I. Answer the following questions and right then, identify the pattern you used.

(20
points)

1. Which is better: being intelligent or being happy?

Pattern:

2. What event in the past do you wish you could have witnessed?

Pattern:

II.
3. How can readers identify the pattern of development used in a certain text? (10
points)
31. Which of the following topics can be used in making classification-exemplification
text?

a. Types of Millennial Personalities

b. History of Japanese Encephalitis
c. Extension of Martial Law in Marawi City
d. Fighting against Extrajudicial Killings

32. If your purpose is to allow your readers to hear, see, feel or even taste whatever it is
in your topic, what pattern of development is the most appropriate to use?

a. description
b. narration
c. definition
d. cause and effect

33. It is important in making a narrative text to use transitional devices such as before,
meanwhile, suddenly and next, how do these words help in narration?

a. to draw accurate conclusion

b. to indicate location
c. to provide illustration
d. to signal time order

34. Why is writing a cause and effect text a practice of critical thinking?

a. because you organize your ideas about two things of the same kind
b. because you use it to inject humor and/or to resolve controversy
c. because you create mental picture of the subject using only words
d. because one must be able to logically trace connections among ideas

35-37. In the regular formula of the definition pattern, we have X as the term, Y that
represents classification and Z for the distinguishing characteristics. Given the
statement below, identify what is X, Y and Z.

“Tables are visual strategy which are composed of columns and rows.”

35. What serves as the X?

a. tables
b. visual strategy
c. composed of columns and rows
d. the whole sentence

36. “…composed of columns and rows” is the…

a. X
b. Y
c. Z
d. None of the above

37. What is the classification (Z) in the statement?

a. tables
b. visual strategy
 c. composed of columns and rows
d. the whole sentence

38. What pattern of development in writing will you use if you want to make your
classmates agree to your claim that there should be no more rule of closing the gates at
exactly 7:30 in the morning and 1:30 in the afternoon?

a. comparison and contrast

b. classification-exemplification
c. persuasion
d. problem-solution

39. What topic can you have in your essay with the use of Narration pattern?

a. Looks of your favorite Asian Model

b. The first time you were cyber bullied
c. Your stand in the issue of Abortion
d. The reasons why students cut classes

40. What text commonly explains not just what something means or is, but also what
something does, what something is used for, what something looks like, etc.?

a. descriptive text
b. persuasive text
c. definition text
d. narrative text

41. The main idea of the descriptive text should always be supported by vivid details
that appeal to the readers’ senses. In this line, “The room is heavy with the scent of wet
stone, upturned soil; the air is dank and earthy”, it is made appealing to what particular
senses?

a. sense of sight and smell

b. sense of touch and taste
c. sense of hearing and sight
d. sense of smell and touch

42. What topic is the most appropriate to use when you are assigned to make a
problem-solution text?

a. Is Extrajudicial killings still the answer?

b. Aquino’s Administration VERSUS Duterte’s
c. How did the terrorists enter Marawi City?
d. Fighting against graft and corruption

43. What pattern of development in writing do you usually use when making your diary
entry?

a. description
b. narration
c. definition
d. cause and effect
44. What is important to remember as the FIRST thing to do when creating
classification- exemplification text?

a. divide the general idea into subgroups

b. add specific details to support ideas
c. note the characteristics of each subgroup
d. repeat keyword from the introduction

45. Why should there be pieces of evidence to be provided in a persuasive text?

a. to provide an answer to an existing problem

b. to support arguments and make the writing convincing
c. to analyze comparable points and make ideas clearer
d. to create a clear picture of the concept or subject matter

46. Which from the following tasks do you usually make that is somewhat related to the
nature of Comparison and Contrast?

a. retelling events during your long weekend

b. encouraging your brother to drive for you
c. choosing what movie to watch in cinema
d. explaining the basis of the majority’s decision

47. One of the characteristics of this pattern is that each scene is being described
through the use of vivid details, what pattern of development is being referred to here?

a. description
b. narration
c. definition
d. cause and effect

48. What particular graphic organizer do you use when organizing ideas for texts that
used the pattern of Comparison and Contrast?

a. series-of-events chain
b. concept map
c. flowchart
d. Venn diagram

49. A text that has the most useful pattern of text development for it focuses on what
needs to be addressed and is concerned for other people.

a. Persuasive texts
b. Cause and effect texts
c. Problem-solution texts
d. Comparison and Contrast

50. What determines the arrangement of ideas in the body of the essay?

a. transitional devices
b. available evidences
c. patterns of development
d. topic to be discussed