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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model proposes that when learners are exposed to grammatical features a little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those features are “acquired”. Acquisition results from comprehensible input, which is made understandable with the help provided by the context.
A. acquisition/learning hypothesis
B. natural order hypothesis
C. input hypothesis
D. affective filter hypothesis
RATIO:
Input hypothesis proposes that when learners are exposed to grammatical features a little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those features are “acquired”.
2. All of the following are implications of Krashen’s Monitor Model EXCEPT _____.
A. Teachers should correct errors during the time they are committed as error correction is valuable.
B. Teachers should not insist on learners conversing before they feel comfortable in doing so.
C. Teachers should not expect learners to learn “late structures” such as third person singular early.
D. Teachers consider grammatical teaching is of limited value.
RATIO:
On the spot error-correction may have negative effects in terms of anxiety and inhibitions.
3. They view the language as a system of related elements or “building blocks” for the encoding of meaning, the elements being phonemes (sounds), morphemes (words), tagmemes (phrases/sentences/clauses).
A. structuralists
B. transformationalists
C. functionalists
D. interactionalists
RATIO
Structuralists believe that language is primarily vocal; language is system of systems, and language is arbitrary.
4. Which of the following is a view of a interactionalist?
A. Language is primarily vocal.
B. Language is creative.
C. Language emphasizes the meaning and functions rather than the structures
D. Language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal relationship.
RATIO
Interactionalists believe that language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal relations.
5. Which theory on language teaching has given birth to the methods that are learner-centered, allowing learners to work in pairs or groups in information gap tasks and problem-solving activities where such communication strategies as information sharing, negotiation of meaning, and interaction are used.
A. Structuralism
B. Behaviorism
C. Cognitivism
D. Functionalism
RATIO
The functional view of language has resulted in communication-based methods such as Communicative Language Teaching/Communicative Approach, Notional/Functional Approach, Task-Based Language Teaching.
6. It is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine to form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
A. morphology
B. syntax
C. semantics
D. pragmatics
RATIO
Syntax is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine to form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
7. What is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/ in top is aspirated, /t/ is stop is released, and /t/ in pot is unreleased?
A. phoneme
B. consonant
C. variation
D. allophone
RATIO
Allophones are variants or other ways of producing a phoneme.
8. Which of the following sounds are produced by bringing the articulators near each other such that the flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked. The air flow through the narrow opening creates friction.
A. p,b,t,d,k,g
B. f,v,Ɵ,ð,s,z,š,ẑ,h
C. m,n,Å‹
D. l,r
RATIO
These sounds are called fricatives which are produced by bringing the articulators near each other such that the flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked.
9. What is illustrated in following example? In English, the statement “Marian is a linguist” ends with a fall in pitch, while as a question, “Marian is a linguist?” the pitch goes up.
A. stress
B. juncture
C. intonation
D. suprasegmentals
RATIO
Intonation is the rise and fall of pitch which may contrast meanings of sentences
10. Which of the following is an example derivational morpheme?
A. helpful
B. stays
C. eaten
D. longest
RATIO
Ful in helpful is a derivational morpheme which usually changes the form class of the words to which they are attached.
11. The words “gym, mike, and TV” are formed through _____.
A. clipping
B. back formation
C. root creation
D. compounding
RATIO
Clipping or clipped form is a shortened form of a pre-existing forms ) e.g. gym < gymnasium; mike < microphone, TV < television.
12. What morphophonemic process is involved in which units that occur in some contexts are “lost” in others such as “l i b a r y” instead of “l i b r a r y”?
A. assimilation
B. dissimilation
C. epenthesis
D. metathesis
RATIO
Dissimilation is a process that results in two sounds becoming less alike in articulatory or acoustic terms; a process in which units which occur in some contexts are “lost” in others; e.g. “l i b a r y” instead of “l i b r a r y”
13. Which syntactic structure is shown in the following examples? responsible officers, trusted friend
A. predication
B. complementation
C. modification
D. coordination
RATIO
Structure of modification has two components; a head word and a modifier.
14. What is made use in this example “I told Paul to close the door and he did so”?
A. homonymy
B. anaphora
C. deixis
D. hyponymy
RATIO:
Anaphora is a linguistic expression that refers to another linguistic expression (point backwards). The pronoun refers back to its antecedent.
15. What category of illocutionary act is demonstrated in the following example? Recession will worsen in Europe in
the next five years.
A. representative
B. commissive
C. directive
D. expressive
RATIO:
A representative is an utterance used to describe some state of affairs: acts of stating, asserting, denying, confessing, admitting, notifying, concluding, predicting, and so on.
16. What conversation maxim seems to have been violated in the following example?
A: How was the LET?
B: Well, the proctor is my former college professor.
A. maxim of quantity
B. maxim of quality
C. maxim of relation
D. maxim of manner
RATIO:
Maxim of relation – a participant’s contribution should be related to the subject of the conversation – “Be relevant.”
17. This view emphasizes that native language comprises habits that a second language learner must overcome. This is accomplished by forging new habits through repetition of pattern drills with accompanying positive reinforcement.
A. Behaviorist learning theory
B. Cognitive learning theory
C. Functional learning theory
D. Holistic learning theory
RATIO:
Behaviorism is a systematic approach to the understanding of human and animal behavior. It assumes that the behavior of a human or animal is a consequence of that individual's history, including especially reinforcement and punishment, and the individual's current motivational state and controlling stimuli.
18. Overgeneralization errors such as “goed” and “keeped” are common in children’s speech. Such errors suggest that children _____.
A. are repeating what was said to them, and should take note of them
B. do not know the past tense forms of those verbs, and experience difficulty
C. induce the rules for the past tense from the language to which they are exposed
D. repeat the teacher’s mistakes, and those errors are very hard to undo
RATIO:
The term “overgeneralization” is most often used in connection with language acquisition by children. For example, a young child may say "foots" instead of "feet," overgeneralizing the morphological rule for making plural nouns.
19. This type of language is used to describe the kind of language a learner uses at a given time, that is, his version of a given language, which deviates in certain ways from the language of a mature speaker.
A. dialect
B. native language
C. holophrastic speech
D. interlanguage
RATIO:
Interlanguage is a type of language (or linguistic system) used by second- and foreign-language learners who are in the process of learning a target language.
20. According to cognitivists, errors in second language learning is considered _____.
A. basis for testing
B. part of learning process
C. as proofs of unsystematic way of learning
D. not part of natural progression in acquisition of English
RATIO:
Error and error correction can be valuable when it places the errors into the students’ focal awareness.
21. What aptly describes “universal grammar”?
A. language used for communication by people who speak different first languages
B. rules applicable to all human languages
C. language with the same vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
D. rules of grammar that distinguish one language from the others
RATIO:
The concept of universal grammar states that all languages are built upon a common grammar.
22. At the border of two countries there is a port where fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same language, so they communicate using one that has been invented but only for the purpose of trade. This scenario most accurately describes which of the following types of language?
A. a dialect
B. a creole
C. a pidgin
D. a regionalism
RATIO:
A pidgin is a simplified language that is developed as a means of communication between two or more groups who do not have a language in common.
23. If the second language learner “assimilates”, then he _____.
A. maintains its own life style and values and rejects those of the target language group
B. adapts to the life style and values of the target language group but maintains its own life style and values for the intragroup use.
C. gives up his own life style and values and adopts those of the target language group
D. maximizes the use of his first language and the target language
RATIO:
When a language learner assimilates, he considers the target language as his own language.
24. The following are the areas of knowledge and skills of communicative competence EXCEPT _____
A. grammatical competence
B. sociolinguistic competence
C. discourse competence
D. structural competence
RATIO:
The following are the areas of communicative competence: grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and sociolinguistic.
25. Speaker A’s final remark functions as _____.
Speaker A: That’s the telephone.
Speaker B: I’m in the bath.
Speaker A: OK.
A. a request to answer the phone
B. an excuse for not complying
C. acceptance of an excuse
D. sarcasm
26. What is strategy is used by the second language learner in the following situation”
“The student forgot the English term “train station”. He used the phrase “the place for trains” instead.
A. inference
B. paraphrase
C. generalization
D. adaptation
RATIO:
Paraphrasing is a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form.
27. What is the message of the short story, “The Centipede” by Rony V. Diaz?
A. Childhood memories are treasures.
B. Teasing or Taunting should only be done by adults.
C. Children should be responsible with what trick they do with their siblings.
D. Childhood relationships between siblings were sometimes painful.
SUMMARY:
When Eddie saw his sister beating his dog with a stick, he felt hate like a caged, angry beast in his chest. He could not cry to his sister because she had a weak heart. He recalled the things his sister did to him. For Eddie, his sister, Delia was the meanest creature he knew. He remembered when he was furiously hit by his sister when she learned that the leg of her doll was accidentally torn by him.
Nothing Eddie did ever pleased her. Destroying willfully anything he liked had become a habit for her. She even told Berto to kill his monkey because it snickered at her one morning, while she was brushing her teeth.
Eddie did not tell anything when she told Father that she did not like Eddie's pigeon house because it stank and he had to give away his pigeons and Berto had to chop the house into kindling wood. He learned how to hold himself because he knew they had to put up with her whims to keep her calm and quiet. But when she dumped his butterflies into a waste can and burned them in the backyard, he realized that she was spiting him.
Eddie got a big centipede that Berto found under the stack he chopped. He made sure that it was dead and placed it in a white cloth. He unwrapped and threw it on the lap of his sister whom he hated so much. His sister collapsed. Her voice dragged off into a painstaking moan.Eddie was engulfed by a sudden feeling of pity and guilt. He cried kneeling before her, telling her that the centipede was dead..
28. What problem is pointed out by the author in the story “How My Brother Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel Arguilla?
A. How Filipinos live in the province
B. How Filipinos solve family problems
C. How Filipinos are affected by new technology
D. How Filipinos accept or treat a new family member
SUMMARY:
Baldo waited Maria and Leon in a station so that he would bring the two in their house. Maria met Baldo at the first time. Leon and Maria rode in the cart with Baldo and Labang.
While they were in their journey, Leon asked Baldo on who told him to meet Maria and Leon in the station. In their journey, Leon and Maria sang a song “Sky Sown with Stars”. When they reached to their home, Leon saw his mother and asked on where was his Father
Baldo went upstairs to go to his father’s room and told the story to their journey. And when Leon and Maria came into the father’s room, his father changed the topic to Labang.
29. What is the problem or conflict in the story “The Mats” by Francisco Arcellana?
A. Emilia’s indifference
B. siblings’ rivalry
C. Mr. Angeles’ emotionality
D. Hunger in the family
SUMMARY:
Mr. Angeles travelled to southern Philippines and bought mats for his wife and children. Each mat had the corresponding name of all his living offspring, even those who already died. When he arrived home from his trip, he presented the mats to his family. As he unfolded one mat after another, he narrated the emotions, longings and beautiful memories they had had as a family. The sorrow heightened when the last two mats he opened were for his dead children which made his wife reacted with grief, and told Mr.Angeles that there was no need for him to open those mats for the two were already dead.
At that point, Mr. Angeles cried with pain while telling his wife that his children must always be in their memory no matter where they were.
30. What truth about life was presented in the story “The Wedding Dance” by Amador Daguio?
A. Some men are not contented with one partner.
B. Women and men are born equal.
C. Culture goes beyond love.
D. Love conquers all.
SUMMARY:
"The Wedding Dance" by Amador Daguio, is a short story about a husband and wife, Awiyao and Lumnay, who had been married for seven years. In spite of being in love with his wife, Awiyao felt the need to marry again in order to have a son. At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao went to check on Lumnay, knowing she was upset. Awiyao thought the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would be to have her join the other women during the wedding dance. Lumnay went out to join the wedding dance, but decided not to and left. She could not stand the idea of her husband marrying another woman because she could not give him children.
31. The “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez symbolizes ___________.
A. the love of Esperanza for Alfredo
B. the love of Alfredo for Julia
C. the love of Julia for Alfredo
D. the love of Alfredo for Esperanza
SUMMARY:
TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
Haunts a re-entangled trail,
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
I shall come to you again
With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
32. What is the poem “To a Lost One” about?
A. An appeal to be remembered by a lover
B. A threat to a lover
C. Beautiful memories of a dead person
D. A ghost that haunts a fastidious lover
33. What virtue of the writer is depicted in the poem?
A. forgiving
B. honest
C. romantic
D. faithful
34. What does this line “I shall come to you again with the starlight, and the scent of champacas’?
A. The speaker with champacas will visit his lover at night.
B. The speaker wants his lover to keep and cherish their memories in her heart.
C. The speaker will rise from death to remind his lover of their sweet moments.
D. The speaker wants to give his lover fresh champacas.
35. This line “You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting” means __________.
A. The speaker wants to be left unforgotten.
B. The speaker wants his lover to forget her past.
C. The speaker wants his past not to be discussed.
D. The speaker wants his past not to be forgotten.
36. The line “I shall haunt you” has a/an __________ tone.
A. begging
B. appealing
C. romantic
D. commanding
37. “Lost One” may be pertained to _________.
A. lost feeling
B. past lover
C. abandoned person
D. ghost
38. It is a generally accepted first principle of oral interpretation that the reader must be true to
(A) the performance space
(B) the author
(C) the method
(D) the audience
(E) his or her training
RATIO:
The interpreter must care about the author’s material and must want to share it with others.
39. Within the communication process, the area that causes the most breakdowns is _____.
(A) interference
(B) feedback
(C) the situation
(D) the channel
(E) the message
RATIO:
Only interference is a problem in and of itself.
40. David is preparing a speech about why Hollywood became the center of the motion picture industry and the impact that its development as the center had on filmmaking. David’s speech should be organized using which of the following methods?
(A) Spatial
(B) Chronological
(C) Cause-effect
(D) Problem-solution
(E) Topical
RATIO:
The speech answering this question could only use the cause-effect method of organization.
41. All of the following are correct descriptions of listening behavior EXCEPT:
(A) Careful listening can lead to anticipation of a speaker’s actions.
(B) People who learn to listen selectively can shut out what is undesirable.
(C) Listening comprises more than one-half of all communication.
(D) The ability to be a good listener comes naturally, and no training is necessary.
(E) Being an effective communicator means that one must listen to oneself.
RATIO:
Effective listening requires study and practice.
42. When a group is faced with a problem requiring immediate action, the most effective leadership style is _____.
(A) authoritarian
(B) democratic
(C) laissez-faire
(D) charismatic
(E) permissive
RATIO:
Authoritarian style is most often considered appropriate and is in fact frequently welcomed by group members due to its ability to get work done more quickly.
43. Schema activation is important to make sense of new information in light of what students already know, and to make the necessary connection between the two. The following are good activities for schema activation EXCEPT _____.
A. constructing graphic organizer
B. previewing a passage
C. brainstorming ideas
D. evaluating or assessing ideas
RATIO:
It is NOT a good activity for schema activation. Evaluation and assessment of idea can come after schema activation.
44. The following are concerns of teaching reading EXCEPT _____.
A. vocabulary development
B. comprehension development
C. output development
D. application
RATIO:
C is correct. It is not a concern of teaching reading.
45. The following are principles for designing effective and interesting reading lessons EXCEPT _____.
A. For reading lessons to be interesting and motivating they must focus on simple themes.
B. Instructional activities have a teaching rather than a testing focus.
C. Lessons should be divided into pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading.
D. The major activity of the reading lesson is students reading texts.
RATIO:
Effective reading lesson should require students to do tasks that are complex.
46. Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is based on the common underlying principle that successful language learning occurs when students are presented with target language material in a meaningful, contextualized form, with the primary focus on _____.
A. understanding the lessons
B. acquiring information and knowledge
C. making connections between what they learn at school and what they learn outside the school
D. making meaning from what they learn
RATIO:
CBI is designed to provide second-language learners instruction in content and language.
47. It is a vocabulary strategy which involves the process of breaking up of a word into its meaningful components: the root words, affixes, and suffixes.
A. contextual clues
B. structural analysis
C. summarizing
D. groupings
RATIO:
Structural analysis is the process of breaking up parts of a word into its meaningful components: the root words, affixes, and suffixes.
48. Which of the following questions is best for activating students’ prior knowledge to feel that they somehow connected to the topic “snakes” being studied?
A. What do you know about snakes? What snakes are common in your area?
B. What according to the selection are the types of snakes?
C. What did the writer suggest to the person who was bitten by snakes to do?
D. What is the importance of animals such as snakes in ecosystem?
RATIO:
Before discussing a text, discuss the topic that will be covered. Have the students share what they already know about the topic.
49. If the students think about the knowledge of their own thoughts and the factors that influence their thinking, they are engaged in the process of _____.
A. artistic thinking
B. metacognition
C. higher-order thinking
D. critical thinking
RATIO:
Metacognition is "thinking about one’s thinking."
50. Mrs. Torres wants to find out her students’ schema about storm surge. On the board she writes the words “storm surge” and encircles them. She, then, asks her students what they know about storm surge, and helps them cluster the information. What technique does Mrs. Torres use?
A. demonstration
B. vocabulary building
C. semantic mapping
D. deductive reasoning
RATIO:
Semantic mapping provides a visual guide for students to clarify textual information.
51. The underlined verbs in the following sentences are classified as _____.
The time is now.
The world became flesh.
We remain silent.
A. intransitive
B. reflexive
C. transitive
D. ascriptive
RATIO
The verbs are called ascriptive verbs because they are followed by a noun phrase, adjective phrase, or adverb of place or time (which may be a prepositional phrase). T
52. Which of the following is the true description of an auxiliary verb?
A. It is used to complete the verb phrase in certain constructions such as the emphatic, the negative, the
passive, or the perfect and progressive aspects.
B. It occurs before the main verb, and denotes modification of the basic meaning of the main verb.
C. It belongs to several classifications of verbs. It may take an impersonal it as a subject.
D. It is followed by noun or noun phrase functioning as its direct object.
RATIO:
Auxiliary (or Helping) verbs are used together with a main verb to show the verb’s tense or to form a negative or question.
53. What preferred tense is used for “stage directions and synopses?
A. present
B. past
C. future
D. present perfect
54. The word “just” in the sentence below indicates _____.
“She has just eaten.”
A. an action that was true in the past and is still relevant to the present
B. a recently completed action
C. an action which was completed before another past action
D. an action continuing at a given point in time
RATIO:
One of the ideas expressed in a present perfect tense verb is a recently completed action.
55. All of the following contains verbal EXCEPT _____.
A. Satisfied, the producer began paying the artists.
B. Having recovered her voice, the soprano hit her top notes well.
C. Your mom arrived after you had gone.
D. To see is to believe.
RATIO:
Choice C does not use verbal (gerund, infinitive, participle).
56. What type of mood is indicated in this sentence: “How did you come to know about that tragic event?”
A. indicative
B. subjunctive
C. imperative
D. directive
RATIO
Indicative mood states the fact or supposition; asks a question.
57. The sentence “The child cried when his toy car got broken” follows ____ pattern.
A. N InV
B. N LV Adj.
C. N TrV N
D. N InV Adv.
58. “Mario, my older brother, fathers there good looking and smart children.” The underlined word functions as _____.
A. a noun
B. a verb
C. an adjective
D. a possessive
59. Which of the following adjective phrases is syntactically correct?
A. the most unique
B. nearly unique
C. the very much unique
D. less unique
RATIO:
“Unique” is an example of an absolute adjective that do not admit comparative degree.
60. Which of the following is a gradable adjective?
A. absolute
B. clear
C. complete
D. impossible
RATIO:
Gradable adjective is an adjective that can be compared.
61. Which sentence has ditransitive verb?
A. Those guys are highly intelligent group of engineers.
B. Those mean boys tried to throw a rock through our windows.
C. Nobody will believe a ruffian like you.
D. My mother gave me this cardigan for Christmas.
RATIO:
A ditransitive verb requires both direct and an indirect object.
62. “When we arrived, they gave us badges.” Which of the following questions should be asked to find the direct object?
A. What did we do?
B. When did we arrive?
C. What did they give us?
D. Who gave us badges?
RATIO:
Direct Object answers the question "What?" or "Whom?" after an action verb.
63. All of the following contain operator verbs EXCEPT ____.
A. My father approves your marriage proposal.
B. Will your father approve my marriage proposal?
C. My father won’t approve your marriage proposal.
D. Your father will approve my marriage proposal, won’t he?
RATIO:
An operator verb has 3 main functions:
It precedes the negative;
It is the verb of yes-no question.
It is also the verb of tag questions.
64. Each person’s vocabulary is a continuum. On the one end of the continuum are words the person knows very well and for which he has a full rich understanding of their various meanings. On the other end of the continuum are _____.
A. words he enjoys using regularly
B. new words that he has learned both the spelling and meaning for
C. words he doesn’t recognize
D. words he can recognize and figure out the meaning of based on context
RATIO
Words at the opposite of the continuum are words a person can understand with the help of context clues.
65. Which of the following does NOT function as a pronoun?
A. I B. we C. you D. my
66. The President himself promised to stop the war. The underlined word is ______ pronoun.
A. an interrogative B. an intensive C. a reflexive D. a reciprocal
RATIO:
We use a reflexive pronoun when we want to refer back to the subject of the sentence or clause.
67. The question “Is he coming?” has a _____ intonation.
A. falling B. sustained C. rising D. melodic
RATIO:
Rising Intonation /2, 3/ or ↑
An intonation pattern that begins at /2/, rises to /3/ at the primary sentence stress, and stays there to the end of the utterance is a rising intonation pattern.
68. Which of the following sentences does NOT observe correct subject-verb agreement?
A. The mayor as well as his brothers is going to prison.
B. Neither of the two traffic lights is working.
C. My assets were wiped out in the depression.
D. Neither the plates nor the serving bowl go on that shelf.
RATIO:
The verb in an “or, either/or, or neither/nor-sentence” agrees with the noun or pronoun closest to it.
69. The pronoun in this sentence is _____.
“When she arrived, Suad was surprised to find her apartment door open.
A. cataphoric B. anaphoric C. deitic D. coreferential
RATIO:
A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is introduced later on in the text/speech.
70. The underlined word in this sentence functions as ______.
“We elected him chairman.”
A. direct object B. indirect object C. objective complement D. predicate nominative
RATIO:
An objective complement is a noun, adjective, or pronoun used in the predicate as complement to a verb and as qualifier of its direct object.
71). Which of the following words is derived from a French word?
A. Armadillo
B. Geography
C. Poultry
D. Laser
RATIO:
The word “poultry” is derived from the French word “poulet”.
72. The style of writing employed in this passage can be best described as _____.
A. standard English C. jargon
B. formal English D. dialect
The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
RATIO:
“The passage use words in a regional dialect of English.
73. The author’s use of language in this passage helps to demonstrate the speaker’s ____
A. lack of intelligence C. good-heartedness
B. lack of education D. confusion
RATIO:
Huck is uneducated..
74. The author uses imagery in this section to illustrate Huck’s _____.
A. fear and loneliness
B. awareness of his environment
C. loss of his father
D. moral dilemma
RATIO:
The imagery in this selection helps to illustrate Huck’s isolation and fear.
75. When doing research on the life of an important figure, you would probably give more credence to a biography than you would to an autobiography, due to memoirist’s _____.
A. verbosity
B. creativity
C. subjectivity
D. experiences
The subjectivity of the author in writing his own life-story can be a problem.
76. Which type of logical fallacy is demonstrated by this argument?
It is essential that we reject the proposed changes to the company’s insurance plan. If we don’t protest against these changes now, we’ll soon end up with no health coverage at all.
A. slippery slope
B. red herring
C. strawman
D. circular reasoning
RATIO:
The slippery slope argument involves reasoning that because of an initial event, a second event, more extreme event must inevitable follow.
77. Which of the following works of literature was originally written in Modern English?
A. The Decameron
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. War and Peace
D. Paradise Lost
RATIO:
Milton’s Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English. through elimination.
78. The line is an example of ____.
I. apostrophe
II. personification
III. hyperbole
IV. metonymy
II only
I and II only
I, II, and IV only
II and IV only
“They tell me you are wicked and I believe
them, for I have seen your painted women
under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
RATIO:
The “You” in this line is Chicago itself. This is a form of apostrophe and personification.
79. This poem is most likely influenced by which of the following?
A. Industrialization
B. Increased immigration
C. Western expansion
D. World War II patriotism
Hog Butcher for the World
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s
Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
RATIO:
This poem is written during the early 1990s, a time Chicago experienced increased industrialization.
80. The poetry of Walt Whitman is significant in the development of American literature primarily because he _____.
A. used the epic form to tell distinctly American tales
B. developed his own poetic form and style instead of adhering to the traditional poetic forms
C. commemorated in verse the lives of public leaders like Abraham Lincoln.
D. was heavily influenced by Emerson’s call for a new national poet.
RATIO:
Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of the Grass” departs from the metered, traditional poetic forms.
81. The following words: edit from editor, and beg from beggar are formed through _____.
A. blending B. back formation C. derivation D. clipping
RATIO:
Back-formation is the process of forming a new word (a neologism) by extracting actual or supposed affixes from another word.
(1) The themes of liberty and freedom are central to much of American literature, particularly the literature produced during the American Renaissance. (2) As the issues of women’s rights and abolition came to the forefront of the American consciousness, writers delved deep into an exploration of the meaning of freedom for the country and for individuals. (3) Three such writers from this time period who focus on issues of freedom are Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs. (4) Each of these writers develop an answer to the question posed by Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin: “Liberty! – electric world! What is it?”
82 . Which of the following sentences should be revised in order to correct an error?
A. Sentence 1, to correct an error in comma use
B. Sentence 2, to correct an error in apostrophe use
C. Sentence 3, to correct an error in comma use
D. Sentence 4, to correct an error in agreement
RATIO:
The subject “each” which is an indefinite pronoun singular in meaning should take the singular verb “develops”.
83. Which of the following English words is most commonly pronounced with the vowel sound /É™/ (i.e., schwa)?
A. where B. who C. what D. why
RATIO:
“What” has the schwa sound which is identified as central, neutral and relaxed.
84. Why do most fathers prefer a son _____ a daughter for his first-born child?
A. to B. than C. from D. over
RATIO:
“Prefer to” means to like or want somebody or something more than somebody or something else.
85. I am going to sit and rest _______.
A. a little bit B. a while C. a little more D. awhile
RATIO:
Awhile (written as one word) is an adverb.
86. Which sentence has error in punctuation?
A. “You’re a great friend,” Jose said.
B. Judith, my best friend went to a concert last Friday.
C. I have a lot of work to do; as such, I left for work a few minutes early.
D. According to the radio, surface streets were the best alternative to the congested freeways.
RATIO:
An appositive phrase should be separated from the noun it renames and other words in the sentence with a comma before and after it.
87. Unprepared for such a strong rebuttal, _____.
A. the lawyer’s attempt at winning the case failed
B. the lawyer’s attempt failed to win the case
C. the lawyer failed to win the case
D. the lawyer failed in his attempt to win the case
RATIO:
Both C and D use active voice, but it is only C that is not redundant.
88. ______ on the MTRCB to take action.
A. Whenever television is denounced by viewers for its violence, they call
B. Whenever television is denounced for its violence, viewers call
C. Whenever viewers denounce television for its violence, they call
D. Whenever a denunciation of television is voiced, they call
RATIO:
Only C uses active voice. Regular English sentences mostly use active voice.
89. Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, has been called a “tragedy of the common man” because it _____.
A. depicts the fall from grace of an important person
B. fits Aristotle formal definition of tragedy
C. gives an ordinary salesman’s life weight and meaning
D. is written in a poetic and serious style
RATIO:
Miller’s play gave the importance to an ordinary salesman who was opposite to the character in a traditional play.
90. He holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
A. Wole Soyinka
B. Yasunari Kawabata
C. Po Chu-I
D. Rabindranath Tagore
RATIO:
Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.
91. Which outline correctly organizes and categorizes information pertaining to the work of William Shakespeare?
A. I. Plays
a. Tragedies
1. King Lear…
b. Histories
1. Richard III…
c. Comedies
1. Twelfth Night…
II. Poems
B. I. Plays
a. Tragedies
1. Hamlet…
b. Poems
1. My Mistress’ Eyes…
c. Comedies
1. All’s Well That Ends Well…
II. Histories
C. I. Plays
a. Tragedies
1. Comedies
b. Histories
1. Henry V…
c. Poems
1. Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments…
II. The Tempest
D. I. Plays
a. Tragedies
1. Hamlet…
b. Histories
1. King Lear…
c. Comedies
1. Titus Adronicus…
II. Poems
RATIO:
The two broadest categories, labelled I, II, should be plays and poems.
But how was I direct myself? I knew that I must travel in a southwesterly direction to reach my destination, but the sun was only guide. I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair. From you only could I hope for succor, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred. Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind. But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form. -from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
92. The narrator of this passage is _____.
A. Victor C. the monster
B. Elizabeth D. the author
RATIO:
The clues “you were my father, my creator,” and “then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind” indicate that was the monster who was speaking.
93. “A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected.” -from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Which of the following is a correct restatement of the above?
A. When my branding iron sank, I screamed and shot at the bushes.
B. When the moon set, I screamed and burned the cottage.
C. When I could not find the orb, I screamed and kicked at the straw and the bushes.
D. I waited until the sun set, then I screamed and set fire to the forest.
RATIO:
The orb described here is the moon.
94. A Marxist interpretation of “Waiting for Godot” would probably focus on _____.
A. the poverty and despair of its working-class characters
B. the use of archetypes in the portrayals of the characters
C. the power imbalances in the relationships of the characters
D. the reliance of the two main characters on the eventual arrival of a “savior”
RATIO:
Marxist theory is that all relationships are power relationships, based on economic class standing.
95. In paragraph below, the characters, Mandy Ringer and Dr. Clevenger, are mentioned in order to emphasize which point about “Sapphira and the Slave Girl”?
A. A number of the characters in the novel are based on people Cather knew in her childhood.
B. The novel displays Cather’s mixed feelings about slavery.
C. Cather took four years to complete the novel because she carefully researched her characters.
D. One of Cather’s purposes in writing the novel was to paint a full portrait of life in rural Virginia in the years
before the Civil War.
E. The characters in the novel are portrayed in a positive light since Cather was a great admirer of the old South.
The following passage analyzes one of Willa Cather’s (1873-1947) novels.
Sapphira and the Slave Girl was the last novel of Willa Cather’s illustrious literary career. Begun in the late summer of 1937 and finally completed in 1941, it is often regarded by critics as one of her most personal works. Although the story takes place in 1856, well before her birth, she drew heavily on vivid childhood memories and tales handed down by older relatives to describe life in rural northern Virginia in the middle of the 19th century. She even went on an extended journey to the area to give the story a further ring of authenticity.
Of all Cather’s many novels, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is the one most concerned with providing an overall picture of day-to-day life in a specific era. A number of the novel’s characters, it would seem, are included in the story only because they are representative of the types of people to be found in 19th-century rural Virginia; indeed, a few of them play no part whatsoever in the unfolding of the plot. For instance, we are introduced to a poor white woman, Mandy Ringer, who is portrayed as intelligent and content, despite the fact that she has no formal education and must toil constantly in the fields. And we meet Dr. Clevenger, a country doctor who, with his patrician manners, evokes a strong image of the pre-Civil War South.
The title, however, accurately suggests that the novel is mainly about slavery. Cather’s attitude toward this institution may best be summed up as somewhat ambiguous. On the one hand, she displays almost total indifference to the legal and political aspects of slavery when she misidentifies certain crucial dates in its growth and development. Nor does she ever really offer a direct condemnation, of slavery. Yet, on the other hand, the evil that was slavery gets through to us, albeit in typically subtle ways. Those characters, like Mrs. Blake, who oppose the institution are portrayed in a sympathetic light. Furthermore, the suffering of the slaves themselves and the pretty, nasty, often cruel, behavior of the slaveowners are painted in stark terms.
Although Sapphira and the Slave Girl was certainly not meant to be a political tract, the novel is sometimes considered to be a denunciation of bygone days. Nothing could be further from the truth. In spite of her willingness to acknowledge that particular aspects of the past were far from ideal, Willa Cather was, if anything, a bit of a romantic. Especially in the final years of her life, an increasing note of anger about the emptiness of the present crept into her writings. Earlier generations, she concluded, had been the real heroes, the real creators of all that was good in America.
RATIO:
The author mentions two characters who are included mainly to help complete Cather’s portrait of rural Virginia. D is a good match and is the correct answer.
96. In context, “a bit of a romantic” suggests that Willa Cather ____.
A. condemned the evils of slavery
B. favored the past over the present
C. disliked writing about life in the 1030s
D. denounced certain aspects of the 19th-century life
E. exaggerated the evils of earlier generations
RATIO:
The last paragraph refers to Cather as “a bit of a romantic” who cherished past creativity over the present emptiness.
97. The works of Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Upton Sinclair _______.
A. examined 19th-century cultural values
B. broke with the literary traditions of the past
C. fought against the mistreatment of the working class
D. awakened readers to social wrongs
RATIO:
D is the only choice general enough to apply to all three authors.
98. The writing style used by Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez is most often referred to as _______.
A. Stream of Consciousness C. Social Realism
B. Magical Realism D. Minimalism
RATIO:
Marquez and Rushdie share a writing style which is “Magical Realism
99. At the border of two countries there is a port where fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same language, so they communicate using one that has been invented by them for the purpose of trade. This scenario above most accurately describes which of the following types of language?
A. dialect B. creole C. pidgin D. regionalism
RATIO:
A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.
100. He is known as the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus
A. Hephaestus B. Zeus C. Poseidon D. Hades
RATIO:
In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky, the ruler of the Olympian gods, and spiritual father of gods and mortals. The Roman equivalent is Jupiter.
101. The Titanomachy was a ten-year series of battles fought in Thessaly, also known as the War of the Titans, Battle of the Titans, Battle of the Gods, or just the Titan War. Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. This shows that the Greeks value _____.
I. bravery
II. respect
III. persistence
IV. change
A. 1 and II only B. II and III only C. 1 and IV only D. II and IV only
RATIO:
Zeus rescued his brothers and sisters, and then started a war against his father, and the Titans. Their winning was greatly attributed to Zeus. As a sign of respect for Zeus bravery he was considered as the ruler of Mt. Olympus.
102. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.
A. Troll B. Dragon C. Kappa D. Unicorns
RATIO:
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorn was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.
103. He was a fearless warrior & and king who one day saw the emptiness of his life and turned his back on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the world that is why he is often alluded to as having refused the responsibility.
A. King Minos B. King Muchukunda C. King Rama D. Jason
RATIO:
Muchukunda (cited in Mahabarata & Parunas) saw the emptiness of his life and turned his back on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the world.
104. The story of Cupid and Psyche depicts undying and devotion. What was Psyche’s mistake that according to Cupid was a betrayal?
A. Psyche got infatuated with Zues.
B. Psyche believed her sisters persuasion that her lover was an ugly beast and would kill her.
C. Psyche disobeyed her husband when she enlightened his face in the middle of the night.
D. Psyche left the house without her husband permission.
PART of the STORY:
Psyche had not yet seen her destined husband, Cupid. He came only in the hours of darkness and fled before the dawn of morning, but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. Her sisters who also were curious told her that her husband was a monster that was why he would not allow reveal himself. So, one night when her husband had fallen into his first sleep, she silently rose and uncovering her lamp beheld not a hideous monster, but the most beautiful and charming of the gods, with his golden ringlets wandering over his snowy neck and crimson cheek, with two dewy wings on his shoulders, whiter than snow, and with shining feathers like the tender blossoms of spring.
105. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of a human form, human characteristics, or human behaviour to nonhuman things, e.g. deities in mythology and animals in children’s stories. What trait is this?
A. Anthropomorphic B. Ethereal C. God-like D. Anthropocentrism
RATIO:
Anthropomorphism is the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour:
106. Philippine mythology and superstitions are very diverse. It includes a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities like _____
A. kapre, aswang, matruculan, duwende, tiyanak, etc.
B. sirena, syokoy, dugong, etc.
C. cherubs, Seraphims, Cherubims, thrones, guardian angels, etc.
D. Malakas at Maganda, Maria Makiling, etc.
RATIO:
To this day, Philippine myths still have an active role in the lives of rural Filipinos. The countless myths circulating throughout the Filipino countryside contain a large variety of mythical creatures.
107. In Greek mythology, she was the most beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of the god Zeus*, she is best known for the part she played in causing the Trojan War. Some scholars suggest that she was also a very ancient goddess associated with trees and birds.
A. Penelope, queen of Ithaca
B. Persephone, queen of the underworld
C. Helen of Troy
D. Hera, queen of Olympus
RATIO:
The mythological background of the Trojan war, Helen was the most beautiful mortal woman in the world.
108. When Paris abducted Helen to Troy, all the Greek princes were bound by the oath to help Menelaus recover Helen. Athena and Hera who were not chosen by Paris sided with the Greeks who sent one thousand ships to Troy to. What does this indicate?
A. Serious decisions have serious consequences.
B. Paris was wrong in choosing Aphrodite as winner.
C. Hera and Athena harboured ill feelings.
D. Zeus ordered the goddesses to take side in the war.
109. He was the son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis. He was the god of music, and he is often depicted playing a golden lyre. He was also known as the Archer, far shooting with a silver bow; the god of healing, giving the science of medicine to man; the god of light; and the god of truth.
A. Mars B. Neptune C. Jupiter D. Apollo
RATIO:
Apollo, in Greek and Roman mythology, is the god of prophecy, sunlight, music, and healing. He was the son of Zeus and Leto, and Artemis was his twin sister.
110. Which of the following is the best description of traditional phonics instruction?
A. Students study lists of high-frequency words in order to increase reading speed and comprehension.
B. Students are taught individual letter sounds and the rules of combining the sounds together to make words
C. Students are immersed in written language, and is encourage to decode entire words using context clues.
D. Students analyze patterns of organization and syntax as a way of learning to recognize common structures.
RATIO:
B is a typical definition of traditional phonics instruction.
111. A student is conducting a research project and has learned of a website that may have useful information. The domain extension for the site is .org. Which of the following assumptions about the website is correct?
A. All of the information on the site is current.
B. The site has been evaluated for bias and might belong to a profit agency..
C. The site might belong to a nonprofit agency.
D. The author of the site is well respected in his or field.
RATIO:
The .org extension means that the site may belong to a nonprofit organization.
112. In preparation for a writing unit on short stories, a teacher presents students with several examples of short stories and works with them to identify defining characteristics of the genre. Which of the following best describes this instructional strategy?
A. conferencing
B. discipline-based inquiry
C. self-regulated strategy development
D. introduction-body-conclusion strategy
RATIO:
Discipline-based inquiry is the practice of learning about a writing form by dissecting it and investigating its parts.
113. In a holistic evaluation of student essays, evaluations are made on the basis of the _____
A. overall quality of number and variety of errors made by each student
B. overall quality of number of sentences, length and complexity demonstrated in each essay
C. overall ability of each student to communicate in a variety of discourse modes
D. overall quality of each student’s essay in relation to the topic
RATIO
Holistic evaluation is based on the integration of different elements of writing.
114. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following passage?
A. Feminist Criticism
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Reader-Response Criticism
D. Romantic Theory
The difficulties involved in the governess’s effort to create a space for herself outside of patriarchal boundaries are metaphorically represented in her struggle for the children. While she believes she is engaged in a battle with the ghosts for the children’s souls, she is also, symbolically, involved in overcoming patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Rejecting the ineffectual role played by Mrs. Grose, the respectable matron character, the governess attempts to define herself against the sexualized whose figure, Miss Jessel, as she tries, to supplant the male-authority figure, Peter Quint. Neitherof these roles can help her in her struggle for a subject position, however, as is made clear when the governess cannot replace Miss Jessel for Flora, or Quint for Miles.
RATIO:
Feminist Literary Criticism as shown in the paragraph focuses on the representation of women in literature.
115. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following passage?
A. Marxist Literary theory
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Postmodern Literary Theory
D. Deconstruction
Not only James’s governess fit the classic profile of the female sexual hysteric, she also experiences the “hysterical fit” observed by turn-of-the-century clinicians. That her first hallucination precipitates a “nervous explosion” of some intensity is clear from her own account. Like that of the classic hysteric, her “mental activity...is split up, and only a part of it is conscious.” Her initial fantasy of her handsome employer is conscious, but his transformation into a figure embodying her fear of sexuality is generated by deep-rooted unconscious inhibitions.
RATIO:
Psychoanalytic Theory focuses more about the author’s life than the reader’s life.
116. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following passage?
A. Deconstruction
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Reader-Response Criticism
D. Marxist Literary Theory
What is even more troublesome is disagreement among critics about just what standards are to be applied. Two “straight” readers, seeing the ghosts as real and the story as an attempt to “turn the screws” of horror as thrillingly as possible, might flatly disagree with each other about whether the literary experience of thrilling horror is good or bad for “us,” or for a given immature reader, or for a former governess now incarcerated in a mental institution.
Because of all this variety, we have to ask our questions as if we were dealing not with one The Turn of the Screw but many different ones.
RATIO:
In Reader-Response Criticism, literature has no fixed-single meaning.
117 (60 something). If a teacher uses only basal readers for teachings her students to read, she is most likely believes in _____.
Primarily a whole language approach
Primarily a phonics approach
A mixture of a whole language and phonics
Individualized reading instruction
RATIO:
Most of basal readers are phonics-based.
118. A parent walks into a classroom and sees the children in groups, each gathered around a poster board. The children are writing ideas on the poster board in what looks like graffiti (writing on walls) to the parent. When the parent asks the teacher what the children are doing, the teacher is likely to explain that ___.
A. this is playtime, and the children need playtime because recess has been taken out of the program
B. the children are involved in brainstorming, which is part of the prewriting stage of the writing process
C. invented spelling and graffiti type expression is important to the child’s development
D. the children are creating final versions of posters to be displayed in the school fair.
RATIO:
The scenario describes the prewriting activity of brainstorming.
119. Each of the following is an effective strategy for a teacher who is facilitating a whole-class discussion EXCEPT _____.
A. having the students sit in a circle instead of traditional rows
B. breaking the class into smaller discussion groups before concluding the whole-class discussion
C. pausing and allowing silence to promote student participation
D. ensuring that all questions require simple-sentence answers
RATIO:
D is the only option that does NOT help a teacher facilitate a whole class discussion.
120. Which of the following activities will best help a teacher collect data that will inform instruction to meet the individual needs of students?
A. concentric circles
B. K-W-L chart
C. book pass
D. reciprocal teaching
RATIO:
The K-W-L chart can be used to document what students know, what they want to know, and what they learned.
121. When doing a cloze (fill-in-the-blank) activity, the teacher should _____.
A. leave the first and the last sentence intact
B. give students the freedom to make up the first and last sentences
C. spell words wrong to see if the students can catch them
D. always use the first paragraph of the book
RATIO:
A is correct as it is the first rule of using an interactive cloze activity.
122. The main reason for doing a cloze (fill-in-the-blank) activity with the children before reading a book is for the purpose of providing a/an _____.
A. familiarity and identification of the characters in the book for comprehension
B. setting for the book to serve for the students to want to read the book
C. anticipatory set that will make the children be curious enough to want to read the book
D. worksheet to grade that shows the students’ vocabulary development
RATIO:
The purpose of a cloze-activity is to get the students interested in the story and thus want to read.
123. Which of the following best expresses the author’s attitude toward Lord Russell’s definition of a proverb?
A. dismissive
B. sceptical
C. exuberant
D. favorable
E. Loyal
Proverbs are hard to define, but one could do worse than the pithy definition offered by an 18th-century British statesman, Lord John Russell. A proverb, Russell is said to have remarked at breakfast, is “one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.” Proverbs have been identified in all the world’s spoken languages, and – unlike Lord Russell’s adage – they are almost always anonymous. Interestingly, similar sayings seem to have developed independently in many parts of the world. For example, the English saying, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” has counterparts in Romania, Spain, and Iceland.
RATIO:
The author cites Russell’s definition because he considers it a good one.
124. What type of sonnet is illustrated Milton’s poem “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent?
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide;
“Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed,
And post o’er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
A. Elizabethan
B. Petrarchan
C. English
D. Spenserian
RATIO:
Petrarchan sonnet is form of poetry that has an 8-line stanza with the rhyme scheme abbaabba followed by 6 lines with various rhyme schemes, usually cdcdcd or cdede.
125. He is the pioneer in serial literature which is a printed format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction is published in sequential installments.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Arthur Miller
C. Charles Dickens
D. Rudyard Kipling
RATIO:
Charles Dickens pioneered the serial publication.
126. Using the Romantic Theory, the similitude and dissimilitude in this poem is _____.
A. beauty in isolation
B. humility in pride
C. abundance in poverty
D. enjoyment in despair
She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and oh,
The difference to me!
RATIO:
Lucy was not well-known, she had few friends, but she made a difference in the life of the speaker. The metaphor portrays Lucy’s beauty that only a few saw.
127. The use of the imagination is evident in the poem through the employment simply of _____.
A. synecdoche and metonymy
B. personification and hyperbole
C. allusion and litotes
D. simile and metaphor
RATIO:
The second stanza uses simile and metaphor.
128. The romantic theorists will like the poem because _____.
A. the subject matter is relatively simple, straightforward language
B. it emphasizes the importance of nature as a whole
C. it illustrates the important lesson in life
D. the use of literary devices in the poem is very interesting
RATIO:
For Romantic theorist, the subject matter and the language of a poem should be simple.
129. Based from the poem, a reader can infer that Romantic poets such Wordsworth sees
A. the city is more romantic than the country
B. the city is a place of vice and other worldly things
C. the country is a place of virtue
D. the country is the most ideal since it is near the nature
RATIO:
The surroundings described in the poem are rural.
130. Which stanza implies that Lucy is an interesting woman?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. None of the above
RATIO:
The word “springs” is associated with life and purity.
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