Gen Ed Flashcards
William Shakespeare showed COMPOSURE in front of his critics amidst countless derision. The word means:
a. ) agitation
b. ) fear
c. ) aplomb
d. ) nervusness
a. agitation (anxiety)
b. fear
c. aplomb (self-confidence)
d. nervousness
ANSWER: C.
There are times when we are forced to do things against our own VOLITIONS. The word means:
a. opinion
b. intuition
c. will
d. fate
ANSWER: C. will
These patients are facing _________ death.
a. eminent
b. eminence
c. imminent
d. imminence
a. eminent (famous-adj)
b. eminence (fame-noun)
c. imminent (threatening)
d. imminence (threat)
ANSWER: C.
He is a Filipino poet known in using punctuation marks extensively in his pieces-most specially “commas.”
a. Paz Marquez Benitez
b. Nick Joaquin
c. Jose Garcia Villa
d. Edilberto Tiempo
a. Paz Marquez Benitez
(authored Dead Stars, first modern English -language short story)
b. Nick Joaquin (Quijano de Manila)
(Nat’l Artist for Literature, May Day Eve, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, a Portrait of the Artist as Filipino)(WW)
c. Jose Garcia Villa (Doveglion)
(poet, Nat’l Artist for Literature 1973: Footnote to Youth)
d. Edilberto Tiempo (E.K Tiempo)
(fiction-writer, founded the Siliman National Writers Workshop, works:Cry Slaughter/ Watch in the Night)
ANSWER: C. Jose Garcia Villa
In Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s short story “The Virgin”, why did Ms. Mijares fail to find a man to marry?
She took care of her sick mother
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were written by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. By what name is he better known as?
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Miguel de Cervantes
d. Mark Twain
a. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(one of the founders of english Novel with Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson)
b. Ernest Hemingway
(The Old Man and the Sea, 1954 Nobel Prize Winner)
c. Miguel de Cervantes
(spanish writer, Don Quixote)
d. Mark Twain
Answer : D.
Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. The passionate Shepherd to His Love -Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Which of the following is the most accurate classification of the poem?
a. ballad
b. ode
c. pastoral
d. dramatic
a. Ballad (poem or song narrating a short story)
b. Ode (type of lyrical stanza)
c. Pastoral (idealistic, almost Utopian, view of rural life)
d. Dramatic Monologue (persona poem, written in the form of a speech of an individual character)
Answer: C.
What is true of the following example?
“My goal, to be independently wealthy by the age of fifty, is looking increasingly unrealistic.”
a. it contains gerund phrase
b. it contains participial phrase.
c. it contains an absolute phrase
d. it contains an appositive phrase
a. It contains a gerund phrase
(usually function as noun- ing)
b. It contains participial phrase
(usually function as adjective in a form of present-ing or past-ed)
c. It contains an absolute phrase
(usually function as a modifier in a form of ing)
d. It contains an appositive phrase
(renames or identifies another noun in a form of essential/ restrictive (no commas) or nonessential/ nonrestrictive (use commas if it provides sufficient identification on its own)
Answer: D
I think Arnold spent the entire afternoon ___ the phone.
a. on
b. in
c. at
d. with
Answer: A. on
Bread and butter _____ our daily food.
a. is
b. are
c. were
d. am
Answer: A. is
"As far back as I can remember, our family had always been an extended one. Our grandmother was the mainstay in the family the silent strength behind our mother who is daughter." The informal guide and honorary household chief in the extended family is the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. a. grandmother b. mother c. father d. aunt
Answer: A. grandmother
What reading technique is being utilized when a teacher asks his students to read a particular passage, and he marks mispronounced words?
a. DRTA
b. IRI
c. SQ3R
d. KWL
a. DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity) b. IRI (Informal Reading Inventory) c. SQ3R (Survey Question: Read, Recite, Review) d. KWL Chart (Know, Want, Learn)
ANSWER: B.
What figure of speech is used in this haiku? O moon, why must you Inspire my neighbors to chirp All night in his flute. -Koyo
a. Apostrophe
b. allusion
c. Hyperbole
d. Euphemism
a. Apostrophe (starts with O, calling inanimate object) b. Allusion (refer to something in the past) c. Hyperbole (exaggeration) d. Euphemism (used to tone done intensity of the word to avoid issue)
ANSWER: A
The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. -Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
a. Metonymy
b. Irony
c. Synedoche
d. Personification
a. Metonymy (replacing related word/noun) b. Irony (opposite meaning of one's expression) c. Synecdoche (part used to represent a whole) d. Personification (attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman) ANSWER: D.
What is the mood of these lines? Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise I must think of a new life And I must not give in When the dawn comes Tonight will be a memory, too And a new day will begin
a. enthusiastic
b. motivated
c. thrilled
d. hopeful
Answer: D. hopeful
