Victory Elijah Christian College

First Monthly Examination (AY 2O2O – 2O21)

September 11, 2O2O (Thursday)

English 10
General Guidelines
 Carefully read the given test instructions before writing your
answer.
 Listen and follow instructions provided by the teacher. You’re
allowed to start the examination ONLY after confirmation of your
teacher.
 During the examination session, student has to keep his camera ON.
 During the examination session, students must TURN-OFF all
personal devices that may disturb the virtual examination, unless it
is used to communicate for online exam purposes.
 During all examination session, student is NOT allowed to use any
other devices, applications, except Canvas Instructure or other
sites permitted by the school.
General Guidelines
 After completing the exam student must inform
his/her teacher via personal message using the
permitted set communication platform (eg.
Messenger, Gmail, etc.) about completion of exam
and after examiner’s confirmation, leave the
examination session.
General Guidelines
 During virtual examination, the integrity and honesty
of the student is also tested. At any circumstances
student is NOT ALLOWED to cheat during
examination session.
 If any kind of cheating behaviour is observed,
VECC have a right to follow related terms and
provisions stated in the respective Academic
Regulations and apply needed measures.
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Directions: Carefully read the given poem excerpts and identify
the stressed and unstressed syllables per line using scansion then
write their poetic meter. [3Opts.]
1. “Those drops, like tears from heaven, fall this dreary day;
I see the puddles forming, dimpled with the rain.
And with no sun or sky of blue, my heart does play
With sadness while my mood reflects my inner pain. ”
- Sandra M. Haight, “The Pain of Rain,”
2. “The sheep get up and make their many tracks
And bear a load of snow upon their backs,
And gnaw the frozen turnip to the ground
With sharp quick bite, and then go noising round.”
- John Clare, “Sheep In Winter“

3. “Reclining relaxed in the garden

The cat was ignoring my calling,
Indifferently birds kept on chirping,
Idyllic conditions for poets.”
- Lawrence Eberhart, “Bird Watching“
4. “Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!
I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;
But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!

Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings.
What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings,
Where Saint Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?”
- Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi“
5. “Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred..”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Directions: Carefully read the following statements and write
your answers on a separate sheet. [15pts.]
1. It aims to understand and appreciate cultures and ideologies
different from one’s own in time and space
2. One of the approaches that richest way to arrive at the
culture of the people and of the most pleasurable ways of
appreciating the literature.
3. The term literature comes from this Latin word which means
“knowledge or acquaintance with letters.”
4. Nature of man is hotly contested in this approach, making
literature all the more challenging, the questions of ethical
goodness and badness.
5. It is an approach that emphasizes social “relevance”, social
“commitment” and deems communication with the reader.
6. It has resulted in an almost exhausting and exhaustive of the
characters of symbols and images of recurrent themes.
7. It is viewed to elucidate “reacting-response” which is
considered as something very personal, relative and fruitful.
8. It states that man as a member of a certain society or
nation at a certain time, is central to the approach,
historical or biographical backgrounds.
9. The possible ways of telling a story are told.
1O. This term is also indicates a messages or moral implicit in any
work of art.
11. It is considered as pure or literary approach.
12. It is language in use that provides insights and _____ to the
reader.
13. It is a body of literary productions, either spoken, written, or
visual containing _____ that realistically portrays.
14. Literature, likewise discovers and explores literature’s _____.
15. The word poetry is derived from this Greek word which
literally means creating.
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Directions: Write TRUE for correct statements and FALSE for
incorrect statements. [1Opts.]
1. An approach is close to the morality of literature to the
question.
2. A poem that has a musical quality and intended to be sung
is what we called lyric poetry.
3. Literature is viewed to elucidate “reacting” not “responding.”
4. Creative writing is the entire artistic body of written works
of a culture, language or period.
5. A plot pertains to the structure of a play which tells what
happens as the story goes.
6. Blank verse and dramatic dialogues are the main instruments of
dramatic poetry.
7. Literature is the expression of personality of outer drives of
neurosis.
8. Narrative poems tell a story in richly imaginative and
rhythmical language.
9. Setting in a drama can be presented through the hearing
element deals with the scenes, costumes, and special effects used
in it.
1O. The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as
a play or movie are what we called ensembles.