WorksheetsMidterm Examination in Creative Nonfiction Grade 12
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 28mins
(a) is a French word denoting ‘kind', related etymologically both to ‘gender’ and ‘genus’. It has been used in English since at least the early 19th century to refer to a form, a variety of literature or art.
(a) is the oldest form of literature. It is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning.
Derived from a Greek word aeidein , which means to chant or sing, (a) usually praises something. It is often ceremonious, that addresses and celebrates a person, places, things or an idea.
(a) is a form of lyric poem laments the death of someone.
(a) is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons.
(a) is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons.
(a) is a literature in the form of prose. It is a form of language that has no formal metrical structure.
(a) is a fictional story that is told in narrative form and that is book length.
(a) is a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance which can be written for theatre, television, radio, and film. In layman’s terms, it is usually called a play.
(a) is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. It is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and broadly stylized performances.
Writing (a) requires the skill of the storyteller and the research ability of the reporter (Hidalgo 2003). The writer knows both the craft of fiction and journalism.
It is one type of biography, which tells a life story of its author, meaning it is a written record of the author’s life. It comes through the person’s own pen, in his own words.
(a)
It is an account or detailed description about the life of a person. It entails basic facts, such as childhood, education, career, relationships, family, and death.
(a)
It is a French term which refers to reminiscence or remembrance. It is a memory written by the subject himself, in real time that presents a moral or message to the readers.
(a)
It is a person’s account of a journey to another country or place.
(a)
It is a type of journalism that provides a readable and vivid account, with all essential details, of an eyewitness event or one in which the author has taken part.
(a)
According to Marcus Apple , an Austrian psychologist, those who like watching fictional drama or comedy have a stronger sense of (a) than those who like watching news and documentary shows.
Raymond Mar and Keith Oatley, Canadian psychologists, said that readers who immersed themselves in fictional books performed better on (a) scale, thus fiction helps in “making the world a better place” for it “improves interpersonal understanding”
American novelist, writer, and journalist Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls on his experieces of the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway used real people as well as fictional characters as his characters.
personal experience
something heard
something seen
some questions about life
An English novelist and dramatist, Henry Fielding believed that humans tend to overlook the goodness in everyone. He portrayed this belief in the novel Tom Jones.
Tom Jones is a character born out of wedlock. Around him, Fielding explored the idea of right and wrong.
personal experience
something heard
something seen
some questions about life
Mark Twain is an American writer best known for his classical novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin were both written as a reaction against slavery in the US.
personal experience
a strong feeling against something
history as a source
some questions about life
Filipino novelist Carlos Bulosan set his novel America is in the Heart during America’s Great Depression. It was a time of acute economic hardship for Americans, but moreso of a Filipino.
personal experience
a strong feeling against something
history as a source
some questions about life
A sonnet has (a) lines.
(a) pentameter is a poetic meter with 10 beats per line made up of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.
FIGURES OF SPEECH: What kind of figures speech is employed in the sentence below?
I didn’t have any bus fare, but fortunately some good Samaritan helped me out!
Allusion
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Litotes
FIGURES OF SPEECH: What kind of figures speech is employed in the sentence below?
Ireland is no ordinary country.
Allusion
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Litotes
FIGURES OF SPEECH: What kind of figures speech is employed in the sentence below?
That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding a dinosaur.
Allusion
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Litotes
FIGURES OF SPEECH: What kind of figures speech is employed in the sentence below?
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me.
Allusion
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Litotes
FIGURES OF SPEECH: ______ is the use of words in a way that the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning.
It may be verbal or situational.
Irony
Metonymy
Synechdoche
Oxymoron
FIGURES OF SPEECH: ______ is Joining two contradictory words for dramatic or witty effect. A phrase is produced by combining a noun and an adjective.
Irony
Metonymy
Synechdoche
Oxymoron
FIGURES OF SPEECH: ______ is replacing the name of a thing with something else related to that thing. It is used for creating symbolic meaning.
Irony
Metonymy
Synechdoche
Oxymoron
FIGURES OF SPEECH: ______is using part of something to represent a whole or the whole to represent a part.
Ex. He got his new wheels.
(The word ‘wheels’ refers to the entire car)
Irony
Metonymy
Synechdoche
Oxymoron
CHARACTER: A __________ character is a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis.
dynamic
static
flat
round
CHARACTER: A _________ character is someone who does not change over time; his or her
personality does not transform or evolve.
dynamic
static
flat
round
CHARACTER: A __________ character is anyone who has a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person.
dynamic
static
flat
round
CHARACTER: A _________ character is a literary personality
notable for one kind of personality trait or characteristic.
dynamic
static
flat
round
CHARACTER: __________ characters are those types of characters who have become conventional or stereotypical through repeated use in particular types of stories. They are instantly recognizable to readers or audience members (e.g. the femme fatale, the cynical but moral private eye, the mad scientist, the geeky boy with glasses, and the
faithful sidekick).
stock
symbolic
anti-hero
foil
CHARACTER: __________ is a major character, usually the protagonist, who lacks conventional nobility of mind, and who struggles for values not deemed universally admirable.
stock
symbolic
anti-hero
foil
CHARACTER: A __________ is any character (usually the antagonist or an important supporting character) whose personal qualities contrast with another character (usually the protagonist). By providing this contrast, we get to know more about the other character.
stock
symbolic
anti-hero
foil
CHARACTER: A ___________ character is any major or minor character whose very existence represents some major idea or aspect of society. For example, in Lord of the Flies, Piggy is a symbol of both the rationality and physical weakness of modern civilization; Jack, on the other hand, symbolizes the violent tendencies (the Id) that William Golding believes is within human nature.
stock
symbolic
anti-hero
foil
