English 9

4th Periodical Examination

Name: _______________________________________ Grade & Section: ________________ Date:

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I. Oral Language and Fluency. Choose the letter of the word which has a different vowel sounds.

_______1. a. foul b. code c. road

_______2. a. boil b. noise c. eight
_______3. a. art b. accent c. bond
_______4. a. fame b. heavy c. elbow
_______5. a. cabin b. pathos c. badge
II. Vocabulary Development. Using Context Clues. Choose the best meaning to the word that is underlined. Write the
letter of your answer before each number.
_____1.  The lawyers could not easily counterfeit his arguments.
A. simulate C. imagine
B. reverse D. believe
_____2.  The audience ignored the man's clamor for change on social justice.
A. silence C. cry
B. noise D. stillness
_____3.  The man was shouting blasphemous ideas about the different religion.
A. authentic C. nonsense
B. offensive D. true
_____4.  They were spoken by a man who had false ideas as to what is convincing in elocution.
A. distraction C. inarticulate
B. petition D. utterance
_____5.  He can never forget the entreaties made which was agreed upon for quite some time.
A. answer C. petition
B. queries D. question

III. Identification. identify what is being referred to in each statement. Write your answers on the space provided.
__________________1. The feeling that the author creates using story details, setting and images.
__________________ 2. A type of periodicals which discusses practical information and concerns in a particular
industry.
__________________3. A group of lines within a poem.
__________________4. A 19-line poem with five tercets and one quatrain at the end.
__________________5. The basic poetic unit of verse meter consisting of various combinations stressed and unstressed
syllable.
__________________6. A picture poem in which the visual shape of the poem contributes to its meaning.
__________________7. A vowel sound containing two elements during the articulation.
__________________ 8. Periodicals which report original research or experimentation, often in specific academic
disciplines.
__________________9. It  is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation, a standardized representation of the sounds
of spoken language.
__________________10. A non linear text which shows a relationship between two or more sets of measurements.
__________________11. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem
__________________12. A unit or group of four lines in a verse or stanza
__________________13. A short poem with 17 syllables, usually written in three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7
in the second and 5 in the third.
__________________14. A poem made up of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern
__________________15.T he mode of narration that an author employs.

IV. Modified True or False.  Direction: Write AYE if the statement is TRUE but if it's false, change the underlined word or
group of words to make the whole statement true. Write your answer on the space provided.
__________________1. A discursive type of prose is an account of events, the purpose of which is to entertain,
to tell a story, or to provide an aesthetic literary experience
__________________2. A cinquain is five-line poem usually mean to be funny.
__________________3. A simile is a comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as".
__________________4. A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable is
called dactyl.
__________________5. If a line of verse consists of five metrical feet, it is a tetrameter.
__________________6. A narrative type of prose describes and gives a deep impression of a character, place or
 situation.
__________________7. Pie charts are non linear text used to show comparisons between variables.
__________________8. A writing which attempts to influence and persuade the reader's thinking or behavior in a
specific manner is a didactic prose.
__________________9. A non linear text used to show trends is a line graph.
__________________10. Directive prose exposes and criticizes foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society,
by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.

V. Fallacies. Identify what fallacy is being used in each statement. Write your answers on the space provided.
__________________1.You are hot and I am cold. You are wearing a brown coat. So let's go for a drink.
__________________2. You visit a new country and the first person you meet in the airport is rude. You
send a message to a friend back home that everyone in this new country is rude.
__________________3. A little boy says that his friends should not go swimming in a river because his
mother said there were germs in the river.
__________________4. A commercial claims that 3 out of 4 dentists would choose this particular brand
of toothpaste for their own families to use.
__________________5. If you break your diet and have one cookie tonight, you will just want to eat 10
cookies tomorrow, and before you know it, you will have gained back the 15 pounds you lost.
VI. Pronouns. Underline the correct pronoun for each sentence below and identify it's case as nominative, objective or
possessive. Write your answer on the space provided. (2pts each item)

__________________1.Five of (we, us, ourselves) took a cab to the play. 

__________________2.Are you and (they, them, themselves) attending the meeting. 
__________________3. No one is more concerned about the matter than (she, her, herself). 
__________________4. (Who, Whom) can I go out with tonight? 
__________________5. The committee told Smith and (the, them, themselves) to write a new resolution. 

VII. Adverbs. Circle the adverb and underline the word it modifies.
1. I secretly hid the present.
2. I will finish my homework later.
3. Let’s have a picnic outside.
4. You need to come here.
5. I am very late.
6. The car rolled backward.
7. The temperature is very high.
8. The kids worked eagerly.
9. Tomorrow I will mow the lawn.
10. I saw the bus passed by a while ago.

VIII. Fill in the blanks. Adverbs. Complete each sentence with the most appropriate adverb. Choose your answer from
the box.

usually unequally often overly closely equally

interchangeably more than two thousand years ago totally widely

Justice and fairness are 1. ________________ related terms that are 2. _____________ used today 3. ________.
While justice 4. _______________ has been used with reference to a standard of rightness, fairness often has
been used with regard to an ability to judge without reference to one's feelings or interests; fairness has also beeb used
to refer to the ability to make judgments that are not 5.__________________ general but that are concrete and specific
to a particular case.
The most fundamental principle of justice ̶ one that has been 6. _______________ accepted since it was first
defined by Aristotle 7 ______________ ̶ is the principle that "equals should be treated 8. _____________ and unequals
9. ________________. " This should 10. ______________ bear in the minds of everybody.

Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.

Good Luck!