1.

An English teacher may administer a performance-based assessment in ESP

using a rubric as a measuring instrument. In which of the following tests is a
rubric best applicable?
A. Dictation test
B. Oral interview

C. Sentence transformation
D. Analysing Sentence

2. An Act enhancing the Philippine Basic Education System by strengthening its

curriculum and increasing the number of years for Basic Education,
appropriating funds therefore and for other purposes, is known as __________.
A.
B.
C.
D.

Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013

Trifocalization Act
National Education Act
Kindergarten Education Act of 2012

3. Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations, are based on

local culture, history, and reality, this strategy particularly refers to
___________.
A. localization
B. contextualization

C. cultural adaptability
D. authenticity

4. Listening to classical music ____________ one of his preferred leisure activities.

A. were
B. are

C. will
D. is

5. While there is no absolute way to prevent ankle ____________, exercises such

as ankle lifts can help strengthen the joint.
A. sprain
B. sprains

C. sprains
D. sprains

6. Lila bought coffee for Isabella and ____________.

A. me
B. mine

C. Both me and I are correct

D. I

7. After the show, the board members went to another area and _________ out
with their fans.
A. hung
B. hunged

C. hanged
D. hang

8. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is known as a _________ paradise.

A. shoppers
B. shops

C. shoppers
D. shops

9. An example of a word formation process that changes kindergarten to

kinder and air conditioning to aircon is known as _________.
A. coining
B. compounding

C. blending
D. clipping

10.The study of ways in which non-active speakers acquire, comprehend, and

use linguistic patterns or speech acts in a second language is known as
__________.
A. Contrastive Rhetoric
B. Intra-language Variety

C. Jargonized Expression
D. Inter-language Pragmatics

11.Which is an example of a bound morpheme ending in-ion that changes a verb

into a noun?
A. Action
B. Nation

C. Scion
D. Mention

12.EVERYONE met the contest venue. The capitalized pronoun is an example of

a/an ____________.
A. indefinite pronoun
B. relative pronoun

C. demonstrative pronoun
D. interrogative pronoun

13.The adjective that expresses the supreme value of the noun like the
capitalized phrase in the sentence, English is the MOST INTERESTING subject
for Ryza, is called __________.
A. Superlative adjective
B. Predicate adjective

C. Demonstrative adjective
D. Possessive adjective

14.To enhance the power of the mind, learners read literary text in the target
language and memorize vocabulary lists translated into the native language.
Explicit grammar instruction of rules and their exceptions is the main focus to
master the target language. What is this approach?
A. Grammar-translation
B. Audio-lingual

C. Natural
D. Direct

15.The THIRD child is the most intelligent. The capitalized word is an example of
___________.
A. descriptive adjective
B. cardinal adjective

C. ordinal adjective
D. limiting adjective

16.Some people feel that his __________ to the president was unnecessary.
A. delusion
B. convulsion

C. allusion
D. illusion

17.Analogies are comparisons based on relationships between ideas. Finish the

analogy below.
Dwindle: increase: stiffen: __________
A. relax
B. cringe

C. crawl
D. freeze

18.Which type of plot device ends abruptly so that the main characters are left
in a difficult situation without offering any resolution or conflict?
A. Foil
B. Anti hero

C. Cliffhanger
D. Archetype

19.The intensification of the conflict in a story or play is called ____________.

A. exposition
B. conflict

C. rising action
D. complication

20.Sounds words like bam, bang, booing are examples of ____________.

A. metaphor
B. simile

C. onomatopoeia
D. idiom

21.A type of comedy based on a far-fetched humorous situation often with

ridiculous or stereotyped character is called __________.
A. sequel
B. simile

C. farce
D. fable

22.Which refers to the use of the word whose sound in some degree imitates or
suggests its meaning? Example: Keeping time, time, time; A sort of Runic
rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, from the Bells, bells,
bells.
A. Rhyme
B. Alliteration

C. Rhythm
D. Onomatopoeia

23.It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness In this opening line of the novel The Tale of
Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses ___________.
A. didacticism
B. consonance

C. juxtaposition
D. concession

24.The time is out of joint, O cursed spite

That ever I was born to set it right.
The two lines above from Shakespeares Hamlet use what literary device
which is characterized by having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and
the same meter to form a complete thought?
A. Couplet
B. Assonance

C. Free verse
D. Meiosis

25.Which figures of speech uses exaggeration for special effect like: where
the corn grows so tall they have to go up on a ladder to pick the ears off.?
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Alliteration

C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor

26.In a novel or a short story, this is the point of view assumed by the narrator
from which he is able to tell everything that happens in the story. This is
known as __________.
A. eyewitness
B. omniscient
consciousness

C. first person
D. stream of

27.Which type of paragraph has the goal of convincing another person to change
or think about changing his/her opinion on something?
A. Descriptive
B. Persuasive

C. Expository
D. Narrative

28.What is the method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts
and feelings of all the characters in the story?
A. Third person limited
B. Second person point-of-view

C. First person point-of-view

D. Third person omniscient

29.A scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative poem, r a play interrupts the
story to show an event that happen earlier or the past is known as
___________.
A. foreshadowing
B. review

C. retreat
D. flashback

30.In, in fiction, the transformation of a character from arrogance to humility is

referred to as ____________.
A. catharsis
B. turning point

C. realism
D. mellowing

31.A poem that tells a tragic story is called ___________.

A. parable
B. Epic

C.sonnet
D. ballad

32.Its no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Theresa in the

making; she loves to hep and care after people everywhere from the streets
to her own friends, is an example of a/an ___________.
A. metaphor
B. irony

C. allusion
D. historical paradox

33.Read the stanza or and answer the item that follows:

In the fell clutch of circumstances
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
My head is bloody, but unbowed is an example of which figures of speech?
A. Hyperbole
B. Alliteration

C. Simile
D. Metaphor

34.What figure of speech is: O wild, west wind!

A. Apostrophe
B. Hyperbole

C. Irony
D. Metaphor

35.Si Malakas at Maganda is a famous Filipino __________.

A. legend
B. folk tale

C. creation myth
D. story

36.Maria Makiling is a famous Filipino ___________.

A. folktale
B. legend

C. myth
D. fairy tale

37.In Greek mythology, who was the hero who sailed in the long Argo to search
for the Golden Fleece?
A. Ulysses
B. Achilles

C. Paris
D. Jason

38.What traditional Japanese poem consists of three lines totalling only

seventeen syllables and treats the world in its natural setting?
Example: A bead of water
Clinging to a willow branch
The first drop of rain.
A. Tanka
B. Sintaishi

C. Haikai
D. Haiku

39.Which is colloquial expression that has been overused?

A. Cliche
B. Emotive language

C. Informal language
D. Tautology

40.In which sentence is the word WELL used correctly?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Julie and Ellen work well together.

The boys are a well team.
The flight was not well.
The time they had in Palawan was well.

41.What method is used when students learn how to use words properly; next,
they learn read and write; they use color charts and rods to help them with
the pronunciation sounds; and teacher talking time is minimal?
A. Silent way
B. Suggestopedia
Learning

C. Color method
D. Community Language

42.What is a story told in verse by unknown writers and usually meant to be

sung?
A. Sonnet
B. Ballad

C. Haiku
D. Elegy

43.What is a book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters

and often a complex plot?
A. Novel
B. Epic

C. Short story
D. Drama

44.What is the repetition of similar sounds usually consonants in a group of

words, like: Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before.?
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Rhythm

C. Rhyme
D. Alliteration

45.Which refers to two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme?

Example: Rose cheerless over hills of gray;
The sun that brief December day.
A. Sonnet
B. Octave

C. Couplet
D. Sestet

46.What periodical publication contains accounts of current events, information,

articles, and diverse features?
A. Brochure
B. Newspaper

C. Journal
D. Magazine

47.A word can have associated mental images and feelings. Often these cannot
be found by consulting a dictionary. These are referred to as ______________.
A. co-reference
B. collocation

C. denotation
D. connotation