SY: 2019-2020

FIRST MONTHLY TEST

ENGLISH 8

Name: ___________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________________

Grade and Section: ____________________________________________ Score: ________________________________

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: No CHEATING, No ERASURES.

Test I | MATCHING TYPE/VOCABULARY: Match the words with its correct dictionary meaning. Write the
letter of the correct answer on the space provided.
___________1. dowries a. The cause or will that determine events
___________2. voluble b. Changed from the wild or savage state
___________3. pottage c. A formal order having the force of law
___________4. cunning d. In high degree

___________5. Decree e. Having an earnest or strong desire

f. A piece of hand luggage
___________6. fate
g. Costly gifts given to the girl’s family as part of the marriage
___________7. intense
h. Talkative
___________8. tame
i. Thick soup
___________9. yearning
j. Marked by trickery
__________10. valise

Test II | IDENTIFICATION: True or False; Write TRUE if the given statement is correct and FALSE if not.
Write your answer on space provided.

___________11. Predicate names the person, place, thing or idea in the sentence.

___________12. A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

___________13. A compound verb or predicate has two or more verbs that have the same subject and joined by

a conjunction.

___________14. Complete subject includes all the words used to identify the subject itself.

___________15. Subject tells what the subject is or what the subject is doing.

___________16. Fragment is when a sentence provides the reader an incomplete thought in set of words given.

___________17. Run-on sentences is when someone have written all thoughts together in a sentence without stopping.

___________18. Hyperbole is synonymous to exaggeration expressed by a writer through words.

___________19. Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds of things written as symbol in poems.

___________20. Personification is when you out human characteristics to animals, plants and the non-living organisms.
Test III | MULTIPLE CHOICE: [POETRY] Choose the correct letter of the best answer.
______21. Form of poem consists of only 2 lines
A. couplet C. traditional cinquain
B. quatrain D. word-count cinquain

______22. Form of poem that follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern that talks about nature as its theme.
A. haiku C. senryu
B. free verse D. limerick

______23. In writing this, the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts and ideas.
A. essay C. poem
B. news D. song

______24. This is the flow of beat in the poem.

A. rhythm C. sound
B. rhyme D. form

______25. These are words that ends with the same sound in the poem.
A. rhythm C. sound
B. rhyme D. form

Test IV | ENUMERATION: List down the things asked in each letter.

a. [26-28] Three kinds of subject
b. [29-31] Three kinds of predicate
c. [32-35] Four kinds of Rhyming pattern

Test V | WRITING: Create a one-stanza poem about me. Don’t forget the title.
Write your stanza on the space provided. [5 points]

-Fighting! God bless-

Prepared by:

Ms. Jenny T. Ortega

English Teacher