First Quarterly Exam in Creative Writing 12

Name: _____________________________________ Score: ___________

Year & Section: ______________________________ Date: ____________

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (36 points)

DIRECTIONS: Carefully read each question and write the letter of your answer on the space provided before the number.

______1. It is a kind of writing which expresses writer’s thoughts and feelings in an imaginative and often unique
figurative way.
a. Academic writing c. Malikhaing paggawa
b. Technical writing d. Creative writing
______2. What is the most important ingredient in creative writing?
a. imagination c. humor
b. wit d. love
______3. In a literary work, what is the selection of words?
a. metaphor c. imagery
b. language d. diction
______4. It is the argument that the literary work makes.
a. literary sense c. theme
b. theory d. written response
______5. Which correctly defines sensory experience?
a. Calmness of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses;
b. active participation of people
c. It is the apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses; active participation in events
or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill.
d. Results to the buildup of ego
______6. It is the music made by the statements in the poem, which includes the syllables in the lines.
a. Stanza c. Rhythm
b. Meter d. Symbolism
______7.It is a figurative language means words that realistically sound the way they are spoken.
a. Alliteration c. Rhyme
b. Simile d. Onomatopoeia
______8. What is E.E. Cummings notable for?
a. He used unique symbols.
b. He wrote poetry while traveling in 50 states in America.
c. He used iambic pentameter in poetry.
d. He wrote poetry in an unconventional way by using lines, letters and parentheses.
______9. It is a poem made up of 14 lines – 3 quatrains, and a couplet. It has the rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd,
efef, gg.
a. Petrarchan Sonnet c. Cummings Sonnet
b. Shakespearean Sonnet d. Victorian Sonnet
e.
______10. It is a form poetry with that has a 5-7-5 pattern.
a. tanka c. haiku
b. couplet d. limerick
______11. Which rhyme scheme did Shakespeare use in most of his sonnets?
a. ionic pentameter c. iambic tetrameter
b. iambic pentameter d. iconic hexameters
______12. A type of story in which the main character goes through growth from young to adulthood. It is often
set in past.
a. novella c. prologue
b. coming of age d. drama
______13. Who was the narrator in The Great Gatsby?
a. Nick c. Daisy
b. Gatsby d. Tom
______14. A mystery novel that has elements of horror and the supernatural. It usually set in a gloomy, haunted
place.
a. psychological c. gothic
b. thriller d. picaresque
______15. Who was Dante’s muse in The Divine Comedy?
a. Beauty Portinairi c. Maise Portinari
b. Mary Portinair d. Beatrice Portinar
______16. Which are the basic literary genres?
a. novel, novella, short story, play, dialogue c. movies, script, novel, essay, dialogue
b. poetry, short story, play, essay, novel d. novella, drama, prose, essay, poetry
______17. Which is an incorrect example of creative writing?
a. biography c. play
b. module d. radio drama

______18.Which literary term is denoted in the quote?

“The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference
between the lightning bug and the lightning. —Mark Twain”
a. theme c. diction
b. allusion d. sensory experience
______19. Living death, mute cry, darkness visible – What figure of speech is this?
a. chiasmus c. personification
b. oxymoron d. synecdoche
______20. I was punished for breaking silence and for breaking glass. – What figure of speech is this?
a. chiasmus c. zeugma
b. antithesis d. paradox.
______21. Which is an archetypal story pattern, common in ancient myths as well as modern day adventures?
a. hero’s journey c. denouement
b. pilgrim’s story d. conquest
______22 It is used to provide details about characters or the story and it’s used in the beginning and during
transition to inform readers about passage of time, change of place or mood, or change in the focus character.
a. break c. exposition
b. dialogue d. action
______23. In N.V.M Gonzales’s story A Warm Hand, who touched Elay?
a. Ana c. Ghost
b. Obregano d. no one
______24. The hero is superior in kind and environment to the people. It’s about the stories of the gods and goddesses.
a. Low-mimetic c. Romantic
b. High-mimetic d. Mythic

______25. What is the main theme in Edith Tiempo’s Bonsai?

a. longing c. love
b. jealousy d. memories
______26. What is the theme in Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson?
a. love and longing
b. tragedy and loss
c. God and spirituality
d. milestones and tombstones
______27. In William Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold," what does the rainbow symbolize?
a. long drought
b. never ending rose-colored life
c. happy ending
d. sign for hope and good things
______28. What kind of poem is Edgar Allan Poe’s “To Helen”?

Helen, thy beauty

x is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

a. Ballad c. Limerick
b. Horatian ode d. Cinquain
______29. In Cecilia Brainard’s Flip Gothic, what caused Arminda’s rebellious and arrogant behavior?
a. She was stressed so Mia, influenced her and even encouraged her to do drugs.
b. Her grandmother’s nagging annoyed her that she decided to cut the rosary and die Sr. Santo Niño’s hair.
c. She was bullied at school and was projecting her anger to her family.
d. Her parents were so busy at work and raised her in spoiled American way.
______30. What is the mood in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery?
a. casual and friendly to tension to shock c. pastoral to active to casual
b. casual and trendy to suspense to fear d. suspense to pastoral to shock
______31. What is the result of using imagery in poetry?
a. The poem is full of color.
b. It conveys a clear sense of reality.
c. It gives a superficial texture and vividness to the audience.
d. It teaches critics to be descriptive and be good in painting.
______32. Some people have difficulty in understanding the figures of speech. As a student, what is the best
thing you can do?
a. Learning about heterograph is an excellent way to build comprehension by looking for context clues
within the sentence.
b. Read a lot of research papers to know the cause.
c. Look up for the cultural references to realize the actual meaning of the figures of speech.
d. Compile a list of figures of speech and just memorize.
______33. What is the evidence that your diction is correct?
a. The text is memorable and brings the experience to life.
b. Appeal unimaginatively to the reader's senses.
c. General diction will help ensure that the meaning you intend is exactly the meaning that readers receive,
d. Use the right verbs and nouns, there is a need to modify them into something else.
______34. You want to write a crime, mystery, and thriller novel. Which is NOT necessary for you to do?
a. Do a research about the genre.
b. Meet serial killers and take notes of how they did it.
c. Conduct interviews with cops for more information.
d. Pick a good a setting and shape your characters with a dose of humanity.
______35. What is the common narrative mode of fiction among Hamlet, Oedipus, King Lear, Barack Obama?
a. Low-mimetic c. Romantic
b. High-mimetic d. Mythic

______36. Forrest Gump is a movie which Tom Hanks starred in. What kind of hero was he in the movie?

a. romantic c. mythic
b. low-mimetic d. ironic

TEST II.

A. Essay

Directions: In 10 sentence or more, express your answer.

Criteria Points

Content (well-explained body and relevant ideas) 6

Mechanics (grammar and accuracy) 3

Cohesion and Coherence of Ideas (organization of ideas) 2

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