Saturday, August 6, 2016

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1.       It is the prominence given to a word for emphasis
a.      Word stress             b. blending                  c. intonation                d. pitch
2.       It is a message about life that the story wants to convey.
a.      Climax                   b. resolution                 c. denouement            d. theme
3.       It is a literary element that tells where and when the story happened
a.      Plot                        b. literary color                        c. setting                      d. exposition
4.       Choose the word with a different /th/ sound.
a.      Filth                        b. strengthen               c. brethren                   d. width
5.       It is an element of a narrative that shows the order of events in the story.
a.      Denouement         b. chronology             c. plot              d. exposition
6.       The word “laser” which means light amplified by stimulated emission of radiation is an example of what kind of word formation?
a.      Blending                b. compounding         c. acronym                  d. clipping
7.       To say flu instead of influenza, lab instead laboratory; they give us the examples of __ kind of word formation
a.      Blending                b. compounding         c. acronym                  d. clipping
8.       What does the prefix “mal” in the words “maladjusted” and “malfunction” mean?
a.      Ready                    b. good                       c. bad                         d. smooth
9.       It is an artistic expression of the mind put into writing that has rhyme, rhythm, tone, mood, etc.
a.                  Poetry              b. essay                       c. drama         d. play
10.   A kind of poetry that has a story inside
a.                  Lyric poetry                  b. dramatic poetry      c. narrative poetry       d. idyll
  1. __ poetry contains all the elements of a drama
a.      Lyric poetry            b. dramatic poetry      c. narrative poetry       d. melodrama
12.   __poetry is projected to be delivered through singing
a.      Dramatic monologue        b. soliloquy      c. ballad                      d. lyric
  1. ___ is a specific type of poetry that has a hero featuring his adventures and obstacles
a.      Ballad                    b. metrical romance    c. epic             d. metrical tale
  1. The poem that presents sadness, mourning and death
a.      Elegy                      b. ode             c. ballad                      d. idyll
  1. __ the main point of this poem is praising someone or something
a.      Elegy                      b. ode             c. ballad                      d. drama
  1. If I want to make a poem that describes nature, what poem am I engaging myself to?
a.      Idyll                        b. tragicomedy                       c. melodrama             d. epic
17.   Couplet contains how many lines?
a.      2                            b. 3                              c. 4                  d. 5
18.   I compose a poem which has eight lines, what term will I use to describe it?
a.      Tercet                     b. octave                    c. sestet            d. quatrain
19.   The following are rhymes according to position in a line of poetry except
a.      End rhyme      b. feminine rhyme     c. beginning rhyme  d. internal rhyme
20.   The following are examples of closed form of poetry except
a.      Psalms                    b. ghazal                     c. sapphics                  d. clerihew
21.   Open form of poetry has another name. What is it?
a.      Blank verse      b. exposed form          c. free verse                 d. blank space
22.   ___ is the occurrence of a pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
a.      Rhyme                   b. meter                       c. scansion                  d. rhythm
23.   Name poetry, experimental poetry, visual poems, concrete poems belong to _
a.      Free verse              b. closed form             c. line lengths              d. metrical line
24.   You were tasked to do 5-7-5 scheme samples of poetry. What poems were you up to?
a.      Tankas                   b. haikus                      c. tanagas                   d. Petrarchan sonnet
25.   A story of a son who reciprocates his mother’s love by doing something that benefits their land.

a.      Aged Mother         b. Cabuliwallah          c. Madman on the Roof          d. Manyoshu

answer key:

ANSWER KEY

1A
2D
3A
4A
5C
6C
7D
8C
9A
10C
11B
12D
13C
14A
15B
16A
17A
18B
19B
20A
21C
22D
23A
24B

25A

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