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WorksheetsCreative Non Fiction Midterms Part 1
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
What is the term for the successive repetition of the sounds of consonants within a sentence that creates a special mood?
Assonance
Consonance
Dissonance
Onomatopoeia
What is the intentional use of words that create a harsh or clashing sound (no pattern) and a conflicted atmosphere?
Consonance
Assonance
Dissonance
Euphony
Fill in the blank: Onomatopoeia is a sound device that _________?
Imitates sounds being described
Describes emotions in detail
Creates visual imagery
Explains historical events
Fill in the blank: Alliteration is the repetition of sounds of the ________ consonant.
first
last
middle
second
Fill in the blank: Assonance is the repetition of the sounds of ________ in the stressed syllables.
vowels
consonants
syllables
words
Which sound device is meant to borrow the reader’s ears?
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Sound devices (general)
Which principle of rhythm involves the repetition of sound-alike words?
Repetition
Rhyming
Euphony
Cacophony
Which principle of rhythm refers to a musical pattern to a stanza?
Rhyming
Repetition
Euphony
Cacophony
Which principle of rhythm describes sounds that flow harmoniously and pleasantly?
Euphony
Cacophony
Rhyming
Repetition
Which principle of rhythm describes sounds that flow harshly and discordantly?
Euphony
Cacophony
Rhyming
Repetition
Fill in the blank: Imagery is an image produced in the mind by ________.
language
music
light
emotion
What type of poetic imagery is described as what people think of when they hear the term imagery, and refers to qualities of how something looks visually in the reader’s head?
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Which type of imagery appeals to a reader's sense of hearing?
Auditory Imagery
Visual Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Gustatory Imagery
Which type of imagery appeals to a reader's sense of taste?
Gustatory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Which type of imagery appeals to a reader's sense of smell?
Olfactory Imagery
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Which type of imagery creates the sensory experience of touch through text?
Tactile Imagery
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Which type of imagery appeals to the most primitive sensations in the human experience such as hunger, fatigue, fear, and even emotion?
Organic Imagery
Visual Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Tactile Imagery
Which type of imagery is the sensory experience of motion such as speed, slowness, falling, or even fighting?
Kinesthetic Imagery
Visual Imagery
Olfactory Imagery
Auditory Imagery
Which figure of speech is defined as 'Exaggerating'?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Which figure of speech is defined as 'Negating the opposite quality'?
Litotes
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Which figure of speech uses words where the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning?
Irony
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Which figure of speech is an implied comparison?
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Which figure of speech is an explicit and direct comparison?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Which figure of speech joins two contradictory words?
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Which figure of speech is a statement that contradicts itself but contains truth?
Paradox
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Which figure of speech gives an animal, object, or idea human qualities?
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Which figure of speech replaces the name with something related to that thing?
Metonymy
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Which figure of speech uses part of something to represent the whole or the whole to represent a part?
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is the complete story of the author's life, spanning from birth to the present, written by the author themselves.
An autobiography is a fictional story written by someone else about the author's life.
An autobiography is a collection of poems written by the author.
An autobiography is a biography written by a historian about the author's ancestors.
What does a biography focus on?
The writer's own memories
A life story by another writer
Reporting news events
Personal experiences
Fill in the blank: The French word for 'memory' is _________.
memoir
mémoire
mémoir
memorie
Which of the following is NOT a type of memoir?
Personal
Professional
Public
Fictional
In a memoir, you become the narrator and recount what happened in the past and what it means to you in the now.
True
False
What is the main focus of literary journalism?
Reporting fictional stories
Providing factual information and reporting those in narrative form
Writing poetry
Creating fictional characters
Fill in the blank: A literary journalist takes an ________ look at an event, object, place, or person, mainly for coverage in a newspaper or magazine.
in-depth
casual
brief
superficial
Which form of literary journalism is longer than the usual news and reads more like a stoirette (very short story)?
Reportage
Feature Story
Personality Profile
Biography
Reportage is the French word for 'reporting.'
True
False
What is the main method used in gathering facts for a personality profile?
Writing
Interviewing
Reading
Editing
