HARRIS MEMORIAL COLLEGE

G.K. Bunyi Street, Brgy. Dolores, Taytay, Rizal 1920

Basic Education Department

Senior High School
First Sem., SY 2019-2020
First Quarter

Quarterly Examination in
CREATIVE WRITING

Name: _________________________________________Score: _________________

Grade / Section / Strand: __________________________ Date: __________________

I. Sensory Details, Imagery and Figurative Language

Multiple Choice
A. Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct word or phrase being referred to in the
following sentences.

1. It is a kind of writing that uses language in imaginative and bold ways.

A. Creative
B. Academic
C. Technical
D. Journalistic

2. These are not considered creative writing.

A. Poetry
B. Dramas
C. Short stories
D. News Articles

3. The purpose of creative writing is to arouse their emotion and imagination.

A. writers’
B. readers’
C. editors’
D. students’

4. Which of the following is a characteristic of technical writing?

A. Objective
B. Fictional and imaginative
C. Entertaining, provocative and captivating
D. Subjective

5. Which of the sensory detail does this statement appeal to?

The afternoon sun penetrated my upturned face…
A. Taste
B. Feel
C. Smell
D. Sound
 6. Which of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.
A. Sight
B. Sound
C. Touch
D. taste

7. Why using sensory details important in your writing?

A. It is essential to your writing?
B. It is an important aspect to any great story.
C. It engages the reader
D. It is important for analysis

8. Which of the following statements best describes sensory writing?

A. Sensory writing is used solely to describe what a character looks like in a story.
B. Sensory writing integrates the five senses to create an emotional connection
between the reader and the text.
C. Sensory writing has no relation to five senses. It allows the reader to sense and
predict what will happen next in a story.
D. Sensory writing is used mainly in children’s books to teach the children the five
senses.

9. What type of imagery is used in the following statement?

And straightway like a bell Came low and clear
The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas,
A. Olfactory
B. Visual
C. Gustatory
D. Auditory

10. The underlined words in the statement refers to what type of imagery?
And bubbling seaweeds as the waters go Swish to and fro
A. Olfactory
B. Auditory
C. Gustatory
D. Visual

11. What words in the statement below appeals to the sense of touch or tactile?
Their long, cold tentacles of slimy grey.
A. Long - grey
B. Cold - slimy
C. Their - tentacles
D. Tentacles - grey

12. In the statement “The fragrant smell of the roses puts her in a nice mood.”
refers to what type of imagery?
A. Olfactory
B. Visual
C. Gustatory
D. Auditory
 B. Directions: Identify the type of figure of speech used in the underlined part of each
of the following sentences or verses. Encircle the letter that corresponds to your
answer.

13. Sarah’s seven sisters slept soundly in the sand.

A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Consonance
D. Onomatopoeia

14. The bombs go Boom! Boom! Boom!

A. Anadiplosis
B. Assonance
C. Consonance
D. Onomatopoeia

15. Be round impaled with a glorious crown.

And yet I know not how to get the crown.
A. Anaphora
B. Ephipora
C. Prosopopoeia
D. Anadiplosis

16. The sofa is fertile soil for a couch.

A. Understatement
B. Sarcasm
C. Simile
D. Metaphor

C. Directions: Read the selection then answer the questions that follow.
Encircle the letter of your answer.
It was a lovely summer weather in the country. The yellow corn, green oats,
and golden haystacks in the meadows looked beautiful. The stork walking
about on his long red legs, chattered in the Egyptian language that he had
learned from his mother. The cornfields and meadows were surrounded by
large forests with large brown tree trunks topped with green leaves and
bright blossoms. In the midst of the forests were deep pools of clear,
sapphire water.

17. How does the author help readers “visualize” the stork?
A. By telling about its nest and what its eating
B. By telling about the color of its feather
C. By telling the size and color of its legs and how it’s talking
D. By telling what it does when it sees the duck

18. How does the author help readers “visualize” the meadow
A. By explaining how each of the buildings is used
B. By describing the colors of plants and other things
C. By telling how old the trees are
D. By describing all the fish
 19. Read this sentence from the text: It was lovely summer in the country.
Which of the following best adds imagery to help readers visualize the setting?
A. It was lovely warm summer weather in the country.
B. It was warm, summer day and the sun’s rays, bathed the countryside in a
soft, golden light.
C. It was nice summer weather with plenty of sunshine all over the country.
D. It was a hot summer day, so hot that the city streets were steaming.

20. Read this sentence from the text: Beside the forests was a river, and
close by stood a pleasant old farmhouse. Which of the following best
adds imagery to help the readers visualize the place?
A. Beside the trees runs a river, and not far away is an old farmhouse.
B. Beside the forests of trees was a long river, and close by the river there
was a nice but old farmhouse
C. A bubbling river raced beside the forests, spilling its liquid and smooth
white rocks below a steep hill on which sat an old abandoned, red
farmhouse.
D. Along the sides of the forests was a rocky river, and further down the
path there was an old white farmhouse.

II. Elements of Fiction

Multiple Choice
Directions: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question. Encircle the letter of your correct answer.

21. Which element of fiction is usually found in the very beginning?

A. Plot
B. Setting
C. Resolution
D. Climax

22. Which element of fiction can be supported by details?

A. Character
B. Setting
C. Theme
D. Main Idea

23. Examples of _________are love/friendship family, survival, and “good vs evil”.

A. Theme
B. Setting
C. Main Idea
D. Problem

24. The person in a work of fiction.

A. Theme
B. Setting
C. Characters
D. Plot
 25. In a fairy tale, this is when the characters live “happily ever after.”
A. Problem
B. Rising action
C. Climax
D. Resolution

26. This part of the plot happens after the climax—when the author starts tying up
loose ends.
A. Denouement
B. Rising Action
C. Climax
D. Falling Action

27. The journey the characters take where they presented with small obstacles is
called __________.
A. Rising action
B. Falling action
C. Resolution
D. Conflict

28. Most people mean the sequence of events when they discuss __________.
A. Conflict
B. Rising Action
C. Resolution
D. Plot

29. When you think of a challenge or obstacle that the main character meet or
overcome, you are describing the __________.
A. Theme
B. Problem
C. Resolution
D. Denouement

30. An example of this includes “It was a dark and stormy night when my cat ran
away from home.”
A. Character
B. Setting
C. Main Idea
D. Problem

III. Techniques and Literary Devices

Multiple choice
A. Directions: Circle the letter of the word that most clearly express the tone in each
passage.

"Freedom," John Ruskin

You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is loaded with
sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not? -you will say to him, "Choose
freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom of choice; it forms
your character-your individuality! If you take the wrong cup or the wrong
berry, you will die before the day is over, but you will have acquired the
dignity of a free child."
31. What is the speaker’s tone in this passage (consider his apparent feelings about
young children having freedom)?
A. Sincere/honest
B. Sarcastic/mocking
C. Joyful/rejoicing
D. Eager/motivated

Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Dave Barry

You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands [in beer
commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple straightforward burly
masculine American patriotic way of saying to each other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I
drank all that beer last night and went to the bathroom in your glove compartment."

32. What is the speaker’s tone in explaining the relationships between men as they
are portrayed in beer commercials?
A. Serious
B. Humorous
C. Angry
D. Worried

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway

"Afterwards we will be as one animal of the forest and be so close that neither one
can tell that one of us is one and not the other. Can you not feel my heart be your
heart?" whispered Nick.

33. What tone does Hemingway's main character, Nick, take towards his girlfriend?
A. Romantic/sentimental
B. Friendly/playful
C. Scornful/ contemptuous
D. Fearful/reluctant

"Polish War Song," Percival

Freedom calls you! Quick, be ready-
Rouse ye in the name of God,-
Onward, onward, strong and steady,-
Dash to earth the oppressor's rod.
Freedom calls, ye brave!
Rise and spurn the name of slave.

34. What is the speaker’s tone in this poem? How does the speaker feel about going
to war?
A. Eager/motivated
B. Bitter/resentful
C. Fearful/reluctant
D. Scornful/ contemptuous

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"I am not mad," [the monster] cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens, who have
viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most
innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A thousand times would I have shed
my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father,
indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race."
 35. The speaker in this passage is the monster. What is the speaker’s tone?
A. Sorry/remorseful
B. Angry/vindictive
C. Humorous/happy
D. Fearful/reluctant

Matching Type
B. Directions: Match the literary techniques in Column A with its definition in
Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before
each number.

A B
_____ 36. Atmosphere/Mood A. These are statements that have
deeper meanings.
_____ 37. Tone B. This means exactly what the word
implies – a hint of things to come.
_____ 38. Foreshadowing C. It is something that represents or
suggests a relationship or
association.
_____ 39. Symbolism D. It refers to the emotional response
of a reader to a work which may be
joy, sadness, sympathy, fear,
anger or affection.
_____ 40. Hint E. It is the attitude a writer takes
toward a subject.
F. It is the use of words to mean
something different than what they
appear to mean.

IV. Poetry
Fill in the blanks
A. Directions: Choose the correct word in the box that follows to complete the
following sentences. Write your answer on the blank in each sentence.

sonnet refrain bio poem meter poem

feet haiku rhythm blank verse rhyme

41. Webster says a _______________ is a metrical composition; a composition in

verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and
characterized by imagination and poetic diction

42. The ________________ is the length of a line of poetry, based on what type of
rhythm is used. It is the rhythmical pattern in a poem.

43. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words is ________________called.

44. When reading a poem out loud, you may notice a sort of “sing-song” quality to it,
just like in nursery rhymes. This is accomplished by the use of rhythm.

45. The length of a line of poetry is measured in metrical units called

________________.
 46. The ________________ repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a
stanza.

47. A ________________ is a simple poem typically about nature or scenery. It has

three lines and 17 syllables.

48. A ________________ is a highly structured 14-line poem that explores deeply felt
issues such as the fleeting nature of love and the aching questions of mortality.

49. A ________________ is used to focus on the characteristics of a person or

animal.

50. ________________ is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Identification
B. Directions: Read the short poem below and identify its rhyme scheme. Write your
answers on the blank provided.

I dwell in a lonely house I know 51. __________

That vanished many summer ago, 52. __________
And left no trace but the cellar walls, 53. __________
And a cellar in which the daylight falls 54. __________
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. 55. __________

Writing Poetry
C. Directions: Write a haiku about “nature” keeping in mind the requirements of the
structure. (3 lines, 5-7-5, 17 syllables). Write your poem on the space provided
below. (56-60)
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Prepared by: Noted by:

MARIA CECILIA V. LORISTO CLEANOR C. LADIA

Teacher Basic Ed. Principal

Checked by:

XERXES B. DULAY
SHS Coordinator