Creative Writing 12: First Quarterly Exam

Intended Contents No. No. Types Surface Deep Learning

Learning of of Of Learning

Point System

Percentage
Total Items
Outcomes Hours Items Test

Understanding
Remembering

Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying

Creating
1. differentiate 1, 8, 7, 10,
imaginative
writing from 2 4 4 4x1=4 10%
among other
Creative
forms of writing
writing:
2. utilize
imagery,
language to
diction,
evoke
figures of
emotional and
speech,
intellectual
and
responses from
variations 3 6 6 6x1=6 15%
readers.
on
3. use imagery,
language
diction, figures
MULTIPLE CHOICE

of speech, and
specific
experiences
4. identify the
various
elements,
3. 6 6 6x1=6 15%
techniques, and
literary devices Reading
in poetry and
5. determine Writing
specific forms Poetry:
and elements 2 4 4 4x1=4 10%
conventions of of the
poetry genre and
6. use selected techniques
elements of and
poetry in short literary
exercises devices
2 4 4 4x1=4 10%
7. explore
innovative
techniques in
writing poetry
8. write a short
poem applying
the various
elements, Reading
techniques, and and
ESSAY

literary devices Writing

1 2 2 2x11=22
9. write a short Fiction:
scene applying elements
the various of the
elements, genre,
techniques, and techniques
literary devices and
10. identify the literary
various devices
elements, and
3 6 6 6x1=6 15%
techniques, and modelling
MULTIPLE CHOICE

literary devices from well-

in fiction known
11. determine local and
various modes short story 2 4 4 4x1=4 10%
of fiction writers in a
12. write journal range of
entries and modes.
other short
exercises 2 4 4 4x1=4 10%
exploring key
elements of
fiction
TOTAL 20 40 40 60
Prepared by : Jasmin Meriam Rose Salise
 First Quarterly Exam in Creative Writing 12

Name: _____________________________________ Score: ___________

Year & Section: ______________________________ Date: ____________

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (38 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. 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

______3. What is E.E. Cummings notable for?

a. He used unique symbols. c. He used iambic pentameter in poetry.

b. He wrote poetry while traveling in 50 states in d. He wrote poetry in an unconventional way by
America. using lines, letters and parentheses.

______4. In N.V.M Gonzales’s story A Warm Hand, who touched Elay?

a. Ana c. ghost
b. Obregano d. no one

______5. What is the main theme in Edith Tiempo’s Bonsai?

a. longing c. love
b. jealousy d. memories

______6. This refers to the words that are used to describe things in a poem.

a. Metaphor c. imagery
b. Language d. diction

______7. What is the most important ingredient in creative writing?

a. imagination c. humor
b. wit d. love

______8. 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

______9. 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

______10. Which is an incorrect example of creative writing?

a. biography c. play
b. module d. radio drama

______11. It is a form poetry with that has a 5-7-5 pattern.

a. tanka c. haiku
b. couplet d. limerick

______12. 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.

______13. Who was Dante’s muse in The Divine Comedy?

a. Beauty Portinairi c. Maise Portinari

b. Mary Portinair d. Beatrice Portinari
______14. Living death, mute cry, darkness visible – What figure of speech is this?

a. chiasmus c. personification
b. oxymoron d. synecdoche

______15. I was punished for breaking silence and for breaking glass. – What figure of speech is this?

a. chiasmus c. zeugma
b. antithesis d. paradox.

______16. It is the selection of words in a literary work.

a. metaphor c. imagery
b. language d. diction
______17. A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature.

a. McGuffin c. subject
b. motif d. superhero cape

______18. It 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

______19. In reference to the answer in no. 18. Its three stages are the following except:

a. departure c. adventure
b. initiation d. return

______20. 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

______21. The hero is superior in degree but not in environment. It’s about classic tragedies, presidents, and kings.

a. Low-mimetic c. Romantic
b. High-mimetic d. Mythic

______22. Forrest Gump is an example of which mode of fiction?

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

______23. 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.

a. imagery c. sensory experience

b. diction d. literary sense

______24. It is the assertion or argument that the literary work makes.

a. literary sense c. theme

b. theory d. written response

______25. 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

______26. What is the theme in Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson?

a. love and longing c. God and spirituality

b. tragedy and loss d. milestones and tombstones

______27. In the epic,The Prowess of Aliguyon, why was Amtulao and Dumulao unhappy?

a. At age 3, Aliguyon could talk to animals so he would wander around the forest for days.
b. They had everything yet they had no heir.
c. Aliguyon was kidnapped by the bandits who were passing by.
d. After receiving his inheritance, he left his parents to start his own family.

______28. It is a novel written as a series of documents.

a. Emissary c. Epistolary
b. Pituitary d. episodic

______29. In the ballad, Bonny Barbara Allan, witchcraft was one of the motifs. What was the other?

a. Love affair b. jealousy c. Love-sickness d. Excess magic.

TEST II. 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

11

1. If you could rewrite an ending of a short story or novel, what would it be and how will you end it?
2. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, explain how he used the poetic devices include the lines and write your opinion on
his views of marriage.