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WorksheetsCreative Nonfiction Assessment Quiz 1 SHS Grade 12
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The writer composes his/her life story, from birth to the present, using the first person "I."
a)
journal
b)
biography
c)
essay
d)
autobiography
2.
Created the genre of the nonfiction novel when he wrote In Cold Blood, - an account of a real-life crime in which an entire family was murdered by two sociopaths written in the form of a novel (hence the term nonfiction novel)
a)
Truman Capote
b)
Tom Wolfe
c)
Joan Didion
d)
St. Augustine
3.
His Confessions is considered "the first memoir"
a)
Tom Wolfe
b)
Joan Didion
c)
St. Augustine
d)
Truman Capote
4.
This is the one line of the poem.
a)
Meter
b)
Verse
c)
Rhyme
d)
Imagery
5.
An elements of poetry that the writer use to paint images in the minds of the reader through figures of speech.
a)
Theme
b)
Plot
c)
Imagery
d)
Rhyme
6.
This is the story's most emotional or suspenseful moment.
a)
Climax
b)
Resolution
c)
Conflict
d)
Tragedy
7.
Type of point of view that the story is only limited to what the narrator can see, hear, smell, feel, and think.
a)
Omniscient
b)
Limited
8.
It is a number of Syllables in a line and how those syllables are accented.
a)
Theme
b)
Verse
c)
Rhyme
d)
Meter
9.
Writer writes about someone else's life (also called a profile)
a)
Biography
b)
Journal
c)
Essay
d)
Memoir
10.
Who wrote this literary piece “Road Not Taken”?
a)
Robert Frost
b)
Maya Angelou
c)
Rabindranath Tagore
d)
William Shakespeare
11.
The time and place of the story are called ________?
a)
Setting
b)
Theme
c)
Character
d)
Tone and Atmosphere
12.
It contains the lines the characters speak in the play.
a)
Descriptions
b)
Stage Direction
c)
Dialogue
d)
Characters
13.
_____ is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.
a)
Poetry
b)
Poem
c)
Drama
d)
Nonfiction
14.
Articles (newspaper, magazine, etc.) about a true, well-researched topic told in a creative style, much like fiction → journal
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Term that originated in the mid-60s to describe a new way of reporting facts - in a vivid, descriptive, narrative form
a)
New Journalism
b)
Poetry
c)
Prose
d)
Fables
16.
Writer shares personal experiences with the reader; could be narrative, expository, persuasive or descriptive (or any combination of these)
a)
Literary Journalism
b)
Memoir
c)
Personal Essay
d)
New Journalism
17.
He wrote two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey
a)
Lao Tzu
b)
Geoffrey Chaucer
c)
Plato
d)
Homer
18.
Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy is one of most influential European works of literature.
a)
Kalidasa
b)
Dante Alighieri
c)
William Wordsworth
d)
William Shakespeare
19.
______ is a self-written account of the life of a person.
a)
Autobiography
b)
Biography
c)
Journal
d)
Essay
20.
Essayist, journalist, novelist, pioneer in creative nonfiction (we'll read an excerpt from her "The Year of Magical Thinking" for class)
a)
John Milton
b)
Robert Burns
c)
Joan Didion
d)
William Blake
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