BUGSUK NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Bugsuk, Balabac, Palawan

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
Grade IX - English
S.Y. 2019 - 2020

Name: _______________________________________ LRN: ________________________ Score: ____________

Grade & Section: _______________________________ Date: _____________

Directions: Read the Directions for each phase carefully. ERASURES will be automatically marked wrong.

I – Identification
Directions: Determine what sound device does the lines portrays. Write onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, and
consonance on the blank provided before each number.

__________ 1. The moan of doves in immemorial elms,

And murmuring of innumerable bees.

__________ 2. Doubting, drearing, dreams, no mortal

Enter dared to dream before

__________ 3. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door

__________ 4. The hissing of the snake made me shoo it away.

__________ 5. Along the window sill, the lipstick stabs glittered in their steel shells.

__________ 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths; but no ghost looms

Out of the stillness of her palace wall,
Her wall of boys on boys and dooms on dooms

__________ 7. In the summer season when soft was the sun.

__________ 8. Thou still unravished bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time

__________ 9. And feed deep, deep upon her peerless

__________ 10. Turning again toward childish treble pipes.

Directions: Identify the rhymes of the following lines. Write End if it is an end rhyme and Internal if it is Internal rhyme.

__________ 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

__________ 2. At daybreak on the hill they stood

That overlooked the moor,
And thence they saw the bridge of wood,
A furlong from their door

__________ 3. The crows in boughs throws endless brawls

__________ 4. I think that I shall never see,

A poem as lovely as a tree.

__________ 5. His acts being seven ages. At first the infant.

Mewling and puking in the nurses arms

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II – Punctuations and Capitalizations
Directions: Observe the following lines. Place the correct punctuations and capitalizations to express the meaning of each
lines.

1. hello my name is myra how about you

2. a six or eight cylinder engine
3. oil steel and wheat these are the sinews of industrialization
4. wow annie is pregnant
5. hey watch out for that boulder

III – Literary and Informative Text

Directions: Examine the following examples of texts. Indicate whether it is a Literary or Informative type of text.

__________ 1. If you can dream – and not make your dreams your master;
__________ 2. Men in great places are thrice servants:
Servants of the sovereign state,
Servants of fame, and servants of business “Of Great Place”
__________ 3. NASA is proposing another space project. The agency’s budget request, announced today, included a plan to send
another person to the moon.
__________ 4. He journeyed, forever joyless,
Straight to the door, then snapped it open,
Tore its iron fasteners with a touch,
__________ 5. Director Steven Spielberg launched Germany-wide contest Sunday designed to promote tolerance though
students’ intercultural interaction.
__________ 6. Three passions (simple but overwhelmingly strong) have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for
knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
__________ 7. An earthquake is a shaking or rolling movement of great masses of rocks on the earth’s uppermost layer or crust.
__________ 8. Literature is the use of well-chosen words to tell a story through narrative, involving characters in conflict, or to
express an emotion or idea through artfully arranged images.
__________ 9. Those that have the tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when failing. In a game or in life,
tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo, “Failure is not an option.”
__________ 10. Information Science, interdisciplinary academic field that deals with the generation, collection, organization,
storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge.

IV - Essay
Directions: Explain the similarities and difference between the two types of poetry. (4 pts.)

EPIC POETRY LYRIC POETRY

GOD BLESS US!

Every decision we made leads to another choice

Prepared by: Checked by:

Jessa Caridad N. Sison – del Rosario MELVIN C. CAYANAN

English Teacher School Head
Noted:
__________________________
Parent

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