Republic of the Philippines

Region VIII – Eastern Visayas

Schools Division Office of Biliran
District of Almeria
TABUNAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Tabunan, Almeria, Biliran

Third Quarter Examination in Creative Writing

Multiple Choice: Read and understand each question below and pick the correct letter of your choice. Erasures and cheating
is strictly prohibited.

Differentiate imaginative writing from among other forms of writing (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-1)

1. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of an imaginative writing?
a. words are flowery c. words are expressive
b. words are more interesting d. words are denotatively stated
2. The following are characteristics of technical writing EXCEPT---
a. It shows facts b. it is systematic c. it is formal d. it is artistic
3. It is subjective, artistic, imaginative, and has a larger audience.
a. Technical writing b. academic writing c. both a&b d. creative writing
4. Which one of the following is NOT a form of creative writing?
a. Poetry b. fiction c. drama d. proposals
5. Which one of the following is an aim of creative writing?
a. To instruct b. to inform c. to entertain d. none of the above
Utilize language to evoke emotional and intellectual responses from readers. (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-3)
6. Which of the following helps you understand how the speaker was feeling?
a. The afternoon penetrated the afternoon sun.
b. Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks.
c. Light, give me light… was the wordless cry of my soul.
d. I was glad I crushed the doll.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
7. What is the emotion emphasized by the speaker of the poem above?
a. Proud b. hopeless c. hopeful d. confused
Everyone, young or old,
Needs someone to listen
As their stories are told
The difference is yours to make.
A minute from your busy day
Is all it would take.
8. What is the message of the poem?
a. The importance of time to be spent for listening others.
b. The importance of making difference.
c. The importance of telling stories.
d. All of the above
9. According to the speaker, what will you do to make a difference?
a. Sometimes listen to the one who is telling a story.
b. Give time to listen to the ones telling a story.
c. Always tell a good story to listen to.
10. According to the speaker, whose story will you listen to?
a. Only the story of your friend b. story of everyone c. story of yourself
Use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences (HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-4)
11. Which sensory detail does this statement appeal to? “My fingers lingered on the familiar leaves…”
a. Sight b. Taste c. Touch d. smell
12. Which of the five senses is used in this sentence? “The warm juice burger felt like heaven on my tongue.”
a. Taste b. Sight c. Touch d. sound
13. “He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands; ring’d with the azure world he stands; the
wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.” Choose the
phrase from the passage that appeal to your sense of hearing.
a. He watches from his mountain walls, and like the thunderbolt he falls.
b. He clasps the crag with crooked hands, close to the sun in lonely lands.
c. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.
14. What’s the meaning of this simile? “ My mom can be fiery as a volcano when I don’t do my chores on time.”
a. Her hair is red. c. She gets really angry.
b. She talks really loudly. d. She spits when she talks.
15. What’s the meaning of this personification? “The camera loves me!”
 a. Photography is one of my hobbies. c. Photos of me are always really good.
b. I own an expensive camera. d. I like to visit art museums.
16. The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one. What is the literal meaning of the italicized words?
a. The car is very old. c. The car is very new.
b. The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
17. I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! What figure of speech is the example?
a. Hyperbole b. Alliteration c. Simile d. metaphor
18. It describes the subject by using words or phrases that appeal to the five senses – sight, smell, taste, hearing, and
touch.
a. Sensory details b. figures of speech c. diction d. theme
19. “Leap up, like that, and land so lightly.” The given example is called---
a. Alliteration b. allusion c. onomatopoeia d. hyperbole
20. “Everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward the isles of yours that wait for me…”
What kind of comparison is used between the two objects in the given example?
a. Direct comparison b. indirect comparison c. both are correct
Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in poetry ( HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6)
21. It is the summarized statement containing the main thought or meaning of the poem.
a. theme b. tone c. diction d. plot
22. It refers to the attitude and mood of the poem which influences the emotional response of the reader.
a. tone b. theme c. plot d. diction
23. It is the link between music and poetry. It adds music quality to the poem which gives the readers reading pleasure.
a. rhyme b. rhythm c. tone d. theme
24. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” The rhyme of the passage occurs within the lines.
How do you call this characteristic of rhyme?
a. internal rhyme b. true rhyme c. off rhyme d. slant rhyme
25. How many lines does the quintet form have?
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 6
Determine specific forms and conventions of poetry. ( HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-7)
26. A poem of consistent length and meter but do not employ rhyme is called---
a. Blank verse b. haiku c. epic d. limerick
27. It is a brief Japanese verse form of poem consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables.
a. Haiku b. free verse c. sonnet d. epic
28. A poem consisting of five lines wherein lines, one, two, and five and lines three and four are rhyming is called---
a. Limerick b. blank verse c. haiku d. sonnet
29. Which one of the following is NOT a form of poetry?
a. meter b. sonnet c. free verse d. blank verse
30. It is a poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
a. Sonnet b. haiku c. limerick d. free verse
Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in fiction
31. It is how the character is introduced to the reader.
a. Characterization b. character c. plot d. setting
32. Through ________, the reader follows the story and is introduced to different environment, people and situations
through the chosen perspective of the author.
a. Point of view b. theme c. plot d. setting
33. In this point of view, the narrator tells the story from his/her perspective and frequently uses the pronoun “I”.
a. First person b. second person c. third person d. none of the above
34. This type of point of view tells the story from the perspective of someone outside of the story.
a. Third person b. second person c. first person d. all of the above
35. “And I like the parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.” Under what point of view is the
excerpt belongs?
a. Third person b. second person c. first person d. none of the above
36. It is where the characters move and where the story is developed.
a. Plot b. setting c. characters d. theme
37. “He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good-humored, lively; and I never saw such happy
manners!--- so much ease, with such perfect good bearings.!” This is an example of what point of view?
a. Second personb. first person c. third person
38. This particular type of dimension focuses on directly providing a description of the characters to the readers.
a. Dramatized characters b. rounded character c. static character
39. They give life to a story for they are the ones who engage in various actions, situations, and circumstances.
a. Characters b. characterization c. plot d. setting
40. This type of character does not change all throughout the story.
a. Static b. dynamic c. flat d. a&b

Prepared by:

MYLINE R. LOPEZ