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The old people had ordered that the dancing should stop at ten o’clock but it was almost
midnight before
the carriages came lining up to the front door, the servants running to and fro with torches to light
departing guests, while the girls who were staying were promptly herded upstairs in bedroom. . .
‘’May Day Eve’’-Nick Juaquin
1. What Philippine literary period is used in context of the story?
A. American Period C. Spanish Period
B. Japanese Period D. Martial Law
To say ‘’Look what life has done’’ is wrong,
People and things are seldom
Done to, They mostly do.
‘’Inside Job’’ – Edith Tiempo
2. Which sentence best expresses the idea of the lines above?
A. Life is what we make it. C. People must be responsible for others.
B. Life is too short to be wasted. D. People seldom do things right.
3. The idea expressed in the box below belongs to what school of thought?
A poem is not a thought but a grace.
A poem has no meaning but loveliness.
‘’Proem ‘’ – Jose Garcia Villa
A. escapist art C. art with social consciousness
B. modern art D. art for art’s sake
4. Which sound device is not used in the last stanza of Carlos Angeles’ poem ‘’Dusk’’?
Far from the precinct of some fatuous fire
Streaking across the avenues like faith
Which reaffirms man’s genius or desire –
And calmly smiles, and moves. The hour is late.
A. alliteration B. assonance C. anaphora D.rhyme
5. What literary device is used in the closing paragraph of ‘’Harvest,’’ a short story written by
Loreto Paras Sulit?
He was speaking to Tinay jokingly ‘’soon all your sampaguitas and camias will be gone my dear aunt
because I shall be seeing Milia every night. . . and her father.’’ He watched Fabian cleansing his face and
arms and later wondered why it took his brother that long to was his arms why he was rubbing them so
hard as that. . .
A. allusion B. foreshadowing C. irony D. sarcasm
6. Which figure of speech is shown in the line below taken from Irwin Castillo’s ‘’Tomorrow is a
Downhill Place’’?
The trees along the way were ruffling their wet feathers tensing their green wings in anticipation of the
coming flight.
A. personification B. hyperbole C. simile D. metaphor
7. The narrative below is set during the
A trioof planes roared dangerously low. Shakily Lina and I dived into a shelter where a Chinese consul
and his family crouched and bitterly they reproached us for crowding them in the already cramped
space. Mother had run into another hole and ran out screaming for there was in it a man with half his
face shot off. Outside the shelter we could hear Boni begging Please don’t leave me . . . We were
scattered in all directions.
‘’People in the War’’- Gilda Cordero Fernando
A. EDSA uprising C. Japanese Occupation
B. Vietnam War D. Philippine Revolution of 1896
8. What is being developed in the excerpt taken from ‘’Morning in Nagrebcan’’ by Manuel Arguilla?
Ambo was almost as tall as his older brother and he had a stout, husky legs. He ate the banana without
peeling it.
‘’You foolish boy, remove the skin, ‘’Baldo said.
‘’I will not, ‘’Ambo said. ‘’It’s not your banana. ‘’ He took a big bite and swallowed it with exaggerated
relish.
‘’But the skin is tart. It tastes bad.’’
‘’You are not eating it, ‘’ Ambo said. The rest of the banana vanished into his mouth.
A. setting B. characterization C. conflict D. dialogue
9. In what part of the pyramid plot structure should the excerpt above belong?
A. exposition B. complication C. crisis D. denouement
10. What point-of-view is employed in the narrative excerpt below?
Miss Mijares was quite sure she had boarded the right jeepney but the driver, hoping to beat the traffic,
had detoured down a side alley, and then seeing he was low in gas, he took still another shortcut to a
filling station. After that, he rode through alien country.
‘’The Virgin’’ – Kerima Polotan Tuvera
A. First person C. Third person omniscient
B. Third person limited D. Second person
11. The narrative below belongs to what genre?
Juan dropped the axe and the robbers fled leaving their loot and their food. Then Juan and Pedro climbed
down the tree ate the food and went home with the snacks of goods that the robbers left.
‘’Juan Osong’’ – Bicol Literature
A. fantastic story B. folktale C. tall tale D. fable
12. Which plot element is covered in the excerpt?
A. Initial incident B. rising action C. climax D. falling action
13. What two poetic devices are used in this stanza?
Today she mourns in captivity,
Today she ails with tears falling;
Today her hands are in chains,
And all her children are enslaved.
‘’Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’’-

Aurelio Tolentino (Lourdes Vidal, trans)
A. metonymy and apostrophe C. anaphora and synecdoche
B. allusion and assonance D. hyperbole and metonymy
Read the passage below to answer items 14 and 15.
But in itself the laughter is a good thing. In the past it was perhaps the only way our people could get
back at the foreign ruler. For in the future it should insure us against submission to a messianic despot.
‘’What are Filipinos Like’’ – Leon Ma.Guerrero
14. The excerpt belongs to what genre?
A. essay B. fiction C. memoir D. sermon
15. What Filipino value is referred to in the passage?
A. comic flair C. sobriety
B. light-heartedness D. sense of humor
16. What is presented in the passage below?
With confident imagination he sees a vision of Earth whole and entire the globe revolving on its axis
journeying around the sun through October and December and the months of the summertime. Earth:
he pronounces the word to himself as if to savor its taste upon his tongue. Third planet from the sun. .
.America Asia and Europe westward. . . the cities and the towns and the villages and all the people
millions of them living now on earth. . . And all the stars in the sky.
‘’The Distance to Andromeda’’ – Gregorio Brilliantes
A. scientific observation C. metaphysical theme
B. personal experience D. heavenly vision
17. What tone is established in this story excerpt below?
The letter announcing the visitation (a yearly descent upon the school by the superintendent the district
supervisors and the division supervisors for ‘’Purposes of inspection and evaluation’’) had been delivered
in the morning by a sleepy janitor to the principal. The party was the attached circular revealed at a
hurried glance now at Pagkabuhay would be in Mapili by lunchtime and barring typhoons floods volcanic
eruptions and other acts of God would be upon Pugad Lawin by afternoon.
‘’The Visitation of the Gods’’ – Gilda Cordero Fernando
A. ironic B. humorous C. gloomy D. sarcastic
FLOR: Please ask her to come and I’ll buy all the tickets she wants. I have an official photographer and he
could take my picture with the First Lady. She is such a sweet lady. Tell her I’ll buy ten tickets and
sell twenty to my friends if only she’d attend.
MATIL: I am sure she’ll be pleased.
FLOR: but only on that condition. I’ll buy as many tickets as she wants if she comes to my house. After all,
my heart bleeds for those displaced people in Sapang Palay. I shall go there and visit them. I shall bring
my photographer so I can send the picture to the papers. But I will not reveal my name, I shall wear a
black veil covering my face and bring them tuyo and tapa and dilis. I could buy some stale bread from
the bakeries and bring them too.
‘’Call Me Flory’’ – Wilfredo Ma.Guerrero
18. This play exemplifies the characteristics of a
A. romance B. satire C. tragedy D. farce
19. Who is the persona in the poem below?
Orphaned by distances but filial to a photograph postmarked, overseas, thus did I began My wellkept
boyhood in a tidy house a cozy house
‘’Poems for My Father’’ – Federico Licsi Espino
A. an OFW’s son C. a photographer’s daughter
B. an orphaned child D. a young housekeeper
20. What sound device is employed in the excerpt below?
So a ding-dong sell And a ding-dong buy Imported cars and buses
To transport the younger populace to point of demonstration
‘’Riot Song’’ – Tita Lacambra Ayala
A. anaphora C. consonance
B. assonance D. onomatopoeia
21. What rhythmical device is used in this line from The Small Key? ‘’. . . even the low square nipa
house that stood in unashamed relief against the gray green haze of grass and leaves.’’
A. alliteration C. consonance
B. assonance D. anaphora
22. ‘’ A bamboo flute is heard from away. Once more we hear the turtle crying. ‘’ What sense
imagery is used in this description of the scene?
A. visual B. auditory C. tactile D. olfactory
23. ‘’SABINA (in monotone): Outside love, nothing lives! . . . ‘’ What does Sabina mean by this line?
A. Her love for Mr. Goerge is forever.
B. Her relationship with a married man causes her humiliation and embarrassment.
C. It is better for her to die than to lose Mr. George
D. She hates Mr. George for lying to her.
24. Which comic technique is used in Agana’s NewYorker in Tondo?
A. mistaken identity C. reversal of fortune
B. physical Blunder D. ridiculous situation
25. What does Gonzalo mean by ‘’ a little longer’’ in this excerpt from Guerrero’s Three Rats?
Adrian: (Laughing): I expect to live a little longer, Gonzalo.
Gonzalo: A little longer is right. (Adrian’s face slowly begins to get red. He feels a giddiness in his
head – he presses his temples.)
A. He wants Adrian to apologize for his affair with Nita.
B. The cyanide in Adrian’s coffee is taking effect.
C. Adrian is getting drunk and incoherent.
D. His wife’s infidelity makes him suffer in silence.

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