ENGLISH QUIZ BEE

3RD YEAR LEVEL

EASY ROUND
1. A general term for altering
time sequences, taking
characters back to the
beginning of the tale.

a. Foreshadowing
b. Flashback
c. Dream Sequence
 2. The literal meaning or
dictionary definition of a word

a. Connotation
b. Denotation
c. Alliteration
3. A form of autobiography
recording the day-by-day
events in a person life
a. Journal
b. Biography
c. diary
4. They are responsible for telling
the feat and the adventures of
the hero through a narrative
poem during the Anglo Saxon
Period
a. Serfs
b. Witan
c. scops
 The antagonist of Harry
Potter sequel

a. Malfoy
b. Voldemort

c. Professor Snape
 A verbal that is used as an
adjective

a. Gerund
b. Participle
c. Infinitive
 7. The Roman Goddess of
Beauty
a. Venus
b. Aphrodite
c. Hestia
8. A short form of poetry that
contains a story within it.

a. lyric poetry
b. Epic
c. Ballad
 9. The tense of verb that shows
that an action that is finished
before another past action
occurred.

a. Present perfect tense

b. Past perfect tense
c. Future perfect tense
10. King Arthur pulls this sword
from the stone and made him
officially the King of England
a. Hrunting
b. Excalibur
c. Laser sword
AVERAGE

ROUND
 1. A tale of a Queen
(Scheherezade) who uses her
cunning/wit in telling stories that are
related, to delay her execution.
a. Book of Changes
b. Mahabharata
c. One thousand and One
Nights
d. The Canterbury Tales
2. One of a group of words that
share the same spelling and the
same pronunciation but have
different meanings.
a. Pun
b. Homonyms
c. Synonyms
d. Antonyms
 The son of Zeus and a mortal
woman (Danae) who cut
Medusa’s Head
a. Odysseus
b. Hercules
c. Perseus
d. Agammemnon
 The quizmaster seems to be
_________ in all aspects of general
knowledge.
a. Omnicient
b. Omniscient
c. Omnicience
d. omniecience
“Milton , Milton your words
have lived through my
nation…”
a. Hyperbole
b. Metonymy
c. Oxymoron
d. Apostrophe
Identify this Asian poem:
The lonely night draw swiftly down
Covering the world in a deep black gown
Creeping softly in without a sound
As I sleep alone in this distant town.

a.Haiku
b. Tanka
c. Rubai (rubaiyat)
d. Yadu
A traditional and the oldest play in
Japan

a. Farce
b. Noh
c. Manga
d. Kabuki
 Words that sound like their
meanings – that imitate
actual sounds
a. Rhythm

b. Rhyme

c. Onomatopoeia

d. Internal rhyme
 The literary device in which the
ending of an act, chapter,or some
other discrete episode of story
leave the action dramatically
unfinished.
a. Deux ex machina
b. Dream sequence
c. Cliffhanger
d. epiphany
10. The contemporary author of
“Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and
Demons”

a. J.J Tolkien
b. J.K.Rowling
c. Dan Brown
d. Anne Rice
DIFFICULT
 Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travel”
created the minute citizens of _____
town where Gulliver was lost

a. Lilliput
b. Vladimir
c. Flanders
d. Lindon
e. Aberdour
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but
that I love Rome more”

a. Julius Caesar
b. Cassius
c. Brutus
d. Rex
e. Tyrannus
 A story featuring a miraculous
solution to the story's conflict, which
comes out of nowhere and renders
the plot struggles irelevant.
A. Prolepsis
B. Babies switch at birth
C. Epiphany
D. Deux ex machina
E. Dream sequence
 __________ by a prominent
teacher is such a big feat.
a. To trust
b. To be trust
c. To have trust
d. To have been trust
e. To have been trusted
 The Examination gave us
headaches and heartaches as
well.
a. S – IV
b. S-LV-C
c. S-TV-DO
d. S-TV-IO-DO
e. S-TV-DO-OC
 It offers brief description of places
arranged alphabetically like entries in
a dictionary.
a. Encyclopedia
b. Almanac
c. atlas
d. Gazetteers
e. yearbook
The study of structures of words

a. Syntax
b. Morphology
c. Semantics
d. Phonology
e. linguistics
 There are few places that can boast an
act of creation every day. A newspaper is
one of them. Out of the daily newsroom
whirl emerges a remarkable product. To a
casual observer, the men and women
working in the newsroom may appear
running about aimlessly. Each editor,
reporter, copyboy has designated job, the
end result of which is the newspaper that
rolls off the press on time.
Choose the topic sentence:
 CONTEXT CLUE
In spite of attempts to ameliorate the
situation, the situation got worse and
worse.
Identify what kind of Context Clue is
used:
a. illustration/examples

b. Definition

c. Contrast

d. Cause and effect

e. implication
 The Colosseum of ancient Rome
stood imposingly at the center of the
great city. An enormous circular
ampitheater, it was than 600 feet in
diameter. Over four stories high, it
seated at least 50,000 spectators in
long, semi circular tiers. Though, the
colloseum now stands partly or largely
in ruins.

What kind of paragraph is this?

 CLINCHER
What Shakespearean play which
climax was situated in a court
where the complainant was
demanding a pound of flesh as a
payment for a debt?