BURGOS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

New Poblacion, Burgos, La Union

First Grading Examination
(First Semester 2016-2017)
Creative Writing
Name: __________________________________
Grade & Section: _________

Score: _____

DIRECTIONS: Read and analyze each item before writing your answers on the spaces provided.
Leave no item unanswered.
I.
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Select the letter of the best answer
_________1. It is a type of writing which goal is to change attitude or motivate into action.
A. Persuasive
B. Creative
C. Expository
D. Expressive
_________2. It is a type of writing which exposes a topic analytically & objectively.
A. Persuasive
B. Creative
C. Expository
D. Expressive
_________3. It is a type of writing which is subjective response to a personal experience.
A. Persuasive
B. Creative
C. Technical
D. Expressive
_________4. It is a type of writing which conveys specific information about a technical subject to
a specific audience for a specific purpose.
A. Persuasive
B. Creative
C. Technical
D. Expressive
_________5. The traditional line of metered poetry contains a number of rhythmical units is

called ___________.
A. Poetic Foot
B. Rhyme
C. Irregularity
D. Mood
_________6. It is the emotions, thoughts and ideas associated with and evoked by the word.
A. Denotation
B. Connotation
C. Literal
D. Figurative
_________7. A figure of speech used when comparing two unlike things using likeand as.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Personification
_________8. A word that sounds like its meaning is using a figure of speech called
__________________.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Personification
_________9. When something is named to replace something closely related to it, it uses
__________________.
A. Synecdoche
B. Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Onomatopoeia
_________10. When the whole is replaced by the part or the part by the whole, it uses
__________________.
A. Synecdoche
B. Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Onomatopoeia

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_________11. It is a form of poem that tells a series of events using poetic devices such as rhythm,
rhyme, compact language, and attention to sound.
A. Narrative
B. Descriptive
C. Dramatic
D. Lyric
_________12. A type of poetry which is generally considered the most intense genre of poetry, the
form that honors its musical origins.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Narrative
Descriptive
Dramatic
Lyric

_________13. Which of the following is a form of narrative poetry?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Ode
Elegy
Song
Epic

_________14. Which of the following is a form of lyric poetry?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Epic
Sonnet
Dramatic Monologue
Soliloquy

_________15. Which of the following is a form of dramatic poetry?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Epic
Sonnet
Dramatic Monologue
Ode

_________16. A form of poetry that has four lines and can have a variety of rhyme patterns.
A.
B.
C.
D.

Quatrain
Cinquan
Haiku
Limerick

_________17. A form of poetry which is seven-lined and shaped like a diamond.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Haiku
Shape poetry
Diamante
Acrostics
_________18. A complex form of poetry which is relying on the repetition of end-words.
A. Villanelle
B. Sonnet
C. Sestina
D. Rondeau
_________19. A form of poem which does not follow the rules, and have no rhyme or rhythm; but
they are still an artistic expression.
A. Blank Verse
B. Shape poetry
C. Epic
D. Sonnet
_________20. A form of poetry that originated in Japan which is composed of five lines with a
total of thirty-one syllables.
A. Haiku
B. Tanka
C. Tanaga
D. Villanelle
_________21. How many lines comprise a sonnet?
A. 7
B. 14
C. 21
D. 42

_________22. A form of lyric poetry which expresses sorrow or lamentation.

A. Ode
B. Elegy
C. Epic
D. Sonnet
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_________23. Distinguish the difference of a journal to a diary.

A. A journal is any written log while a diary is a specific type of journal where you write the
events of each day of your life.
B. A diary is any written log while a journal is a specific type of journal where you write the
events of each day of your life.
C. A journal and a diary has no difference at all.
D. None of the above
_________24. Distinguish the difference of a diary to a memoir.
A. A diary tackles about personal accounts with narrow themes and specific topics while a
memoir is about daily chronicles of ones life
B. A memoir tackles about personal accounts with narrow themes and specific topics while a
diary is about daily chronicles of ones life
C. A memoir and a diary has no difference at all.
D. None of the above
_________25. What sensory detail is used in the following statement: The fragrant roses drifted
through the room like elusive ghosts.
A. Sight
B. Olfactory
C. Tactile
D. Auditory
_________26. What sensory detail is used in the following statement: Although they could not see
outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their
door.
A. Sight
B. Olfactory
C. Tactile
D. Auditory
_________27. What sensory detail is used in the following statement: The cheesecakes exquisite
flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.
A. Gustatory
B. Olfactory
C. Tactile
D. Auditory
_________28. In the dark night, the city lights are glimmering fireflies. What are being compared in
the statement?
A. Dark night and city lights
B. City lights and fireflies
C. Dark night and fireflies
D. Dark night, city lights and fireflies
_________29. What makes the following statement a simile? His mind is like a sponge.
A. It is comparing his mind to a sponge
B. It is comparing his mind to inanimate object
C. It is overly stated
D. It is comparing with the use of like.
_________30. What makes the following statement a simile? She ran like the wind.
A. Running and the wind are unlike things. When you compare the speed of running to the
speed of the wind, you are using a simile.
B. Running and the wind are like things. When you compare the speed of running to the
speed of the wind, you are using a simile.
C. Both are correct
D. None is correct
_________ 31. He is a pig is not a simile because _______________________.
A. it does compare two unlike things but does not use the words like or as
B. it doesnt compare two unlike things and does not use the words like or as
C. it compares two like things but does not use the words like or as
D. it compares two like things and uses the words like or as
Which technique is being used in the following numbers?
_________32. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
_________33. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A. Simile

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B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
_________34. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
_________35. He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun,
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
_________36. All round the house is the jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
_________37. Which statement best describes the following statement. Will you walk into my
parlor? said the spider to the fly.
A. The statement is a simile because it compares the spider to the parlor
B. The statement is a personified statement since the fly was able to talk.
C. The statement is using imagery because it lets us imagine how the spider talks.
D. The statement is a personified statement since the spider was able to talk.
_________ 38. The following statement is a sentence with descriptive details. Which could be the
best basic sentence it which the statement is derived? The frigid morning air and dense gray fog
did not stop Jane from inhaling
the fresh smell of rain from the damp concrete and yelling across the Arlington quad, Good
morning,
Joe!
A. It was a cold morning at Arlington High School.
B. It was a warm morning at Arlington High School.
C. It was a sad morning at Arlington High School.
D. It was a happy morning at Arlington High School.
_________39. The music is the heartbeat of the people. Music is compared to a heart because they
A. are both loud.
B. both have a beat.
C. are both necessary to stay alive.
D. Both have rhythm
_________40. The candle became the sun, lighting the dark world. A candle is compared to the
sun because they
A. are both in the sky.
B. both burn at night.
C. both light the darkness.
D. Both essential to the dark world
The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing the trees until they danced with
anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with
golf ball eyes and flopping, tongue bounded across the lawn.
_________41. Which words could serve as clues in identifying the tone of the paragraph?
A. Laughing, skipped, teasing, danced, anger
B. Cajoling, fighting itself, slapping, silly, golf ball, flopping
C. A only
D. Both are correct
_________42. What is the diction of the paragraph?
A. Humorous
B. Happy-go-lucky
C. Sad
D. Frustrated
_________43. What is the tone of the paragraph?
A. Humorous
B. Happy-go-lucky
C. Sad

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D. Frustrated
Gently smiling, her mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the childs neck, and carefully,
quietly, left the room, making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened
door should the child awake.
_________44. What is the diction of the statement?
A. Loving
B. Sexy
C. Challenging
D. Delicate
_________45. What is the tone of the statement?
A. Serene
B. Confrontational
C. Seductive
D. Angry
What foot is the most applicable for the following set of words?
_________46. Invest, at last
A. Iambic
B. Trochaic
C. Spondaic
D. Anapestic
_________47. Lady, manly
A. Iambic
B. Trochaic
C. Spondaic
D. Anapestic
_________48. Intercede, at the start
A. Iambic
B. Trochaic
C. Spondaic
D. Anapestic
_________49. The following line is anapestic. Identify the meter used. How shall I know whether
they will come back to me
A. Monometer
B. Dimeter
C. Trimeter
D. Tetrameter
_________50. The following line is iambic. Identify the meter used. A book of verse underneath
the bough
A. Dimeter
B. Trimeter
C. Tetrameter
D. Pentameter
II.

Read and analyze the following poem then answer the questions that follow.

One Art
The art of losing isnt hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isnt hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster
lost my mothers watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isnt hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

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some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasnt a disaster.
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shant have lied. Its evident
the art of losings not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster
-Elizabeth Bishop
___________________________51. Who is the poet?
___________________________52. What is the rhyme scheme?
___________________________53. What type of poem is it?
___________________________54. What form of poem is it?
III.

Create your own haiku.

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