ENGLISH (August 29, 2024) Flashcards
- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” of Elizabeth Browning is an example of ______.
a. Sonnet
b. Elegy
c. Epic
d. Allegory
a. Sonnet
- Moralists write literary pieces that inform and teach lessons which are called ______.
a. Historical
b. Didactic
c. Allegory
d. Proverbs
b. Didactic- meant to teach us pr instruct us; Queen Victoria
- The fisherman uses worms as ____ for fish.
a. Bit
b. Bait
c. Bet
d. Bate
b. Bait
- Which word refers to something that is hard to find or capture.
a. Illusive
b. Elusive
c. Allusive
d. Achieve
b. Elusive- tending to evade grasp
- This is a speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts to himself regardless of any hearers.
a. Dramatic monologue
b. Declamation
c. Soliloquy
d. Oration
c. Soliloquy- internal thoughts of the character, no addressed character
- My brother is paying your plane ticket, _______?
a. Isn’t he
b. Aren’t he
c. Isn’t it
d. Is he
a. Isn’t he
- Many a child ____ left to the care of relatives while the parents’ work.
a. Are
b. Is
c. Has been
d. Will be
b. Is
- Jeffrey has not forgotten that she was fooled by her girlfriend and carried such _____ in his deeply offended heart for a very long time.
a. Suspicion
b. Malevolence
c. Offense
d. Rancor
d. Rancor- bitterness (sama ng loob)
- Grace would read any book she could lay her hands on and read from cover to cover in one sitting inside her bedroom. She is such a ______ reader.
a. Persevering
b. Patient
c. Serious
d. Voracious
d. Voracious- extreme eagerness
- Identify the play which the lines are taken:
All that glimmers is not gold
Often you have heard that told
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold
Gilded tombs do norms enfold
a. As you like it
b. Merchant of Venice
c. Macbeth
d. Othello
b. Merchant of Venice- glitters (comedy), prick us, mercy is not strained
As you like it- All the World’s a stage
Macbeth- Life’s but a walking shadow (tragedy of revenge)
- If I _____ known you before, we could have arranged a joint project.
a. Had
b. Could have
c. Have
d. Have been
a. Had
- What figure of speech is: “An oak tree whose hungry mouth is prest the earth’s sweet flowing breast?”
a. Oxymoron
b. Irony
c. Personification
d. Paradox
c. Personification
- He dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, his dream is somewhat a bird in the bush.
a. Uncertain
b. Illusion
c. Allusion
d. Extraordinary
a. Uncertain
- The members of the committee were ____ in the Christmas party.
a. All together
b. Together
c. Altogether
d. Together all
a. All together- phrase, all in one place or in a group
- Bread and butter ____ my favorite snack.
a. Is
b. Are
c. Has been
d. Have been
a. Is
- While Rizal is in Manila, he lives ____ Caraballo Street.
a. In
b. On
c. At
d. To
b. On- street, avenue, days, weekends
- Neither you nor your friends ____ the situation given.
a. Are understanding
b. Is understanding
c. Understand
d. Understands
c. Understand- proximity rule, friends are plural
- To make your PowerPoint presentation readable to your audience, select images that will ___ the text on the page.
a. Move
b. Model
c. Mix
d. Match
d. Match
Either Mary or my cousins _____ going to do it.
a. Is
b. Are
c. Was
d. Were
b. Are
- In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud under the bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody but unbowed (Hyperbole)
a. Ulysses
b. Invictus
c. I wandered lonely as a cloud
d. Song of Hiawatha
b. Invictus (William Ernest)
- The President had issued the memorandum before she ______ the employee’s request.
a. Will received
b. Received
c. Will be receiving
d. Receives
b. Received
A story put together through an exchange of letter is called _____ literature.
a. Classic
b. Fiction
c. Memoir
d. Epistolary
d. Epistolary
- EVERYONE met at the contest venue. The capitalized pronoun is an example of a/an:
a. Relative pronoun
b. Indefinite pronoun
c. Demonstrative pronoun
d. Interrogative pronoun
b. Indefinite pronoun
- It may seem frivolous to you, but it’s important to me. What does frivolous mean?
a. Vital
b. Insignificant
c. Imperative
d. Practical
b. Insignificant
- She is known for the love sonnets she wrote.
a. Edith Tiempo
b. Ophelia Dimalanta
c. Paz Marquez Benitez
d. Gilda Cordero Fernando
a. Edith Tiempo
- Alfred got his only failing mark from ________.
a. A boring physics old instructor
b. A boring old physics instructor
c. An old Physics boring instructor
d. An old boring Physics instructor
b. A boring old physics instructor
DOSASCOM- determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material
- Which word is the direct object in the sentence: Julia brought her mom souvenirs from each European City that she has been to?
a. Julia
b. City
c. Mom
d. Souvenirs
d. Souvenirs- receiving the verb
- Rigor is terrible on edge. What does ON EDGE mean?
a. Eager
b. Nervous
c. Unprepared
d. Shrewd
b. Nervous
- Who was the Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex?
a. Homer
b. Aeschylus
c. Sophocles
d. Euripides
c. Sophocles
- The branch of linguistics that deals with the meaning of words is ________.
a. Morphology
b. Semantics
c. Pragmatics
d. Syntax
b. Semantics
Phonetics- speech sounds
Phonology- phonemes (sounds based on a specific language)
Morphology- study words
Syntax- phrases and sentences
Semantics- literal meaning
Pragmatics- discourse
Discourse- larger chunk of literature
- A number of soldiers ______ taking the examination.
a. Is
b. Are
c. Was
d. Were
b. Are
The number- singular verb
A number- plural verb
- My pair of socks ____ missing.
a. Is
b. Are
c. Was
d. Were
a. Is
- “The figures must be transmuted to understand the grade.” The underlined word means _______.
a. Estimated
b. Surpassed
c. Changed
d. Summed
c. Changed
- The phrase “Red Letter Day” is an example of a/an _______.
a. Idiom
b. Metaphor
c. Pun
d. Irony
a. Idiom
- In a Thousand and One nights, Alibaba shouted, “Open Sesame!” to open a cave of riches. Since then, the world took this to mean:
a. Secret
b. Wealth
c. Power
d. Password
d. Password
- The designer found out that blue and white _____ each other.
a. Compliment
b. Complement
c. Complimentary
d. Complied
b. Complement
- What rhetorical device is used in this line from the Ramayana?
“Dearly, loved, devoted Sita! Daughter of a royal line.”
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Alliteration
c. Assonance
d. Consonance
b. Alliteration
- “Scent of Apples”, a collection of stories that succeeded with the United States audience, was written by _________.
a. Carlos Bulosan
b. Manuel Arguilla
c. Jose Garcia Villa
d. Bienvenido Santos
d. Bienvenido Santos- Scent of Apples, Praying Man
- In compliance ______ the project, the group submitted the research on time.
a. With
b. Of
c. To
d. In
a. With
- Let us campaign for the total ban ______ of harmful fossil fuels.
a. On the use
b. In the use
c. With the use
d. In using
a. On the use
