for writing War
and Peace, and Anna Karenina.

274. Stream of consciousness is also known as interior monologue.

275. Deus Ex Machina refers to the incidence where an implausible

concept or character is brought into the story in order to make the
conflict in the story resolve and to bring about a pleasing solution.

276. Solecism is any grammatical mistake committed in writing or speaking.

277. Proverbs embodied the practical philosophy of Filipinos during the

pre-Hispanic era.

278. Paradise Lost is written by John Milton and it is based on the popular
story of the Sinning of Adam and Eve.

279. In Paz Marquez Benitez’s “Dead Stars”, the dead stars represent
Alfredo’s love for Julia.

280. The Harlem Renaissance is the flowering of African-American

Literature.

281. The Negritude movement is a movement of French-speaking African

and Caribbean writers and it began to fade in the 1950s after fulfilling
their goal.

282. Telephone Conversation is a literary piece written by Wole Soyinka

about racism.

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283. Hamartia is the term for the downfall of the hero or heroine in a story.

284. "The self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late
1980s." The underlined word means excessive pride or self-
confidence.

285. The Filipino writer whose short stories depic Filipino-Spanish culture is
Nick Joaquin.

286. The phenomenon where people share the same false memory about
something is called the Mandela Effect. (e.g. The dash between KitKat)

287. The founder of 21st Century Linguistics is Ferdinand De Saussure.

288. Patroclus made Achilles grief.

289. Didactic Literature is meant to instruct or educate.

290. Diegesis and Mimesis are coined terms by Aristotle to distinguish

telling (diegesis) from showing (mimesis).

291. The difference between phonics and phonetical awareness is that

phonics include written language, phonetical awareness does not
necessarily.

292. Exegesis is an explanation of a text that identifies and explains the

figurative language and forms within the work.

293. A common type of character or entity that recurs throughout various

literature is called a stock character or archetype.

294. “Touch me one more time, and I swear—” this breaking-off of speech
usually because of rising emotion or excitement is called Aposiopesis.

295. Chiasmus refers to two phrases in which syntax is the same but the
placement of words is reversed.
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296. The Canterbury Tales was written in the 14th Century.

297. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its
own ways.” This line is taken from Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

298. Moby Dick is a white whale using Pequod.

299. A concise expression of insight or wisdom is called Aphorism.

300. Creative Reading is reading beyond the lines.

301. Input hypothesis proposes that when learners are exposed to

grammatical features a little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those
features are “acquired”.

302. Correcting errors in language use is NOT a principle of Krashen’s

monitor model.

303. Structuralists believe that language is primarily vocal; language is

system of systems, and language is arbitrary.

304. Interactionalists believe that language is a vehicle for establishing

interpersonal relations.

305. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine to
form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to
make sentences.

306. Fricatives are produced by bringing the articulators near each other
such that the flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked.

307. A representative / assertive is an utterance used to describe some

state of affairs: acts of stating, asserting, denying, confessing,
admitting, notifying, concluding, predicting, and so on.

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308. Behaviorism is a systematic approach to the understanding of human

and animal behavior. It assumes that the behavior of a human or
animal is a consequence of that individual's history, including
especially reinforcement and punishment, and the individual's current
motivational state and controlling stimuli.

309. “Overgeneralization” is most often used in connection with language

acquisition by children. For example, a young child may say "foots"
instead of "feet," overgeneralizing the morphological rule for making
plural nouns.

310. The concept of universal grammar states that all languages are built
upon a common grammar.

311. The areas of Communicative Competence are: grammatical,

sociolinguistic, discourse, and sociolinguistic.

312. A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is introduced

later on in the text/speech.

313. The slippery slope argument involves reasoning that because of an

initial event, a second event, more extreme event must inevitable
follow.

314. Milton’s Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English.

315. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorn was commonly described
as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace,
which could only be captured by a virgin.

316. Muchukunda (cited in Mahabarata & Parunas) saw the emptiness of

his life and turned his back on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He
refused to return to the world.

317. Anthropomorphism is the showing or treating of animals, gods, and

objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour:
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318. Most of basal readers are phonics-based.

319. The K-W-L chart can be used to document what students know, what
they want to know, and what they learned.

320. Petrarchan sonnet is form of poetry that has an 8-line stanza with the
rhyme scheme abbaabba followed by 6 lines with various rhyme
schemes, usually cdcdcd or cdede.

321. Listening is the MOST neglected communication skill.

322. Wolvin and Coakley (1992) listed four different kinds of listening:
Comprehensive (Informational), Critical (Evaluative), Appreciative
(Aesthetic), and Therapeutic (Emphatic).

323. Listening for DETAILS means listening for specific information.

324. Listening SELECTIVELY means listening only to specific parts of the

input.

325. Novice learners accept all of the information.

326. Wash-back effect happens when what was assessed became what
was taught.

327. The factors that affect learners listening are: (1) Background
Knowledge or Schematic, (2) Knowledge of the situation or Context,
and (3) Knowledge of the language system or Systematic.

328. Life after Death is what was depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

329. The prefix “epi-“ means upon.

330. According to Oxford Dictionary, KIKAY KIT means a cosmetic pouch.

331. The character in Dante’s Divine Comedy is Dante himself.

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332. In novels and short stories, the role of a trickster is a mischievous

myth character.

333. George Eliot is the pen name of the female writer Mary Evans.

334. James Joyce wrote Ulysses and uses the literary style of stream of
consciousness.

335. According to Oxford Dictionary, YAYA means nursemaid.

336. The stages of speaking are as follows: Presentation, Practice, and

Production.

337. When a teacher LOCALIZES the curriculum, it means that she relates
the curriculum to local information and material.

338. The love portrayed in Charlotte Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is that

love is destructive.

339. The main theme of Bonsai by Edith Tiempo is enjoy the little things.

340. “Talks with Kuwaiti officials ongoing” is an example of a news peg

among the given editorials.

341. A teacher should use words in Tier 2 for VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT.

342. The big title in front of a newspaper is called a banner headline.

343. The type of speaking that uses directed response, read-aloud,

sentence/dialogue completion tasks, oral questionnaires, and picture-
cued tasks is Intensive Speaking.

344. Sarah is the SMARTER of the twins.

345. When the narrator said he could not stop for death, he means he is
too busy.
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346. “Kumain siya ng Mangga” – She eat mango. This is a manifestation of

Linear Dislocation.

347. All sentences are clauses, but not all clauses are sentences. Both of
these statements are true.

348. Schema is a theory in reading that describes the ways mind acquires,
categorizes, and organizes knowledge.

349. Snowball Toss activity do a quick write or quick draw, then crumple,
throw, and read the pieces of paper.

350. Chaucer’s collection of stories in verse showing his skill as a story teller
in giving a vivid picture of English society in 1300’s is The Canterbury
Tales.

351. The “Captain” alluded in Whitman’s poem is Abraham Lincoln.

352. “On the day of Silician July, with Etna Smoking” is a Geographical
Allusion.

353. In Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth but Waits, Aksenov was imprisoned for
26 years.

354. A huge fire-breathing monster that has the head of a lion, the body of
a dragon, and the hind legs of a goat is called Chimera.

355. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 talks about love as Love never wanes even
in old age.

356. The Panchatantra is a collection of fables which was used to educate

Indian princes into becoming wise kings.

357. Tribble (1996) enumerates the range of knowledge that writers need
to know in order to write effectively when undertaking a specific task.

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These are: Content Knowledge, Context Knowledge, and Language

System Knowledge.

358. Structural Analysis is a process of decoding unfamiliar words by

visually examining the words to discover component parts, which may
lead to pronunciation and meaning.

359. The five phases of teaching vocabulary are: Disposition, Integration,

Repetition, Interaction and Meaningful Use, and Self Instruction. It
does NOT include Imitation.

360. Knowledge on sound-symbol correspondence is also known as

Graphophonics Knowledge.

361. “I’ll meet you at the library at 10:00 am” is an example of Commissive
illocutionary act.

362. “Mercury is the nearest planet from the sun.” Mercury and “the
nearest planet” are called co-referential.

363. The generalization that can be made from the group of words:
“responsible officers, trusted friend, impartially conducted…” is
Structure of Modification.

364. Natural Order Hypothesis suggests that grammatical structures are

acquired in a predictable order for both children and adults.

365. Learning is the CONSCIOUS process of knowing about language and

being able to talk about it, which occurs in a more formal situation
where the properties or rules of a language are taught.

366. Flashforward is the other term for “prolepsis” which is a scene that
temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point
of the story in literature, film, television, and other media.

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367. In the first scene of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches said
“Something wicked this way comes.” The plot element employed here
is foreshadowing.

368. In teaching the works of James Joyce and Virginia Wolf to 3 rd year HS
students, you need first to orient the students with stream of
consciousness.

369. In teaching Without Seeing the Dawn by Stevan Javellana to 4 th year

HS class, the period in Philippine History that you will discuss as
background knowledge to the novel is the Japanese occupation.

370. The Poor Christ of Bombay by Mongo Berti is an example of literary

SATIRE.

371. The view on language teaching that believes language can be

described according to the regularities and patterns or rules in
language system is Structuralist.

372. The meaning of (-ment) in the words embarrassment, government,

and enhancement is Means.

373. The first step in curriculum planning is Diagnosis of Needs.

374. “A policy statement about a piece of Education” does NOT correctly

define Curriculum.

375. The biggest hindrance in learning a second language is cross-cultural

issues.

376. The preposition under denotes a figure at a lower point than the
landmark, while the preposition over denotes a figure that is at a
higher point that the landmark. Under and Over are referred to as
Vertical-space preposition.

377. Wrote is a simple past verb form that is marked.

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378. Their abilities fall several levels below their current level. This
characterizes remedial students in general.

379. Wooden is not a correct headline structure.

380. The first language to have undergone formal study is Sanskrit.

381. Teachers who believe that language is a system of structures

consisting of sounds, words, and sentences will predictably follow a
teaching syllabus that revolves around the building blocks of
language.

382. Target situation Analysis is related to ESP as an approach in language

teaching.

383. English in basic education provides competencies necessary to meet

general learner needs.

384. The speaker can convey interest in communicating with his audience
through establishing eye contact.

385. The Curriculum ideology that focuses on the mastery of content of

English as a subject is Academic Rationalism.

386. The student was sad because he was called off for his late submission
of his school project.

387. “She never told her love…” is written by William Shakespeare.

388. The teacher considers feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame that may
hinder second language acquisition. The method that can help address
this concern is Communicative Language Teaching.

389. The first thing that a child must know to know a word is word sound
and sequencing.

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390. Tartarus, Elysium, Asphodel, and Erebus all pertain to regions in the
underworld.

391. A teacher asks her class to prepare a genealogy of the characters in

the drama Oedipus the King. Her objective in asking the class to do
that is to help the class see the relationship of the characters to each
other.

392. A teacher wrote in her lesson plan for teaching Oedipus the King this
“What qualities make a good king? Fill up the web below with words
that describe an ideal king.” The primary purpose of this activity is to
build the students’ schema.

393. Annabel Lee was written by Edgar Allan Poe which people speculate
he dedicated to his wife.

394. “Drink me only with thine eyes,” This poem is written by Ben Jonson.

395. Vanity Fair is a novel satirizing society in early 19th Century Britain and
is written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

396. In teaching the works of Edgar Allan Poe, what should be given prime
consideration is Atmosphere.

397. In teaching the short stories of Guy de Maupassant, what should be

given prime consideration is Characters.

398. If you are teaching students with literature of the writer O’ Henry, you
should highlight the use of surprise endings.

399. Two novel-like stories The Predestined Prince and Sinuhe were written
around 1200 BC in Egypt.

400. “War is war” is an example of Tautology.

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401. Among the basic types of speaking task, Extensive Speaking requires
students to present Oral Reports.

402. The listening-speaking problem that occurs when a student finds it

hard to distinguish between a word which may be used as a noun or as
a verb in a sentence is Stress.

403. Questionnaires and checklists are examples of tools.

404. Histogram shows the frequency distribution.

405. Movement is an element of Drama.

406. You ask your class the question “Do you like the poem” after it has
been discussed.

407. The Cinquian pattern is: TITLE, SYNONYM, ANTONYM.

408. Phonics pertain to relationship of sounds and letters.

409. Structuralists believe that language can be described in terms of

observable and verifiable data as it is being used.

410. The following are levels of vocabulary in ESP: Technical Vocabulary,

General Vocabulary, and Semi-technical Vocabulary EXCEPT Colloquial
vocabulary.

411. A correct description of auxiliary verb is: It is used to complete a verb

phrase in certain constructions such as emphatic, negative, passive,
perfect and progressive aspect.

412. The principle in grammar teaching that is applicable for ESP context is
teaching structures related to language functions.

413. The K-12 envisions holistically developed learners equipped with 21st
century skills.
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414. Metacognition can be defined as “thinking about thinking.” The

essence of metacognition is self-reflecting, self-monitoring, self-
questioning and self-regulating.

415. The “t” before *n+ in words like “button” and “written” is pronounced
as glottal stop by most American English speakers.

416. Ammo is an example of slang.

417. “When she arrived, Diane was surprised to find her apartment door
open.” The underlined pronoun is cataphoric.

418. “Diane was surprised to find her apartment door open.” The
underlined pronoun is anaphoric.

419. “The teacher’s grammar is excellent.” The sentence shows a noun in

the genitive case.

420. Words with the same spelling and related meanings are called
polysemes.

421. “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and
drink that they may live.” This is an example of chiasmus.

422. “Marvin is probably at school now.” The modality used in the sentence
is epistemic.

423. In an oral interpretation activity, one student delivers a declamation

with so much shouting and crying. These acts are examples of
Histronics.

424. Spelling test is an example of discrete-point testing.

425. IMs explain the lesson. This is NOT a purpose of instructional

materials.

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426. “The teacher asks a question ___ me.” The best preposition to
complete the sentence is OF.

427. Transferring a textual material to a tabular form illustrates the skill of

viewing and representing.

428. The behavioristic view is an educational-psychological philosophy that

is compatible with the structuralist view of language.

429. Transition signals DOES NOT concern teaching of pronunciation.

430. Contextualized minimal pairs help students learn vocabulary.

431. Class size might be affected in remedial instruction when class size
gets smaller.

432. Upon learning the past tense of call is called and talk is talked, the
child writes singed for sing. This kind of language error is called
overgeneralization.

433. It is a skill subject. This describes English as a subject in the

curriculum.

434. The co-text refers to the linguistic context or textual environment

provided by the discourse and which helps in the interpretation of
meaning.

435. Giving more challenging texts and tasks is NOT an instructional

adaptation in remedial instruction.

436. The primary goal of remedial instruction in English is to help students

cope with the demands of their actual level.

437. Thoroughly assess and evaluate students is what a teacher should do

prior to remediation.

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438. Testing lend itself well to teaching when testing provides tangible
reasons for pedagogic changes.

439. Conducting a text analysis of the specific text types is a procedure

that explicitly teaches genres.

440. Emigrate / Immigrate indicates a problem in differences in physical or

interpersonal perspective.

441. Mateo is not yet comfortable about speaking English with his
colleagues. He has learned to insert fillers such as, “uh”, “well”, when
he speaks. The characteristic of spoken language that Mateo has taken
advantage of is PERFORMANCE VARIABLES.

442. Testing creates different learning groups is NOT TRUE about testing.

443. The basic consideration in curriculum or syllabus design is the Needs

of the Learners.

444. Action Research is at the instructional level and has classroom as its
locale.

445. Morphology is a cueing system of language that is concerned with the

analysis of affixes in word formation.

446. Aira received her paper with the mark 4 before the sentence “They
will go to Paris next month.” The teacher wants Aira to indent four
spaces.

447. Look at those pictures hanging on the wall. This is an example of a

prototypical sentence.

448. An intensive pronoun can be left out in a sentence without changing

the sentence meaning.

449. Civic is an example of Palindrome (read the same if spelled reversely)

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450. Among the four basic types of assessment task in speaking, Imitative
requires “parroting” back words, phrases, and sentences that students
hear.

451. Linguistic Competence is described as the ability to recognize

elements of the writing system, knowledge of vocabulary, and
knowledge of how words are structured into sentences.

452. Vocabulary Development is NOT a domain in the Grade 11-12

Language Arts Curriculum.

453. Students went to the library and looked into the title, synopses,
introduction, first sentence, and parts of the book. This is Survey
Reading.

454. The kind of questions that must be asked after presenting a lesson on
animal protection and situations that endanger species is general
queries on animal protection.

455. Teacher Keith learned in his graduate degree that language learning
could also be a result of cognitive processes, or the act of knowing
something. This is a result of Content-based Instruction.

456. The vocal variable that dictates the highness and lowness of your voice
is Pitch.

457. The percentage allotted for written output in the K-12 grading system
specifically the language subject is 30%.

458. “Evergreen” in journalism means that it can be published anytime.

459. Remedial is an assessment used to address gap in basic skills.

460. Being willing to suspend judgment until sufficient evidence is

presented helps the students develop the habit of critical thinking.

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461. The teacher gave the class a group assignment. The class must come
up with a possible solution to the vandalism problem in school. Each
group is expected to come up with a proposal. The speaking task she is
using is Interactive.

462. “That’s a lot!” is an example of a contraction.

463. /w/ is a voiced glide.

464. A limitation if the story employs a child as a narrator is inadequate

perception.

465. The characteristics of effective speech based on Cicero’s canons of

rhetoric include: invention, disposition, elocution, pronunciation, and
memory.

466. You want to explore the effective methods used in improving the
children’s way of using the language in the classroom. The best
respondents of your study would be the Teachers.

467. If you want to discuss about Ballad in your class, you should NOT teach
your students that ballad typically is historical and condensed.

468. Grammar-translation method is a teacher-dominated method.

469. The type of words that a child may be able to comprehend using
context clues are known as potential/marginal vocabulary.

470. The Critical Foundation for reading, writing, and spelling and is the
engine of learning and thinking is cognitive development.

471. One cosmic truth holds in Hindu Mythology that “all things are simply
a part of a greater whole One.”

472. The Mahabharata contains 100,000 couplets divided into 18 parvans.

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473. The body of myths highly dominated by tales of courageous

combatants, great feats, and activities related to tribal life such as
hunting and feasting is Norse Mythology.

474. A narrative within a narrative, such as the Canterbury Tales by

Chaucer, is called Frame Story.

475. Léopold Sédar Senghor is the leading figure of the Negritude

Movement.

476. Zeus Polieus is the name of Zeus as God of the State.

477. Titanomachy is a victorious 10-year series of battles of the Olympian

gods against the Titans in Thessaly.

478. Cavalier Poems are known as “carpe diem” or “seize the day” poetry.

479. If Divine Comedy is characterized by absolute faith in a single truth,

Boccaccio’s Decameron is BEST described as a complete negation of
Christian Doctrine.

480. Both Realism and Naturalism oppose the earlier literary and artistic
cycle Romanticism.

481. Panday Pira is the play of Jose M. Hernandez that tells of an artisan
who forged cannons for the use of the Spaniards.

482. Among the Elizabethan playwrights, Dante does NOT belong in the
group.

483. Gnomic verses are the earliest form of literacy expressed during the
pre-colonial period in Philippine Literature. Riddle is NOT an example
of Gnomic verse.

484. Reader’s Theatre is best described as Readers do a lot of actions.

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485. The two groups at war in The Iliad are the Trojans and Achaens.

486. The Ifugao hero in the epic Hudhud is Aliguyon.

487. Literal Comprehension is the lowest level of comprehension.

488. Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and short story writer
whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1991.

489. The story of a scholar who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for
knowledge is entitled Faust.

490. The goal of English language teaching in the Philippines is to produce

learners who can communicate accurately, fluently, and
appropriately.

491. The Greek alphabet is adopted from the consonantal writings of the
Phoenicians.

492. Fine arts and literature flourished during the T’ang dynasty which is
viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.

493. Maya is the Hindu belief that life is an illusion.

494. The type of novel popular in the 18th Century is Epistolary.

495. Rousseau’s The Social Contract is among the most important works in
political philosophy.

496. Euripide’s purpose in producing Medea is to criticize Greek behavior.

497. The purpose of Filipino folk narratives is to teach proper behavior.

498. The poetry of Ezra Pound is best described as imagist.

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499. “Have a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Rousseau is pertaining to security.

500. In the “Fall of the House Usher”, the name of the woman who is
entombed alive is Lady Madeline.

501. Manuel Arguilla is known for using local color in his stories.

502. Comedia was used to express social protest during the early days of
American regime

503. The usual ending of a Comedia is the victory of Christians.

504. Parang Sabil is an epic about the exploits of early Muslim warriors
who fought in defense of Islam.

505. Naturalism is the literary movement in the American Literature that

examines life as it is.

506. Buddhism was imported from India to China during the Han Dynasty.

507. Lady Murasaki Shikibu is the author of The Tale of Genji.

508. Ballad is NOT a lyric poem.

509. Hector died at the end of the Iliad. Achilles’ death was never
mentioned in the epic.

510. Madame Brovary is considered as the BEST example of French

Symbolism.

511. A Metrical Tale is an ordinary story told in verse.

512. The reason behind the Declaration of Independence is because of the

tyrant leaders.

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513. It took 20 years before Philippines got its name.

514. H.P. Ladera is the author of “Land of the Morning”

515. Optimism is a predominant characteristic of Eastern Religion.

516. A character of a good writing program is: students are assigned

authentic writing tasks.

517. Direct-instruction component is the heart of remedial session.

518. An ideal school-based remedial session should have 3-10 learners.

519. The problem of a student who constantly reads pat as bat and got as
dot is graphophonic correspondence.

520. The foremost problem for a remedial program in the Philippines is

cost and resources.

521. The primary goal of remedial instruction in English is to help students

cope with the demands of their current level.

522. Syllabus is NOT a variable of Munby’s Communicative Needs Process

model.

523. Register Analysis analyses the speech variety used by a group of

people with the same occupation.

524. Learning-centered BEST describes ESP.

525. A reader got 30 correct answers out of 40-item cloze test. This reader
can be categorized under independent reading level.

526. A listener who hears sounds in the background but ignores them is
into marginal listening.

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527. When a teacher incorporates teaching of grammar with other

disciplines such as science, the teacher is using notional-functional
syllabus.

528. Philippine Literature and World Literature are compulsory subjects for
Grade 12 students in the K-12 curriculum.

529. Creates different learning groups is NOT true about testing.

530. The two categories of a literary test are Literary Information and
Literary Interpretation.

531. If the textbook evaluator is examining the relationship of tests and

exercises to the learner needs and course content, he is doing internal
evaluation.

532. Elaborating is a principle in writing instructional materials which

provides opportunities for students to transform information from
one form to another and to apply new information to prior knowledge
using various techniques.

533. The stages of literary learning are: First Encounters, Maintaining

Momentum, Exploiting Highlights, and Ending.

534. Curriculum Evaluation is the phase in curriculum cycle where

designers plan changes in the curriculum.

535. Teachers should always base their assessment on learning outcomes.

536. In teaching basal readers, teaching strategy should be phonics-based.

537. Among the basic types of speaking task, extensive speaking requires
students to present ORAL REPORTS in the classroom.

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