2014 ENGLISH QUIZ

BEE
SCORING SYSTEM:
Easy round – 2 points each

Average round – 3 points each

Difficult round – 5 points each

Questions prepared by:

JESTONI O. BESARIO
ENGLISH TEACHER
 SCOPE/ COVERAGE
ARTICLES POETRY ELEMENTS

FIGURES OF SPEECH FRAGMENTS

MYTHOLOGY ( ROMAN, GREEK,
FILIPINO) AVERTISEMENT
ROYAL ORDER OF
ADJECTIVES
PARTS OF SPEECH
STORY ELEMENTS LITERARY DEVICES
SUBJECT-VERB
AGREEMENT
IDIOMS
TRIAL QUESTION
In the Royal Order of Adjectives, it
describes where something comes from.

A. COLOR

B. SIZE

C. ORIGIN

D. OPINION
EASY ROUND
It refers to the basic rhythmic unit into which
a line of verse can be divided.

A. LINE

B. STANZA

C. FOOT

D. VERSE
This article is used when a singular noun comes
after it begins with a consonant letter.

A. THE

B. A

C. AN

D. THEY
A type of poetry consisting a pair of rhyming
lines that is equal in length.

A. SEPTET

B. QUATRAIN

C. COUPLET

D. SONNET
 Here and there a man like the astronauts
and the scientists (dares, dare) to
venture to the unknown.

A. DARES

B. DARE
 O earth, please give me so much joy.

A. PERSONIFICATION

B. ALLUSION

C. APOSTROPHE

D. METAPHOR
AVERAGE ROUND
till cows go home –

A. ANNOYING

B. WAITING FOR A LONG

TIME
C. UNEXPECTED
CANDIDATE
D. COMFORTABLE
SITUATION
This punctuation mark is used when there
are to adjectives belonging to the same
category utilized in the sentence.
A. COMMA

B. HYPHEN

C. DASH

D. SEMICOLON
Beware of Greek’s bearing gifts.

A. EPIGRAM

B. ANALOGY

C. EPIZEUXIS

D. ALLUSION
The Roman equivalent of the Goddess
of War

A. JUNO

B. MINERVA

C. HESTIA

D. DEMETER
To champion against poverty should be
the goal of the Philippine government.
The underlined word is in what part of
speech?
A. ADJECTIVE

B. VERB

C. NOUN

D. PREPOSITION
DIFFICULT ROUND
“Behind the sweet smiles” is in what
type of sentence fragment?

A. GERUND FRAGMENT

B. INFINITIVE FRAGMENT

C. PREPOSITION
FRAGMENT

D. NOUN FRAGMENT
The butter is as soft as the marble.

A. HYPERBOLE

B. IRONY

C. METONYMY

D. PARADOX
It is a form of advertisement displayed
beside the streets and big establishments or
buildings.

A. COMIC AD

B. CLASSIFIED AD

C. BILLBOARD AD

D. MAGAZINE AD
 What literary device is used in the sentence?
"Whither wilt thou wander,
wayfarer?“
A. ASSONANCE

B. CONSONANCE

C. ONOMATOPOEIA

D. ALLITERATION
What figure of speech is used in the sentence
“Parting is such a sweet sorrow.”

A. LITOTES

B. OXYMORON

C. ANTITHESIS

D. EUPHEMISM
In the Philippine Mythology, she is considered
as the goddess of lost things.

A. ANAGOLAY

B. DIAN MASALANTA

C. MAYARI

D. HANAN
 It is the study of the structure of poetry and
the conventions or techniques involved in
writing it, including rhyme, meter, and the
patterns of verse forms.
A. CADENCE

B. PROSODY

C. RHYTHM

D. LITERATURE