Creative Writing Quiz

Is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or in writing. Word choice is the most powerful element of style for you to understand.

• Imagery

• Simile

• Figures of Speech

• Diction

There was no light in my father's room. There was no movement. He sat in the big armchair by the western window and a star shone directly through it.

• Sense of touch

• Sense of hearing

• Sense of sight

• Sense of smell

Refers to the 'mental pictures' that readers experience when reading literature.

• Imagery

• Simile

• Figures of Speech

• Diction

Is giving life to non-living objects or things.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

It is an intentional deviation from ordinary language chosen to produce a rhetorical effect. It is a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

• Imagery

• Simile

• Figures of Speech

• Diction

It is the systematic regularity in rhythm; this systematic rhythm (or sound pattern) is usually identified by examining the type of 'foot' and the number of feet.

• Meter

• Rhythm

• POV

• Tone

It is the repetition of entire lines or phrases to emphasize key thematic ideas.

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Tone

• Theme

It is a type of character who is central to the story with all major events having some importance to this character.

• Narrator

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Reader

Which plot device technique is used to focus the reader's attention (not the characters') on an object or location?

• Flashing arrow

• Red Herring

• Deathtrap

• In medias res

Which narrative point of view allows the reader to access the inner thoughts and emotions of only one character?

• A. First-person

• B. Second-person

• C. Third-person limited

• D. Third-person omniscient