Name: Date:

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General Instruction: It is a 30- item test. Read each direction carefully. Write your answer in a
1 whole sheet of paper. Strictly no erasure. Erasure means wrong.

I. Identification

Direction: Identify what is being asked in the following sentences.

1. This refers to a recurring social or psychological issue like aging, violence, alienation or
maturity.

2. A type of sequence where the story starts right in the middle of the action.

3. The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

4. A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

5. A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

II. Multiple Choice

Direction: Choose the letter corresponding to the correct answer for each of the questions
provided below.

6. What kind of figure of speech do the lines express: "I wandered lonely as a cloud; that floats
on high o'er vales and hills"?

A. Metaphor

B. Simile

C. Metonym

D. Synecdoche

7. Which figure of speech do the lines express?

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

A. Personification

B. Irony
C. Hyperbole

D. Onomatopoeia

8. How is poetry different from prose?

A. It uses of narration

B. It utilizes figures of speech

C. There is presence of imagery

D. Lines are used instead of sentences

9. How would you describe lyric poetry?

A. Lyric poetry expresses attitudes and opinions.

B. Lyric poetry utilizes the stage as platform of communication.

C. Lyric poetry records the legendary adventures of folk heroes.

D. Lyric poetry commemorates the value of an important event.

10. Which type of irony pertains to a contrast between what is said and what is meant?

A. Dramatic irony

B. Situational irony

C. Thematic irony

D. Verbal irony

III. Modified TRUE or FALSE

Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct, but if it’s false change the word/words with
the underlined with the correct term to make the statement correct.

11. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks is an example of Realistic fiction.

12. Mystery fictions involve what is called a “whodunit”.

13. Science fiction is a story that takes place in a historically accurate time and
setting.

14. The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi is an example of Fantasy.

15. Tall Tale is a humorous story with extreme exaggerations.

 IV. Matching Type

Direction: Match column A with the corresponding item in column B. Write the letter of your
answer for each.

A B

16. Visual A. roar like a thousand drumbeats.

17. Gustatory B. stroking the infant’s head with a

hand grown rough and callused.
18. Tactile
C. fragile body like an empty coconut.
19. Olfactory
D. the juicy apple tasted tangy and
20. Auditory sweet.

E. the air was filled with the sweet

aroma of ripening peaches, mingled
with the crisp scent of fresh-cut
grass.

V. Enumeration

21-25. Enumerate the forms of free-verse poetry.

VI. Essay

26-30. Write at least 5 sentences about the difference between imaginative writing and
technical writing?