Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
CARAGA Administrative Region
GAMUT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Gamut, Tago, Surigao del Sur

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

FIRST GRADING EXAMINATION IN CREATIVE WRITING FICTION

TEST 1 (MULTIPLE CHOICE)
Directions: Read the questions carefully and choose the corresponding answer from the choices given.
1. It is the artistic expression through written word, it expresses writer’s ideas and emotions in an
artistic manner?
a. Creative singing b. creative building c. creative playing d. creative writing
2. It aims to instruct and inform the readers, it shows facts and with specific target audience?
a. technical singing b. technical building c. technical playing d. technical writing
3. It is the words or phrases that describe the content of the text vividly?
a. senses b. sensory experience c. sensory message d. sensory details
4. It is part of our body in which the sensory experience is present and such we are able to get the
details we need for a creative output?
a. senses b. sensory experience c. sensory message d. sensory details
5. It refers to language and word choice of the writer, it shows the level of formality of a text which
in shaping the perception and view of the readers?
a. diction b. senses c. fiction d. poetic device
6. It is considered as a vast universe that contains limitless thoughts and no one can fathom its
complexities unless explored and expressed?
a. senses b. mind c. body d. soul
7. Who wrote the fiction story entitled ‘’ To kill a mocking bird’’?
a. William Wordsworth b. William Shakespeare c. Harper Lee d. Oscar Wilde
8. Who wrote the poem entitled ‘’Calm is all nature as a resting wheel’’?
a. William Wordsworth b. William Shakespeare c. Harper Lee d. Oscar Wilde
9. Who wrote a drama entitled ‘’Much ado about nothing’’?
a. William Wordsworth b. William Shakespeare c. Harper Lee d. Oscar Wilde
10. Who wrote a fiction story entitled ‘’The picture of Dorian Gray’’?
a. William Wordsworth b. William Shakespeare c. Harper Lee d. Oscar Wilde
11. It is the attribution of human qualities to a thing?
a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia
12. It is the direct comparison between two objects?
a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia
13. It is the indirect comparison of two things using like or as?
a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia
14. It is the use of words that mimic sounds?
a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia
15. It is the use of person, place, or thing as reference?
a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. allusion
16. It is a word composition arranged in a rhythmic pattern?
a. poetry b. poetic device c. fiction d. drama
17. It is the summarized statement containing the main thought or meaning of the poem?
a. tone b. theme c. meter d. line
 18. It is the link between music and poetry, it adds music quality to the poem which gives the readers
reading pleasure?
a. tone b. theme c. meter d. rhyme
19. It refers to the attitude and mood of the poem?
a. tone b. theme c. meter d. line
20. Lines that have the same number of stresses and varied count of syllables?
a. syllabic line b. accentual-syllabic line c. accentual line d. true line
21. Lines that have the same number of syllables and varied count of stresses?
a. syllabic line b. accentual-syllabic line c. accentual line d. true line
22. Lines that have the same number of syllables, both stressed and non-stressed; arranged in fixed
order?
a. syllabic line b. accentual-syllabic line c. accentual line d. true line
23. ‘’Here Captain! Dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream on the deck, You’ve
fallen cold and dead.’’
a. internal rhyme b. off rhyme or slant rhyme c. true rhyme d. false rhyme
24. ‘’Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.’’
a. internal rhyme b. off rhyme or slant rhyme c. true rhyme d. false rhyme
25. ‘’In the sun and in the snow, without pleasure, without pain, on the dead oak tree bough.’’
a. internal rhyme b. off rhyme or slant rhyme c. true rhyme d. false rhyme
26. It is the line in the poem that arranged in metrical pattern?
a. meter b. stanza c. verse d. line
27. It is poetry’s measured accents and syllables arrangement, it is the systematic sound pattern of
a poem?
a. meter b. stanza c. verse d. line
28. It is the form of fiction that usually run from 2,000 to 6,000 words and is about eight to 24 pages?
a. novella b. short stories c. flash fiction d. novels
29. It can be considered as the story that plays somewhere between a short story and a novel?
a. novella b. short stories c. flash fiction d. novels
30. This refers to the physical features of the land, it includes mountains, rivers, and villages?
a. plot b. theme c. physical world d. atmospheric setting
31. It is assisted by setting, stories and plots can only occur in specific places?
a. plot b. theme c. physical world d. atmospheric setting
32. It is the setting that maybe light and full of life; some it can be dark, haunting and mysterious?
a. plot b. theme c. physical world d. atmospheric setting
33. It is how the character is introduced to the readers?
a. characterzation b. charoterization c. carhacterization d. characterization
TEST 2 – A (for items 34-40)
Directions: Below are jumbled letters. Rearranged the letters to form the element of fiction and look for
its example from the box.
1. ASCATRHCER
2. TSIEGTN A. RENAISSANCE, WW II, MT. OLYMPUS
3. NPITO FO WIVE B. EXPOSITION, CLIMAX, DENOUMENT
4. OPTL C. MAN VS. MAN, MAN VS. HIMSELF, MAN VS. SOCIETY
D. SNAKE FOR BETRAYAL, APPLE FOR SIN, DOVE FOR PEACE
5. EMHTE
E. ILIAD, HARRY POTTER, CRISOSTOMO IBARRA
6. LSSMBYO
F. NARRATOR, STORY TELLER
7. TCFLNICO
G. ‘’’TRUE LOVE NEVER WANES EVEN IN OLD AGE
TEST 2 – B (for items 41-50)
Directions: Writers use figures of speech to create images that would deepen the reader’s
comprehension of a text. Below are the sample poems that uses the figurative language. Write the
appropriate type of figures of speech in each item. (2 points each)

____________________ 1. ‘’Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.’’ (Because I could not stop for death, Emily Dickinson)
____________________ 2. Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly.’’ (Home Burial, Robert Frost)
____________________ 3. ‘’ Then she burst into view, a girl lovely as morning and just as fair…’’
(Waywaya, F. Sionil Jose)
____________________ 4. ‘’ Everything that exist, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail
toward the isles of yours that wait for me…’’ (If you forget me, Pablo
Neruda)
____________________ 5. ‘’ Boy, I rang that doorbell fast when I got to old spencer’s house.’’ (The
catcher in the rye, J.D. Salinger)

‘’ Trust yourself trust your instinct.’’

Good Luck and God Bless My Beloved!
- Ma’am Ratilla