LONG TEST IN ENGLISH – 10

I) INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. This one way of coherent writing keeps the readers on track.
a. Synonyms c. Transitional Device
b. Pronouns d. Repetition of key term or phrase
2. It is the use of conjunction (subordinating and coordinating) in the paragraphs.
a. Synonyms c. Transitional Device
b. Pronouns d. Repetition of key term or phrase
3. This is used to replace for a name that is previously mentioned. It replaces a noun.
a. Synonym c. Transitional Device
b. Pronouns d. Repetition of key term or phrase
4. These are the words that have the same meaning. It helps the writer to choose the words depending upon the
target readers.
a. Synonyms c. Transitional Device
b. Pronouns d. Repetition of key term or phrase
5. What is the meaning of coherent on coherent writing?
a. Well organized c. Troubling
b. Confusing d. Unpleasant

II) INSTRUCTIONS: Identify what rhetorical device is used in each sentence. (Alliteration, Assonance,
Consonance, Pun, Oxymoron) You may have multiple answers, if necessary.
6. Please put your pen away and play the piano.
7. What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator!
8. Mike likes his new bike.
9. Can I have the original copy of your report?
10. There is no right time to imitate the teacher.
11. If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced.
12. Why did the spider go to the computer? To check his web site.
13. Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards.
14. And with all that I fell once again.
15. Norm, the worm, took the garden by a storm this morn.

III) INSTRUCTIONS: Identify what is being describe in each number then look for the answer in the choices
given. (Letters only)

A. Sahara D. The Aviator F. Craig Raine

B. Amazon E. Antoine de Saint- G. A glass jar
C. The Rose Exupéry H. A necklace

16. Where does the aviator’s plane crash in “The Little Prince”?
17. Whom does the little prince love?
18. Who is the author of “The Little Prince”?
19. On his planet, what does the little prince place over the rose at night?
20. Who is the author of “A martian Sends a Postcard Home”?
IV) INSTRUCTIONS: Write PS if it is an example of Primary Source and SS if it is a Secondary Source.
21. Footage 25. Atlas 29. Dictionary
22. Artefacts 26. Researches 30. Encyclopaedia
23. Novel 27. Newspaper
24. Diary 28. Journal
V) INSTRUCTIONS: Identify what type of figure of speech is used in the following sentences. (Personification,
Onomatopoeia, Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor)
31. You were as brave as a lion.
32. Lightning danced across the sky.
33. The bear started growling at us.
34. She is a pig when it comes on eating.
35. Watching the show was like watching grass grow.
36. Rita heard the last piece of pizza calling her name.
37. This car goes faster than the speed of light.
38. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
39. Boom! The loud noise filled the room.
40. My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

VI) INSTRUCTIONS: Identify what is being describe from the poem “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”.
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many
wings
and some are treasured for their markings –
they cause the eyes to melt
or the body to shriek without pain.
I have never seen one fly, but
sometimes they perch on the hand.
Answer:_________________
Mist is when the sky is tired of flight
and rests its soft machine on ground:
then the world is dim and bookish
like engravings under tissue paper.
Answer:_________________
Rain is when the earth is television.
It has the property of making colours
darker.
Answer:__________________
Model T is a room with the lock inside –
a key is turned to free the world
Answer:_________________
for movement, so quick there is a film
to watch for anything missed.
Answer:_________________
But time is tied to the wrist
or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.
Answer:__________________
In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,
that snores when you pick it up.
If the ghost cries, they carry it
to their lips and soothe it to sleep
with sounds. And yet, they wake it up
deliberately, by tickling with a finger.
Answer:__________________
Only the young are allowed to suffer
openly. Adults go to a punishment room
with water but nothing to eat.
They lock the door and suffer the noises
alone. No one is exempt
and everyone’s pain has a different smell.
Answer:___________________
At night, when all the colours die,
they hide in pairs
and read about themselves –
in colour, with their eyelids shut.
Answer:___________________

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Prepared by: Lorvenjay A. Aldefolla