Creative Nonfiction Quiz 1

It answers the question, from whose angle the story is being told?

• point of view

• perspective

• atmosphere

• setting

Addressing a person who is either dead or absent when the utterance is made.

• apostrophe

• parallelism

• metonomy

• allusion

Lucid and detailed description; hear the sounds, smell the aromas, and see the sights of the surroundings of our subject.

• dialogue

• atmosphere

• setting

• scene

It takes us to a place in space and in time. In a successful story, that place becomes a small universe on its own, consistent in itself.

• atmosphere

• point of view

• setting

• angle

Whether the story is told in the first, or third person.

• point of view

• angle

• setting

• atmosphere

It is a literary technique that refers to the use of symbols or representations in both fiction and nonfiction.

• atmosphere

• symbolism

• irony

• apostrophe

It is a literary device that is meant to infuse more life into one’s writing.

Kinds: verbal and situational.

• symbolism

• point of view

• Irony

• parallelism

A question that is not meant to be answered because the answer is obvious.

• parallelism

• apostrophe

• symbolism

• rhetorical

Substitution of a word/phrase for an idea to which it is closely related

• metonomy

• parallelism

• rhetorical

• irony

One should imagine the characters themselves speaking to each other.

• rhetorical

• dialogue

• scene

• symbolism