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Carmen Salles School

Antonio L. Go St., Brgy. 39
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental 6100
Tel. No. 434-4071 │School Number: 441001

Second Quarter
FIRST SUMMATIVE TEST
ENGLISH 9

Name: ___________________________________________________ LRN: _______________

Grade Level: ____________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ______________

Directions: Read each item carefully and encircle the best answer.

1. The worker walked ( careful, carefully ) on the platform.

2. The man painted the room ( skillful, skillfully ).

3. Tomas ( hard, hardly ) works.

4. Sometimes, he arrives ( late, lately, later ) for work.

5. He is walking too ( faster, fast, fastly ).

6. Mara works ( hardly, the hardest ) among all the workers in the cannery.

7. The farmers have to finish their work ( quick, too quick, quickly ).

8. They have to speak ( quiet, quietly, the quietest ) or else the other crew members would be

disturbed.

9. It was raining too ( hard enough, hardly, hard )  that work was cancelled.

10.It is important to work ( seriously, serious, seriousness ) on tasks assigned to you.

11.The children surrounded her like the roots of a tree. What technique is being used?

a. simile b. metaphor c. idiom d. personification

12. When the swarm of bees buzzed overhead, the sky turned dark as night.

a. alliteration b. hyperbole c. onomatopoeia d. irony

13. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies.

a. simile b. metaphor c. idiom d. personification

14. If you were only one inch tall, you’d ride a worm to school. The teardrop of a crying ant
would be your swimming pool.

a. alliteration b. hyperbole c. onomatopoeia d. irony

15. The tabloids screamed insults at celebrities.

a. alliteration b. personification c. onomatopoeia d. simile

16. And the stars shall not look down from their high thrones in the Heaven.

a. simile b. metaphor c. idiom d. personification

17. All the world is a stage.

a. hyperbole b. onomatopoeia c. simile d. metaphor

18. GOD says to me with a kind smile, “Hey how would you like to be God awhile and steer the
world?”.

“Okay,” says I, “I’ll give it a try,”

a. hyperbole b. onomatopoeia c. simile d. metaphor

19. Dandruff left a thick layer like freshly fallen snow on his shoulders.

a. simile b. metaphor c. idiom d. personification

20. Abandoned warehouses and rundown apartments were the skeletons of the old city.

a. simile b. metaphor c. idiom d. personification

Prepared by

Reyan B. Ballaso, MAEd