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ENGLISH 8 ELIMINATION ROUND

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.       What is a couch potato?

a)

A person who likes to eat potatoes on the couch.

b)

A person who likes to sit and watch tv on the couch

c)

A potato pillow.

d)

A person who likes to play hot potato.

2.

Adults often look back on their childhood as a golden age.

a)

Recall the past

b)

Take care of

c)

Admire

d)

Be careful

3.

Which of the following is the best definition of propaganda?

a)

The negative spread of lies and misleading information in order to trick people and hide the truth

b)

. The accidental spread of information and ideas that consequently impact people's perspectives

c)

The purposeful spread of objective, factual messages that inform people about important information

d)

The deliberate spread of information and ideas to influence public opinion and behavior

4.

The tallest pyramid in Egypt.

a)

Khufu

b)

Giza

c)

Sphinx Khafra

d)

Mortuary

5.

When a closely related term or symbol is substituted for what it represents, or some concrete term is used for a more abstract idea, the figure of speech is referred to as a _________

a)

Metaphor

b)

Irony

c)

Simile

d)

Metonymy

6.

What kind of figure of speech is used to affirm by negating the opposite?

a)

Synechdoche

b)

  Metonymy

c)

Litotes

d)

  Apostrophe

7.

They could not have made the cake. Change to passive.

a)

The cake have been made by them.

b)

The cake could not had being made by them.

c)

The cake could not have been made by him.

d)

The cake could not have been made by them.

8.

   Change to passive voice. I didn’t fix the problem.

a)

The problem has not been fixed by me.

b)

The problem was fixed by me.

c)

The problem wasn’t fixed by me.

d)

The problem was fixed by me.

9.

There was a loud boom that came from the kitchen. Cally walked in and saw her father laying on the ground and a ladder fallen over. How many passive and how many active voice sentences were there?

a)

Sentences can’t talk so there were no voices

b)

There was one Active sentence.

c)

The sentence has no voices.

d)

They were both Passive voice sentence.

10.

When did the Spaniards invaded Philippines?

a)

1898-1941

b)

1941-1945

c)

1565-1898

d)

1898-1945