3RD QUARTER REMEDIAL IN CNF

Which of the following ideas refers to the specific and deliberate use of language to convey meaning and is considered as a device?

• Literary Device

• Literary Technique

• Poetic License

The use of quoted speech or direct statements in the text is an example of a literary technique. What specific literary technique is this?

• Conversation

• Dialogue

• Foreshadowing

Why do writers use figurative language as one of the techniques in writing a text?

• It is for the purpose of art and aesthetics.

• It makes the conveyance of meaning more understandable.

• It functions as the other way of expression to impress readers.

What literary technique is employed when you encounter statements in a text such as, This house if shall pass will be fruitful ‘til the end of its might…?

• Dialogue

• Parallelism

• Symbolism

“I see all his stars- his stars of success!” What figure of speech is used in this statement if the star is used to replace potentials?

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

“I know that today, you will rock it on! You will definitely get a high score in your exams! Why? Because you are great and mommy too! Good luck baby!” If this statement is part if the text, what is its theme?

• Love and support of a Mother

• The Power of Optimism

• The Importance of Love and Care

When Achilles thought that he is completely invincible, he manifested.

• Tragic figure        

• Tragic flaw        

• Tragic hero

Hamlet wants to kill his father’s murderer, Claudius, but he also looks for proof to justify his action. This is a conflict.

• Man vs. Man

• Man vs. Nature

• Man vs. Self

In Arguilla’s How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife, the lines below exemplify  _______.

 “The sky was wide and deep and very blue above us; but at the saw-tooth rim of the Katayagan Hills to the southwest flamed huge masses of clouds. Before us, the fields swam in a golden haze through which floated big purple and red and yellow bubbles when I looked at the sinking sun.”

• Anthropomorphism

• Imagery

• Metaphor

When the mother said “Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” in Langston Hughes’ Mother to Son, she used.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor