Latest ENGLISH Reviewer 1

1. Which of the following portmanteau word?

A. Black gold

B. E-book

C. FAN-ny

D. Thin and tiny

ANS: C. FAN-ny

-A portmanteau clips two words to third meaning associated with combined words

2. Which criterion in effective diction is met when a writer uses Pantene instead  of shampoo?

A. Denotation

B. Connotation

C. Concreteness

D. Accuracy

ANS: C. Concreteness

-Concrete means specific.

3. What type of diction error is in the next sentence? The dirty, filthy kitchen is the prime suspect for diarrhea among the household members. 

A. Over modification

B. Excessive variation

C. Use of archaic term

D. Use of highfalutin word

ANS: A. Over modification

-Dirty and Filthy are synonymous modifiers therefore redundant

4. What pre-requisite to writing did the writers Herman Melville (Moby Dick) Juan Crisostomo Soto (Lidia) and Dan Brown do (Angels and demons) before writing their stipulated celebrated works?

A. Immersion

B. Research

C. Imagination

D. Journaling

ANS: B. Research

-They researched to substantiate their writing with truth

5. Which character is created to contradict another character and invite audience to re think?

A. Antagonist

B. Protagonist

C. Foil

D. Flat

ANS: C. Foil

- a foil character may not necessarily be an antagonist

6. What type of exposition is used in the excerpt below?

“Dr. Jekyll reiterated to Mr. Utterson that his decision was final regarding the will that nothing could change it. ‘I hope you understand that  I reality have great interest in poor Hyde…….’”

A. Flashback

B. Foreshadowing

C. Epiphany

D. Scene

ANS: D. Scene

-A scene portrays scenario and its unfolding

7. Which words in the following excerpt observe the quality verisimilitude.?

“ He asked his girlfriend why she is unusually quiet. She answered, Nothing’”

A. Asked and answered

B. He and girlfriend

C. Quiet and nothing

D. He and She

ANS: A. Asked and answered

-These two are actins which may actually happen in real life

8. Which is the problem of narration evident in the next excerpt? “Mon desperate for a weapon to defend himself and instantly found the knife resting and tempting.”

A. Needles complication

B. Sudden comfort

C. Sudden omniscience

D. Pogo Stick

ANS: B. Sudden comfort

-These two actions which may actually happen in real life.

9. What type of point of view is used in the next excerpt?

“ Michael is a pitiful specimen. Permanent shaving rash, whiny voice. He looks crumpted and pale as a parched mushroom. I used to have a fantasy about him living his eventless little life in the small cupboard under my stairs.”

A. Detached Autobiography

B. Interior Monologue

C. Dramatic Monologue

D. Unreliable

ANS: D. Unreliable

- The opinions

10. What is the poetic problem in the next expert? “Midhoary trees her shadows could be seen” “

A. Anonymouse Voice

B. Archaic Diction

C. Appealing Abstraction

D. For the sake of rhyme

ANS: B. Archaic Diction

-The underline terms are old.

11. What type of rhyme can be associated with assonance and consonance?

I. End rhyme

II. Internal rhyme

III. Eye rhyme

A. I only

B. II only

C. III only

D. I, II and III

ANS: C. Eye rhyme

- Assonance and consonance are religion of sounds in line.

12. Which type of fiction has distinct themes such as Mark Twains’s “The Adventures of Huckberry film and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer?”

A. Mainstream

B. Category

C. Science fiction

D. Modern fiction

ANS: B. Category

-This type is intended for a certain group with a definite choice of theme.

13. What is the usual type of a main character according to description?

A. Round

B. Flat

C. Protagonist

D. Antagonist

ANS: A. Round

-A round character is a stereotype or usual.

14. What kind of characters is a stepmother such that in Cinderella?

A. Foil

B. Stock

C. Dynamic

D. Static

ANS: B. Stock

- A stock character is well described in all aspects

15. What type of characterization is used in the next excerpt?

Sheryl’s hair was always unkempt. She does not devoted precious  time to comb the tangled strands busying herself with her reading.”

A. Direct

B. Indirect

C. Implied

D. Understood

ANS: B. Indirect

- The character is not directly described as nerdy. Choices C and D are not types

16. What style I in dialogue is evident in the next excerpt?”Italy, ‘ Pablo said while putting together in his head the next consoling words.”

A. Local Color

B. Formality

C. Stating the Obvious

D. Contraction

ANS:  A. Local Color

-The word itay suggest the origin of the place or the locale.

17. What problem in dialogue may be encountered when an author uses detailed eulogy in the wake of an accomplished man?

A. Dialect

B. Long speech

C. Swearing

D. Lack of verisimilitude

ANS: B. Long speech

- Eulogy is a speech about a dead person

18. Which prerequisites to research did Cornelia Funke do by living by living with street thieves to write her book “The Thief Lord”?

A. Documentation

B. Immersion

C. Portfolio

D. Interview

ANS: B. Immersion

- Funke lived with the target characters to make storytelling realistic

19. Which technique does a writer use when she/he describes something while tapping different senses?

A. Figures of Speech

B. Idiomatic Expression

C. Imagery

D. Local color

ANS: C. Imagery

- Imagery means description using all senses for full effect

20. Which technique does a writer use when s/he refers to a sight of an ugly picture as “ a blast from the past”?

A. Pun

B. Litotes

C. Simile

D. Metaphor

ANS: D. Metaphor

-Metaphor is comparison without the use of as or like

To download this reviewer, just click here. Good luck and God bless!