LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE: ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE

S.Y. 2021-2022
3rd Preliminary Exam

Name: ___________________________________ Year and Section: ___________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. A figure of speech that uses repetition in the beginning or middle sentences to create rhythm.
a. Anaphora
b. Epistrophe
c. Alliteration
d. None of the above
2. A figure of speech that uses repetition in the end part to create rhythm.
a. Anaphora
b. Epistrophe
c. Alliteration
d. None of the above
3. What do you call the effect of anaphora and epistrophe combined?
a. Simplici
b. Symploce
c. Rhythmic
d. Soundic
4. What is the most ideal number a word be repeated in a single anaphora?
a. More than three times
b. Three times at most
c. Two times
d. Just once
5. What was the title of Martin Luther King’s speech about racism?
a. I have a nightmare
b. I need a dream
c. I have a dream
d. Changed Society

II. IDENTIFICATION
Direction: Identify each sentence whether it’s anaphora, epistrophe or symploce by writing Anaphora if it
exemplifies anaphora and Epistrophe if it exemplifies epistrophe and Symploce if it has both. Write your
answer on the space provided before each number. Highlight the words or phrases that makes it anaphora or
espistrophe or symploce.

__1. I can reach

I can fly
I can touch the heavens above
__2. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was
the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
__3. In every cry of a man, in every infant’s cry of fear
__4. ..and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
__5. I want pizza, he wants pizza, we all want pizza!
__6. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
__7. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.
 __8. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... we had everything before us, we had nothing before us ...
__9. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

III. ESSAY
1. For five points, if you have a chance to repeat a moment in your life, what would it be and why?

Glory to God!