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Creative Writing: Preliminary Examination

First Semester
2019-2020

Name: ___________________________________ Date: ______________

Grade and Section: ________________________

General Direction: This is a 80-item test, read each directions written in every type of test carefully.
Answer the test in one hour.

I. TRUE OR FALSE
Write T if the statement is TRUE otherwise, write FALSE. Write your answer on the space provided.

_________1. Creative Writing is any writing that is original and self-expressive.

_________2. Creative Writing is very similar to Technical and Academic Writing.
_________3. Technical Writing aims to entertain and share experiences.
_________4. Technical Writing uses specialized vocabulary such like scientific terms.
_________5. Academic Writing uses slang or evocative phrases which can be
perceived well by the audience.
_________6. Creative Writing is intended for general audience.
_________7. Fiction and Non-fiction are under types of Academic Writing.
_________8. User Manuals, Software Installation Guides and other similar types are examples of
Technical Writing.
_________9. Research Papers, Dissertations and other similar types are examples of Academic
Writing.
_________10. The most important ingredient of Creative Writing is imagination.

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Read the questions carefully and select the response that best answers the question.

1. All of these are examples of Creative Writing EXCEPT?

A. Poetry
B. Novella
C. Personal Essays
D. Argumentative Essays

2. It consist of dialogues or singing between characters intended for theatrical performance rather than
just reading?
A. Speeches
B. Short Story
C. Poetry
D. Plays

3. Novella is composed of ______________?

A. 2,500-3,000 words
B. 3,500-7,500 words
C. 17,000- 40,000 words
D. 40,000+ words

4. It is expressing or communicating thoughts by speaking in front of an audience.

A. Memoirs
B. Movie or Television Scripts
C. Songs
D. Speeches

5. What type of character plays a role that develops and changes during the events in the story?
A. Flat
B. Dynamic
C. Confidante
D. Foil

6. What do you call the point at which the central conflict reaches the highest point of intensity in a
story?
A. Exposition
B. Rising Action
C. Climax
D. Denouement

7. Unlike novels and plays, poems do not have to rely on?

A. Metaphors and similes
B. Rhyming
C. Immediacy
D. Narrative structure

8. A literary work written in verse is called?

A. Poetry
B. Narrative Poetry
C. Lyrical Poetry
D. Descriptive Poetry

9. The central or main idea of the literary piece that the author wants to express is known as?
A. Point of view
B. Dialogue
C. Tone
A. Theme
** For numbers 10-15. Refer to the poem below.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

The earth, and every common sight

To me did seem

Apparelled in celestial light,

The glory and the freshness of a dream.

It is not now as it hath been of yore;

Turn wheresoe'er I may,

By night or day,

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

- Intimations of Immortality
by William Wordsworth

10. What type of poetry is written above as example?

A. Ode
B. Elegy
C. Ballad
D. Limerick

11. What type of stanza does the poem features?

A. Couplet
B. Tercet
C. Quatrain
D. Cinquain

12. What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of the poem?
A. AAAA
B. ABCD
C. ABCB
D. ABAB

13. What is the poetic foot used in the poem?

A. Iambic
B. Trochaic
C. Anapestic
D. Dactylic

14. What is the theme of the poem?

A. Nature
B. Sorrow
C. Hope
D. Dream

15. What is the tone of the poem?

A. Nature
B. Sorrow
C. Hope
D. Dream

16. What do you call a lyric poem consisting of 14 lines that is usually written in iambic pentameter?
A. Ode
B. Haiku
C. Sonnet
D. Ballad
17. A traditional Japanese haiku is composed of?

A. A two-line poem with 17 syllables, written in a seven-ten syllable count

B. A three-line poem with 21 syllables, written in a seven-seven-seven syllable count
C. A five-line poem with 15 syllables, written in a two-five-two-five-one syllable count
D. A three-line poem with 17 syllables, written in a five-seven-five syllable count

18. What is a mournful or reflective poem that is usually composed as a lament for someone who has
died?
A. Eulogy
B. Elegy
C. Epitaph
D. Ode

19. It is the repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs.
A. Rhyming patterns
B. Rhyme
C. Rhyme Scheme
D. Rhythm

20. What literary device is usually used in Elegy?

A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Synecdoche
D. Apostrophe

III. IDENTIFICATION
Part I- Identify the sensory details used in the story. Underline the part of the story then write VS for
Visual, OL for Olfactory, GS for Gustatory, AD for Auditory and TC for Tactile. (15 points)

Grandmother Workman stumble over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal’s thin forearm with her

leathery hand. The folds and creases beneath her skin coiled themselves out like electrical wiring, like

the bloated, roughly-textured relief map of the world that his mother just posted above his bedside

table. Randal looked ahead toward the winding spiral staircase, fidgeted with a small hole in his

baseball jersey, and bit his lip. His mouth filled with the sweet, coppery taste of blood as she leaned in

closely toward him, breathing her hot breath on the damp hair at the base of his neck. She smelled of

wet cigarettes and bacon. As they slowly climbed the long, steep staircase, the only sound was his

grandmother’s labored breathing and the mournful creak of the wooden stairs.

Part II- Identify the poetic foot and meter of the following lines from the poem. Write your complete
answer on the space provided. (15 points)

 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield- ___________________________

 Peter, Peter pumpkin-eater ___________________________

 Had a wife and couldn’t keep her-

 This is the forest primeval. ___________________________

The murmuring pines and the hemlocks

 I have given no man of my fruit to eat;-

I trod the grapes, I have drunken the wine. ___________________________

Had you eaten and drunken and found it sweet,

This wild new growth of the corn and vine,

IV. ENUMERATION
Write your answers on the blank space below.

[1-8] Type of Stanzas

[9-11] 3 Forms of Poetry

[12-13] Philippine Haiku

[14-19] Poetic Feet

[20] Complete the sentence: I am ____________________, your future _____________________.

“If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.” Connie Sellecca