SPECIALIZATION

ENGLISH
A REVIEWER FOR LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS

Directions: Each of the questions or statements below is followed by four choices or completions. Encircle
the letter of the one that is best in each case.

1. What type of reference is the pronoun “she” in following sentence?

“When she arrived, Leigh Ann was surprised to find her apartment door open.
A. cataphora
B. anaphora
C. exophora
D. endophora

2. The sentence which has incorrectly matched word with the part of speech is _____.
A. Paul Torres somehow found room in his small house for the large family he had fathered. (verb)
B. You may choose either answer. (adjective)
C. They are on friendly terms with their neighbors. (pronoun)
D. She often offered to babysit for friends, hoping to satisfy her mother urges until she had children of her
own. (adjective)

3. What issue is pointed out by this example “A French teacher is given a high salary in Singapore”?
A. lexical ambiguity
B. syntactic ambiguity
C. semantic ambiguity
D. graphophonic ambiguity

4. What is shown in the systematic variation of /p/ such as the aspirated /p/ of pin, and the unaspirated
/p/ of spin?
A. phoneme
B. consonant
C. variation
D. allophone

5. What type of test is most useful to ESP?

A. diagnostic test
B. achievement test
C. performance test
D. Proficiency test

6. The passage is from which of the following works?

A. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
B. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
C. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
D. Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Remember that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom
thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I
was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

7. What literary technique was pioneered by Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce?
A. Stream of Consciousness
B. Magical Realism
C. Social Realism
D. Minimalism
8. “Beat Poets” like American author, Allen Ginsberg, used their writing to _____.
A. immortalize or glorify the past
B. stress the significance of connection with nature
C. condemn the evils brought about by industrialization
D. reflect the rebellious, imaginative spirit of the 1960s.

9. The following shows “fulfilling prophecy” EXCEPT _____.

A. Achilles with so much wrath killed Hector.
B. Oedipus unknowingly killed King Laius.
C. Death of Acrissius in the hands of Perseus.
D. Orestes deliberately killed his mother.

10. Based from the poem below, a reader can infer that Romantic poets such Wordsworth sees _____.
A. the city is more romantic than the country
B. the city is a place of vice and other worldly things
C. the country is a place of virtue
D. the country is the most ideal since it is near nature

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
-William Wordsworth, She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways

11. A Marxist interpretation of Arthur Miller’s absurdist play, “Waiting for Godot”, would probably focus on
_____.
A. the poverty and despair of its working-class characters
B. the use of archetypes in the portrayals of the characters
C. the power imbalances in the relationships of the characters
D. the reliance of the two main characters on the eventual arrival of a “savior”

12. The following descriptions are true about “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall EXCEPT:
A. It uses a dialogue.
B. It often uses a rhyme scheme ‘abcd defe’.
C. It is a narrative poem.
D. It often uses a learned language.

13.What type of sonnet is illustrated in the following poem?

A. Elizabethan
B. Petrarchan
C. English
D. Spenserian
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide;
“Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed,
And post o’er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
 -John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

14. What figures of speech are used in the following lines?

I. apostrophe
II. personification
III. hyperbole
IV. metonymy

A. I and II only
B. I, II, and III only
C. I, II, and IV only
D. II and IV only

“They tell me you are wicked and I believe

them, for I have seen your painted women
under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
-Carl Sandburg, Chicago

15. Alfred Tennyson’s most famous poem is “In Memoriam” which is about _____.
A. an upbringing in an agrarian environment
B. a personal crisis of faith
C. the conservatism of Victorian courtship
D. the triumph of democracy

16. Which of the following did William Shakespeare use to structurally dramatized Marcus Brutus’ suicide?
A. heroic couplet
B. archaic words
C. direct address
D. melodrama

MARCUS BRUTUS:
Hence! I will follow.
I prithee, Strato, stay thou by the lord:
Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:
Hold, then, my sword, and turn away thy face,
While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?

STRATO:
Give me your hand first: fare you well, my lord.

MARCUS BRUTUS:
Farewell, good Strato. – Caesar, now be still:
I kill’d not thee with half so goo a will.
(He runs on his sword, and dies)
-W. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Scene 5

17. Which of the following best describes why good writers avoid passive-voice sentences?
A. Passive-voice sentences have more words than active-voice sentences.
B. Passive-voice sentences have fewer words than active-voice sentences.
C. Passive-voice sentences use verbs that are too colorful for ordinary writing.
D. Native speakers of English rarely use passive-voice sentences.

18. Zeus grew up in the island of Crete. He was fed by the goat ‘Amaltheia’ and the nymphs took good
care of him. Doves brought him ambrosia from far away to eat, and an eagle brought him nectar to drink.
When he reached manhood, as prophesied, Zeus rescued his five elder brothers and sisters, and then
started a war against his father, and the Titans. This war is also known as the _____.
A. Trojan War
B. The War of Gods
C. The War in Mt. Olympus
D. Titanomachy

19. Which of the following is the best example of headline?

A. Drilon: Bats for Con-Con
B. Filipino citizens go out to vote for
C. Self-reliance and discipline up at Baguio confab
D. DepEd rolls out Senior High School

20. Which of the following concepts in grammar is shown in the following definition of noun?
“Noun in a sentence occurs before the verb phrase; after a transitive verb; after a linking verb;
after a preposition; and after another noun or noun phrase.
A. syntax
B. distribution
C. noun placement
D. grammatical pattern