TASMAC (MIDTERM)
  • 1. ability of someone to perceive the sounds phout be dove full concentration
A) Hearing
B) Filtering
C) Comprehending
  • 2. step in the listening process involving selecting and prioritizing information,
A) Filtering
B) Hearing
C) Mapping
  • 3. Listeners understand or interprets what the speaker has tried to convey.
A) Comprehending
B) Responding
C) Remembering
  • 4. stored in memory to facilitate pusture recall for future use.
A) Remembering
B) Responding
C) Hearing
  • 5. Take t he form of prodding or prompting in order to show that the messages is being received and comprehended
A) Isolating
B) Remembering
C) Responding
  • 6. overview
    Or before
A) After/past listening
B) During listening
C) Pre listening
  • 7. Monitor comprehension, important point/process
A) Pre listening
B) Past listening
C) During listening
  • 8. getting the beneficial factors. / most important. Direct information
A) Time-oriented listener
B) Action-oriented listener
C) Content-oriented listener
  • 9. Focus on solving problems
A) Action-oriented listeners
B) Time-oriented listeners
C) Content-oriented listeners
  • 10. evaluate what they hear carefully.Demanding for clarification

    clarity

    -fact | credible sources
A) Content-oriented listeners
B) Time-oriented listeners
C) People-oriented listeners
  • 11. listering news
A) Content-oriented listeners
B) Time-oriented listeners
C) Action-oriented listeners
  • 12. they focused on the feelings of other people
A) Time-oriented listeners
B) Action-oriented listeners
C) People-oriented listeners
  • 13. Which one is not an example of personification?
A) My computer works very hard
B) The thunderblast sang in the sky.
C) Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay?
D) The phone of my girlfriend is not collaborating with me.
E) That milktea is really tempting me.
  • 14. "If you have endured a great despair, Then you did it alone. Getting a transfusion from fire, Picking the scrabs off your heart, Then wringing it out like a sock."

    -from "Courage" by Anne Sexton

    The figure of speech used in the poem is
A) Personification
B) Simile
C) Allusion
D) Metaphor
E) Synecdoche
  • 15. Identify the figures of speech used in the following examples.

    A. The child is a father of the man

    B. This nymph to the destruction of mankind

    C. Oh death! have you no pity?
A) Example A is Metaphor, example B is hyperbole and example C is apostrophe.
B) Examples A and B are simile and Example C is metaphor.
C) Example A is simile, example B is metaphor and example C is apostrophe
D) Examples A and C are simile and example C is hyperbole.
E) Example A is Personification, example B is Apostrophe and example is
  • 16. Which one is not an example of hyperbole?
A) That food is so hot my ears are smoking.
B) My mother can lift over two tons.
C) Maria is 20 feet tall this month.
D) She filled the ocean with her tears
E) The daffodils are tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
  • 17. Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.

    A. The man is a diamond in the rough.

    B. Mark said the ideas presented to him blew his mind.

    C. The venue will charge us by the plate.
A) Example A is hyperbole, example B is personification and example C is synecdoche.
B) Example is Metaphor and B is hyperbole and example C is metonymy.
C) Example A and C are metonymy, but B is hyperbole.
D) Example A and C are hyperbole, but B is metonymy
  • 18. "The lion was a friendly kitten

    The figure of speech used in the given statement above is
A) Allusion
B) Apostrophe
C) Metonymy
D) Metaphor
  • 19. In the statement "the moon is the brightest eye of the heavens above", what figure of speech is used?
A) Personification
B) Hyperbole
C) Metaphor
D) Allusion
E) Apostrophe
  • 20. "You are the best mistake I ever had in my life."

    The figure of speech used in the given statement above is
A) Oxymoron
B) Personification
C) Apostrophe
D) Paradox
E) Allusion
  • 21. A. In this figure of speech, the poet exaggerates or makes an overstatement to emphasize a point.

    B. His mind is a computer.
A) A is personification and B is hyperbole
B) A is hyperbole and B is metaphor
C) A is Oxymoron and B is Paradox
D) A is hyperbole and B is apostrophe
  • 22. Which one is not an example of metonymy?
A) She was clearly confused in her decision
B) The suits are coming to do the yearly audit.
C) The boots are in battle.
  • 23. compares two different things wing the words "like" or "as". It helps to create a vivid image mind and adds depth to the writing. in the readers

    ex the stars neve like diamond scattered accross the velvet stay
A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Personification
  • 24. Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things. This personification objects and makes them more relatable
A) Personification
B) Simile
C) Oxymoron
  • 25. the chair squated in pain when the hammer smashed it
A) Personification
B) Hyperbole
C) Oxymoron
  • 26. In which speaker or writer directly address someone or something that isn't prevent can't respond. this could include the absent person, an inanimate object an abstract idea.
A) Personification
B) Apostrophe
C) Simile
  • 27. Hello, darkness, my old friend
A) Oxymoron
B) Apostrophe
C) Personification
  • 28. that uses exaggeration to

    emphasize

    a point

    create strong effect
A) Oxymoron
B) Personification
C) Hyperbole
D) Performance
  • 29. He is as tall as a giant.
A) Hyperbole
B) Oxymoron
C) Simile
  • 30. She cried forever
A) Hyperbole
B) Apostrophe
C) Oxymoron
  • 31. Describe isn't literally the a comparison an object or action in a but relps explain an idea way that or make
A) Hyperbole
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
  • 32. Do not use "like" or "as"
A) Oxymoron
B) Hyperbole
C) Metaphor
  • 33. Combining of contraries (opposite) to portray a particular image or produce a striking effects
A) Metonymy
B) Oxymoron
C) Synecdoche
  • 34. Ex-1.Parting is such sweet sorrow

    2. Cess is more

    3- Pretty a ugly.
A) Hyperbole
B) Oxymoron
C) Apostrophe
  • 35. represent the whole or vice versa.

    "It uses a part to represent a whole
A) Metonymy
B) Personification
C) Synecdoche
  • 36. He worked hard to put bread on fre table for his family.
A) Personification
B) Synecdoche
C) Simile
  • 37. (Broad) common replacement of words change of name
A) Metonymy
B) Hyperbole
C) Oxymoron
  • 38. -1. the white house
    made an annoncerent today 2.Hollywood is making some amazing malies thir gear.
A) Paradox
B) Oxymoron
C) Metonymy
  • 39. which a statement appears to contradict itself. Ex. It was the beggining of the endd You have to spend money to make morey.
A) Simile
B) Paradox
C) Oxymoron
D) Hyperbole
E) Personification
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