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Total questions: 50

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1.

Marxist approach can also be used to study Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere if the critic considers _____.

a)

the literary influence of the Spanish to the Filipinos.

b)

the influence of the Americans to the independence of the Philippines.

c)

the political and social conditions of the Filipinos during Spanish regime.

d)

the linguistic contributions of the Spanish to the Filipinos

2.

If the pyschological approach is used to analyze Alice Walker’s Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self, the reader will consider the _____.

a)

meaning of beauty.

b)

effect of the cataract in Alice’s life.

c)

point of view of the story.

d)

setting of the story.

3.

Which philosophical foundation of Chinese mythology has taught that cosmic energy and all life compounded of “yin” (the negative, female principle) and “yang” (the complimentary positive, male principle)?

a)

Confucianism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Taoism

d)

Mohism

4.

Mr. Santos has a difficulty figuring out who the culprits are in the massacre of the Yin family. Aside from looking closely at the crime scene, he also needs to consider issues like voice recognition and identification of regional accents. What type of stylistic analysis should Mr. Santos need to consider?

a)

Pedagogical Stylistics

b)

Forensic Stylistics

c)

Pragmatic Stylistics

d)

Affective Stylistics

5.

If the teacher asks the students to prepare a written story/text of their language experience, what kind of approach has been used?

a)

Dialogue journals

b)

Total physical response

c)

Language experience approach

d)

Culture studies

6.

What does the phonetic symbol d represent?

a)

voiced alveolar plosive

b)

voiced bilabial plosive

c)

voiced dental fricative

d)

voiceless palatal plosive

7.

What listening-speaking problem occurs when a student finds it hard to distinguish between a word which may be used as a noun or as a verb in a sentence?

a)

Juncture

b)

Stress

c)

Pitch

d)

Diphthong

8.

The “t” before [n] in words like “button” and “written” is pronounced as a/an _____ by most American English speakers.

a)

bilabial stop

b)

velar stop

c)

alveolar stop

d)

glottal stop

9.

What modality is used in the sentence, “Marvin is probably at school now.”?

a)

Ontodologic

b)

Deontologic

c)

Epistemic

d)

Epistimolgic

10.

The Anglo-Saxon poem “Beowulf” is representative of which of the following techniques often found with Old English poetry?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Epenthesis

c)

Free verse

d)

Parallelism

11.

What approach is concerned with the study of ‘signs’?

a)

Dialogic

b)

Hermeneutics

c)

Formalistic

d)

Semiotics

12.

“...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (Gettysburg Address,Abraham Lincoln). This line is an example of _______.

a)

epistrophe

b)

anastrophe

c)

epanalepsis

d)

anaphora

13.

Achilles’ source of power lies in his _____.

a)

will to avenge Patroclos

b)

rule of no-caring-ness

c)

expectation of death

d)

heels

14.

Learning vocabulary can be done through context. What is the meaning of ‘set’ in this sentence? Alice wants a chess set for her collection.

a)

Kit

b)

Model

c)

Board

d)

Apparatus

15.

The Trojan war can be seen today as ________.

a)

men’s exhibition of greed

b)

women’s empowerment

c)

the reign of political dynasty

d)

the war over the lands and boundaries

16.

In Stylistics, Diegesis is _____ ; Mimesis is ____ .

a)

doing, saying

b)

telling, showing

c)

writing, speaking

d)

acting, mimicry

17.

I was on my way to the third floor of the building when I heard a thud. Then vrooom goes the motorcycle. Which word is an example of lexical onomatopoeia?

a)

Vroooom

b)

Thud

c)

Heard

d)

Motorcycle

18.

This theory or approach involves analysis of nationality, ethnicity, and politics.

a)

Deconstruction Theory

b)

Postcolonial Literary Theory

c)

New Historicism

d)

Marxist Literary Theory

19.

Ashley read one of the poems written by her favorite author and she noticed that there are only two punctuation marks used and some of the common nouns at the middle of the lines were written in capital letters. Ashley could conclude that her favorite author took into consideration the use of ______.

a)

Syntactic feature

b)

Graphological feature

c)

Phonological feature

d)

Lexico-semantic feature

20.

Noam Chomsky’s Language Acquisition Device (LAD) has lead into an entirely new approach in the field of linguistics: generative phonology and transformational grammar. What is the focus of this new approach?

a)

It focuses on how the individual acquires and learns a language.

b)

It focuses almost entirely on the abstract ‘deep structure’ of individual’s native language.

c)

It focuses on language teaching and not on language learning.

d)

It focuses on the device itself and how it is used in teaching.

21.

Which theory emphasizes that any human behavior can be learned through a process of stimulus-response and positive or negative reinforcement?

a)

Constructivism

b)

Sociocultural Theory

c)

Behaviorism

d)

Social Interaction Theory

22.

The Pyramus and Thysbe love affair shows ______.

a)

an attempt to change traditional practices

b)

the authority of parents over their children

c)

the aggressiveness of young lovers

d)

the immaturity of teenagers

23.

“You, sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.” (Scarlet Letter). This line is an example of _______.

a)

polysyndenton

b)

polypton

c)

asyndeton

d)

aphorism

24.

What is the name of Zeus as the God of State?

a)

Zeus Polieus

b)

Zeus Lycaeus

c)

Zeus Xenios

d)

Zeus Ktesios

25.

Which of the following aspects of a nineteenth-century novel would most likely be examined in a work of feminist literary criticism?

a)

the tone of the female omniscient narrator

b)

the dialogue spoken by male and female characters

c)

the descriptions of objects used for domestic chores

d)

the nonlinear structure of the plot

26.

The historical approach can be used to analyze Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere if the critic considers _____.

a)

the time that shaped the events in the novel.

b)

the travels of Rizal.

c)

the meaning of the title of the novel.

d)

the abuses experienced by Filipinos.

27.

The following are believed to be the sources of mythology and folklore EXCEPT:

a)

The Great Epics of the World

b)

A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights)

c)

Aesop’s Fable

d)

The Great Vedas

28.

These poems are known for their elegant, refined and courtly culture. They are also known as “carpe diem” or “seize the moment” poetry

a)

Metaphysical Poems

b)

Elitist Poems

c)

Cavalier Poem

d)

Holy Poems

29.

In the sentence, “Don’t take your break up with Lance too hard. don’t worry, there will be more handsome faces that will come your way.”, the writer considered using _______.

a)

Holonymic agency

b)

Meronymic agency

c)

Metonymic agency

d)

Multiple meanings

30.

When Oedipus learns the incredible truth about his mother and father, he puts out his own eyes and leaves his city and eventually die. This shows _______.

a)

acceptance of wrongdoing and self-punishment

b)

fate’s control over human’s lives

c)

regret and repentance to a wrong decision

d)

physical manifestation of the limitation of man

31.

Which of the following methods of analyzing a literary work would be most appropriate to use with a psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism?

a)

identifying and classifying syntactic patterns employed in the work

b)

interpreting symbolic representations of emotional repression in the work

c)

examining the work for evidence of the author's creative process

d)

comparing the author's treatment of a theme with that of the author's contemporaries

32.

Symbol is a representation of something beyond itself. In Homer’s Odyssey, what is the best symbolism of the ‘wedding bed’?

a)

Love of family

b)

Hope for the return of Odysseus

c)

Constancy of Odysseus and Penelope’s love

d)

Life for Telemachus

33.

The presence of these three divinities: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in Greek myth symbolizes ______.

a)

immortals that play a great part in mortal’s life.

b)

mortals’ fate which depends on the gods.

c)

power of immortals over mortals.

d)

destiny which cannot be controlled by anyone.

34.

The myths of the Greeks reflect _____.

a)

a view of the universe that acknowledges the mystery and beauty of humanity.

b)

that humans are the center of the universe.

c)

that humans and gods live alike.

d)

a less strange and frightening magic than the myths of other ancient civilizations.

35.

Using the feminist perspective in Alice Walker’s Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self, the critic will consider the ________.

a)

who the other dancer is

b)

the author’s perception of ‘beauty’ and the world she lives in

c)

the figure of speech used in the title.

d)

the time when the story was written

36.

A stylistic device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses is known as ___________.

a)

Epiphora

b)

Gradation

c)

Symploce

d)

Polyptoton

37.

Which sentence shows a noun in the genitive case?

a)

The teacher likes grammar.

b)

The teacher teaches grammar.

c)

The teacher teaches us grammar.

d)

The teacher’s grammar is excellent.

38.

Achilles is the opposite of ______.

a)

Arthur

b)

Hector

c)

Odysseus

d)

Menelaus

39.

In his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer used a literary technique which refers to a narrative within a narrative. Which technique is referred to?

a)

Internal Story

b)

Frame Story

c)

Embedded Story

d)

Sequential Story

40.

Sonnet 118 of William Shakespeare starts with “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”. This line shows the use of rhetorical question, and what figure of speech?

a)

Personification

b)

Chiasmus

c)

simile

d)

Metaphor

41.

This novel about slavery prompted nationwide debate and helped triggered the war.

a)

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of the Grass

b)

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

c)

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn

d)

Harriet Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

42.

All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail Macbeth, that shall be King hereafter! (Act 1, Macbeth) is an example of _____.

a)

Analepsis

b)

Prolepsis

c)

Flashback

d)

Repitition

43.

The meanings associated with the word ‘ear’ in the following sentences seem related. I put a cotton wool in my ear. He listened to their difficulties with an impatient ear. The phonetician has a good ear for tone. I tried to get her ear. How are the words with the same spelling and related meanings called?

a)

Oronyms

b)

Capitonyms

c)

Polysemes

d)

Paronyms

44.

Which of the floowing is an example of chiasmus?

a)

To live is to die and to laugh is to cry.

b)

“Bad men live that they may eat and drink whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” (Socrates)

c)

“Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” (John F. Kennedy)

d)

Pedro is to Peter as Maria is to Mary.

45.

What sylistic device is used in the following line from William Shakespeare’s work: All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances

a)

Metaphor

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Simile

d)

Metonymy

46.

The writing style that was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s ideas and the developing field of psychology is____.

a)

Magical Realism

b)

Social Realism

c)

Minimalism

d)

Stream of Consciousness

47.

According to the Greek writer, certain gods were originally great people venerated because of their benefactions to mankind. What philosophy in the study of myths, tells us this?

a)

Euhemerism

b)

Rationalism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Structuralism

48.

This is a victorious ten-year series of battles of the Olympian gods against the Titans in Thessaly.

a)

The War in Italy

b)

Titanomachy

c)

Adventures of Odysseus

d)

Trojan War

49.

War is war is an example of _________.

a)

Paradox

b)

Tautology

c)

Tautophony

d)

Parallelism

50.

This novel solidified Mark Twain as a noteworthy American writer. Some called it the first “Great American Novel”, and became a required reading in many schools throughout the United States.

a)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c)

The American Dream

d)

The Prince and the Pauper