GENERAL EDUCATION – ENGLISH

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3. Monitor the time you spent answering the drill.

Learning Content
❖ Common Figures of Speech
1.1 Define the different figures of speech.
1.2 Identify figures of speech in a sentence.

1. Repetition of an initial consonant sound.

a. Anaphora
b. Hyperbole
c. Alliteration
d. Assonance

2. The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

a. Assonance
b. Irony
c. Hyperbole
d. Alliteration

3. It is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or
verses.
a. Irony
b. Euphemism
c. Metaphor
d. Anaphora

4. Substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

a. Euphemism
b. Irony
c. Metaphor
d. Alliteration

5. Which of the following statement is an example if oxymoron?

a. All the world’s a stage.
b. Oh, I love spending big bucks.
c. I am as grateful as a bull in a China Shop when I dance.
d. The famous chef said people should live to eat, not eat to live.

6. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.

a. Irony
b. Oxymoron
c. Metaphor
d. Hyperbole

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7. What figure of speech is: “I have a ton of things to do when I get home”
a. Hyperbole
b. Euphemism
c. Litotes
d. Metonymy
8. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer
to.
a. Litotes
b. Irony
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Metonymy

9. It is the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in a balanced phrases.

a. Metonymy
b. Assonance
c. Antithesis
d. Anaphora

10. What figure of speech is: How now, brown cow?

a. Metaphor
b. Irony
c. Metonymy
d. Assonance

11. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
a. Chiasmus
b. Oxymoron
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Antithesis

12. A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by

negating its opposite.
a. Irony
b. Chiasmus
c. Metonymy
d. Litotes

13. What figure of speech is: “ That stuffed suit with the briefcase is a poor excuse for a
salesman." the manager said angrily.”
a. Metonymy
b. Litotes
c. Metaphor
d. Hyperbole

14. A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but
with the parts reversed.
a. Metaphor
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Litotes
d. Chiasmus

15. What figure of speech is: “Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the

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wrong day”.
a. Anaphora
b. Assonance
c. Irony
d. Metaphor

❖ Types of stories
2.1 Define the different types of stories.

16. The body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history proverbs jokes,
popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that
culture subculture, or group.
a. Folklore
b. Genre
c. Myth
d. Folktales

17. A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters.
a. Story
b. Fables
c. Myth
d. Folktales

18. Traditional stories which may describe the origins of the universe and/or of a people. It is an
attempt to explain mysteries, supernatural events, and cultural traditions. Sometimes sacred
in nature, it can involve gods or other creatures.
a. Folktales
b. Myth
c. Fables
d. Legends

19. Stories that describe how the main character copes with the events of everyday life and the
tale may involve crisis or conflict.
a. Fables
b. Legends
c. Myth
d. Folktales

20. An extraordinary historical happening believed to have actually occurred, but not
verifiable. These may also relate how some things came into existence.
a. Myth
b. Fables
c. Legends
d. Folklore

21. Which of the following is not an example of fable? .

a. The Monkey and the Turtle
b. Maria Clara
c. The Carabao and the Shell
d. Mother Mountain

❖ Linguistics
3.1 Define the different branches of linguistics.
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22. Use or function of language.
a. Pragmatics
b. Syntax
c. Phonology
d. Semantics

23. The study of sound system of a language.

a. Grapheme
b. Phoneme
c. Phonology
d. Graphology
24. The study of written symbols.
a. Graphology
b. Phoneme
c. Phonology
d. Grapheme

25. Grammatical structure of sentences.

a. Semantics
b. Phoneme
c. Pragmatics
d. Syntax

26. It is the study of meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure.
a. Phoneme
b. Semantics
c. Pragmatics
d. Syntax

27. The smallest unit of sound in a language.

a. Semantics
b. Phoneme
c. Grapheme
d. Phonology

28. The smallest unit of written language.

a. Graphology
b. Semantics
c. Grapheme
d. Phonology

❖ Preposition
4.1 Identify prepositions.
4.2 Appropriately use prepositions in a sentence.

29. A preposition that is used in reference to specific times on the clock or points of time in the
day.
a. At
b. On
c. By
d. In

30. This preposition is used to refers the period of time.

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a. On
b. By
c. At
d. In

31. The party starts_______ midnight.

a. By
b. At
c. In
d. On

32. What preposition is very useful to give information about time?

a. On
b. At
c. By
d. In

33. Let's have a coffee_______ Friday morning.

a. on
b. by
c. in
d. at

34. I was born______ 2001.

a. at
b. by
c. in
d. on

35. Simple verb tense can be divided into_________categories.

a. four
b. two
c. five
d. three

❖ Verb Tenses
5.1 to use verb tenses in appropriately.

36. Every weekday morning at 8 A.M. Josh_________ to work.

a. go
b. Went
c. goes
d. is going

37. He’s____________ to Canada for his next vacation.”

a. going to go
b. went
c. will went
d. go

38. When the phone rang, he _________ ready for bed.

a. get out
b. was getting
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c. gets out
d. will get

39. Neil ______ very hard for the midterm exam, but he still doesn’t feel confident.
a. study
b. studies
c. has studied
d. have study

40. My uncle_________to visit us next Tuesday.

a. went
b. goes
c. is coming
d. will go

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Key to Correction
No. Answer No. Answer No. Answer
1. c 16. a 31. a
2. a 17. b 32. a
3. d 18. b 33. a
4. a 19. d 34. c
5. c 20. c 35. d
6. a 21. b 36. b
7. a 22. a 37. c
8. c 23. c 38. b
9. c 24. a 39. c
10. d 25. d 40. c
11. b 26. b
12. d 27. b
13. a 28. c
14. d 29. a
15. a 30. d

References:

Common Figures of Speech

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KXKHtDL6FyueZ-aFL8s9KOkLhyx8hL8/view?usp=drivesdk

Prepositions of time
https://www.mmmenglish.com/2017/10/10/prepositions-of-time-in-on-at-by/

Famous Fables in the Philippines

https://pinoycollection.com/pabula-halimbawa/

Past, Present, Future tenses

https://www.englishhints.com/answers-to-present-tense-verb-exercises.html

Prepared by:

Ma. Ericka T. Violanta

BEED 4A

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