Appraisal - Creative Writing

Creative Writing
Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. It is the repetition of both beginnings and endings of lines, clauses or sentences.

A. Anadiplosis
B. Antanaclasis
C. Epistrophe
D. Symploce
Answer: D
Symploce is the repetition of both beginnings and endings of lines, clauses or
sentences. Anadiplosis is the repetition at the end of a clause, line, or sentence
at next beginning. Antanaclasis is the repetition of a word, but in different
meanings, and Epistrophe is the repetition of a word or words at the end of the
lines, clauses or sentences.
2. It is the transposition of words within a phrase, a clause or a line.

A. Anastrophe
B. Anticlimax
C. Hyperbaton
D. Inversion
Answer: A
Anastrophe is the transposition of words within a phrase, a clause or a line.
Anticlimax is the arrangement of words or ideas in a descending order.
Hyperbaton is the departure from ordinary word order, eg. DO-S-TV.
Anticlimax is the arrangement of words or ideas in a descending order.
Hyperbaton is the departure from ordinary word order, eg. DO-S-TV. Inversion
is the transposition of subject and predicate within a line, a clause or a sentence.
3. The following are the figures of representation/reference EXCEPT:

A. Apostrophe
B. Personification
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C. Polysyndeton
D. Transferred Epithet
Answer: C
Polysyndeton is the addition of a connective e.g., a conjunction or a
linking verb.
4. It is a number of words, which when taken together, have a meaning which is different
from the individual meaning of each word.
A. Connotation
B. Denotation
C. Figures of Speech
D. Idiomatic Expression
Answer: D
Idiomatic Expression is a number of words which when taken together, have a
meaning different from the individual meaning of each word. It is an expression
(a word, a phase, or a sentence) that does not mean what it says literally or an
expression in the usage of the language that is peculiar to itself either
grammatically or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined
meanings of its elements.
5. Being synonymous with opposition, it is the motivating force that involves both
characters and readers in the narrative.
A. Conflict
B. Literary Devices
C. Point of View
D. Theme
Answer: A
Conflict is being synonymous with opposition, is the motivating driving force
that involves both characters and readers in the narrative.
6. It is the movement from one line to another without a major pause or syntactical break.
A. Enjambment

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B. Measure
C. Rhyme
D. Sonnet
Answer: A
Enjambment is the movement from one line to another without a major pause
or syntactical break.
7. It is a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the author.

A. Bildungsroman
B. Novelette
C. Realistic Novel
D. Symbolic Novel
Answer: A
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the
psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood
(coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.
8. The plot which starts in the middle of the story and provides flashbacks to promote
reader's understanding of the story.
A. Episodic Plot
B. In Medias Res
C. Linear Plot
D. Progressive Plot
Answer: B
A narrative work beginning In Medias Res “into the middle things” opens in
the midst of action.
9. The conflict which exist between the protagonist and supernatural beings or forces.
A. Internal/Personal/Psychological Conflict
B. Metaphysical Conflict
C. Physical Conflict

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D. Social Conflict
Answer: B
Metaphysical Conflict (Man vs. Supernatural Beings) is the conflict exists
between the protagonist and supernatural beings or forces (deities, fairies,
vampires, werewolves, witches, etc.)
10. It is a type of character who shows varied and sometimes contradictory traits.
A. Flat Character
B. Round Character
C. Static Character
D. Stereotype Character
Answer: B
Round Character is the character who shows varied and sometimes
contradictory traits
11. It conveys reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation.
A. Flashback
B. Foreshadowing
C. Irony
D. Symbol
Answer: C
Irony conveys the reality different from and usually opposite to
appearance or expectation.
12. The plot which is structured in such a way that it ends where it has started.
A. Circular Plot
B. Episodic Plot
C. In Medias Res
D. Progressive Plot
Answer: A
Circular Plot - from its root word “Circle”, it is the plot which is structured in
such a way that it ends where it has started.
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13. "I'm not a businessman. I am a business, man!"

The statement above is an example of __________
A. Antanaclasis
B. Chiasmus
C. Epistrophe
D. Isocolon
Answer: A
Antanaclasis is the repetition of a word, but in different meanings.
14. A poem which has 14 lines.

A. Cinquain
B. Etheree
C. Sonnet
D. Terza Rima
Answer: C
Sonnet is the type of poem which has fourteen (14) lines. It can be a Petrarchan
or Shakespearean sonnet.
15. A three-syllable foot which consist of three accented syllables.

A. Bacchius
B. Cretic
C. Molossus
D. Pyrrhus
Answer: C
Molossus is a three-syllable foot which consist of three accented syllables.

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16. "I wondered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills"
The line above is an example of __________

A. Hexameter
B. Monometer
C. Pentameter
D. Tetrameter
Answer: D
Tetrameter is a line which has four feet, as in William Wordsworth’s “I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
17. The rhyme which exist at the end of lines.

A. Approximate Rhyme
B. Eye Rhyme
C. Identical Rhyme
D. Terminal Rhyme
Answer: D
Terminal Rhyme is the rhyme which exists at the end of lines.
18. The rhyme which is exhibited by homophonous words or homonyms.

B. Eye Rhyme
C. Identical Rhyme
D. Terminal Rhyme

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Answer: C
Identical Rhyme is the rhyme which is exhibited by homophonous words or
homonyms.
19. The rhyme which is exhibited by words having the same final letters with differing
sounds.
B. Eye Rhyme
C. Identical Rhyme
D. Terminal Rhyme
Answer: B
Eye Rhyme is the rhyme which is exhibited by words having the same final
letters. with differing sounds.
20. The rhyme which is exhibited by words having similar sounds.

B. Eye Rhyme
C. Identical Rhyme
D. Terminal Rhyme
Answer: A
Approximate Rhyme is the rhyme which is exhibited by words having
similar sounds.

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Creative Writing

Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is the repetition of both beginnings and endings of lines, clauses or sentences.

2. It is the transposition of words within a phrase, a clause or a line.

3. The following are the figures of representation/reference EXCEPT:

DELA CRUZ, J’ROSE G. 9

DELA CRUZ, J’ROSE G. 10

7. It is a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the author.

DELA CRUZ, J’ROSE G. 11

13. "I'm not a businessman. I am a business, man!"

14. A poem which has 14 lines.

15. A three-syllable foot which consist of three accented syllables.

DELA CRUZ, J’ROSE G. 13

16. "I wondered lonely as a cloud

The line above is an example of __________

17. The rhyme which exist at the end of lines.

18. The rhyme which is exhibited by homophonous words or homonyms.

DELA CRUZ, J’ROSE G. 14

20. The rhyme which is exhibited by words having similar sounds.

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