ENGLISH 1

Name: _________________________________ Section: _____________ Date: __________

I. Writing Process, Elements of a Narrative

Arrange the following in sequence. Label each A-E.
A. Stages of the Writing Process (1-5)
_____ Drafting C. Elements of a Plot (11-15)
_____ Prewriting _____ Climax
_____ Publishing _____ Denouement / Resolution
_____ Proofreading / Editing _____ Exposition
_____ Revising _____ Falling Action
_____ Rising Action
A. Blue Blood of the Big Astana (6-10)
_____ Babo sent Jafaar to the Datu.
_____ Jafaar left the Astana.
_____ Jafaar became a successful merchant
_____ Jafaar saw Dayang Dayang in Bonbon
_____ Jafaar realized that he will never be good enough for Dayang Dayang.

II. FIGURES OF SPEECH

A. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
_____ 16. Which of the following is not an onomatopoeia?
A. cackle B. yell C. hum D. gurgle
_____ 17. Which is not an oxymoron?
A. planned chaos B. horrifying torture C. trained incapacity D. sweet sorrow
_____ 18. What figure of speech is used in “You are not at all like my rose. No one has tamed you, and you have
tamed no one”?
A. allusion B. chiasmus C. irony D. paradox
_____ 19. What figure of speech is used in “Wind whistles through the air, while talking turtles shiver like sea
horses while everyone is asleep”?
A. onomatopoeia B. antithesis C. assonance D. alliteration
_____ 20. “The participants had to endure a death march going to the venue.”
A. allusion B. chiasmus C. irony D. paradox
_____ 21. Not having hope at all makes him a living dead.
A. antithesis B. irony C. oxymoron D. antonomasia
_____ 22. When a man is rich and successful, others climb sycamore trees to see him. What does the passage
mean?
A. A short man will not be able to see in a crowd.
B. A determined person will find a way to get what he wants.
C. People will try hard to meet a person who is rich and successful.
D. Rich and successful people will find that many are eager to serve them.
_____ 23. Which uses an oxymoron?
A. I ate water, and I drank cake.
B. He is a coward knight in the battle field.
C. I wear my coat under the rain, and a cap on my head to ease the heat of the sun.
D. He who exalts himself be false but proves to be true in the end shall be humbled, and
he who humbles himself shall be exalted.
_____ 24. Which is an example of a paradox?
A. It is in giving that we receive.
B. Mother will be ecstatic to see your Violation Report.
C. Love takes time to heal when you’re hurting so much.
D. for life's not a paragraph and death I think is no parenthesis
_____ 25. Derek works at night as a mixologist. What does the underlined euphemism stand for?
B. DJ B. mason C. chemist D. bartender

III. Modes of Writing

Identify the mode of writing used to develop the following topic sentences.
_______________ 26. For some people, TV and junk foods seem as addictive as drugs and alcohol for they feel at
loss without them.
_______________ 27. Though they share similar backgrounds, each has a unique style which gives to us, the
readers, the gift of their exquisite humanity, with all of its frailties and strengths, joys and sorrows.
 _______________ 28. The old fence stands weathered and tired.
_______________ 29. Many people listen to music on as they travel, work and play.
_______________ 30. Although I have grown up to be entirely inept at the art of cooking, as to make even the
most wretched chef ridicule my sad baking attempts, my childhood would have indicated otherwise; I was
always on the countertop next to my mother’s cooking bowl, adding and mixing ingredients that would
doubtlessly create a delicious food.

IV. POETRY
A. Identify what is defined. Write the letter of your answer on the space before the number.
_____ 31. It is the literal definition of a word or term.
_____ 32. This refers to the manner how a poem is written based on the number of lines and rhyming scheme it
has.
_____ 33. It is the metaphorical idea that a particular word contains.
_____ 34. Meter and rhyme comprise this element which gives poetry a musical quality
_____ 35. This pertains to the message that the persona would like to send to the audience
_____ 36. He is the speaker or character in the poem.
_____ 37. The one who receives the message or the one who reads the poem
_____ 38. A highly creative use of words which expresses
_____ 39. The pattern or writer’s plan for using rhyme in a poem like aabb pattern
_____ 40. The prevailing feeling or atmosphere in a poem.

A. Sense E. Audience
B. Persona F. Figures of Speech I. Denotation
C. Structure G. Imagery J. Connotation
D. Rhyming Scheme H. Sound K. Mood
B. Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow.
WANTED TEACHERS FOR AN ELECTION
Wanted Teachers: They will nurture
Intelligent ones who do not think And care for our children
Poetic ones who do not speak out They will breathe chalk dust
Industrious ones who have no ambition And live by reading.
Ones with all the answers and ask no questions They will guard ballots
Ones with loud voices and do not complain And catch bullets
Scientific ones who do not count They will toil without drawing their pay.
Kind ones without principles
Teachers Wanted:
Ones who always smile and do not cry.

41. What figure of speech was used in almost all of the lines in the first stanza?

42. The poem was written during the Martial Law era. According to the first stanza, what kind of teachers were
needed then?

43. What figure of speech is used in the line “they will breathe chalk dust” and “catch bullets”?

44. What quality do people who “always smile and do not cry” have?

45. For what purpose do they need teachers?