English Trivia - Finals

1. In Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," which family does Romeo belong to?

• Capulet

• Montague

• Tybalt

• Paris

2. Which of the following contains a nonrestrictive appositive?

• The musician Prince wrote and performed his own songs.

• The author J.K. Rowling created the Harry Potter series.

• The scientist Marie Curie discovered radium and polonium.

• The CEO, a successful businesswoman, gave an inspiring speech at the conference.

3. What literary device is being used in the phrase "the world is my oyster"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

4. PALATE is to MOUTH as

• RAINBOW is to SKY

• RIVER is to DAM    

• HILL is to RANGE

• CEILING is to ROOM

5. The following is from a famous speech. Who made that speech?

“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color

of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”

• Abraham Lincoln

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Jose Rizal

• Maya Angelou

6. What is the correct definition of the word "inchoate"?

• Incomplete or not yet fully formed

• Extremely large

• Bizarre or unusual

• Related to or characteristic of a city or town

7. Denver said to Nick, "That boy playing with the football is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father's wife." How is the boy playing football related to Denver?

• son  

• brother

• cousin

• brother-in-law

8. He wrote a hundred stories in a collection called the Decameron.

• Dante Alighieri

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Francesco Petrarch

• Giovanni Boccaccio

9. What is the name for a word that imitates the sound it represents?

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

10. Which of the following is an example of an assonance?

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

• The cat sat on the mat.