ENGLISH SPECIALIZATION EXAM

1. What is the meaning of the underline phrase in the excerpt?” As of press time, the senator is
abroad and has not issued a statement.”

A. As of yesterday

B. As of now

C. After the writing of the article

D. Before the publication

2. Why does the word “take” when pronounced is different from the words “fake”, “vase” and
“thank”?

A. All the three expressions have final voiceless stops

B. All the three expressions have initial fricative segment

C. All the three expressions have final voiced consonant

D. All the three expressions have final voiced consonant

3. The play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles starts with a crisis: The bans are suffering from a plague
caused by the murder of the former king. Oedipus, the present and trusted leader, his search for truth
finally found out that he himself was the killer he is looking for. What approach to staring a drama is
illustrated here?

A. Enmedias res

B. Accretive plot

C. Unfolding plot

D. Linear plots

4. Which of the following is CORRECT?

A. A noun in the phrase may have an adjective before it, or a determiner, or may be followed by a
prepositional phrase.

B. A noun phrase must constitute a determiner, a qualifier or a verb phrase before a head noun

C. A noun phrase always have an adjective and a prepositional phrase

D. A determiner and a noun are obligatory components of a noun phrase

5. Which is a CORRECT photo overrun in journalism?

A. Barrack Obama in black

B. Barrack Obama delivers his opening remarks last Sunday

C. Obama opens APEC in Malaysia Sunday

D. Obama shakes hands with APEC attendees.

6. Which of the following is an example of metatext?

A. The translation of “Les Miserables”

B. The analysis of stock figures and archeotypes in “Anna Karenina”

C. The literary allusion in “Anna in the Tropics”

D. The reviews on “Anna in the Tropics” published online

7. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife.”

A. Mansfield Park

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Sense and Sensibility

D. Northanger Abbey

8. Which is NOT an example of “exigence” of literary piece to be staged?

A. Crush

B. Child Labor

C. Autism

D. Morning Sun

9. Which is the study of literature through the oral performance of a speaker creates and recreates
the meaning and mood of the selection?

A. Oral Interpretation

B. Declamation

C. Poetry Interpretation

D. Public Speaking

10. Literature is language in use; as such language becomes the medium or the tool of literature.
Therefore, language is _________________.

A. separable form literature

B. beyond literature

C. the development of more than linguistic ability

D. inseparable from literature

11. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is
on his way to Canada?

A. Under the Greenwood Tree

B. The Mayor of Casterbridge

C. Tess of d’Urberville

D. Return to the Native

12. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

A. Hinduism

B. Taoism

C. Confucianism

D. Buddhism

13. "Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree " is the opening to ________.

A. The Vision of Delight by Ben Jonson

B. Paradise Lost by John Milton

C. The Fairie Quenne by Edmund Spenser

D. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

14. The parent remarked, “__________ I come late, just lock the door.”

A. In the absence

B. In the process

C. In the event

D. In the case

15. Which type of error is evident in the sentence “I came, I saw, I conqueres”?

A. Spelling

B. Parallelism

C. Punctuation

D. Capitalization

16. Which among the following is the least important to mention in a summary lead for sports?

A. Winner
B. Score

C. Audience

D. Venue

17. “He” in these lines of poetry refers to

He saw the terror and violence, and he

Depicted sorrow, too, and infamy.

Corpses are dragged across a blood-soaked floor

What gods the victims did implore?

A. Juan Luna

B. Jose Rizal

C. Resurrection Hidalgo

D. Emilio Aguinaldo

18. The instinct of a reporter to identify or sort out news form an array of facts is a skill that is called
the newsman’s sixth sense and referred to as _____________.

A. expertise

B. objective journalism

C. watchdog function

D. nose for news

19. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how
express and admirable!

A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Romeo and Juliet

D. King Henry IV

20. When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first time I _____ her since Christmas.

A. saw

B. had seen

C. have been seen

D. have seen

21. What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS in this sentence?

We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything, is still at sixes and sevens.

A. The things have not been shipped.

B. The boxes are still intact

C. In a state of confusion

D. In an orderly manner

22. I suggest that he _____ in the room for one week.

A. Stayed

B. Staying

C. Stays

D. Stay

23. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result,
the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over
the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?

A. The Greeks value heroism

B. The Greeks value respect.

C. The Greeks value honor.

D. All of the above.

24. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment but also ______________.

A. information

B. knowledge

C. understanding

D. pleasure

25. Which is TRUE about editorial cartoons?

A. They must not contain words

B. They must contain familiar symbolism

C. They must be related to the editorial

D. They must not contain words

26. After supper, the wife asked the husband, “Should I get you some ice cream?”. The husband
responded, “Am I diabetic?” What conventional maximum is violated?

A. Manner

B. Relation

C. Quantity

D. Quality

27. Which of the following components are required by most translation perspectives?

A. Faithfulness to content and avoidance of domestication

B. Sensitivity to style and faithfulness to content

C. Sensitivity to style and faithfulness to register

D. Faithfulness to register and avoidance of utopia

28. Which is the correct news headline among the following?

A. "I was there", 'said Santiago'

B. I was there said Santiago.

C. Santiago: "I was there"

D. Santiago: 'I was there'

29. He is known as the Ruler of the Olympians and is respected as the protector of the Greeks.

A. Zeus

B. Poseidon

C. Hades

D. Hephaestus

30. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrases consist of a preposition followed by a _______.

A. clause

B. noun

C. noun phrase

D. objective

31. When translating Derrida’s work writers need to observe abusive fidelity. Which of the following
may be added while maintaining Derrda’s syntax, lexicon and pun?

A. Adverbs
B. Adjectives

C. Coordinating Conjunctions

D. Prepositions

32. Which is an early 20th century movement in literature and the arts that broke with traditional
forms, conversion and expectations, challenging accepted notions of the relationship between art and
everybody life, and experimenting with new techniques and new modes of representing reality?

A. Realism

B. Scientific realism

C. Modernism

D. Postmodernism

33. In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is affirmed by Mario’s statement?

Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost a job you needed so much Mario: I wouldn't mind losing a
thousand jobs for an apple for my daughter!

A. child's care above morality

B. Parental sacrifice for children

C. Material comfort for the family

D. Family happiness over job security

34. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is
______.

A. Anapaestic

B. Dactylic

C. Iambic

D. Trochaic

35. Which kind of journal did John Steinbeck jeep before publishing Grapes of Wrath?

A. All aspect

B. Working

C. Idea

D. Common Place

36. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation,
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A. Bessie Head

B. Barbara Kimenye

C. Ousmane Sembene

D. Nadine Gordimer

37. Which among the sounds below is voiceless?

A. /b/

B. /z/

C. /p/

D. /g/

38. The pre-war writer of local color who excelled in presenting the simple life of the Ilocano peasants
is?

A. Amador Daguio

B. Manuel Arguilla

C. Francisco Icasiano

D. Arturo Rotor

39. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred
texts.

A. The Tale of Genji

B. Dream of the red Chamber

C. On Learning to be an Indian

D. Record of a Journey to the West

40. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.

A. Leopold Senghor

B. Dennis Brutus

C. Wole Soyinka

D. David Diop

41. What is the mood of these lines?

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise

I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in.
When the dawn comes
tonight will be a memory, too
And a new day will begin.
A. Sarcastic

B. Afraid

C. Hopeful

D. Depressed

42. What truth relation is exemplified in this pair if sentence?

Sentence A: The fisherman caught a fish,”

Sentence B: The fisherman caught a milkfish.”

A. Sentence A Entails Sentence B.

B. Sentence A presupposes B.

C. Sentence B entails Sentence A

D. Sentence B presupposes Sentence A

43. Which is an engaging task of recording experience ideas, insights or reflection on a regular basis
that basis that encourage students to articulate their minds than merely restating information about a
text?

A. Pantomime

B. Role play

C. Brainstorming

D. Journal Writing

44. It is a collection of religious poetry written by Rabindranath Tagore.

A. Bhagavad Gita

B. The Ramayana

C. Gitanjali

D. Mahabharata

45. In second language acquisition, what is the route to pidginization and fossilization of errors?

A. Nativization and accommodation

B. Denativization and assimilation

C. Nativization and assimilation

D. Denativization and accommodation

46. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A. Rabindranath Tagore

B. Po Chu-I

C. Wole Soyinka

D. Yasunari Kawabata

47. What is suggested in the opening line? June 13, 1986 - they came from all over America - 200,000
heroes strong, with their families.

A. The writer is a flag-waving patriot

B. The writer was a veteran of the war

C. The writer holds great admiration for the veterans

D. The writer is opposed to the Vietnam War

48. Which is beat among the following?

A. Subhead

B. Space economy

C. Police Station

D. 30-word introduction

49. What correction should be made to this sentence? One of the theories is that the first child
receives more of the parents' attention than other children so first-borns tend to be more intellectual.

A. Change is to are

B. Change theories to theory's

C. Insert a comma after children

D. Change parents' to parent's

50. The plot development of the Ramayana.

A. Pyramid

B. En medias res

C. Circular

D. Linear

51. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional materials to the rest of the
curriculum is to keep a list of_________.
A. goals and objectives of the curriculum

B. policies issued by Deped

C. vision and mission of the school

D. provision in the constitution of the PTA

52. Which is a sense property in which two words have the same sense, or same values for all of their
semantic features? Example “teacher” and “instruction”

A. Anaphora

B. Deixis

C. Hyponymy

D. Synonymy

53. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.

A. kama

B. artha

C. maya

D. dharma

54. Which of the following can a translator add to translation to clarify through definition and
citations?

A. Interpretation

B. Annotation

C. Version

D. Comments

55. The vowels in the words ”pet”, “but”, “say” and “sew” are ___________.

A. [+low]

B. [+high]

C. [-high] and [-low]

D. [+tense]

56. The process of language learning characterized by repeated practice of sentence patterns until
they become habitual and automatic is __________.

A. overgeneralization

B. hypothesis testing
C. habit-formation

D. simplification

57. A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed pleasure in these remarks

A. Guests came in and out of the ceremonies

B. The ceremonies were very impressive

C. The couple felt uneasy with the priest

D. All guests congratulated the organizers and the coup

58. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of
Chinese civilization.

A. Ch’in

B. T’ang

C. Shang

D. Han

59. The statement “Once upon a time in a distant land” exemplifies the _____________.

A. beginning of the story

B. time of the setting

C. setting of the story

D. place of the setting

60. Which is NOT and example of cultural story?

A. The Good Earth ( P. S. Buck)

B. . The Parable of talents

C. Little Red Riding Hood

D. Aesop’s fables

61. Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding Filipino films. This was a project initiated by

A. German Moreno

B. Antonio Villegas

C. Arsenio Lacson

D. Ramon Bagatsing

62. Let’s surveil the place. The morpheme surveil is a example of ___________.
A. back formation

B. clipping

C. derivation

D. root creation

63. This excerpt from Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation indicates the universal issue of _________.

“ARE YOU DARK?OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.

“You mean- like plain or milk chocolate?” Her assent was clinical, crushing its light Impersonality.
Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, “West African sepia.” – and as an afterthought, “Down in my
passport.

A. colonial mentality

B. human rights violation

C. racial discrimination

D. gender discrimination

64. Which of the following qualifies as an authentic material?

A. A series of vocabulary words

B. A list of isolated sentences

C. A label of a can good

D. A paragraph from the book

65. Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which has for its first stanza: Drum on your drums, batter on
your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Which words illustrate alliteration?

A. To and it

B. Long and cool

C. Batter and banjos

D. Sob and winding

66. The theory of language learning that emphasizes the child’s creativity in constructing his/her
knowledge of the language.

A. Cognitivist

B. functionalist

C. behaviorist
D. Interactionist

67. The literary awards started in 1950.

A. Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards

B. Stonehill Awards

C. Commonwealth Literary Awards

D. Republic Cultural Heritage Awards

68. Which famous painting is described in the poem?

He saw the terror and violence, and he

Depicted sorrow, too, and infamy.

Corpses are dragged across a blood-soaked floor.

What gods the victims di implore?

A. The Spolarium

B. The Execution

C. Death in Rome

D. The Gladiator

69. The Nibelungenlied is a ________.

A. Russian folk song

B. Medieval German epic

C. Chinese legend

D. Latin Myth

70. Which benefit of writing do bylines provide?

A. Royalty

B. Readership

C. Self-Expression

D. Popularity

71. The foremost Filipino sonneteer

A. Nina Estrada Puyat

B. Rita Gaddi Baltazar

C. Trinidad Tarrosa Subido

D. Angela Manalang Gloria

72. The writer acknowledged to have introduced modernism in Philippine poetry in English is
____________.

A. Jose Garcia Villa

B. Angela Manalang Gloria

C. Hilario Francia Jr.

D. Cirilo Bautista

73. The goals of this language teaching approach are learn grammar, vocabulary and culture. Teacher
is the authority. He/She makes use of translation, deductive study of grammar, memorization of
vocabulary. Which approach of language teaching described?

A. Community language learning approach

B. Grammar-translation approach

C. Natural approach

D. Direct approach

74. The author of the novel Picture of Dorain Gray.

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. John Steinbeck

C. Oscar Wilde

D. Rudyard Kipling

75. Which statement is clear distinction between news features?

A. Lengths

B. Treatments

C. Events

D. Topic