JOSEFINA H.

CERILLES STATE COLLEGE

PITOGO CAMPUS
Pitogo, Zamboanga del Sur
Living in the IT Era

Name: _____________________________________ Score: ___________

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date:____________

1-Multiple Choice: Encircle the correct letter of the answer.

1. A systematic approach to problem solving that is often used to find and correct issues that
complex machines.
a. Reboot
b. Reinstall
c. Replug
d. Trouble Shooting
2. Software or a device that allows users to create, edit, and print document.
a. windows
b. Word Processing Software
c. World Wide Web
3. The study of a non-classical model of computation.
a. World Wide Web
b. Quantum Computing
c. Bionformatics
4. Group of two or more devices that connected one to another.
a. Cable media
b. Network topology
c. Network
d. Star Topology
5. Why are servers always on?
a. Because they are commonly used to deliver services that are constantly required.
b. Because servers are used to manage network resources
c. Because they commonly set up to be fault tolerant.
6. The process of designing and building an executable computer program for accomplishing a
specific computing task.
a. Debugging
b. Software engineering
c. Reverse Engineering
d. Computer programming
7. A proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python Application programing
interface.
a. Sublime Text
b. File switching
c. Go to symbols
d. Multi-edit

8.
a. Personification
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Onomatopoeia

9. Her feet are as cold as ice! This is an example of which type of figurative language?
 a. Alliteration
b. Simile
c. Metaphor
d. Personification
10. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by stating that one is the other is called”
a. Simile
b. Personification
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Idiom
11. Animals talking in a childhood story is an example of..
a. Hyperbole
b. Cliché
c. Metaphor
d. Personification
12. Imagery is..
a. When an author compares two things
b. When an author set mental pictures or images in the readers head using words.
c. Pictures hanging on the wall
d. A cartoon show
13. The plates danced on the shelves during the earthquake. This is an example of what type of
figurative language?
a. Personification
b. Simile
c. Metaphor
d. Alliteration
14. This type of figurative language is used when words imitate the actual sounds made by the
action or event.
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
d. Metaphor
15. The following statement is an example of which figurative language? “I have told you a million
times to come home at 9:00 pm”.
a. Tone
b. Symbolism
c. Hyperbole
d. Mood
16. A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known
historical or literary event, person, or work.
a. simile
b. allusion
c. personification
d. round
17. A Statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements, but on
closer inspection may be true.
a. Allusion
b. Paradox
c. Personification
d. Dynamic

18. An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.

 a. Personification
b. Paradox
c. Hyperbole
d. Analogy
19. “Jumbo Shrimp” and “Pretty Ugly” are both examples of:
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Hyperbole
c. Oxymoron
d. Imagery
20. “Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone”- Taylor Swift Love Story
a. Allusion
b. Alliteration
c. Connotation
d. Denotation
21. Means "advance guard" or "vanguard" and is used to refer to people or works that are
experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
a. Anachronism
b. Catharsis
c. Avant-garde
d. Vernacular

22. A repetition of sentences using the same structure.

a. Adage
b. Parallel Structure
c. Aphorism
d. Pastoral

23. The structure of a story; the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story; the
structure of a five-act play often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and
the resolution.
a. Pathetic Fallacy
b. Verisimilitude
c. Allusion
d. Plot

24. A statement which can contain two or more meanings.

a. Ambiguity
b. Anecdote
c. Epigraph
d. Foil

25. The emotional content of a word.

a. Connotation
b. Figurative Language
c. Denotation
d. Epic

26. The dictionary definition of a word.

a. Conotation
b. Figure of Speech
c. Denotation
d. Epithet

27. A mild word or phrase which substitues for another which would be undesirable because it is
too direct, unpleasant, or offensive.
 a. Euphemism
b. Genre
c. Point of View
d. Picaresque Novel

28. The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.
a. Understatement
b. Situational Irony
c. Postmodernism
d. Oxymoron

29. The audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.
a. Adage
b. Bildungsroman
c. Apostrophe
d. Dramatic Irony

30. The contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant.
a. Verbal Irony
b. Analogy
c. Paradox
d. Juxtaposition

31. The use of angry and insulting language.

a. Jargon
b. Invective
c. Malapropism
d. Mood

32. Pervasive irony created by a structural feature such as a naive protagonist whose viewpoint is
consistently wrong, shared by neither author nor reader is known as this.
a. A. Metonymy
b. Myth
c. Structural Irony
d. Satire

33. A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use
of the words "like" or "as."
a. Metaphor
b. Soliloquy
c. Simile
d. Analogy
34. The hero or central character of a literary work.
a. Genre
b. Literary Theory
c. Motif
d. Protagonist

35. A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

a. Narrator
b. Parody
c. Symbolism
d. Theme

36. It is the artistic way of creating poems, an art which aims to study a piece and focuses on the
problem of expressing the ideas before the actual utterance.
a. Dialectics
 b. Poetics
c. Rhetoric
d. Pragmatics
37. It examines oral and written texts in order to determine crucial characteristic linguistic
properties, structure, and patterns influencing perception of the text.
a. Linguistics
b. Stylistics
c. Semantics
d. Literary criticism
38. It is a style in spoken English which requires private vocabulary and emphasis on intonation
more than wording or grammar.
a. Intimate
b. Formal
c. Casual
d. Informal
39. As an art of creating dialogues, it further deals with the study of the methods of persuasion.
a. Rhetoric
b. Dialects
c. Poetics
d. Semantics
40. In essay writing, this paragraph accomplishes three purpose; it captures the reader’s interest, it
suggests the importance of the topic and ends with a thesis sentence.
a. Introduction
b. Argument
c. Body
d. Conclusion
41. It is very subjective and the most colloquial of all the sub-styles; it makes use of expressive
means.
a. Oratorical piece
b. Essay
c. Emotive prose
d. Drama
42. What French classical theory of language style posses a high aesthetic characteristics and is
used by poets and other literary artist?
a. Stylus altus
b. Stylus humilis
c. Stylus mediocris
d. Explication de Texte
43. It is a modern verse without any formal structure; without systematic regularity in rhythm and
in rhyme.
a. Free verse
b. Blank verse
c. Diamond verse
d. Nursery rhyme
44. It usually restates the thesis and leaves the reader something about the topic to think about.
a. Conclusion
b. Thesis statement
c. Body
d. Introduction
45. It is the systematic study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and its
modification
a. Linguistics
b. Stylistics
c. Phonetics
d. Morphology

46. It refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry which forms one particular faction in
poetry.
a. Stanza
 b. Rhythm and rhyme
c. Setting
d. Poetic foot
47. The sky is a rainbow of colors.
a. Personification
b. Simile
c. Metaphor
d. Alliteration
48. The teacher is like an angry lion when she is mad.
a. Oxymoron
b. Personification
c. Simile
d. Metaphor
49. The “flowers danced in the breeze “is an example of which stylistic device?
a. Metaphor
b. Personification
c. Hyperbole
d. Allusion
50. It is a traditional line of metered poetry; it is the rhythmical unit bearing the strong and weak
syllables.
a. Poetic line
b. Poetic foot
c. Meter
d. Rhyme scheme

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II-Essay: Explain precisely.

1. In what way does stylistics provides a common ground for a literary reader and a
linguistic observer?
2. Does stylistics enrich our ways of thinking about language?
3. Do you agree that there is a link between stylistic expression and particular cultural
views or thoughts?
4. For a course in stylistics, what are the important topics to be given in that course?
5. How can we define the term in stylistic influence in architecture?