Gen Ed Reviewer: Communication Arts

Communication Arts: English And Filipino Literature



1. Ano ang tinutukoy ng bugtong na ito? “Dalawang bolang sinulid, umaabot hanggang langit.”

a. bisig
b. paa
c. mata
d. pisngi

Ans: c

2. The sum total of traditionally – derived and orally – transmitted literature, material culture and custom within predominantly literate and technologically advanced societies is referred to as:

a. folk literature
b. folk tale
c. folklore
d. folk song

Ans: c

3. The conclusion or final part of non – dramatic literacy work that serves typically to complete the design of the work.

a. prologue
b. epilogue
c. theme
d. finale

Ans: b

4. A distinctive type of literacy composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy and novel.

a. form
b. genre
c. literature
d. prose

Ans: b

5. Ang kauna – unahang nagsalin sa Tagalog ng “Mi Ultimo Adios” ni Jose Rizal.

a. Jose Corazon De Jesus
b. Andres Bonifacio
c. Jose Garcia Villa
d. Apolinarion Mabini

Ans: b

6. It is the longest epic ever written.

a. Mahabharata
b. Lam - Ang
c. Siegfried
d. Lament

Ans: a

7. The Pseudonym of Samuel Clements.

a. The Barrettes
b. Mark Twain
c. Ulysses
d. Abe Lincoln

Ans: b

8. The oldest form of Egyptian writing.

a. alphabet
b. cursive
c. hieroglyphics
d. stone carving

Ans: c

9. Father of the English Essay

a. Alexander Dumas
b. William James
c. Edgar Allan Poe
d. Francis Bacon

Ans: d

10. Greatest American writer of horror and detective stories

a. Albert Camus
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Justin O’Brien
d. James Joyce

Ans: b


11. An allegory:

a. a poem of sadness
b. a verse of 3 stanzas
c. a short story
d. a narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface

Ans: d

12. An elegy:

a. a meditative poem of grief
b. love song
c. a debate
d. a note of love

Ans: a

13. A verse with 14 iambic pentameter lines

a. ballad
b. verse
c. sonnet
d. epic

Ans: c

14. A long poem which depicts the adventure of a great hero who reveals his country’s aspirations.

a. epic
b. legend
c. novel
d. short story

Ans: a

15. A speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts.

a. sonnet
b. metaphor
c. soliloquy
d. simile

Ans: c

16. Figure of speech where two different things are compared thru the user of “as” and “like.”

a. simile
b. allegory
c. facsimile
d. epic

Ans: a

17. Isang tulang pasalaysay tungkol sa pamumuhay at kabayanihan ng isang tauhang may kapanyarihan at kababalaghan.

a. Alamat
b. Epiko
c. Kasaysayan
d. Parabula

Ans: b

18. These stories which reflect the people’s beliefs are handles down from generation to generation by word of mouth.

a. novels
b. folktales
c. prose
d. poetry

Ans: b

19. A type of literature which narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings with local color and which people sing or chant

a. epic
b. poetry
c. verse
d. riddles

Ans: a

20. He wrote the famous letter “To the Women of Malolos.”

a. Gregorio H. del Pilar
b. Andres Bonifacio
c. Jose Rizal
d. Emilio Jacinto

Ans: c

21. A kind of literary piece which moralizes and was written in letter form between two sisters dwelling in the city and the other in the province.

a. Urbana at Felisa by: M. de Castro
b. Pasyon – a religious play
c. Manang Biday
d. Biag ni Lam – ang

Ans: a

22. He is the author of “ The legend of Sleepy Hollow” Which revolves around a headless horseman’s tale.

a. George Orwell
b. Robert Frost
c. Washington Irving
d. Walton Shaw

Ans: c

23. Considered as one of the world’s greatest short stories and it is Edgar Allan Poe’s story of terror about a hypochondriac living in morbid fear.

a. Annabel Lee
b. The fall of the House of Uber
c. Macbeth
d. The Raven

Ans: b

24. He is Edmond Rostand’s famous character who is poet and a soldier noted for his peculiar nose.

a. Roxanne
b. Don Quixote
c. Don Juan
d. Cyrano de Bergerac

Ans: d

25. “If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.” Is taken from the poem?

a. The Bells
b. Sonnets
c. Don Juan
d. Rhodora

Ans: a

26. A great epic poem whose plot centers around anger and wrath of achilles against Agamemnon, a Greek leader.

a. Bernardo Carpio
b. The Illiad of Homer
c. The Odyssey
d. Myth

Ans: b

27. “ I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” is taken from the poem?

a. O Captain, My Captain
b. Invictus
c. The Arrow and the Song
d. The Tragedy of Lords

Ans: b

28. He was the American President who said “Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of a man.”

a. Gerald Ford
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. Harry Truman
d. John F. Kennedy

Ans: d

29. The speech of Abraham Lincoln which ends, thus; “Than the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” is in his famous?

a. Farewell Address at Springfield
b. Address at Gettysburg
c. Inaugural Address
d. Speech before the Union

Ans: c

30. The figure of Speech which uses exaggerated statement for aesthetic reason.

a. alliteration
b. onomatopoeia
c. hyperbole
d. metaphor

Ans: c

31. Isang Kuwentong naglalahad ng isang katotohanan.

a. Parabula
b. Pabula
c. Epiko
d. Alamat

Ans: a

32. Ang lumikha ng awit na “Ang Bayan Ko”

a. Jose Rizal
b. Constancio De Guzman
c. Severino Reyes
d. Manuel Conde

Ans: b

33. Si Pascual Poblete

a. Makata ng Tagalog
b. isang manunulat na pari
c. Ama ng Pahayagang Tagalog
d. maghihimagsik

Ans: c

34. Sagisag na hindi kailanman ginagamit ni Marcelo H. del Pilar sa pagsulat

a. Pupdok
b. Dolores Manapat
c. Piping Dilat
d. Basang Sisiw

Ans: a

35. Unang aklat na nalimbag sa Pilipinas

a. Diaryong Malaya
b. Doctrina Christiana
c. Ang Balita
d. And Diaryo

Ans: b

36. His famous work is Mona Lisa

a. Jose Rizal
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Juan Luna
d. Bartolucci

Ans: b

37. Ama ng Dulaang Tagalog

a. Manuel L. Conde
b. Amando V. Fernandez
c. Severino Reyes
d. Malang

Ans: c

38. Ang Sagisag na panulat ni Andres Bonifacio

a. Anak – bayan
b. Taga – ilog
c. Comedyang Bingi
d. Lolo Tiko

Ans: a

39. The award – winning, world – famous Juan Luna Painting

a. La Spolarium
b. The Women of Paris
c. Riceland
d. My Hometown

Ans: a

40. Known for his excellence of Characterization, Swiftness of narrative and clarity of style.

a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. George Bernard Shaw
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d. Guy De Maupassant

Ans: b

41. A narrative technique in non – dramatic fiction intended to render the flow of visual, auditory, physical and associative impressions of the character in a story.

a. flashback
b. stream – of – consciousness
c. dream sequence
d. narration

Ans: b

42. When the primary aim of a work of literature is to expound some moral, political or other precepts.

a. value – oriented
b. didactic
c. aphoristic
d. argumentative

Ans: a

43. A designation that serves as an index of popular literacy taste and judgement.

a. Golden Glove
b. Pulitzer Prize
c. Best Seller
d. Nobel Prize

Ans: c

44. What is the literary term which means harsh and discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect.

a. Assonance
b. Alliteration
c. Cacophony
d. Trochaic

Ans: c

45. In English verse, a poetic foot having one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.

a. Iambic
b. Dactyllic
c. Anapestic
d. Trochaic

Ans: d