MASTERTY TEST IN READING AND WRITING 11

GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Read and understand each question carefully and answer it with your correct answer.

I. HEART (TRUE) OR STAR (FALSE) DIRECTION: Draw a HEART if the sentence or phrase indicates TRUE and draw a STAR if
it indicates FALSE. Draw the correct answer in the area before the number.

1. Body is where you introduce the topic you’re discussing in your essay and briefly summarize the points you’ll make in the
paragraphs that follow.
2. Objective ideas and texts are backed up by facts.
3. Thus, therefore, in conclusion, and in short are example of Illustration Transitions.
4. Scarcity concerns about losing access to something can lead to changes in behavior, such as when an airline alerts of limited or a
retailer offers a time save.
5. Dynamic or Round Character plays a role that develops and changes during the events in the story.

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE: DIRECTION: Read and understand each question carefully and write the capital letter of your correct
answer in the space before the number.

6. What is a relatively long and integrated unit of language, such as a written argument or spoken conversation.
a. Pattern of Development c. Critical Reading
b. Connected Discourse d. Properties of Well-written Text
7. It is a written speech whose purpose is to portray some object, person, animal, event or emotion?
a. Descriptive Text c. Argumentative Text
b. Narrative Text d. Procedural Text
8. What is the writing or text that connect ideas, concepts or series of events?
a. Narrative Text c. Informative Text
b. Descriptive Text d. Argumentative Text
9. It is a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
a. Time and setting c. Plot
b. Theme d. Character
10. What cohesive devices that is a word that is used to connect words, phrases, and clauses?
a. Substitution c. Ellipsis
b. Reference d. Cohesion Lexical
11. It is a rhetorical style that discusses the similarities and differences.
a. Syntax c. Definition
b. Compare and contrast d. Classification
12. It contains personal opinions, assumptions, and beliefs. What kind of descriptive text is it?
a. Objective c. Empirical
b. Subjective d. Critical
13. It is an individual or group activity in which it will help us to make a solution to a particular problem.
a. Brainstorming c. Mapping
b. Cubing d. Researching
14. It is a set a time and number of words or pages. Just write and write, then write and just write. What brainstorming strategy is it?
a. Cubing c. Free Writing
b. Listing d. Mapping
15. What is kind of brainstorming activity wherein the ideas were examined from distinct viewpoints?
a. Free Writing c. Mapping
b. Listing d. Cubing
16. What is also called as webbing or clustering?
a. Topical Organizer c. Fish Bone Diagram
b. Topic Outline d. Venn Diagram
17. A pattern of development that details why something happens, what causes it, what are the efforts and how it is relates to
something else.
a. Persuasion c. Analogy
b. Compare and contrast d. Cause and Effect
18. It is a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do
something.
a. Process c. Compare and Contrast
b. Analogy d. Cause and Effect
19. What property of well written text which means that sentences are arranged in a logical manner or it is consistent, making them
easily to understood?
a. Cohesion c. Coherence
 b. Mechanics d. Language use
20. It is when information found in a paragraph is arranged to emphasize certain points depending on the writer purpose.
a. Chronological Order c. Empathic
b. Spatial Order d. Sympathic

III. IDENTIFICATION: DIRECTION: Read and understand each question carefully and choose from the box above the correct
answer of your choice. Write your answers in the space provided before the number.

First Person Mapping Theme Researching Second Person Compare and Contrast
Cubing Classfications Mechanics Time and Settings Language Use

21. It is a point of view is structured around the “you” pronoun, and is less common in novel-length work.
22. It is a set of convention on how to spell, abbreviate, punctuate, and capitalize.
23. It is generally revealed by the by the “I” sentence construction and relies on.
24. Brainstorming strategy which is also called webbing or clustering.
25. Brainstorming strategy which allows readers and writers discover facts by investigation.

26. It is the central idea or belief in the story or in a narrative text.

27. It is a rhetorical style that discusses the similarities and differences of two or more things: ideas, concepts, items, places, etc.
28. This is the appreciation of words and vocabulary usage.
29. In a narrative or in a short story is the time and place in which it happens.
30. These are separate items which are grouped into categories according to shared characteristics.

IV. ENUMERATION: DIRECTION: Give what is/are ask and write your answer/s in the space provided before the number.
31-32. Give the two (2) types of conflict.
33-38. Give the six (6) principles of persuasion.
39-40. Give the two (2) kinds of Descriptive Text.p

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