UNIFIED SUMMATIVE TEST IN ENGLISH V – QUARTER 4

WEEKS 7-8

NAME: SCORE:
SCHOOL: PARENT’S SIGNATURE:

I. Directions: Determine if each statement is Fact or Opinion. Write your answer on the space
before the number.

1. Feature articles are the easiest transactive piece to write.

2. Writers often use text features to help the reader understand new or
important information.
3. An effective How-To feature article gives detailed steps.
4. All feature articles showed include a catching title.
5. The main character of a personality feature article may be unknown.

II. Directions: Read each statement carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer and
write it on the space provided for.

1. What type of journalism articles that convey facts, and tell the stories of people’s
lives?
A. news B. feature C. portrait D. editorial

2. Feature writer often uses literary devices such as color, wit, humor dialogue,
anecdotes, and to capture human interest.
A. high sounding words C. emotive words
B. local words D. colloquial words

3. What part of the article is the opening paragraph that showed hook the reader to
read the rest of the article?
A. title B. lead C. body D. summary

4. The only requirement for a lead of a feature article is

A. hooks readers interest or lure them into the story to the end.
B. a summary lead
C. includes at least one quotation.
D. presents a question the rest of the story will answer.
5. The body of a feature story must be constructed so that
A. the facts fit together smoothly and logically.
B. every conceivable detail is included
C. the information is arranged in descending order of newsworthiness.
 D. the information is arranged in ascending order of newsworthiness.

6. Feature story writers should avoid ending their stories with

A. an anecdote C. a summary
B. a quotation D. some detail that evokes the lead

7. Which of the following is NOT one of the attributes of feature stories?

A. They amuse, entertain, inspire, and stimulate readers.
B. They use novelistic elements to dramatize a story’s theme.
C. They usually are less timely than straight news stories.
D. They are written to a single formula.

8. Unlike straight new stories, feature articles

A. Are always written in the third person
B. Are either written in the first person or second person.
C. Are always written in the first person.
D. Are never written in the second person.

9. Feature stories resemble functional short stories in that they

A. use description, sensory details, quotations, anecdotes, personification and other
story-telling devices.
B. do not have to be factual.
C. are based largely on the writer’s imagination.
D. do not have to be balanced in their treatment of controversial issues.

10. What part of the feature is the bulk of the article?

A. title B. lead C. introduction D. body

III. Directions: Write a feature article about the topic “COVID – 19 Vaccine”. Follow the parts –
Headline, Byline, Body, and Conclusion. (5 points)

Answer Key

I. 1. Opinion
2. Fact
 3. Fact
4. Opinion
5. Fact

II. 1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. D

III. The rubric will guide you in scoring.