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THIRD QUARTER EXAMINATION
ENGLISH GRADE 9
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Test I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Choose the letter of the word or phrase that best suggests or implies the meaning of the expressions.
1. My heart leaps implies a feeling of
a. Exasperation
b. Joy,delight
c. Great disappointment
d. Familiarity
2. A rainbow suggests all of the following except
a. a belt of colorful clouds
b. a combination of several hues
c. a swathe of tints
d. the sun shining through clouds after a rainy day
3. so be it suggests
a. Abdiction
b. Qualification
c. Emancipation
d. Resignation
4. Child is father of the man means that
a. The child will also be a father someday
b. What the father is now, is what he was, is a child
c. The father begot the child
d. The child will soon be a father-to-be
5. Piety is another word for
a. Pity
b. A kind of pie crust
c. Devoutness
d. Sympathy

II. Identification
A. Directions. Give what is asked. Wrong spelling is wrong. (2 pts. Each)
________1. It expresses comparison but without the use of like, similar or as.
________2. The occurrence of the same sounds in words at the end of the lines of poetry.
________3. The repetition of a consonant sound usually at the beginning of two or more words in
a line of verse.
_______4. It expressed comparison between two unlike objects with the use of the words like, as,
similar.
_______5. It attributes human traits to inanimate objects or non living things or animals.

B. Give the figures of speech used in the following lyrics of the song.
________1. I came in like a wrecking ball.
________2. Its been written in the scars in our hearts.
________3. I have loved you for a thousand years.
________4. Her eyes, her eyes make the stars look like theyre not shining.
________5. I have died everyday waiting for you.
________6. Ill catch a grenade for you, throw my hand on the blade for you.
________7. You treat me like a rose, you give me room to grow.
________8. Baby, you light up my world like nobody else.
________9. Your love is like the river that flows down to my veins, I feel the warmth inside.
________10. When you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while.

III. Enumeration
Directions: Give 5 words or phrase used to compare and 5 words used to contrast.
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5.
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4.
5.

IV. Completion Type

Directions. Complete the following patterns for a sentence definition by supplying the appropriate
word or group of words.
TERM

VERB

GENUS

RELATIVE
PRONOUN

SPECIFIC
CHARACTERISTICS

1._______

is

which

2. Algebra
6._______

is
is

An unborn human
offspring
3.______
a ceremony

Venus
9.______

is
is

7._______
A
kind
beverage

that
that

Is more than eight

months old.
4.________
two people are married
to each other.
8.________
10.__________

of

that
At which

C. Complete the definition below by supplying the appropriate word chosen from the above list.
1. A ruler is an _____ used for measuring or used as a guide in writing lines.
2. Simplicity is _______ style of ancient Greek writers.
3. Crop rotation is the ______of planting varying crops grown on the same area.
4. Baking is a _______ of cooking by indirect heat as in an oven, a microwave or in an oven
broiler.
5. Myopia is a _____ of the eyes where only near objects are seen clearly or distinctly.

Prepared by:
Cindyl Erika L. Vasquez
Teacher

Checked by:

Approved by:

Mrs. Maria Teresa M. Leal

Mrs. Jennifer R. Molbog

OIC-High School Dept.

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