First Summative Examination in Creative Writing
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- Q1
Any writing, fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature.
Creative Nonfiction
Technical Writing
Creative Writing
Flash Fiction
120s - Q2
These are words or phrases that describe the content of the text.
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Writing
Sensory Details
Vocabulary Words
120s - Q3
It refers to the actual, dictionary meaning of a word or language that means what it appears to mean.
Literal
Colloquial
Connotation
Figurative
120s - Q4
A word composition arranged in a rhythmic pattern; it is used to express one's creative thoughts and feelings through a specialized and heightened language.
Nonfiction
Novel
Poetry
Figures of Speech
120s - Q5
This element of poetry adds musical quality to the poem which gives the readers reading pleasure.
rhyme
tone
theme
rhythm
120s - Q6
It summarizes the statement containing the main thought or meaning of the poem.
rhythm
theme
tone
rhyme
120s - Q7
Refers to the attitude and mood of the poem.
rhythm
tone
theme
rhyme
120s - Q8
A stanza that comprises six (6) lines.
dactylic
quatrain
sestet
octet
120s - Q9
The repetition of the intermediate or final consonant sound.
alliteration
assonance
personification
consonance
120s - Q10
The repetition of vowel sounds.
assonance
consonance
alliteration
personification
120s - Q11
How do we differentiate creative writing from technical writing?
Creative writing uses formal language while technical uses informal.
Creative writing is journalistic and uses a wide array of jargon, unlike technical writing.
Creative writing is objective while technical writing is subjective.
Creative writing is fictional and imaginative while, technical writing is factual.
120s - Q12
What is the idea or theme of the poem entitled, “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer?
life of trees
gifts of God
earth's abundance
beauty of nature
120s - Q13
A woman was sitting in a restaurant when suddenly a waiter spilled some coffee on her dress. She uttered in dismay, “Oh! What a good day I’m having!” This statement is an example of ___________________.
Litotes
Alliteration
Irony
Consonance
120s - Q14
Which figures of speech can be identified from this line?
"He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.”
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
120s - Q15
How would you differentiate “assonance’ from “consonance”?
Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds while consonance is the final sound.
They both refer to the emphasis of the vowel sounds.
Assonance is the repetition of the intermediate sound while consonance is the final sound.
Assonance refers to the repetition of initial sounds while consonance refers to the vowel sounds.
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