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Creative Writing Pre-test 11 SHS

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Written in prose format and published as a book and considered to be a long piece of creative fiction that is believed to be possessing, demanding, and complex.

a)

narrative poetry

b)

drama

c)

novel

d)

short story

2.

The following are all basic types of writing except –

a)

expository

b)

expressive

c)

creative

d)

documentary

3.

It is a poem that demonstrates grief and melancholy to the dead.

a)

elegy

b)

ode

c)

corrido

d)

psalm

4.

Short poems that are tainted with love, hope, joy, grief, sadness, or sorrow as common themes

a)

corridos

b)

psalms

c)

songs

d)

folksongs

5.

A stanza with five lines is called

a)

cinquain

b)

quatrain

c)

septet

d)

tercet

6.

A poem that provides an amusing and a happy ending.

a)

farce

b)

melodrama

c)

tragedy

d)

comedy

7.

It employs contradictory statements or situations to show reality dissimilar from truth.

a)

paradox

b)

irony

c)

metonymy

d)

synecdoche

8.

________________ is the central idea or concept of the storyline

a)

denouement

b)

theme

c)

falling action

d)

conflict

9.

Exposes a topic analytically and objectively, like a news report.

a)

Expository writing

b)

Expressive writing

c)

Creative writing

d)

Persuasive writing

10.

“The Witch” by -

a)

Layeta P. Bucoy

b)

Edilberto K. Tiempo

c)

Jessica Hagerdorn

d)

Miguel Syjuco

11.

This brings the readers as where the story happens which is illustrated through scenery, landscape, building, weather, or even season.

a)

plot

b)

climax

c)

setting

d)

character

12.

Plays, short stories, plays, and novels are under

a)

Expository writing

b)

Expressive writing

c)

Creative writing

d)

Persuasive writing

13.

An element of a story that leads the central conflict by building a series of events in the character’s life.

a)

theme

b)

mood

c)

plot

d)

protagonist

14.

Refers to a segment/part of something that is replaced to represent in for a whole or vice versa.

a)

symbolism

b)

allegory

c)

paradox

d)

synecdoche

15.

Neither a plot nor a full narrative description, but a carefully crafted verbal sketch that might be part of some larger work, or a complete description in itself.

a)

short story

b)

sonnet

c)

poem

d)

vignette

16.

Uses contradictory statements but in a closer examination turns out to make sense

a)

irony

b)

allegory

c)

symbolism

d)

paradox

17.

The pattern in which end rhyme occurs

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

alliteration

c)

assonance

d)

rhyme scheme

18.

The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. This is an example of -

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

onomatopoeia

19.

Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top. What literary device is used in the given sentence?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

allegory

d)

personification

20.

Give the rhyme scheme of the given lines.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

a)

aabbcc

b)

bcbcaa

c)

ababaa

d)

ababcc

21.

What is imagery?

a)

the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses

b)

It's nothing, you just made it up

c)

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

d)

a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability

22.

This refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word.

a)

symbolism

b)

allegory

c)

connotation

d)

denotation

23.

When we use the name “Washington D.C” we are talking about the U.S’ political hot seat by referring to the political capital of the United States because all the significant political institutions such as the White House, Supreme Court, the U.S. Capitol and many more are located her. The phrase “Washington D.C.” is ________________ for the government of the U.S. in this case.

a)

metonymy

b)

synecdoche

c)

irony

d)

paradox

24.

“A long song” is an example of

a)

metaphor

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

alliteration

d)

assonance

25.

"They ate food." Is this an example of imagery?

a)

yes

b)

no

c)

neither way

d)

both a and b

26.

Sheanne tried hard to convince herself that her Hollywood dreams were worth the struggle but her parents, and her inner voice of reason, failed to agree.

a)

theme

b)

conflict

c)

climax

d)

denouement

27.

“We were the first that ever burst”, a line taken from the poem Ancient Mariner, is considered to be an example of

a)

eye rhyme

b)

internal rhyme

c)

external rhyme

d)

end rhyme

28.

The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house. What type of imagery is present in this given line?

a)

olfactory

b)

auditory

c)

visual

d)

tactile

29.

It is a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.

a)

irony

b)

hyperbole

c)

paradox

d)

personification

30.

The manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story is called

a)

point of view

b)

conflict

c)

falling action

d)

theme

31.

Prose takes its form in a metered style and uses rhyme than natural speech.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

32.

“The Witch” is a short story which is considered to be shorter than a novel.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

33.

A character in a short story can either be a person or an animal taking the action of the story.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

34.

Absurd play combines dialogues, songs, and dance numbers and accredited to Broadway for blending vaudeville, revue, melodrama, as well as operetta in its presentation.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

35.

Conflict is called the central idea or concept of the storyline.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

36.

There is usually a pattern, unintended or intentional, that threads the plot together

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

37.

“I'm not feeling bad” is an example of litotes.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

38.

In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

39.

The rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in a prose or poetry.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING

40.

Films can be taken from the written word of a large work such as novels and autobiography.

a)

CREATIVE

b)

WRITING