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ENGLISH (August 29, 2024) Flashcards

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  1. “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
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a. Sonnet

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  1. Moralists write literary pieces that inform and teach lessons which are called ______.
    a. Historical
    b. Didactic
    c. Allegory
    d. Proverbs
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b. Didactic- meant to teach us pr instruct us; Queen Victoria

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  1. The fisherman uses worms as ____ for fish.
    a. Bit
    b. Bait
    c. Bet
    d. Bate
A

b. Bait

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  1. Which word refers to something that is hard to find or capture.
    a. Illusive
    b. Elusive
    c. Allusive
    d. Achieve
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b. Elusive- tending to evade grasp

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  1. 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
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c. Soliloquy- internal thoughts of the character, no addressed character

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  1. My brother is paying your plane ticket, _______?
    a. Isn’t he
    b. Aren’t he
    c. Isn’t it
    d. Is he
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a. Isn’t he

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  1. Many a child ____ left to the care of relatives while the parents’ work.
    a. Are
    b. Is
    c. Has been
    d. Will be
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b. Is

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  1. 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
A

d. Rancor- bitterness (sama ng loob)

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  1. 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
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d. Voracious- extreme eagerness

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  1. 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
A

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)

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  1. If I _____ known you before, we could have arranged a joint project.
    a. Had
    b. Could have
    c. Have
    d. Have been
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a. Had

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  1. 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
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c. Personification

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  1. He dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, his dream is somewhat a bird in the bush.
    a. Uncertain
    b. Illusion
    c. Allusion
    d. Extraordinary
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a. Uncertain

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  1. The members of the committee were ____ in the Christmas party.
    a. All together
    b. Together
    c. Altogether
    d. Together all
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a. All together- phrase, all in one place or in a group

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  1. Bread and butter ____ my favorite snack.
    a. Is
    b. Are
    c. Has been
    d. Have been
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a. Is

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  1. While Rizal is in Manila, he lives ____ Caraballo Street.
    a. In
    b. On
    c. At
    d. To
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b. On- street, avenue, days, weekends

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  1. Neither you nor your friends ____ the situation given.
    a. Are understanding
    b. Is understanding
    c. Understand
    d. Understands
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c. Understand- proximity rule, friends are plural

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  1. 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
A

d. Match

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Either Mary of my cousins _____ going to do it.
a. Is
b. Are
c. Was
d. Were

A

b. Are

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  1. 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
A

b. Invictus (William Ernest)

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  1. The President had issued the memorandum before she ______ the employee’s request.
    a. Will received
    b. Received
    c. Will be receiving
    d. Receives
A

b. Received

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A story put together through an exchange of letter is called _____ literature.
a. Classic
b. Fiction
c. Memoir
d. Epistolary

A

d. Epistolary

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  1. 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
A

b. Indefinite pronoun

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  1. It may seem frivolous to you, but it’s important to me. What does frivolous mean?
    a. Vital
    b. Insignificant
    c. Imperative
    d. Practical
A

b. Insignificant

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  1. She is known for the love sonnets she wrote.
    a. Edith Tiempo
    b. Ophelia Dimalanta
    c. Paz Marquez Benitez
    d. Gilda Cordero Fernando
A

a. Edith Tiempo

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  1. 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
A

b. A boring old physics instructor

DOSASCOM- determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material

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  1. 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
A

d. Souvenirs- receiving the verb

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  1. Rigor is terrible on edge. What does ON EDGE mean?
    a. Eager
    b. Nervous
    c. Unprepared
    d. Shrewd
A

b. Nervous

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  1. Who was the Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex?
    a. Homer
    b. Aeschylus
    c. Sophocles
    d. Euripides
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c. Sophocles

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  1. The branch of linguistics that deals with the meaning of words is ________.
    a. Morphology
    b. Semantics
    c. Pragmatics
    d. Syntax
A

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

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  1. A number of soldiers ______ taking the examination.
    a. Is
    b. Are
    c. Was
    d. Were
A

b. Are

The number- singular verb
A number- plural verb

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  1. My pair of socks ____ missing.
    a. Is
    b. Are
    c. Was
    d. Were
A

a. Is

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  1. “The figures must be transmuted to understand the grade.” The underlined word means _______.
    a. Estimated
    b. Surpassed
    c. Changed
    d. Summed
A

c. Changed

34
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  1. The phrase “Red Letter Day” is an example of a/an _______.
    a. Idiom
    b. Metaphor
    c. Pun
    d. Irony
A

a. Idiom

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  1. 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
A

d. Password

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  1. The designer found out that blue and white _____ each other.
    a. Compliment
    b. Complement
    c. Complimentary
    d. Complied
A

b. Complement

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  1. 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
A

b. Alliteration

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  1. “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
A

d. Bienvenido Santos- Scent of Apples, Praying Man

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  1. In compliance ______ the project, the group submitted the research on time.
    a. With
    b. Of
    c. To
    d. In
A

a. With

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  1. 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

a. On the use

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