ENGLISH QUIZ BEE

ENGLISH QUIZ BEE

THEME: SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING IN THE NEW NORMAL

MECHANICS

• Participants shall undergo 21 questions; 10 easy, 6 average, 5 difficult questions.

• Participants shall answer each questions under time pressure.

• The top three participants with the most number of points win.

EASY ROUND

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an adverb?

• holy

• lively

• softly

• lovely

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does not use figure of speech?

• Holding the ice cube was like lying on a frozen pond.

• The medicine made him feel warm.

• The old cracked ceiling shed its skin of paint.

• A flower garden is a box of crayons in bloom.

Multiple Choice

What human sense is used in the clause "the tang of salt spray from the sea"?

• sight

• touch

• smell

• taste

Multiple Choice

In the sentence, "The train sat stationary out in the middle of nowhere, while the anxious passenger wondered if it would ever move again," what word is synonymous to the underlined word?

• loading

• sliding

• rotating

• unmoving

Multiple Choice

Complete the following analogy:

seek-sought

teach-taught

see-seen

hit-_____

• hit

• hitted

• hitten

• hought

Multiple Choice

It is a type of literature based on true-to-life story and so the setting, characters, and events.

• fiction

• non-fiction

• poetry

• oratorical

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a linking verb?

• does

• covers

• becomes

• realizes

Multiple Choice

It is an element of a short story that introduces the setting, the characters, and their overall condition and mood before a problem arise.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• ending

Fill in the Blanks

A sentence is to paragraph

as poem is to

Multiple Choice

It is a group of words that can stand by itself and form an idea even without the help of the other clause.

• adjective clause

• dependent clause

• adverb clause

• independent clause

CONGRATULATIONS YOU DID IT!

WELCOME TO AVERAGE ROUND

Multiple Choice

The following sentences have objects except for one. Which of these sentences has no object?

• They stayed at home during this pandemic.

• She listened carefully but she cannot understand.

• I answered the learning tasks in the module with all honesty.

• They followed the quarantine protocols.

Multiple Choice

Complete the following sentences with a correct tag question: Classes in all levels were suspended in Metro Manila due to Typhoon Ulysses._______

• Isn't it?

• Wasn't it?

• Aren't they?

• Weren't they?

Multiple Choice

Some says this pandemic became a beautiful disaster because many families were reunited with each other due to community quarantine. What figure of speech is used in the sentence?

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• chiasmus

Multiple Choice

He spoke as if his tongue had been dipped in acid. How did he feel?

• in pain

• sorry

• angry and mean

• peaceful

Multiple Choice

In the sentence, "You had better go home now because there's a strong typhoon," the word 'go' is an example of ___________

• bare infinitive

• null infinitive

• zero infinitive

• void infinitive

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an American author?

• Linda Ty Casper

• Maya Angelou

• Amy Tan

• Julia Alvarez

WELCOME TO THE DIFFICULT ROUND

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the correct order of adjectives?

• My two lovely brown old oval picture frames are in the cabinet.

• My two lovely old brown oval picture frames are in the cabinet.

• My two lovely oval old brown picture frames are in the cabinet.

• My two lovely brown oval old picture frames are in the cabinet.

Multiple Choice

Ashley is someone I don't want to be with because she discourages and kills joy of people every time they are having a good time. Ashley is a ______

• a turncoat

• a fish out of water

• a thorn in one's flesh

• a wet blanket

Multiple Choice

In the sentence, "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested," what figure of speech is used?

• chiasmus

• antithesis

• anaphora

• pun

Multiple Choice

It is a light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot usually with physical humor, absurdity.

• melodrama

• farce

• masque

• novelette

Multiple Choice

In the line, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary," what sound pattern is used?

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• repetition