LONG QUIZ IN READING AND WRITING
Name: ______________________________
I. Discourse can be an argument or a
conversation. List examples of a text that can be
considered as discourse.
ARGUMENT CONVERSATION
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.
II. Can a text have all three purposes: inform,
persuade, and entertain? Explain your answer.
III. Highlight the text/s which shows sequential
implicativeness.
A. The old man was stooped and bent, his
back making the shape of a C and his head
bent so far forward that his beard would
nearly have touched his knobby knees had
he been just a bit taller.
B. Chocolate does expire – after some time,
even if it was stored properly, chocolate
will go bad. If it looks fine, smells like
chocolate and tastes fine, it's safe to eat it.
If the chocolate is after its “Best by" date
and you'll notice that something isn't quite
right, discard it.
C. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima
when the first atom bomb was dropped.
He then traveled home to Nagasaki the day
before the second atom bomb was
dropped. He survived both and lived to be
93.
IV. Identify the deep text. Write it at the back.
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket, a book about four crewmen on
a whaling ship who ended up stranded and
having to draw lots to see who would be
eaten. The lot landed on a cabin boy
named Richard Parker. Forty-six years
later, a yacht named Mignonette bound for
Sydney, Australia capsized en route from
London. The three crewmen then killed
and ate their cabin boy named Richard
Parker.
LONG QUIZ IN READING AND WRITING
Name: _________________________________
I. Discourse can be an argument or a
conversation. List examples of a text that can
be considered as discourse.
ARGUMENT CONVERSATION
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.
II. Can a text have all three purposes: inform,
persuade, and entertain? Explain your answer.
III. Highlight the text/s which shows sequential
implicativeness.
A. The old man was stooped and bent, his
back making the shape of a C and his
head bent so far forward that his beard
would nearly have touched his knobby
knees had he been just a bit taller.
B. Chocolate does expire – after some time,
even if it was stored properly, chocolate
will go bad. If it looks fine, smells like
chocolate and tastes fine, it's safe to eat it.
If the chocolate is after its “Best by" date
and you'll notice that something isn't quite
right, discard it.
C. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima
when the first atom bomb was dropped.
He then traveled home to Nagasaki the day
before the second atom bomb was
dropped. He survived both and lived to be
93.
IV. Identify the deep text. Write it at the back.
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket, a book about four crewmen on
a whaling ship who ended up stranded and
having to draw lots to see who would be
eaten. The lot landed on a cabin boy
named Richard Parker. Forty-six years
later, a yacht named Mignonette bound for
Sydney, Australia capsized en route from
London. The three crewmen then killed
and ate their cabin boy named Richard
Parker.