FOR ENGLISH 9

1. Which is an example of a kenning?

A. The drinks in the fridge were ice-cold.
B. The weather was super-hot in the desert.
C. Water flowed from the fountain like syrup.
D. With gas prices dropping, I/m going to buy a gas-guzzler

2. What is a paraphrase?
A. It is an exact language from a source used in an essay.
B. It uses the exact same language as a source, but doesn’t include quotation marks.
C. It refers to some phrases that come from a source mixed in with a writer’s own language.
D. It is a restatement of an idea or phrase in a source and always written in the writer’s own
language.

3.. Which is the best paraphrase of the sentence given below?

“Deserts cover one fifth of the surface of the Earth.”
A. Deserts cover the Earth.
B. Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.
C. One fifth of the Earth’s surface is desert.
D. Deserts cover more than half of the Earth’s surface.

4. What is alliteration?
A. the repetition of a letter in a line
B. the repetition of only vowel sounds
C. the repetition of a letter sound in a line
D. the repetition of consonant sounds in a line

5. Which of the following lines is an example of alliteration?

A. “Some late visitors entreating entrance at my chamber door.”
B. “doubting, drearing dreams no mortal enter dared to dream before.”
C. “along the window sill, the lipstick stabs glittered in their steel shells.”
D. “Sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow.”

6. What literary device do poets use to suggest actions, movements and meanings?
A. assonance B. imagery C. personification D. onomatopoeia

7. Which device is present in the line, “Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”?
A. alliteration B. assonance C. consonance D. imagery

8. Which of the following refers to the author’s use of figurative language, diction, sound effects and
other literary devices?
A. mood B. theme C. tone D. style

9.What literary term means “the amount of emphasis given to a syllable, which determines the rhythm in
a poem”?
A. fable B. genre C. stress D. types

10. In the poem Mother to Son, what do boards with “tacks and splinters” and “boards torn up”
symbolize?
A. run-down housing
B. the ungrateful way the mother’s son treats her
C. a life that has had many difficulties and challenges
D. the lack of compasion each man has for his fellowmen

11. In the sentence, “After a good night’s sleep, the well rested hikers were on their way”, where is a
hyphen needed?
A. good-night’s B. on-their-way C. rested-hikers D. well-rested

12. Which of the following sentences is capitalized and punctuated correctly?

A. The sites being considered for the new sm mall are balete, Rosario, and tanauan.
B. the sites being considered for the new sm mall are Balete, Rosario and Tanauan.
C. the sites being considered for the new SM mall are Balete, Rosario: and Tanauan.
D. The sites being considered for the new SM mall are Balete, Rosario and Tanauan.

13. What punctuation mark is used to tell time?

A. colon B. comma C. period D. semicolon

14. Jim spends most of his time staring at the cement walls. He wishes he would have done things
differently. Jim hates the meals he is served. He also hates having to wear the required uniform. Where is
Jim most likely at?
A. construction site B. jail C. mall D. school

15. Which of the following is an example of epic poetry?

A. A Day of Destiny C. Mother to Son
B. Battle with Grendel D. Seven Ages of Man

16. What type of poetry is William Shakespeare’s poem, “All the World’s a Stage”?
A. dramatic B. epic C. lyric D. euphoric

17. . In the poem, “Mother to Son,” to what is Langston Hughes comparing a stairway with “tacks in it
and splinters?”
A. life C. the carpet on the stairway
B. the son D. the people who live in the run-down housing

18. Which option below shows where a comma should be used in the following sentence: “Yes James is
definitely the scholarly one in this family”?
A. definitely, B. James, C. scholarly, D. Yes

19. Which of the following is written correctly?

A. Will your dad drive us to the museum, or shall we take a bus?
B. Will your dad drive us to the museum or, shall we take a bus?
C. Will your dad, drive us to the museum, or shall we take a bus?
D. Will your dad, drive us to the museum or, shall we take a bus

20. How will you improve the sentence, “The weather was warm and sunny I went to the beach”?
A. Put a comma between sunny and I. C. Put a period between was and warm.
B. Put a colon between was and warm. D. Put a semicolon between sunny and I

21. What was the evidence that Beowulf had defeated Grendel?
A. Grendel’s dead body was left in the banquet hall.
B. Grendel’s head was the centerpiece on the great table.
C. All Grendel’s plunder was displayed in the banquet hall.
D. Grendel’s arm from the claws to the shoulder was hanging from the rafter

22. Which is TRUE about consonance?

A. It is the repetition of vowel sounds in words.
B. It is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
C. It refers to the repeated consonant sounds within and at the end of the words.
D. It refers to the repeated vowel sounds in the beginning, within and at the end of the words.

23. Who among the following is the greatest Anglo-Saxon hero?

A. Beowulf B. Dane C. Grendel D. Hrothgar

24.Which of the following was the first literature of Anglo-Saxons?

A. novel B. poetry C. prose D. short story

25. What type of literary device is shown in the sentence, “If I do not eat my daily papaya, I will surely
die”?
A. hyperbole B. metaphor C. personification D. simile