Gen Ed - English (2017) Flashcards
1
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“A patriot is indefatigable in promoting political truth.” The statement means ____.
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A hero practices practical truth
2
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“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 her daughter.” The informal guide and honorary household chief in the extended family is the ___.
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Grandmother
3
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“Because of PROFANITY the program was suspended from television.” The capitalized word means __.
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Obscenity
4
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“Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead” has a ___. [grammatical error]
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Misplaced modifier
5
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“Holding wonder like a cup” is an example of ___. [figure of speech]
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Simile
6
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“How much money did you bring for shopping?” Could be answered by the statement:
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None, but I have a credit card.
7
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“If you want the moon, I will get it for you.” is an example of ___.
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Hyperbole
8
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“In the story, who is short?” Is a question that falls under the ________ Comprehension Level.
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Literal Comprehension Level
9
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“My head is bloody but unbowed” is ____. [figure of speech]
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Hyperbole
10
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“Nothing happens in this world by chance; it is all of a grand design.” The author speak of ____.
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One’s destiny
11
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“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret” is a good advice for those who are ____.
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Ill-tempered and impulsive
12
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“Stephen Crane was born in 1971 in New Jersey but his family settled in New York. His father, a Methodist minister, died when Stephen was nine years old. He came to know New York through its slum and street life, particularly in Bowery.”
The most appropriate heading of the paragraph is ___.
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Stephen’s family and boyhood
13
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“The figures must be TRANSMUTED in order to understand the grade.” The capitalized word means ____.
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Changed
14
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“The rustling trees during winter” inspired Robert Frost in writing most of his inspirational poem is an example of ___. [figure of speech]
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Onomatopoeia
15
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“The sun was a ball of fire over the mountain” is a _____. [figure of speech]
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Metaphor
16
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“To be or not to be”, the beginning of the soliloquy of _____ expresses a feeling of _____.
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Hamlet; indecision
17
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What is not true about ballad?
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A ballad often rhymes abcd
18
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A good writer supports his generalizations with ______ examples.
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Concrete
19
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A lengthy poem about a heroic figure usually with superpowers is called ____.
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Epic
20
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A number of endangered species living underwater _____ now extinct because of illegal hunting and dynamite fishing.
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ARE
Sentence beginning with “A NUMBER” always takes a PLURAL verb.
21
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A poem which is usually composed of fourteen lines which follow specific patterns of rhyme is called ___.
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Sonnet
22
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A story put together through an exchange of letters like Urbana and Felix is called ______.
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Epistolary literature
23
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Who wrote the oratorical piece “The Gettysburg Address”?
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Abraham Lincoln
24
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According to the current linguistic theories, the best definition of the meaning of a word is _____.
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Its use in a particular situation
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According to the report done by the fire department, the explosion was caused by a _____ (loose, lose) connection.
Loose
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Adults acquire new words and experience primarily through ___.
Exposure to their use
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Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaeans has a FONDNESS for women which is synonymous to ____.
Penchant
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Algie’s family lives (on, in) Ipil Street.
ON
| - ON is used to indicate days, complete dates, and names of street, avenues, and boulevard
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A symbolic fictional account conveying meaning/s beyond the literal
Allegory
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The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in lines of poetry and even in prose.
Alliteration
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Among the following, which sounds like “fine”:
Crane
Brine
Pristine
Quarantine
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Brine
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An audience should be regarded as people ______.
People who have views different from you
33
An early tragedy about two teenage star-crossed lovers which end with their suicides, uniting rival household of a long-running family feud is ___.
Romeo and Juliet
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Arnold would read any book or magazine he could lay his hands on and read from cover to cover in one sitting, therefore, he is such a ______ reader.
Voracious
35
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Which does not belong to the group:
Summary
Assumption
Synthesis
Generalization
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Assumption
| All of them means “wrapping up” a particular text.
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At the Philippine General Hospital, doctors reported on the ABANDONED patients which mean _______.
Patients are left behind by relatives
37
What is NOT a characteristic of people with a strong sense of self-efficacy?
Avoiding challenging tasks
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Banks provide _____ service to customers 24 hours a day via ATMs.
Convenient
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Becky Sharp, the main character of the novel “Vanity Fair” by Thackeray ________ [try] to forget about her first love, but she knows that doing so takes a lifetime.
HAS BEEN TRYING
| Tense: Present perfect progressive tense
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Filipino migrant writer whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino’s concepts of American culture.
Bienvenido Santos
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Children who have been watching a lot of television would likely suffer from ____.
Short attention span
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Central focus of much of Philippine literature during the Hispanic colonial period.
Christian faith
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Artistic tradition that seeks to revive past glory in various forms.
Classical
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Considering the “tayo-tayo” mentality of the Filipinos, one goal for CHANGE that should be worked on is _____.
To develop a sense of common good.
45
Who is the foremost French short story writer?
Guy de Maupassant
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The dream realized by Nelson Mandela
Democracy
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Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes’ immortal novel rode forth to ______.
Defend the oppressed and right the wrong.
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Drama (appears, appear) to be the most interesting co-curricular activity of the year.
APPEARS
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During seminars or lecture forums, you should clarify what you didn’t understand by _____.
Waiting for the open forum to politely ask questions
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Known as the Father of Horror/Detective Stories. Among his famous works are Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The part of the newspaper where you can see the opinions of people.
Editorial section
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Application of the principles of theories of human behavior in teaching and learning.
Educational psychology
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Defined as Mediterranean Literature
Egyptian Literature
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Emily Dickinson is known for her CANDOR about some issues on poetic freedom meaning she exhibits ____.
Frankness
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Used to give certain emphasis like do, does, did.
Emphatic verbs
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Equating the artist as an “improviser” means he/she ______.
Selects subjects at random
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Even when her friends betray her, Perla bears no RANCOR in her heart because she is not ____.
Bitter
58
Fish and fries _______ my cousin’s favorite fast food meal.
ARE
| Fish and fries are taken as a single entity.
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A poem with irregular or no rhyme scheme and no meter at all.
Free verse
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Sounds produced when the air stream is compressed and passes through a small opening creating fiction
Fricatives
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Food or Dostoyevsky __________ (write) his last novel, “Brother Karamazov” when he died.
HAD BEEN WRITING
The sentence given is in the past perfect progressive because the first past action is still happening when the second past action transpired.
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Gabriel ______ (sleep) soundly in his air-conditioned room last night.
SLEPT
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Morning Star/ Father of English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Foremost French short story writer who wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.
Guy de Maupassant
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Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem consisting of ____ lines totaling ____ 17 syllables with ____ as topic.
3 lines totaling 17 syllables with nature as topic
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He is the black sheep of the family. [figure of speech]
Metaphor
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He was excused because all he said were white lies. The idiomatic expression means _____.
Lines recited are excusable
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He was like a snake in the night is a _____. [figure of speech]
SIMILE
| “Like”
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His discussion is excellent and ________ to the case.
CONNECTED
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First mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his hero Ulysses.
Homer
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How she made both ends meet, guided us in our studies and did small acts of charity on the side was beyond me.” The mother’s financial resources are ____.
Limited
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I can’t find my calculator; may I use ______, Michael?
yours
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I die when the dawn breaks to herald the day is a line from Mi Ultimo Adios by _____.
Jose Rizal
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I thought the task was heavy for Reneboy and (us, me)
Me
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I value a man for the size of his heart could be interpreted as _____.
Man’s kindness is most important.
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I will not leave you “to come hell or high water” meaning ______.
The speaker will not leave the person no matter what.
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Ian has not forgotten that she was betrayed by her best friend and carried such ______ in her deeply offended heart for a long time.
RANCOR
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If I had taken my chance on love, I _________ happier.
Would have been
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If the murder weapon is not found inside the bag of Aksionov, he _________ (suffer) imprisonment.
Will not suffer
This case is first conditional because it speculates situations that are possible to happen at present time or in the future.
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If the president listened to the walls of his people, he _______ (stop) the killings in Mindanao.
Would have stopped
| This case is third conditional because it speculates situation that happened or did not happen in the past.
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If you chance upon the principal on your way out of the campus, please send _____ my best wishes.
Him
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If you drink poison, you ____. (Die)
Die
| This case is zero conditional because it describes situations that are always true or factual.
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If you forgot _____ textbook, you can use _____, Karl.
Your; mine
84
If you want to be recognized, “have a finger in the pie” meaning _____.
You have to make an active part in something.
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What’s the logical fallacy: “You once sponsored a project of the governor, therefore you are the governor’s crony.”
Illogical conclusion
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In a Station of the Metro is a classic example of ______ as the poet, Ezra Pound describes a moment in the Underground Metro Station in Paris.
Imagism
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In ______ listening, the listener is concerned with acquiring new knowledge for the purpose of improving skills in generalizing and decision-making.
Critical listening
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In Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s short story, _________, Ms. Mijares failed to find a man to marry because she took care of her sick mother.
“The Virgin”
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In Macbeth, we see a man whose downfall was caused by ________.
Overwhelming ambition for power
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In one of his poems, the Filipino author Zulueta da Costa used ________ when he said that the Filipinos are like Molave.
Simile
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In Paz Latorena’s short story, _________, old clothes and other things owned by the first wife are inside the chest when the second wife, Soledad, opened it using the small key.
“The Small Key”
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In Psalm 23 otherwise known as “Psalm of David”, _____________ is the closest meaning to the line: “He make the me to lie down in green pastures; he leaders me beside the still waters.”
He will be provided peace and prosperity.
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In sentences with multiple adjectives, the order of adjectives must be ___________ .
Expensive
Black
Japanese
Sports
[car]
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Determiner
Observation
Size
Shape
Age
Color
Origin
Material
Qualifier
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She drives an expensive black Japanese sports car.
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In the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dante was wrongfully imprisoned on _______.
Devil’s Island
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In the Loreto Paras Sulit’s short story, “The Bolo”, the __________ is being treasured by the main character.
The obvious lesson in the short story, “The Bolo” is _________.
The Bolo that was given to her by her husband
| Heritage is more important than physiological needs
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In the School Paper, the _______ is in-charge of the entire publication.
Editor-in-Chief
97
In the speech process, ________ is concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as the nose, windpipe, and the chest.
Resonation
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________ is meant by at SIXES AND SEVENS in the sentence: We moved into the house last week, but I’m afraid everything is still at sixes and sevens.
In the state of confusion
99
Is this spot _______ you had the accident.
Where
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It is _______ fitting that we organize a literary seminar to pay homage to a great Filipino writer.
Altogether
101
________ is a Filipino poet who uses punctuation marks extensively in his pieces — most especially commas.
Jose Garcia Villa
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_______ is a suprasegmental that pertains to the pauses or rests in speech.
Juncture
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_______ was the FIrst Filipino National Artist for Literature awarded in 1973.
Jose Garcia Villa
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Let us campaign for the total ban _______ the use of harmful insecticides.
On
105
Mario’s father is an alcoholic, a chain smoker, and a gambler. But Mario is his contrast because he does not drink, smoke nor gamble. This case proves that
One’s value system is acquired
106
Mother finally found the time to rest after ______ the whole day.
Working
107
My father and I met a friend of _____ in the shopping center.
Ours
108
My goal, to be independently wealthy by the age of fifty, is looking increasingly unrealistic contains an _______
Appositive phrase
109
Neither F. Scott Fitzgerald nor his contemporaries ______ their real names in their writing career. In sentences with “neither, nor, and either, or “ the verb must agree with the closest noun.
Use
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Neither his followers nor Walt Whitman ______ convinced that the ideas of Emerson are out of this world.
Was
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Neither Ralph Waldo Emerson nor his friend _____ present at the meeting last night.
Was
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Neither the teacher nor the students _____ present in the affairs.
Were
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Nelson Mandela gave up armed struggle and chose the peaceful to freedom. He is a world leader who is a model of ______.
Non-violence
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Nelson Mandela realized his dream of free and non-racial South Africa by forgiving his oppressors and negotiating in good faith for the peaceful transition to democracy thereby demonstrated his trait of _______.
Forgiving
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Nelson Mandela’s dream for South Africa, which was realized was ______.
Democracy
116
_________ is a Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions.
Nick Joaquin
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Of epigrams, the meaning of “ A friend is one who knows all about you and love you just the same is ______. “
True friendship
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Omar Khama wrote the Rubaiyat, which adheres to the carpe diem movement that states that we should eat now, drink and be merry for tomorrow we’ll die. The Rubaiyat has the theme ________.
Grasping pleasure while you can
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One of the outstanding and distinct feature of Latin American Literature is the use of ______.
Magic realism
120
One of the questions which the epic Divine Comedy seeks for the reader to ponder upon is:
What is purpose of life?
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Only 35% if the total number of students ______ able to pass the comprehensive exam last year. Nouns in percent and in fraction take plural verbs if paired with count nouns and singular verbs when paired with non-count nouns.
Were
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_______ is known for the love sonnets she wrote.
Ophelia Dimalanta
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_______ is a poem that describes life in rural areas in a romanticized way.
Pastoral
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__________ is the Father of Ilocano literature
Pedro Bukaneg
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________ is concerned about high and low in voice volume and quality.
Pitch
126
_______ must be used in emphasizing or stressing the main idea in a sentence according to traditional grammar rules.
Pitch level 3
127
______ is the way body is carried while speaking.
Posture
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A little knowledge is a dangerous ______.”
Thing
129
______ is a collection of Indian sacred hymns while Upanishad is a collection of religious texts.
Rig Veda
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Rita is the ______ of the twins because it is at the comparative degree of adjectives.
Smarter
131
______ is known as the rival of Jose Garcia Villa on issues concerning the purpose of art.
Salvador Lopez
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______ is the theme of the quote: “Have a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Security
133
Several factors must be assessed to arrive at a sound ______.
Decision
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She hurt (himself, _____ ) when she was slicing the onions.
Herself
135
She wrote a “first-rate” report. It implies the report was _____.
Excellent
136
______ is reading to get the main idea while scanning is reading to get specific information.
Skimming
137
Some scientists and Bible scholars agree with the ______ that the Earth is coming to an end.
Prophecy
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_______ includes ‘The Open Boat’ which he wrote as a result of a shipwreck he experienced on his way to Cuba to report a war in progress there.
Stephen’s Writings
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_______ is composed of 31 syllables, 5 lines, with love and nature as the topic.
Tanka
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Technology in the field of medicine _______ tremendously since the beginning of the 21st century.
Has improved
141
_________ is the first man to replace myth with natural laws and causes observing that all living things are elements of nature.
Thales of Mellitus
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The (morality, ______) lesson of the story is that honesty is the best policy.
Moral
143
The appropriate response to the question “Did you understand the direction?” Is “______.”
Thanks, I certainly did
144
The audience exhibited enthusiasm for the play; they seem ______.
Interested
145
The Bible goes for parallelism. It says “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” which means ________
Poor spirit can be an open gate to heaven
146
The brain can store ADMONITORY information. ADMONITORY means ________
Warning to avoid danger
147
The capitalized word means ______ in the statement: Your statements are IMPERTINENT to the case.
Irrelevant
148
The capitalized word means ______ in the statement: She is a vision of feminine PULCHRITUDE
Loveliness
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The capitalized word means _______ in the statement: Because of PROFANITY, the program was suspended from television.
Obscenity
150
The capitalized word means ______ in the statement: The writer’s APOCALYPTIC account suggests the end of the world.
Prophetic
151
The capitalized word means _____ in the statement: We listened to a LOQUACIOUS speaker.
Verbose
152
_________ by Edgar Allan Poe resembles the theme of the poem “A Poison Tree.”
The Cask of Amontillado
153
The characters Kriemhild and Siegfried are found in the medieval German epic _______.
Nibelungenlied
154
The collection of stories of animals which teach moral lessons is ________.
Aesop’s Fables
155
The courage if the child who saved his brother from a raging fire is worth ______.
Emulating
156
The doctor recommended eating healthier meals and _______.
Doing exercise
157
The empty board ( _______, was leaving ) on the table.
Was left
158
The expression of “badly” connotes _________.
Awkward looking
159
The Filipinos are deeply religious; however, sometimes this religiosity instills the NEGATIVE attitude of ________
Resignation and ends up into doing nothing to improve one’s condition
160
The five skills essential for real reading to take place according to Jean Chall are __________ .
Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
161
The folk song “Atin Cu Pung Singsing” originated in _____ .
Pampanga
162
The idea that a thing like a white elephant means that it is ________.
Beautiful but useless
163
The line from the Koran, “Woe to every backbiter,” talks of _________.
Misery for those who talks ill of others
164
THe line, “Under the bludgeoning chance, My head is bloody but unbowed depict the person’s ________.”
Determination
165
The main thought of William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is that __________ .
Mercy if spontaneous and freely given
166
The man in the mirror looks ______. If the subject is stationary and if there is no object, the verb of sense functions as a linking verb and requires an adjective.
Strange
167
The members of the congregation are ________ inside the conference room already.
All together
168
The morning air smells ______ in the garden.
Sweet
169
The most appropriate follow-up sentence to the statement I have been searching for love is: ________. The given sentence is in the present perfect progressive tense.
And I can’t imagine doing anything else
170
The overriding issue tackled in the epic Song of Roland is ________ .
Loyalty to God and king
171
The Philippines is considered _____ because English is used as an important medium in Mass Media, Law, Business, and in Education.
ESL nation
172
The phrase for democracy will die is associated with ________ .
President Ramon Magsaysay
173
The proposed project ( _____, are ) within the budget of the school.
Is
174
The _______ is the greatest lyric poem in the literature of the world.
Psalm of King David
175
The Senator approached the podium with his spiel. HIs hands were shaking and he was sweating tremendously. He experience ________ .
Stage fright
176
The significance of evaluation of the audience in speech is _______ .
As assessment of speech made
177
The spectators never fail to admire the great Greek tragedy writer Sophocles whenever _____ narrates his drama.
He
178
The statement “O Wild West wind!” Is an example of ______ .
Apostrophe
179
The student’s request to re-set the test ( __, are ) reasonable.
Is
180
The tribulations that I faced were (so much, ______ ) for me to overcome. The word too must match word for.
Too much
181
The words “inappropriate, illegal, irresponsible, unaware” have prefixed which are classified as ______ .
Negative
182
There was an ESOTERIC lecture on holography. Esoteric means _______ .
Understandable only by a selected group
183
These towels are _____ for us to dry the dishes.
Too wet
184
________ is an example of a word with voiceless /th/ sound/ The vibrations in the vocal chords determine if a particular sound is voiced or voiceless.
Think
185
Thomas Carlyle said, “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder” could be interpreted as ________ .
There should be a strong driving force in one’s life
186
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the glass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. This stanza expresses _____ .
Hope
187
To emphasize possession, the stress must be place on the possessive adjective “____” in the sentence: That is my boyfriend.
My
188
TRANSCENDENTAL meditation is practice in Yoga. TRANSCENDENTAL means _____ .
Supernatural
189
______ is a collection of Indian sacred text.
Upanishad
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________ is the meaning of “Is the world only an illusion”, as the Chinese philosophers say, “ You cannot visit the same (flowing) river.
What is true to you is not true to me
191
A.) Who is the writer of the poem “A Poison Tree? B.) The apple represents ______ .
A.) William Blake
| B.) a trap that the persona was able to make for his enemy
192
______ is the author if the poem Invictus.
William Ernest Henley
193
______ is considered as the greatest English writer and also known as the Bard of Avon.
William Shakespeare
194
Wise people can ____ with frustrations.
Cope
195
Workers in the service sector should be trained to act as ______ as possible.
Courteously
196
You should be ashamed of yourself for having such CARNAL desires. Carnal means _______.
Worldly
197
Your boss isn’t working anymore, ______? If the base sentence is negative, the tag must be positive.
Is he
198
_______ is the author of the Declaration if Philippine Independence.
Ambrosia Bautista
199
________ is Carlos Bulusan’s celebrated autobiography.
Allusion
200
An ________ is used as a substitute for a missing letter or letters in a word (as in the contraction cannot = can’t), to show the possessive case (Jane’s room), and in the plural of letters, some numbers and abbreviations.
Apostrophe
201
An _______ is an article written by the editorial staff from a specific perspective. The editorial will offer the newspaper’s view of an issue.
Editorial
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An ______ is a poem that reflect upon death or loss.
Elegy
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An ______ poem is a lengthy, narrative work of poetry.
Epic
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An _____ argument is one that relies on personal attacks rather than reason or substance.
Ad hominem
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______ is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of clauses or sentences.
Anaphora
206
______ is called the Literary Colossus of the Visayas.
Angel Magahum
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______, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.”
Animal Farm
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_______ is called “the most Greek of all the Gods.” He is also called the Lord of Silver Bow and the Archer-God.
Apollo
209
______ are a subclass of determiners, which are noun-marking words. They usually come before the nouns they modify.
Articles
210
______ is the name of the very first library in the world.
Ashurbannipal Library
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______ is a poetic device where the vowel sound in a word matches the same sound in a nearby word, but the surrounding consonant words are different.
Assonance
212
At the border of two countries there is a port where fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same language, so they communicate using one that has been invented but only for the purpose of the trade. This scenario most accurately describes a ______ .
Pidgin
213
_______ is a group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech, etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
Audience
214
_______ is a Norwegian writer best known for his problem/social play like “Ghosts.”
August Strindberg
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Authors turn to tangible _____ to represent abstract concepts and ideas in their stories.
Symbols
