Oas Community College

Oas, Albay

FIRST QUARTERLY EXAM IN CREATIVE WRITING

Name: _________________________________________ Grade & Section: ________________ Score: _____________

A. Identify what figure of speech is used in the sentence.

1. __________________ Life is a beach.
2. __________________ Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.
3. __________________ The river falls under us like a trap door.
4. __________________ I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
5. __________________ Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display. Dusk demands daylight.
6. __________________ I’ve heard that joke a billion times, but it still cracks me up.
7. __________________ The glass vase is as fragile as a child’s sandcastle.
8. __________________ The buzzing bee startled me.
B. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
9. It is the artistic expression through written word.
a. technical writing c. creative writing
b. research writing d. artistic writing
10. It is a combination of words, lines, rhyme, tone, voice, theme, language and emotion which makes it
a creative means to liberate the poet’s thoughts and feelings.
a. poetry c. prose
b. play d. fiction
11. It refers to language and word choice of the writer
a. tone c. diction
b. theme d. setting
12. It is a story that is mainly drawn from the writer’s imagination.
a. poetry c. prose
b. non-fiction d. fiction
13. It refers to the attitude and mood of the poem.
a. tone c. mode
b. emotion d. feelings
14. It is the summarized statement containing the thought or meaning of the poem.
a. attitude c. mood
b. tone d. theme
15. It is the link between music and poetry.
a. music d. rhyme
b. emotion e. rhythm
16. It is the poetry’s measured accents an syllables arrangement.
a. rhythm c. pattern
b. meter d. rhyme
17. A type of poem that focuses on details.
a. descriptive poem c. lyric poem
b. narrative poem d. ballad
18. It is a poem that tells a story.
a. descriptive poem c. lyric poem
b. narrative poem d. ballad
19. It is a type of poem that expresses the feelings and thoughts of the poet.
a. descriptive poem c. lyric poem
b. narrative poem d. ballad
20. A narrative poem about a hero.
a. Haiku c. Epic
b. Limerick d. Sonnet
21. A poem without standard rhyme patterns, line and length
 a. Epic c. Sonnet
b. Free verse d. blank verse
22. A poem consisting of five lines wherein lines one, two and five and lines three and four rhymes
a. Blank verse c. sonnet
b. limerick d. Haiku
23. A poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter; makes use of rhyme
a. Haiku c. Epic
b. Sonnet d. Limerick
24. It is a form of fiction that usually runs from 2,000 to 6,000 words and its about eight to 24 pages.
a. Novella c. Novels
b. Short stories d. Flash fiction
25. It is a form of fiction that doesn’t limit regarding length. Some of it have trilogies and tetralogies.
a. Novella c. Novels
b. Short stories d. Flash fiction
26. It can be considered as the story that plays somewhere between a short story and a novel.
a. Novella c. Novels
b. Short stories d. Flash fiction
27. It is also called short-short which is under the umbrella of the short story.
a. Novella c. Novels
b. Short stories d. Flash fiction
C. Enumeration.
Types of Rhymes
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Metrical Patterns
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Different aspects of setting that should be considered in writing fiction
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Elements of fiction
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D. Write a concrete or shape poetry (10 points)
E. Write a creative description of any setting that your mind can imagine with at least 10 sentences. (5
points.)
You may use the back page of this test paper.

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