Creative Writing Diagnostic Test

A poem that presents the speech of a single character in a dramatic situation, often a moment of crisis or self-revelation (The speech is one side of an imagined conversation.)

• dramatic monologue

• free verse

• soliloquy

• sonnet

A speech from a play, often in verse, delivered by a lone character (The speech reveals the character's thoughts and feelings.)

• dramatic monologue

• free verse

• soliloquy

• sonnet

A regular rhythmic pattern of a poem

• meter

• rhetorical technique

• rhyme

• stanza

A group of lines in a poem

• meter

• rhetorical technique

• rhyme

• stanza

A foot that begins with a weakly stressed ( ˘ ) followed by a strongly stressed ( ' ) syllables as in "afraid"

• anapest

• dactyl

• iamb

• trochee

A line of two feet as in "After autumn / Comes the winter"

• dimeter

• hexameter

• pentameter

• tetrameter

A six-line stanza

• heptastich

• quatrain

• quintain

• sestet

The use of rhyming words that are similar but not identical, as in "rave" and "rove" or "rot" and "rock".

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• masculine rhyme

• slant rhyme

Prose writing that tells an imaginative story

• creative nonfiction

• essay

• fiction

• poetry

Fictions of intermediate length

• memoirs

• novellas

• novels

• short stories