Republic of the Philippines

Region VII, Central Visayas

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division of Cebu Province
BOLJOON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Lower Becerril, Boljoon, Cebu
(032) 4829002

Mastery Test in English

Name: _______________________________ Section: _________ Date: __________ Score: ____

General Instructions: Read carefully the sentences. Choose the letter of the correct answer
and underline it.

Test I. Give what is asked.

1. Who is the writer of the literary poem entitled “Bonsai”?
a. Edith Tiempo b. Pablo Neruda
c. Bobby Calderon d. Edgar Allan Poe
2. What figure of speech is implied in the sentence? I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
a. Simile b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole d. Personification
3. It is a figure of speech that imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
a. Personification b. Onomatopoeia
c. Irony d. Oxymoron
4. Who is the father of short story in English literature?
a. Jonathan Swift b. William Blake
c. Edgar Allan Poe d. John Keats
5. What do you call a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting?
a. Essay b. Journal
c. Pocket book d. Short Story

Test II. Read the poem and answer the question that follows.

The Sea

The sea is a hungry dog,

Giant and grey.
He rolls on the beach all day.
With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws
Hour upon hour he gnaws
The rumbling, tumbling stones,
And 'Bones, bones, bones, bones! '
The giant sea-dog moans,
Licking his greasy paws.
 And when the night wind roars
And the moon rocks in the stormy cloud,
He bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs,
Shaking his wet sides over the cliffs,
And howls and hollos long and loud.

But on quiet days in May or June,

When even the grasses on the dune
Play no more their reedy tune,
With his head between his paws
He lies on the sandy shores,
So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores.

6. What figures of speech is implied in the line “The sea is a hungry dog”?
a. Metaphor b. Personification
c. Simile d. Hyperbole
7. Who lies on the sandy shores so quiet and scarcely snores?
a. the dog b. the writer
c. the people d. the sea
8. When did the sea howls and hollos long and loud?
a. in May or June b. stormy nights
c. when the moon is full d. during spring time
9. Who wrote the poem above?
a. James Reeves b. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Bobby Calderon c. Amador Daguio
10. Who shouted “Bones, bones, bones”?
a. the giant sea b. the writer
b. the giant grey dog d. the spirit of wind

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.” Arnold
Glasow
GOD SPEED!

Prepared by: Jonathan Renz A. Romero