2014 ENGLISH QUIZ BEE

SCORING SYSTEM:

Easy round – 2 points each

Average round – 3 points each

Difficult round – 5 points each

Questions prepared by:

JESTONI O. BESARIO ENGLISH TEACHER

SCOPE/ COVERAGE

ARTICLES

FIGURES OF SPEECH

MYTHOLOGY ( ROMAN, GREEK, FILIPINO)

ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES

STORY ELEMENTS

POETRY ELEMENTS

FRAGMENTS

AVERTISEMENT

PARTS OF SPEECH

LITERARY DEVICES

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IDIOMS

TRIAL QUESTION

In the Royal Order of Adjectives, it describes where something comes from.

A. COLOR

B. SIZE

C. ORIGIN

D. OPINION

EASY ROUND

It refers to the basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided.

A. LINE

B. STANZA

C. FOOT

D. VERSE

This article is used when a singular noun comes after it begins with a consonant letter.

A. THE

B. A

C. AN

D. THEY

A type of poetry consisting a pair of rhyming lines that is equal in length.

A. SEPTET

B. QUATRAIN

C. COUPLET

D. SONNET

Here and there a man like the astronauts and the scientists (dares, dare) to venture to the unknown.

A. DARES

B. DARE

O earth, please give me so much joy.

A. PERSONIFICATION

B. ALLUSION

C. APOSTROPHE

D. METAPHOR

AVERAGE ROUND

till cows go home –

A. ANNOYING

B. WAITING FOR A LONG TIME

C. UNEXPECTED CANDIDATE

D. COMFORTABLE SITUATION

This punctuation mark is used when there are to adjectives belonging to the same category utilized in the sentence.

A. COMMA

B. HYPHEN

C. DASH

D. SEMICOLON

Beware of Greek’s bearing gifts.

A. EPIGRAM

B. ANALOGY

C. EPIZEUXIS

D. ALLUSION

The Roman equivalent of the Goddess of War

A. JUNO

B. MINERVA

C. HESTIA

D. DEMETER

To champion against poverty should be the goal of the Philippine government. The underlined word is in what part of speech?

A. ADJECTIVE

B. VERB

C. NOUN

D. PREPOSITION

DIFFICULT ROUND

“Behind the sweet smiles” is in what type of sentence fragment?

A. GERUND FRAGMENT

B. INFINITIVE FRAGMENT

C. PREPOSITION FRAGMENT

D. NOUN FRAGMENT

The butter is as soft as the marble.

A. HYPERBOLE

B. IRONY

C. METONYMY

D. PARADOX

It is a form of advertisement displayed beside the streets and big establishments or buildings.

A. COMIC AD

B. CLASSIFIED AD

C. BILLBOARD AD

D. MAGAZINE AD

What literary device is used in the sentence?

"Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?“

A. ASSONANCE

B. CONSONANCE

C. ONOMATOPOEIA

D. ALLITERATION

What figure of speech is used in the sentence “Parting is such a sweet sorrow.”

A. LITOTES

B. OXYMORON

C. ANTITHESIS

D. EUPHEMISM

In the Philippine Mythology, she is considered as the goddess of lost things.

A. ANAGOLAY

B. DIAN MASALANTA

C. MAYARI

D. HANAN

It is the study of the structure of poetry and the conventions or techniques involved in writing it, including rhyme, meter, and the patterns of verse forms.

A. CADENCE

B. PROSODY

C. RHYTHM

D. LITERATURE