English Majorship Pre Board 1

ENGLISH- 200 items
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The test booklet contains 150 test questions. Examinees shall manage to use the 2 hours.
2. Shade only one (1) box for each question on your answer sheets. Two or more boxes shaded
will invalidate your answer.
3. AVOID ERASURES.
Instructions:
1. Detach one (1) answer sheet from the bottom of your Examinee ID/Answer Sheet Set.
2. Write the subject title ‘ENGLISH” on the box provided.
3. Shade the Set Box “A” on your answer sheet if your test booklet is Set A; Set Box “B” if your
test booklet is Set B.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and attitude of literature of
ancient Greek and Rome?
A. Romanticism
B. Realism
C. Classicism
D. Naturalism
E. Existentialism
2. Plato‟s idea about the art of poetry is expressed in treatise _________?
A. The Republic
B. Poetics
C. Ars Poetica
D. On The Sublime
E. Ion
3. He believes that reality exists when the thing or object or emotion is lasting.
A. Aristotle
B. Sophocles
C. Plato
D. Longinus
E. Sappho
4. It is a narrative technique utilized by Homer and Sophocles in their plot scheme.
A. flashback
B. media res
C. unity
D. foreshadowing
E. discovery
5. Longinus advanced his theory on poetry in which writings?
A. Ion
B. The Republic
C. Poetics
D. On The Sublime
E. Ars Poetica
6. He is a Spanish author who wrote the novel “Don Quixote”.
A. Gustave Flaubert
B. Joseph Condrad
C. Miguel de Cervantes
D. D.H. Lawrence
E. Herman Melville
7. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?
“I fart at thee”, “shit on your head’, “dirty bastard”
A. Ben Johnson
B. Henry James
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Arnold Bronte
E. Robinson Crusoe
8. He believes that the poet is an inventor for a better world.
A. John Donne
B. John Dryden
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Milton
E. Emily Dickinson
9. He said that a man is a product of his choices.
A. Jean Paul Sartre

B. William Shakespeare
C. Robinson Crusoe
D. Herman Melville
E. John Donne
10. It is the movement in literature criticizing the marginalization of women and gender equality.
A. Formalism
B. Feminism
C. Structuralism
D. Naturalism
E. Romanticism
11. It is a criticism that uses personal judgement.
A. New Criticism
B. Formalism
C. Reader‟s Response
D. Psychoanalytic Poetry
E. Binary Opposition
12. It is the consequence of pity and fear among the spectators.
A. hamartia
B. repentance
C. discovery
D. suffering
E. catharsis
13. It is the consequence of a mistake in judgment.
A. discovery
B. suffering
C. peripety
D. existence
E. tragedy
14. Which among the following does not belong to Aristotle‟s view on plot?
A. The plot should be single.

B. The plot should have a twist at the end.
C. The plot should be complete.
D. The plot should show sudden change in the hero‟s fortune.
E. The plot must have the beginning, middle and end.
15. When is a poem good according to Longinus?

A. If it is beautifully crafted.
B. If it elevates the reader to greater heights of feelings.
C. If the poem can easily understand to the readers.
D. If it affects the reader through nobility of diction and thought. E. If the message of
the poem can be stated to the readers.
16. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer‟s pilgrims?
A. The Knight
B. The Parson
C. The Reeve
D. The Wife of Bath
E. The King
17. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
A. The Sergeant /Man of Law

B. The Wife of Bath
C. The Reeve
D. The Pardoner
E. The Knight
18. In Herman Melville‟s “Moby Dick”, what does the sea associate?
A. long life, freedom and rebirth

B. strong reflection, life and rebirth
C. searching, vision and rebirth
D. spiritual mystery, death and rebirth
E. life, death and rebirth
19. He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.
A. Soren Kierkegard
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Jonathan Edwards
E. Daniel Defoe
20. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16
June 1904.The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer‟s Odyssey. Name the author of
Ulysses.
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Kenneth Grahame
C. Laurence Strene
D. James Joyce
E. Jonathan Swift
21. He is a king who ruled with the help of the knights of the round table.
A. King Henry I
B. King Arthur
C. King Alfred
D. King George IV
E. King Charles I
22. It is focusing on the outstanding feature of a person.

A. Feminism
B. Naturalism
C. Realism
D. Existentialism
E. Romanticism
23. Name the book which opens with the line „All children, except one grew up‟?
A. The Moby Dick

B. The Paradise Lost
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
E. Peter Pan
24. She is an American writer who made herself known for her extreme individualism in poetry.
A. Elizabeth Browning
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Emily Bronte
E. Sarah Fielding
25. A philosophy advocating that man is a product of freedom.
A. Imagism
B. Formalism
C .Romanticism
D. Existentialism
E. Naturalism
26. It is undoubtedly the simplest way of fleshing out the theme.
A. allegory
B. symbol
C. image
D. structure
E. form
27. It is the study of the principles and rules for constructing sentences in natural
languages.
A. Semiotics
B. Syntax
C. Semantics
D. Phonetics
E. Phonemes
28. Oliver Cromwell belong to what party?
A. royalist
B. religious
C. peasants
D. round head
E. land owners
29. It refers to making art and literature accessible to the masses.
A. Popularization
B. Imagism
C. Formalism
D. Structuralism
E. Modern Criticism
30. The play “Hamlet” is a ________.
A. feminist
B. naturalist
C. existentialist
D. formalist
E. none of the above
31. It is also called The Apocalypse in Bible.
A. Genesis
B. Proverbs
C. Revelations
D. Psalm
E. Acts
32. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems.
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Edith Hamilton
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Christina Georgina Rossetti
E. Mary Shelley
33. The belief that the meaning or value of work may be determined by the author‟s intention.
A. Tension
B. Intentional Fallacy
C. Affective Fallacy
D. Organic Unity
E. None of the above.
34. What work contains these lines:

“There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . .
Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.”
A. As You Like It
B. Morte D‟arthur
C. Piers Plowman
D. Canterbury Tales
E. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
35. It is the repetition of words at the beginnings of neighbor clauses.
A. cataphora
B. anaphora
C. conjunction
D. ellipses
E. parallelism
36. This is used to describe an expression that co-refers with a latter expression.
A. conjunction
B. anaphora
C. cathapora
D. coherence
E. cohesion
37. The repeated words with the same text.
A. coherence
B. cohesion
C. partial recurrence
D. recurrence
E. proform
38. A mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of some parts.
A. paraphrase
B. ellipses
C. coherence
D. subordination
E. conjunction
39. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?
A. Animal Farm
B. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
E. The Cask of Amontillado
40. A restatement of a text or passages.
A. parallelism
B. paraphrase
C. ellipses
D. conjunction
E. subordination
41. All of these statements are true except one.
A. The Mohenjo-Daro civilization flourished on 3000-2500 BC.

B. Inhabitants of these cities were dark-skinned.
C. Africans believe that hope for a better Africa lies in its ability to integrate.
D. “A Picture in the Cellar” discusses about of keeping memoirs.
E. The educated Africans are the hope of the African nations.
42. He is an essayist exemplified Elizabethan ideal of intellectual versatility in the 17 th Century.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Oliver Cromwell
C. John Milton
D. John Donne
E. Francis Bacon
43. Which of these statements is false?
A. Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark novels.

B. Ramayana is attributed to Valmki.
C. Geoffrey Chaucer is the unofficial father of English Literature.
D. Rabindranath Tagore wrote “Gitanjali”.
E. Next to Iliad, Mahabharata is the world‟s longest epic.
44. It carrying the sense of one line of verse over the next line without a pause.
A. enjambment
B. denouement
C. catalexis
D. antecedent
E. allegory
45. He is one of the exceptional writer in Philippine Literature and also known as Quijano
De Manila.
A. Bienvienido Santos
B. F. Sionil Jose
C. Jose Garcia Villa
D. Nick Joaquin
E. Manuel Arguilla
46. It is a dramatic expression of Zen Buddhism viewed by feudal lords.
A. Sampiran
B. Hansi
C. Noh Play
D. Seloka
E. Suthon Phu
47. He is a Chinese dramatic playwright who wrote “The West Chamber”.
A. Seami Motokiyo
B. Catherine Lim
C. Kahlil Gibran
D. Wang Shifu
E. Confucius
48. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating „it is
impossible to sell animal stories in the USA‟?
A. Animal Farm
B. Black Beauty
C. Watership Down
D. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
E. Moby Dick
49. This approach attempts to explain the how‟s and why‟s of human action and can exist side
by side with any other critical method of interpretation.
A. New Criticism
B. Symbolism
C. Modern Criticism
D. Moral Criticism
E. Psychoanalytic Criticism
50. He translated “The Fall of Princes” from the French.
A. William Langland
B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. Geoffrey of Monmouth
D. John Lydgate
E. Giovanni Boccaccio
51. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called
____________?
A. Morphology
B. Phonology
C. Typology
D. Semantics
E. Syntax
52. How many Inflectional Morphemes are there in English?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8
53. The study and classification of language based on how morphemes create words is called
________________?
A. Morphological Typology
B. Word Based Morphology
C. Lexeme Based Morphology
D. Event Semantics
E. Linguistic Typology
54. These words are created by adding affixes to roots.
A. Word Borrowing
B. Compound Words
C. Trade Names
D. Clipping
E. Blending
55. It involves snipping a part of a word to create a shortened form.
A. Trade Names
B. Word Borrowing
C. Compounding
D. Blending
E. Clipping
56. The meaningful units of language are called ____________?
A. syntax
B. phoneme
C. allomorphs
D. morpheme
E. predicate
57. Words formed from the first letter or letters of more than one words is called
__________?
A. Derivation
B. Compounding
C. Blending
D. Clipping
E. Acronyms
58. Which one is NOT an open class of words?
A. noun
B. adjective
C. pronoun
D. verbs
E. adverbs
59. It is a relatively recently devised word/phrase that has not been accepted into mainstream
usage.
A. Allomorphs
B. Back Formation
C. Trade Names
D. Compounding
E. Neologism
60. It refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes.
A. Clipping
B. Word Borrowing
C. Back Formation
D. Blending
E. Trade Names
61. It is a morpheme that only appears as part of a larger word and the one that can stand
alone.
A. Free Morpheme
B. Bound Morpheme
C. Inflectional Morpheme
D. Derivational Morpheme
E. Allomorphs
62. It can function independently as words and can appear with other lexemes.
A. Free Morpheme
B. Bound Morpheme
C. Derivational Morpheme
D. Inflectional Morpheme
E. Allomorphs
63. It is the study of how languages change over time and the relationship among different
languages.
A. Applied Linguistics
B. Evolutionary Linguistics
C. Stylistics
D. Psycholinguistics
E. Historical Linguistics
64. It is a branch of linguistics that study of the cognitive processes and representations
underlying language use.
A. Neurolinguistics
B. Historical Linguistics
C. Stylistics
D. Psycholinguistics
E. Sociolinguistics
65. It is the study of the origin and subsequent development of language by the human species.
A. Historical Linguistics
B. Developmental Linguistics
C. Evolutionary Linguistics
D. Sociolinguistics
E. Applied Linguistics
66. A branch o linguistics that study of natural as well as human-taught communication systems
in animals, compared to human language.
B. Clinical linguistics
C. Biolinguistics
D. Neurolinguistics
E. Stylistics
67. A branch of linguistics which studies style in a scientific and systematic way
concerning the manners or linguistic features of different varieties of language at
different levels.
B. Psycholinguistics
C. Stylistics
D. Sociolinguistics
E. Historical Linguistics
68. The following choices is a linguistic description except one. Which is it?
A. level of syntax/grammar
B. level of semantics
C. level of morphology
D. level of lexis
E. level of phonology/graphology
69. It studies the choices of specific lexical items in a text, their distribution in relation to one
another, and their meanings.
A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Graphology
D. Morphology
E. Lexicology
70. It concentrating on the unique features of various literary works.
A. Literary Stylistics
B. General Stylistics
C. Text
D. Register
E. Semiotics
71. It concentrates on the general features of various types of language used.
A. General Stylistics
B. Register
C. Linguo-Stylistics
D. Literary Stylistics
E. Semiotics
72. Which one of these sentences below is simple sentence?
A. The students who came to the press conference are all from the same school.
B. Jack wanted to go swimming, but his wife wanted to go shopping.
C. We will be at the restaurant in twenty minutes.
D. The cat lived in the backyard, but the dog, who knew he was superior, lived inside the house.
E. Her son studies History; her daughter majors in Chemistry.
73. Which of the following is not a complex sentence?
A. He walked as if someone was following him.

B. The worksheet is where you have put it.
C. All of the people enjoyed the concert and the dinner that followed it.
D. The score was thirty-six to nothing; obviously there was little hope that the home team could
win.
E. We must find a teacher who understands our needs.
74. What process of words was used in the word brunch?
A. Clipping
B. Compounding
C. Word Borrowing D.
Blending
E. Back Formation
75. When a teacher wants to emphasize the learners‟ needs to identify why they are writing and
for whom, he/she can use the _________.
A. process approach
B. controlled writing approach
C. free writing approach
D. communicative writing approach
E. task-based approach
76. A communicative competence area which is concern is one knowing how to use and respond
to language appropriately, given the setting, the topic, and the relationship among the people
communicating.
A. Discourse Competence
B. Linguistic Competence
C. Sociolinguistic Competence
D. Strategic Competence
E. Language Competence
77. This concept equates the idea of a “learning task” to a language learning technique in itself.
A. Transactional Approach B.
Communicative Approach C.
Learning By Teaching
D. Task-Based Approach
E. Communicative Language Teaching
78. Cognitive skills necessary for the construction and understanding of meaningful
sequences of words.
A. Linguistic Competence
B. Grammatical Competence
C. Communicative Competence
D. Linguistic Performance
E. Creative Competence
79. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on structural approach to language.
A. Malinowsky
B. Bloomfield
C. Halliday
D. Vineyard
E. Chomsky
80. Which statement is true?
A. The phonological, morphological and syntactic aspect of language change are separate
processors.
B. Applied linguistics is concerned with first language acquisition.
C. Psycholinguistics covers the non-cognitive process that make it possible to generate a
grammatical and meaningful sentence out of vocabulary and grammatical structures.
D. There are two components which contributes to language acquisition, these are universal
grammar and the environment.
E. Morphological Typology has divided into two main types: the analytic and semantic.
81. Which of the following are places of articulation?
A. nasal B.
plosive C.
dental D.
fricative E.
palatal
82. Which of the following statements are correct?
A. happy is a homonym of sad

B. finger is an antonym of hand
C. blue is a synonym of color
D. soccer is a hyponym of sports
E. The White House is a metonym of The United States Government
83. Which of the following is a common linguistic problem for someone learning a second
language?
A. attitude of the learner

B. age
C. phonology
D. ability to hear
E. cultural background
84. Egyptian hieroglyphics can best be characterized as
A. a phonological writing system.

B. a combination of a syllabic writing system with symbols representing important
religious concepts.
C. a logographic writing system.
D. a pictographic writing system.
E. a combination of ideographic elements with symbols representing linguistic sounds
85. Which of these sections of the brain plays an important part in language
production/comprehension?
A. Wernicke's area
B. Johnson's area
C. Parietal lobe
D. Broca's area
E. Motor cortex
86. Mark those of the examples below which are minimal pairs in English
A. thick /sick
B. sled / red
C. rope / rose
D. war / tore
E. miner / minor
87. Which one of the following demonstrates a sentence combining with a subordinator?
A. Although she wanted to go, she still had work to do.

B. She could not go, nor did she want to.
C. She promised that she would finish the work.
D. Her boss, Mr. Jackson, would expect the work done properly.
88. Positive transfer occurs when:
A. There is a misconception.
B. A student finds similar elements in two different ideas.
C. There is a moral.
D. Information has been memorized.
E. When there is a twist at the end.
89. It refers to the concept that there is a correct and an incorrect way to speak, write or sign is
called _____________.
A. Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

B. Prescriptive Grammar or Syntax
C. Lexeme
D. Simple Subject
E. Compound Predicate
90. It refers to the mostly subconscious rules of a language that one uses to combine smaller
units into sentence.
A. Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

B. Compound Subject
C. Simple Sentence
D. Prescriptive Grammar or Syntax
E. Adverbial Clause
91. A word that names a person, a living thing, an object, etc.
A. pronoun
B. adjective
C. adverb
D. noun
E. preposition
92. Words used to represent a noun is called ____________.
A. adjective
B. verb
C. noun
D. preposition
E. pronoun
93. A word connecting words, clauses or sentences and a simultaneous occurrence of events.
A. verb
B. adjective
C. adverb
D. preposition
E. conjunction
94. A part of speech that expresses an action, a process state or condition or mode of being.
A. noun
B. verb
C. adjective
D. pronoun
E. preposition
95. A system of rules for speaking and in writing of language.
A. sentence
B. phrase
C. grammar
D. pronunciation
E. words
96. It refers to spelling; that is, the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in a language.
A. grammar
B. sentence
C. orthography
D. syntax
E. semantics
97. It is a writing system where the written graphemes correspond to phonemes.
A. Complex Orthography
B. Morpho-Phonemic Orthography
C. Phonemic Orthography
D. Lexicon
E. Graphology
98. __________ are sentence which are very long but it is needed to divided.
A. enjambment
B. run-on
C. lexeme
D. lexicon
E. phoneme
99. Which of the following is NOT an elements of the fields of orthography?
A. capitalization
B. pronunciation
C. word breaks
D. punctuation
E. hyphenation
100. It is a branch of linguistic analysis that consists of the study of phonemes and often includes a
study of their allophone.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonemes
C. Lexicon
D. Phonemics
E. Semantics
101. The branch of semantics that deals with the meaning of words.
A. Lexeme
B. Lexicon
C. Grapheme
D. Lexical
E. Structural
102. The study of production and perception of speech sounds.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonemics
C. Semantics
D. Syntax
E. Semiotics
103. Which of the following is NOT a function of language?
A. Referential Function
B. Conative Function
C. Poetic Function
D. Expressive Function
104. Which of the following is NOT a component of grammar? A.

Phonology
B. Morphology
C. Semiotics D.
Semantics E.
Syntax
105. Which of the following sentences matches the sentence structure in the diagram?
A. He wanted to do homework.
B. She did the homework.
C. The girl wanted to do the homework.
D. The boy did the homework.
E. The teacher went home early after her last subject.
106. Which sentence is an example of hypercorrection?
A. The meal was just right for you and I.

B. You and I had a great time at dinner.
C. Our friends waited until you and I got there.
D. Our friends are just right for you and me.
E. You and me are true friends for life.
107. In etymology of words, which of the following words can best describe as a form of drinking
substance like wine?
A. liquor
B. liquid
C. water
D. ice
E. alcohol
108. Which of the following sentence structure matches the sentence given above?
Listening to the music as a hobby is enjoyable.
A. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Determiner + Noun + Conjunction+ Determiner + Noun +

Auxiliary Verb + Adjective
B. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Auxiliary Verb + Noun + Determiner+ Conjunction + Noun +

Verb + Adjective
C. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Auxiliary Verb+ Noun + Determiner+ Conjunction + Pronoun +

Auxiliary Verb + Adjective
D. Sentence = Noun + Determiner + Preposition + Noun + Articulation + Determiner + Noun +

Verb + Adverb
E. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Auxiliary Verb + Noun + Conjunction+ Auxiliary Verb +

Noun + Verb + Adjective
109. It is understood but they are not complete sentence.
A. Grammatical Performance
B. Eliptical Sentences
C. Grammatical Competence
D. Run-on
E. Compound Sentences
110. In the teaching behavior, it includes what the teacher says, since instruction, most of the time,
is done through speech.
A. Expressive Behavior
B. Performatory Behavior
C. Linguistic Behavior
D. Language Behavior
E. Teaching Behavior
111. It is a visual model and a pictorial device that presents the bands of experience arranged
according to degree of abstraction and not the degree of difficulty.
A. Bloom‟s Taxonomy of Learning

B. Dale‟s Cone of Experience
C. Bruner‟s 3-Tiered Model of Learning
D. Gagne‟s Outcomes of Learning
E. Carrol‟s Model of School Learning
112. According to him, the teacher‟s role is to guide and facilitate rather than to direct.
A. Howes
B. Jacetot
C. Silberman
D. Patterson
E. Greene
113. Which of the following is NOT an Effective Teaching?
A. A strong supportive head

B. Systems of monitoring student‟s progress
C. High expectations for student‟s achievement
D. Available/ Sustainable
E. Level of Cognitive Instruction
114. He is the proponent of the Three-Tiered Model Of Learning.
A. Jerome Bruner
B. Edgar Dale
C. Eliot W. Eisner
D. Noam Chomsky
E. Robert Gagne
115. It serve as the foundation of learning; first hand experiences through seeing, touching,
tasting and smelling.
A. Contrived Experiences
B. Dramatic Experiences
C. Direct Purposeful Experience
D. Demonstrations
E. Exhibits
116. It serve as representative model or mock-up for reality so as to make the real life accessible
to students‟ perception and understanding.
A. Contrived Experiences
B. Dramatic Experiences
C. Direct Purposeful Experience
D. Demonstrations
E. Exhibits
117. These are educational visits to observe event that is unavailable within the
classroom.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
118. These are displays for the spectators, consist of working models arranged
meaningfully or photographs with models, charts, or posters.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
119. These are highly abstract and no longer in realistic reproduction of physical things like
charts, graphs, maps and diagrams.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
120. It shows how things are done to visualize explanations o a fact, idea or process by use of
photos, drawings, films, displays, or guided motions.
A. Exhibits
B. Demonstrations
C. Study Trips
D. Visual Symbols
E. Verbal Symbols
121. It is the process of gathering data of information to solve a particular or specific problem
in scientific manner.
A. Reading
B. Research
C. Demonstration
D. Formulation
E. Explanation
122. This research studies the relationship of variables.
A. Quantitative Research
B. Qualitative Research
C. Descriptive Research
D. Historical Research
E. Experimental Research
123. This asserts that there is no significant difference or relationship between the
variables.
A. Explanatory
B. Null Hypothesis
C. Synthesis
D. Conclusion
E. Hypothesis
124. This type of research studies the effects of the variables on each other.
A. Quantitative Research
125. It is the process of systematically examining past events to give an account of what has
happened in the past.
A. Developmental Research
126. This uses understanding human behavior and the reason that govern such behavior.
A. Qualitative Research
B. Descriptive Research
C. Developmental Research
D. Experimental Research
E. Quantitative Research
127. This serve as answer to the questions raised to the beginning of the investigation.
A. Hypothesis
B. Synthesis
C. Research Problem
D. Conclusion
E. Theoretical Framework
128. It is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under
study.
A. Primary Sources
B. Secondary Sources
C. Related Studies
D. Related Literature
E. Research Problem
129. It interprets and analyses the primary source and these sources are one or more steps
removed from the event.
A. Primary Sources
C. Related Studies
E. Research Problem
130. It focuses on the discussion regarding a certain phenomena that could be testable
descriptively or experimentally.
A. Primary Sources
C. Related Studies
E. Research Problem
131. It is for the reason that students become familiar with many different linguistic forms,
communication functions and meanings.
A. Literature for cultural enrichment

B. Literature as a valuable authentic material
C. Literature for language enrichment
D. Literature for personal involvement
E. Literature as a venue for learning for other skills
132. It is for the reason that a work explains how communication takes place in such country.

133. It is for the reason that a text can introduce a wide range of individual lexical or syntactic
items.

134. For this reason, a student begins to inhabit the text or he is drawn into it.

135. This characteristic is done by establishing lifelong reading habits.
A. Encourages his students to read and motivates a positive outlook towards it.
B. A creative, innovative, inquisitive, and prudent teacher.
C. Practices what he preaches.
D. Establishes an appropriate environment on learning.
E. Appreciate literature as an art.
136. The teacher seems to have read all books and knows what suits the students.
137. Here, the teacher guides the students as a community of learners to explore and find
meaning in their reading.
138. Here, she has an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter; she observes students‟ behavior
and preferences, gathers data and analyzes the findings to improve learning.
139. According to surveys, what is the reading interest of high school students today?
A. Classical or traditional novels

B. Science fiction, adventure, mystery, sports
C. Romances, mystery, adventure, among others
D. Contemporary novels
E. All kinds of books
140. What kind of literature do boys prefer to read?

141. On the other hand, what kind of literature do girls prefer to read?

142. What is the role of the teacher in literature-based instruction?
A. He is a decision maker, mentor and coach.

B. He is an observer.
C. He is a motivator.
D. He is a preacher.
E. He is a listening teacher.
143. When the teacher shows a happy facial expressions, nod, or verbal acknowledgement
of a correct response, he
A. Creates a climate conducive to learning.

B. Establishes an appropriate environment for learning.
C. Prepares the students for questioning sessions.
D. Uses an appropriate variety and mix of questions.
E. Let them talk and ask for answer to one another.
144. When he explains to the students the format, expectations, and how this knowledge will
help them he

145. When the teacher incorporates into the educational plan prospectively the questions that are
asked during the teaching system, he
146. In the teaching of literature, it is an illocutionary act.
A. Motivation
B. Literature
C. Text
D. Drama
E. Question
147. It is an indispensable teaching tool.
A. Questioning
B. Planning
C. Evaluation
D. Comprehension
E. Application
148. When the literature teachers poses questions to the entire group, he is being
A. Fair to the class

B. Bias to them
C. Makes his class happy
D. Hated by the class
E. Frustrates students and tend to encourage frivolous responses
149. When a teacher asks only a “yes or no” questions, he
A. Use both pre-planned and emerging questions

B. Develops critical thinking skills among his students
C. Makes his class happy
D. Hated by the class
E. Frustrates students and tend to encourage frivolous responses
150. Which of the following statements best describe as the purpose of questioning?
A. It encourages the students to speak.

B. Questioning can arouse curiosity.
C. It leads the teacher to know their students better.
D. It can helps them to apply their ideas from their experiences.
E. Both A and C.
151. These are human characters who are mythical mortals having divine father and a mortal
mother.
A. Mythology
B. Epics
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Theriomorphic
152. These are divinities having supernatural powers or meaning in the shape of man.
A. Mythology
B. Epics
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Theriomorphic
153. These are stories of gods and goddesses that explained natural events.
A. Myths
B. Epics
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Theriomorphic
154. Mythical beings which include gods and goddesses who resemble animals.
A. Mythology
B. Theriomorphic
C. Heroes
D. Anthropomorphic
E. Epics
155. A knowledge that is transmitted from one generation to another by word of mouth or
imitation.
A. Mythology
B. Creation Myths
C. Explanatory Myths
D. Folklore
E. Legend
156. He is the first person to use the term “Folklore”.
A. Homer
B. Stith Thompson
C. William Thoms
D. Max Muller
E. Euhemerus
157. It is said that myths began as allegories for natural phenomena.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
D. Myth-Ritual Theory
E. Malinowski‟s Theory
158. All people recognize that a frontier exists between what man can do and cannot explain
logically.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
159. In its most extreme form, this theory claims that myth arose to explain rituals.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
160. It is said that myths are distorted accounts of real historical events.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
161. It is also known as Theory of Mythopoeic thought resulted from the personification of
inanimate objects and forces.
A. Euhemerism
B. Allegory
C. Personification
162. Try to explain geographical features such as rivers, lakes and oceans and the death of
man.
A. Creation Myths
B. Explanatory Myths
C. Presence of Mythical Beings
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
163. Try to explain the origin of the world and the birth of the gods and goddesses.
A. Creation Myths
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
164. It is the gods and goddesses who resembles human being.
A. Creation Myths
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
165. People use symbols to explain the world and they used humans, animals and plants
symbolizes some events.
A. Creation Myths
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
166. It is the place where demons, gods and goddesses and also the souls of the dead live.
A. Creation Myths
D. Mythical Places
E. Mythical Symbols
167. It tells the story of heroes in the ancient time.
A. Epics
B. Mystical Function
C. Sociological Function
D. Cosmological Function
E. Pedagogical Function
168. It explains how to live a human life under any circumstances.
A. Epics
169. This function explains the social aspects of human by supporting and validating a certain
social order.
A. Epics
170. It is the function that explains the shape of the universe.
A. Epics
171. It has experiencing the awe of the universe.
A. Epics
172. He is the supreme ruler of the Olympians and the lord of the sky.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
173. He is the ruler of the sea and commonly called “Earth Shaker”.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
174. He is the god of light, medicine and poetry.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
175. He is the god of the underworld.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hermes
E. Apollo
176. She is the goddess of love.
A. Athena
B. Hera
C. Aphrodite
D. Artemis
E. Hestia
177. She is the protector of marriage and women and Zeus‟ sister and wife.
A. Athena
B. Hera
C. Aphrodite
D. Artemis
E. Hestia
178. She is the goddess of hunting and childbirth.
A. Athena
B. Hera
C. Aphrodite
D. Artemis
E. Hestia
179. She is the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom.
A. Athena
B. Hera
C. Aphrodite
D. Artemis
E. Hestia
180. In Roman Mythology, he is the ruler of the gods.
A. Saturn
B. Jupiter
C. Mercury
D. Mars
E. Bacchus
Which part of the sentence is erroneous?
181. My friends and my neighbors cooperates in the livelihood project. No error.
A B C D E
182. Either Porfirito or the engineers extends assistance to the aged and the sick.
A B C D
No error.
E
183. President De Leon present the accomplishments of the University

A B C
annually. No error.
D E
184. I am sorry. I am already tired. I cannot walk any further. No error.

A B C D E
185. Several was invited but few attended the birthday party. No error.
A B C D E
186. The following statements about communication are true except one.
A. Communication is a continuous process.

B. Communication is a multilevel of activity.
C. Communication is unpredictable.
D. Messages, not meanings are communicated.
E. Every communication has two messages, a content message and a relational message.
187. It is the most effective medium of communication.
A. Act of Speech
B. Listening
C. Language
D. Speech
E. Communication
188. It is the process of shaping the words, the sounds into voice and the energy to interpret
by means of speech organs.
A. Language
B. Communication
C. Act of Speech
D. Speech
E. Listening
Directions: Identify the name of the communication model shown in the figure by choosing
the letter of the correct answer.
189.
A. Dance‟s Helical Model

B. Ruesh and Bateson Functional Model
C. Shannon-Weaver Model
D. Osgood and Schramm‟s Interactive Model
E. Berlow‟s SMCR Model
190.


191.
192.

Directions: Read the following poem of Sappho. Use the theory of Longinus in
analyzing its content and structure. Then synthesize its pronouncements/stand in the
art of poetic aesthetics.
Ode to a Loved One
(1) He appears to me like unto the gods,

(2) That man, who opposite you
(3) Sits and to you speaking a sweet word.
(4) He replies,
(5) To your lovely daughter. Truly that
(6) Flutters my heart in my breast
(7) For when I look at you for a moment‟
(8) I can not speak.
(9) But my tongue is broken right then
(10) Over my skin a light fire races,
(11) I see nothing with my ears, my ears rumble,
(12) And sweat pours over my trembling (13)

Seizes me entire, greener than grass
(14) I am, Just about to die
(15) I see to me.
193. The first line of the poem uses
A. Metaphor
B. Irony
C. Simile
D. Personification
E. Anti-thesis
194. How many characters are interesting in the poem?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
E. more than four
195. How does the persona to whom the poet is addressing affect the latter?
A. The poet feels happy

B. The poet feels angry
C. The poet feels guilty
D. The poet feels jealous
E. The poet feels envious
196. The poem addressed to a _______.
A. man
B. woman
C. both man and woman
D. Sappho
E. Does not tell
197. What vehement emotions are expressed by the poem in lines 13 and 14?
A. love
B. jealousy
C. awe
D. envy
E. anger
Directions: Read the excerpt. Answer the questions after it by encircling your choice.
“I like the one who fights back, he said, pleased with himself, “At least, my son-in-law is
going to stand up and fight”… You wonder why can I talk freely? I have influenced and, most
important, money. These give me a sense of true freedom. I see nothing wrong in appreciating
money. Every priests appreciate money.”
- Excerpt from The Pretenders
198. The trait of the persona as suggested by the excerpt is __________.
A. courage
B. tolerance
C. pride
D. self-sufficiency
E. arrogance
199. The last sentence implies ____________.
A. Some priests love money

B. Some priests are corrupt
C. Some priests accept gifts without discrimination where it came
D. Some priests are good-natured naturally
E. Some priests are powerful
200. The mood expressed by the above quotation is _______.
A. assertiveness
B. joyful
C. frustration
D. anger
E. sadness

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2. Plato‟s idea about the art of poetry is expressed in treatise _________?

4. It is a narrative technique utilized by Homer and Sophocles in their plot scheme.

6. He is a Spanish author who wrote the novel “Don Quixote”.

7. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?

“I fart at thee”, “shit on your head’, “dirty bastard”

8. He believes that the poet is an inventor for a better world.

9. He said that a man is a product of his choices.

A. Jean Paul Sartre

12. It is the consequence of pity and fear among the spectators.

13. It is the consequence of a mistake in judgment.

A. The plot should be single.

15. When is a poem good according to Longinus?

A. The Sergeant /Man of Law

A. long life, freedom and rebirth

19. He is an essayist who wrote against the rigidity of Puritanism.

22. It is focusing on the outstanding feature of a person.

A. The Moby Dick

25. A philosophy advocating that man is a product of freedom.

26. It is undoubtedly the simplest way of fleshing out the theme.

28. Oliver Cromwell belong to what party?

30. The play “Hamlet” is a ________.

31. It is also called The Apocalypse in Bible.

34. What work contains these lines:

37. The repeated words with the same text.

39. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?

40. A restatement of a text or passages.

A. The Mohenjo-Daro civilization flourished on 3000-2500 BC.

42. He is an essayist exemplified Elizabethan ideal of intellectual versatility in the 17 th Century.

43. Which of these statements is false?

A. Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark novels.

46. It is a dramatic expression of Zen Buddhism viewed by feudal lords.

50. He translated “The Fall of Princes” from the French.

52. How many Inflectional Morphemes are there in English?

54. These words are created by adding affixes to roots.

55. It involves snipping a part of a word to create a shortened form.

56. The meaningful units of language are called ____________?

58. Which one is NOT an open class of words?

70. It concentrating on the unique features of various literary works.

71. It concentrates on the general features of various types of language used.

72. Which one of these sentences below is simple sentence?

73. Which of the following is not a complex sentence?

A. He walked as if someone was following him.

74. What process of words was used in the word brunch?

79. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on structural approach to language.

80. Which statement is true?

82. Which of the following statements are correct?

A. happy is a homonym of sad

A. attitude of the learner

84. Egyptian hieroglyphics can best be characterized as

A. a phonological writing system.

A. Although she wanted to go, she still had work to do.

88. Positive transfer occurs when:

A. Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

A. Descriptive Grammar or Syntax

95. A system of rules for speaking and in writing of language.

99. Which of the following is NOT an elements of the fields of orthography?

103. Which of the following is NOT a function of language?

104. Which of the following is NOT a component of grammar? A.

106. Which sentence is an example of hypercorrection?

A. The meal was just right for you and I.

Listening to the music as a hobby is enjoyable.

A. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Determiner + Noun + Conjunction+ Determiner + Noun +

B. Sentence = Noun + Preposition + Auxiliary Verb + Noun + Determiner+ Conjunction + Noun +