Creative Writing: Davao City National High School
Creative Writing: Davao City National High School
Creative Writing: Davao City National High School
Creative Writing
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Identify the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.(30 pts.)
____1. Written in prose format and published as a book and considered to be a long piece of creative
fiction that is believed to be possessing, demanding, and complex.
a. narrative poetry c. novel e. theater play
b. drama d. short story
____2. The following are all basic types of writing except –
a. expository c. creative e. documentary
b. expressive d. technical
____3. It is a poem that demonstrates grief and melancholy to the dead.
a. elegy c. corrido e. song
b. ode d. psalm
____4. Short poems that are tainted with love, hope, joy, grief, sadness, or sorrow as common themes
a. corridos c. songs e. sonnets
b. psalms d. folksongs
____5. A stanza with five lines is called
a. cinquain c. septet e. sexian
b. quatrain d. tercet
____6. A poem that provides an amusing and a happy ending.
a. farce c. tragedy e. social poem
b. melodrama d. comedy
____7. It employs contradictory statements or situations to show reality dissimilar from truth.
a. paradox c. metonymy e. allegory
b. irony d. synecdoche
____8. ________________ is the central idea or concept of the storyline
a. denouement c. falling action e. point of view
b. theme d. conflict
____9. Exposes a topic analytically and objectively, like a news report.
a. Expository writing c. Creative writing e. Technical writing
b. Expressive writing d. Persuasive writing
____10. “The Witch” by -
a. Layeta P. Bucoy c. Jessica Hagerdorn e. Merlie Alunan
b. Edilberto K. Tiempo d. Miguel Syjuco
____11. This brings the readers as where the story happens which is illustrated through scenery,
landscape, building, weather, or even season.
a. plot c. setting e. mood
b. climax d. character
____12. Plays, short stories, plays, and novels are under
a. Expository writing c. Creative writing e. Technical writing
b. Expressive writing d. Persuasive writing
____13. An element of a story that leads the central conflict by building a series of events in the
character’s life.
a. theme c. plot e. antagonist
b. mood d. protagonist
____14. Refers to a segment/part of something that is replaced to represent in for a whole or vice versa.
a. symbolism c. paradox e. synecdoche
b. allegory d. metonymy
____15. Neither a plot nor a full narrative description, but a carefully crafted verbal sketch that might
be part of some larger work, or a complete description in itself.
a. short story c. sonnet e. vignette
b. novel d. poem
____16. Uses contradictory statements but in a closer examination turns out to make sense
a. metaphor c. allegory e. paradox
b. irony d. symbolism
____17. The pattern in which end rhyme occurs.
a. onomatopoeia c. assonance e. rhyme scheme
b. alliteration d. consonance
____18. The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. This is an example of -
a. alliteration c. assonance e. onomatopoeia
b. consonance d. rhyme scheme
____29. It is a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and
overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.
a. irony c. paradox e. synecdoche
b. hyperbole d. personification
____30. The manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story is called
a. point of view c. falling action e. persona
b. conflict d. theme
________________31. Prose takes its form in a metered style and uses rhyme than natural speech.
________________32.“The Witch” is a short story which is considered to be shorter than a novel.
________________33. A character in a short story can either be a person or an animal taking the action of
the story.
________________34. Absurd play combines dialogues, songs, and dance numbers and accredited to Broadway
for blending vaudeville, revue, melodrama, as well as operetta in its presentation.
________________35. Conflict is called the central idea or concept of the storyline.
________________36. There is usually a pattern, unintended or intentional, that threads the plot
together.
________________37.“I'm not feeling bad”is an example of litotes.
________________38. In literature, the word ‘setting’ is used to identify and establish the time, place
and mood of the events of the story.
________________39. The rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in a
prose or poetry.
Creative Writing pg. 2
________________40. Films can be taken from the written word of a large work such as novels and
autobiography.
Column A Column B
IV. WRITING
Direction: Using a Venn Diagram, give the differences and similarities of irony and paradox. (5 pts.)
Prepared by
HAZEL D. FLORES
MASTER TEACHER I