COMPILATION OF RELIABLE REVIEWER FOR LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHER

English Reviewer with RATIONALIZATION

1. The novel Crime Punishment was Written by __________

A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Anton Checkov
D. IvanTurgenev

Ans: A

2. This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.

A. Present Tense
B. Past Tense
C. Progressive Tense
D. Present Perfect

Rationalization: The answer is letter C. If the Action is happening right now, it must be in the progressive tense. Example: She is singing right now.

3. Filipino as a language Blossomed during the Japanese occupation _________

A. Japanese
B. American
C. Spanish
D. Commonwealth

Rationalization: The answer is A because during the Japanese occupation, they prohibit the use of English and Spanish and required everyone to use the vernacular language.

4. The Thomasites are ____________________

A. teachers from UST
B. teachers from America
C. American Soldiers
D. Followers of St. Thomas

Rationalization: The answer is B. They are called Thomasites because they arrived in the Philippine shores in board the ship USS Thomas.

5. Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?

A. Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta
B. Teresa Subido
C. Aida Rivera Ford
D. Angela Manalang Gloria

Ans: A

6. Leo Tolstoy’s short Story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is titled _______.

A. Murder
B. God Sees The Truth but Waits
C. The Killer and the Victim
D. The misjudged

Ans: B

7. The underline word in the sentence below is an _________?

“She took the early train.”

A. Adjective
B. Adverb
C. Apostrophe
D. Appositive

Rationalization: The answer is A. The underlined word is an adjective because it modifies the word “train” which is a noun.

8. Who wrote the short story “ Magnificence” Which is about the girl abused by an older man.

A. Estrella Alfon
B. KerimaTuvera
C. Nick Joaquin
D. Appositive

Ans: A

For numbers 59 – 63 read the sonnet below:

SONNET 29

By William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thought myself most despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For they sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then Iscom to change my state with kings.

9. What us the rhyme scheme of the sonnet above/

A. ABABCDCDEFEFGG
B. ABBCDDEFFGGHHI
C. AAABBBCCCDDDDEE
D. ABBCDDEFFGGHIJ

Rationalization: A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines with ten syllables per line, the answer is A.

10. A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that means: