1. 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

2. 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

3. TRIAL QUESTION

4. In the Royal Order of Adjectives, it
describes where something comes from.
A. COLOR
B. SIZE
C. ORIGIN
D. OPINION

5. EASY ROUND

6. It refers to the basic rhythmic unit into which
a line of verse can be divided.
A. LINE
B. STANZA
C. FOOT
D. VERSE

7. This article is used when a singular noun comes
after it begins with a consonant letter.
A. THE
B. A
C. AN
D. THEY

8. A type of poetry consisting a pair of rhyming
lines that is equal in length.
A. SEPTET
B. QUATRAIN
C. COUPLET
D. SONNET

9. Here and there a man like the astronauts
and the scientists (dares, dare) to
venture to the unknown.
A. DARES
B. DARE

10. O earth, please give me so much joy.
A. PERSONIFICATION
B. ALLUSION
C. APOSTROPHE
D. METAPHOR

11. AVERAGE ROUND

12. till cows go home –
A. ANNOYING
B. WAITING FOR A LONG
TIME
C. UNEXPECTED
CANDIDATE
D. COMFORTABLE
SITUATION

13. 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

14. Beware of Greek’s bearing gifts.
A. EPIGRAM
B. ANALOGY
C. EPIZEUXIS
D. ALLUSION

15. The Roman equivalent of the Goddess
of War
A. JUNO
B. MINERVA
C. HESTIA
D. DEMETER

16. 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

17. DIFFICULT ROUND

18. “Behind the sweet smiles” is in what
type of sentence fragment?
A. GERUND FRAGMENT
B. INFINITIVE FRAGMENT
C. PREPOSITION
FRAGMENT
D. NOUN FRAGMENT

19. The butter is as soft as the marble.
A. HYPERBOLE
B. IRONY
C. METONYMY
D. PARADOX

20. 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

21. What literary device is used in the sentence?
"Whither wilt thou wander,
wayfarer?“
A. ASSONANCE
B. CONSONANCE
C. ONOMATOPOEIA
D. ALLITERATION

22. What figure of speech is used in the sentence
“Parting is such a sweet sorrow.”
A. LITOTES
B. OXYMORON
C. ANTITHESIS
D. EUPHEMISM

23. In the Philippine Mythology, she is considered
as the goddess of lost things.
A. ANAGOLAY
B. DIAN MASALANTA
C. MAYARI
D. HANAN

24. 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