Creative Writing Review (Midterm)

Multiple Choice

After looking at a student’s poor test score, the teacher says,

“You will surely finish the year with the highest honors.”
Which figure of speech is used in the text?

• oxymoron

• paradox

• onomatopeia

• irony

Multiple Choice

You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.
Which figure of speech is used in the text?

• allusion

• apostrophe

• antithesis

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Which element of poetry contains the underlying idea and overall essence to a poem?

• subject

• imagery

• theme

• tone

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry has 19 lines and refrains?

• haiku

• sonnet

• ode

• villanelle

Multiple Choice

Which sonnet has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet?

• Petrarchan

• Shakespearean?

Multiple Choice

The Snow of Yesterday by Gozan

The snow of yesterday

That fell like cherry blossoms

Is water once again

What type of poetry is the text above?

• haibun

• haiku

• sonnet

• villanelle

Multiple Choice

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

What type of rhyme scheme is employed in the text above?

• cross

• internal

• holorhyme

• tail

Multiple Choice

I have come to the borders of sleep, 

The unfathomable deep

What type of rhyme scheme is employed in the text above?

• cross

• internal

• holorhyme

• tail

Multiple Choice

On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool,

In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,

What meter is used in the excerpt above?

• iambic

• trochaic

• dactylic

• anapestic

Multiple Choice

On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool,

In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,

Which is correct about the excerpt above?

• It has anapestic trimeter.

• It has anapestic tetrameter.

• It has anapestic pentameter.

• It has anapestic octameter.

Multiple Choice

Which refers to a repeated word or phrase?

• imagery

• enjambment

• refrain

• repetition

Multiple Choice

Which adheres to rules with rhyme scheme, meter, lines, and verse?

• conventional

• free verse

Multiple Choice

The air was filled with the sweet aroma of ripening peaches,

mingled with the crisp scent of fresh-cut grass.

What type of imagery is employed in the text above?

• auditory

• gustatory

• olfactory

• visual

Multiple Choice

mingled with the crisp scent

of fresh-cut grass.

If the excerpt is to be rearranged in this manner, what poetic element is employed?

• line break

• enjambment

Multiple Choice

Symbolism can always be motif but motif cannot always be symbolism.

• True

• False

Word Cloud

Give 1 symbolism from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

Fill in the Blanks

This type of character is only given 2 traits. This is suitable for supporting characters.

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This aspect of setting considers the local practices and discourses.

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This refers to the emotion and attitude that the author wants to convey.

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In the novel of Andy Weir, Mark is stranded on Mars and there is a lack of food. What is the conflict evident here? It is man vs. ?

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This refers to the plot that follows a single line.

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“Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

What 3rd point of view is used in the excerpt above?

Fill in the Blanks

This refers to revealing/presenting the characters.

Open Ended

What are the 2 types of characterization?

Open Ended

Write 3 figures of speech discussed.

Open Ended

What are the types of conflict?

Open Ended

What are the elements of mood?

Open Ended

Give one type of free verse poetry.

Open Ended

Give one type of conventional poetry.