1. Well-wielded words work like wonders.
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
The following statements are examples of what figure of speech?
a. Alliteration b. paradox c. simile d. oxymoron
2. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
a. William Martinez b. William Baldwin c. Prince William d. William
Shakespeare
3. I have been a fan of mystery stories since I was quite young. What is the
adverb of manner in the sentence?
a. Of b. mystery c. since d. quite
4. Which sentence is grammatically correct?
a. She walks like an Egyptian.
b. She walk like an Egyptian.
c. She walks like an Egypt.
d. She is walking like an Egypt.
5. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, how old is Juliet?
a. 11 b. 12 c. 13 d. 14
6. How many lines does a Haiku Poem have?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
7. A gerund is a form of a verb that acts as a __________.
a. adjective b. verb c. adverb d. noun
8. __________ refers to a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
a. summary b. epic c. narrative d. sonnet
9. Who wrote the famous Italian poem Inferno?
a. William Shakespeare b. Joyce Kelmer
c. Dante Alighiere d. Catherine Sellew
10. What do you call the 6th circle of hell which is referred to as a place where
you can find people’s graveyard covered with flames?
a. the Heretics b. the Wrathful c. the fraudulent d. the lustful
11. Who is the queen of the Olympian Gods?
a. Hera b. Aphrodite c. Athena d. Persephone
12. Who said this line “Give us back our eye, stranger?!”
a. Perseus b. Medusa c. Gray women d. King Minus
13. The character who opposes the main character is called ___________.
a. protagonist
b. antagonist
c. static character
d. dynamic character
14. The most exciting part of the story is called the ___________.
a. setting b. exposition c. climax d. plot
15. Identify what kind of pronoun was used in the sentence. Ben built a boat for
himself.
a. reflexive pronoun
b. intensive pronoun
c. demonstrative pronoun
d. personal pronoun
16. In Greek Mythology, who is known to be as the God of the Sea.
a. Poseidon
b. Demeter
c. Zeus
d. Hades
17. What name in Greek mythology means “a skilled worker”?
a. King Minus
b. Artemis
c. Icarus
d. Daedalus
18. It is the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when
speaking.
a. pitch
b. stress
c. intonation
d. juncture
19. ___________ are syllables or letters which are placed AFTER a root word to
form a new word.
a. prefixes b. suffixes c. root word d. foreign word
20. In terms of sentence elements, the ____________ refers to who or what is
doing the action or is being talked about in the sentence.
a. verb b. subject c. adjective d. preposition
21. ___________ are brief instructive expressions that suggest a specific action,
behavior or judgement.
a. proverbs b. idioms c. superstitions d. feng shui
22. The story of The Centipede by Rony V. Diaz revolves around the theme of
_____________.
a. Valuing one’s family
b. Valuing one’s riches
c. Valuing one’s career
d. Valuing one’s integrity
23. ___________ is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated objects with
the use of as or like.
a. metaphor b. simile c. personification d. hyperbole
24. ___________refers to the central struggle between opposing people or forces.
a. character b. theme c. plot d. conflict
25. A ___________ is a group of related words within a sentence without both a
subject and verb.
a. clause b. phrase c. sentence d. paragraph
A
B
C
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