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SIATON SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Mantuyop,Siaton, Negros Oriental

SECOND PERIODICAL EXAMINATION

ENGLISH - 9

Name: Score:
Year and Section: Date:

GENERAL DIRECTION: Read each item carefully and encircle the letter of the correct answer.
I Multiple Choice:
1. These punctuation marks are used to enclose the exact words of the speaker/persona.
a. Ellipsis b. quotation marks c. hyphens d. semi colons
2. These are punctuation marks that are used to show that something has not been
expressed.
a. Colons b. semi colons c. ellipsis d. quotation marks
3. They find hints to the meaning of a word in the words or sentences that surround it.
a. Context clues b. punctuation marks c. contractionsd. ellipsis
4. It describes a verb, an adjective and another adverb.
a. Noun b. pronoun c. verb d. adverb
5. These are the people or animals in the story.
a. Point of view b. characters c. plot d. theme
6. It is when and where the story takes place.
a. Plot b. mood c. setting d. conflict
7. It is what happens in the story, or the sequences of events.
a. Plot b. point of view c. theme d. mood
8. It relates to the person telling the story.
a. Third-person point of view
b. First-person point of view
c. Point of view
d. Plot
9. The narrator is a character in the story and tells the story.
a. Third-person point of view
b. Third person point of view
c. Point of view
d. Plot
10. The narrator is not a character in the story and refers to the characters by name or as he
or she
a. Mood b. point of view c. third-person point of view d. first-person
point of view
11. It is the lesson or message of a story
a. Theme b. mood c. conflict d. plot
12. It is the feeling the author creates using story details, the setting, and images.
a. Theme b. mood c. conflict d. plot
13. These are publications which are issued at regular intervals, such as journals, magazines,
and newspapers.
a. Narrative b. periodicals c. books d. general references
14. It is a type of periodicals that reports original research or experimentation, often in
specific academic discipline.
a. Scholarly journals b. popular magazines c. trade journals d. all of the above
15. It covers news, current events, hobbies, or special interests.
a. Scholarly journals b. popular magazines c. trade journals d. none of the above
16. It discusses practical information and concerns in a particular industry.
a. Periodicals b. scholarly journals c. popular magazines d. trade journals
17. It is a word that people talked about the way poems ‘’talk’’ to the reader
a. Voice b. lyric c. stanza d. sound
18. A poem expresses the feelings of the writer.
a. Lyric poem b. narrative poem c. stanza d. form
 19. A lyric poem that tells a story.
a. Narrative poem b. lyric poem c. ballad d. sonnet
20. It is group within a poem which may have two or more lines. They are like paragraphs.
a. Lyric b. narrative c. stanza d. form
21. These are also called figurative language. They are used to help with the tasked of
‘’telling, not showing.’’
a. Poem b. short story c. figures of speech d. idiomatic
expressions
22. A comparison of one thing to another, using the words ‘’like’’, ‘’as’’, or ‘’as though.’’
a. Metaphor b. personification c. simile d. repetition
23. Comparing one thing to another by saying that one thing is another thing.
a. Repetition b. simile c. metaphor d. personification
24. Speaking as if something were human when it’s not.
a. Repetition b. simile c. metaphor d. personification
25. Lines repeated in the same way, that repeat regularly in the poem
a. Rhythm b. repetition c. refrain d. sound

II. Matching Type: Match column A with Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer.
A B
26. a story told in verse a. sonnet
27. a short poem with 17 syllables b. limerick
Written in 3 lines (5-7-5) c. villanelle
28. a five-line poem (2-4-6-8-2) d. ballad
29. a 19-line poem with five tersest and e. cinquain
one quatrain at the end f. concrete
30. a five-line poem, usually meant to be g. free verse
funny h. dimeter
31. made of 3 quatrains and ends with a i. hexameter
couplet, tend to be complicated and elegant j.pentameter
32. written in short lines and called open form k. trimeter
33. a picture poem or shape poetry l. tetrameter
34. these are gliding sounds m. rhyme
35. 3 beats n. diphthongs
36. 4 beats o. haiku
37. 5 beats p. refrain
38. It means sounds that agree
39. 2 beats
40. 6 beats
III. Sentence completion: complete the sentences with the best adverb. Use the adverbs inside
the box. (41-49)

usually unequally often overly

closely equally interchangeably
more than two thousand year ago widely

Justice and fairness are (41) related terms that are (42) use today (43)
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While justice (44) has been used with reference to a standard of rightness, fairness
often has been used with regard to an ability to judge without reference to one’s feelings or
interests; fairness has also been used to refer to the ability to make judgments that are not (45)
general but that are concrete and specific to a particular case.

The most fundamental principle of justice-one that has been (46) accepted
since it was first defined by Aristotle (47) –is the principle that ‘’equals should be
treated (48) and unequal’s (49) .