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midterms exam in creative writing

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“I heard the screeching of the door, and the sneaking of the shoes of my father as he arrived from work.” This sentence is an example of onomatopoeia. What words in the sentence imitate the sound of the door?

a)

screeching

b)

sneaking

c)

working

d)

hearing

2.

What is referred to as the choice of words in a literary work to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values?

a)

specific experiences

b)

figures of speech

c)

imagery

d)

diction

3.

What is known as the concrete representation of an idea by using language that can evoke the five senses?

a)

specific experiences

b)

figures of speech

c)

imagery

d)

diction

4.

What technique in appreciating the literary work identifies the experience of the writer which the readers can relate?

a)

specific experiences

b)

figures of speech

c)

choice of words

d)

imagery

5.

“I already produced buckets of tears in praying for my brother.” What figure of speech is being used in this sentence?

a)

hyperbole

b)

paradox

c)

irony

d)

pun

6.

What is known as the short literary piece that focuses on one plot giving description about the character, idea, or setting?

a)

short story

b)

synopsis

c)

legend

d)

novel

7.

I am as angry as bull at the rodeo. This sentence is an example of _________.

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

heart warming answer

8.

What kind of diction uses familiar and casual words in conversation in a relaxed form of language?

a)

colloquial

b)

informal

c)

formal

d)

slang

9.

What is the figure of speech that uses the words “like, than or as” in comparing things having common qualities?

a)

personification

b)

synecdoche

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

10.

“Who does not want to have high grades?” What figure of speech is used in this statement?

a)

rhetorical question

b)

rhetorical device

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

assonance

11.

What type of diction does not allow contractions and first-person pronouns?

a)

colloquial

b)

informal

c)

formal

d)

slang

12.

What is the type of imagery that tickles the reader’s sense of touch?

a)

gustatory

b)

olfactory

c)

auditory

d)

tactile

13.

What figure of speech gives human qualities to inanimate objects?

a)

personification

b)

metonymy

c)

allusion

d)

irony

14.

What is the type of imagery that appeals to the sense of smell?

a)

gustatory

b)

olfactory

c)

tactile

d)

visual

15.

Which of the following sentences has the olfactory imagery?

a)

Ivy has soft, smooth, fair, and radiant skin.

b)

Her sakura like scent still lingers on me.

c)

Mario is tall, dark, and handsome.

d)

The cake is sandy and bittersweet.

16.

What is the form of poetry where the writer does not follow the rhyme scheme?

a)

blank verse

b)

free verse

c)

sonnet

d)

haiku

17.

What poem follows an iambic pentameter does not rhyme?

a)

blank verse

b)

free verse

c)

limerick

d)

cinquain

18.

What is a five-line poem that follows a rhyme scheme of ABABB, ABABA, or AABCCB?

a)

limerick

b)

cinquain

c)

tanka

d)

haiku

19.

What is a three-liner poem where the first and third lines have five syllables and the second line has seven syllables?

a)

cinquain

b)

sonnet

c)

tanka

d)

haiku

20.

What literary element is made up of the topic plus the idea about it?

a)

structure

b)

setting

c)

theme

d)

mood

21.

They are a set of lines grouped together to form a poem.

a)

lines

b)

stanzas

c)

sentences

d)

paragraphs

22.

It is a distinguishing characteristic of a sonnet.

a)

31-syllable poem

b)

14-line poem

c)

16-line poem

d)

17-syllable poem

23.

What type of literature uses rhyme and meter?

a)

literary device

b)

literature

c)

poetry

d)

prose

24.

“The night was dark as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.” is an example of ______ imagery.

a)

visual

b)

auditory

c)

olfactory

d)

gustatory

25.

Which of the following statements is NOT a visual imagery in the quote of William Shakespeare? All that glitters is not gold Hell is empty and all the devils are here. These violent delights have violent ends…

a)

glitters is not gold

b)

devils are here

c)

hell is empty

d)

violent ends

26.

What figure of speech is employed in this phrase: violent delights?

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

oxymoron

d)

litotes

27.

What word device is used in this line? Shelley’s shell washed away from the shore.

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

consonance

c)

alliteration

d)

assonance

28.

The story of Why Fish Has a Scale and the Story of Piña are examples of _____.

a)

folktales

b)

folksongs

c)

epic

d)

myth

29.

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza from “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

a)

ABBA

b)

ABAB

c)

ABBA

d)

BAAB

30.

“Where words fail, music speaks.” What figurative language is being used in this line by Hans Christian Andersen?

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

31.

What element of fiction includes time, period, place, historical milieu, as well as social, political and perhaps even spiritual realities mirrored in a story?

a)

plot

b)

setting

c)

symbols

d)

characters

32.

Which of the following refers to an expression of contradiction between the actual from the expected outcome and to mean the opposite of what one says?

a)

Idiom

b)

Irony

c)

Metaphor

d)

Oxymoron

33.

It is a type of narrative poem which is meant to be sung.

a)

Legend

b)

Epic

c)

Ballad

d)

Ode

34.

Which of the following refers to the central idea or message in a work of literature?

a)

theme

b)

imagery

c)

illusion

d)

allusion

35.

Which of the following is the result of competing desires or the presence of obstacles that need to overcome; a clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills?

a)

irony

b)

theme

c)

setting

d)

conflict

36.

What is the rhyme scheme of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s The Builders? (consider the end sounds of: great, rime, time, and fate )

a)

ABAB

b)

ABBA

c)

AABB

d)

AAAA

37.

It is a lyric poem consisting of 14 lines and, in the English version, is usually written in iambic pentameter.

a)

ode

b)

sonnet

c)

elegy

d)

haiku

38.

Which point of view is the least used by writers?

a)

First person

b)

Third person

c)

Second person

d)

Third-person Limited

39.

After coming home late from a party, Mae’s father questioned her. She wanted to tell him that she was studying at a friend’s place and lost track of time, but she told him the truth instead. What character trait does Mae demonstrate?

a)

wise

b)

innocent

c)

trustworthy

d)

inconsiderate

40.

Which statement does NOT describe the nature of figurative language?

a)

explicit expression

b)

suggestive and attributive

c)

use of foreign symbols and images

d)

highly artistic means of expression

41.

What type of setting can be created in the following sentences? “Think of a lost child wandering in the woods. The tall trees block out the sun, animals make eerie sounds in the distance, and the wind rustles the leaves”.

a)

creepy and nervous

b)

happy and romantic

c)

dreary and brooding

d)

suspense and ominous

42.

Which statement below best defines Man vs Nature?

a)

When a character disagrees with the values, laws or beliefs of a group

b)

When a character has a problem with outside forces like weather or land

c)

When a character has an argument or disagreement with another character

d)

When a character develops an internal struggle between his thoughts and ideas

43.

Which of the following statements describes point of view?

a)

It refers to as how a story is told or narrated.

b)

It explains the artistic means of expressions.

c)

It describes the tangling series of events in the story.

d)

It is the vantage point from which the story unfolds through the eyes of an authoritative narrator.

44.

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

a)

elegy

b)

corrido

c)

song

d)

ode

45.

This refers to the figures or people found in the story.

a)

character

b)

theme

c)

setting

d)

conflict

46.

What element of fiction challenges a character’s conviction and brings out his or her weaknesses or strengths?

a)

theme

b)

setting

c)

conflict

d)

characterization

47.

The protagonist character who has the opposite of most traditional attributes.

a)

antihero

b)

dynamic

c)

flat

d)

antagonist

48.

I said, “I need to stay at home so I can avoid the COVID-19 infection. I am not going with him to the mall.” This is an example of what point of view?

a)

first person

b)

second person

c)

third-person limited

d)

third-person omniscient

49.

Helene describes the events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the book she just read. This means that Helene is describing what?

a)

plot

b)

theme

c)

setting

d)

conflict

50.

When the characters have different and opposing views, what kind of conflict is this?

a)

man vs. man

b)

man vs. nature

c)

man vs. society

d)

man vs. himself