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Department of Education
Region X
Division of Cagayan de Oro City
AGUSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

CREATIVE WRITING
Midterm Examination

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
 Any form of cheating means a failing grade in this examination.
 Read and follow the directions carefully.
 Do not write or put markings in the test questionnaire.
 Write your answers neatly in your answer sheet. NO ERASURES.

I. On ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE LANGUAGE, CREATIVE WRITING and KINDS OF POETRY

IDENTIFY what is being asked for or described in the following statements.

1. It expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in a creative, unique, and poetic way.
2. It is a form of writing technical communication or documentation in science and technology or
applied science that helps people understand a product or service.
3. A figurative language used to represent objects, actions, and ideas in a manner that appeals to the
senses.
4. A stated comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in
common.
5. An implied comparison between two unlike things that have something in common.
6. It uses words that imitate sounds associated with objects or actions.
7. It endows human qualities or abilities to inanimate objects or abstractions.
8. It is addressing an absent person or thing that is an abstract, inanimate, or inexistent character.
9. The use of exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or exaggerated effect.
10. A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent a whole.
11. A figure of speech where incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
12. It is the choice of words used by the writers.
13. It refers to how the words are arranged in a sentence or line.
14. It is a topic or central idea, which is universal in nature.
15. A short poem with three lines and a syllable count of 5-7-5 that contains elements such as kigo and
an ikireji.
16. A Filipino poetic form of four lines with seven syllables each, all of

For numbers 3-10, the choices are below:

1. It is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two unlike objects.

2. It is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects.

3. It is the repetition of the initial consonant.

4. It involves one or more of your five senses- the abilities to hear, taste, sound, smell, and see.
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5. An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They
are overused expressions.

6. It occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else.

7. It is intentionally exaggerated figures of speech.

8. The imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental, or visualize
things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying
the sound.
A. onomatopoeia
B. hyperbole
C. symbol
D. idioms
E. imagery
F. alliteration
G. personification
H. simile
I. metaphor

9. It is produced by a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and pauses.

A. rhyme
B. rhythm
C. meter
D. pauses

For numbers 12-20, the choices are below:

10. Saying less than is true, an under-exaggeration, such as “The reports of my death have been
exaggerated.”

11. Saying more than is true, an over-exaggeration, such as “He wore his fingers to the bone.”

12. Saying the opposite to what is true, such as “War is kind.”

13. Using contrast for an accumulative effect, such as “Man proposes; God disposes.”

14. A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite, such
as “He was not unmindful” which actually means he was mindful.

15. A statement which while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true;
a “logic twists,” such as “Everything I say is a lie.”

16. A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings,
such as “She offered her honor; he honored her offer; and all night long he was on her and off her.”

17. A word concocted for deliberate effect, such as “smog,” “brunch,” or “motel.” Sometimes called a
coined word or a portmanteau word.

18. An antithesis which brings together two sharply contradictory terms, such as “wise fool”, “little big
man”, “eloquent silence” and “loving hate.”
A. neologism
B. pun
C. paradox
D. litotes
E. oxymoron
F. antithesis
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G. irony
H. meiosis
I. hyperbole
J. synecdoche

II. On POETIC DEVICES / FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Read the lines of the songs below. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which technique is being
used: METAPHOR, SIMILE, PERSONIFICATION, HYPERBOLE, ASSONANCE, ALLITERATION, or
ONOMATOPOEIA.

19. “You want a white wedding /and a hand you can hold” – Good Girl by Carrie Underwood
20. “The zone own /yes I’m in the zone.” – Starships by Nicki Minaj
21. “The stairs creak as you sleep /it’s keeping me awake.” – Little Talks by of Monsters and Men
22. “Cookin’ MC’s like /a pound of bacon!” – Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
23. “Caught in it washing’ it ‘bout to go /and get some compliments// Passin’ up on those moccasins/ Someone
else has been rocking’ in.” – Thrift Shop by Macklemore
24. “Baby just shout it out/ shout it out!” - Kiss you by One Direction
25. “Some kind of madness/ is swallowing me whole.” – Madness by Muse
26. “Baby you’re a firework/ C’mon show me what you’re worth.” – Firework by Katy Perry
27. “I’ve been wandering the/ desert for a thousand days.” – A Year without Rain by Selena Gomez
28. “My heart’s a stereo/ It beats for you so listen close.” – Stereo Hearts by Maroon 5

III. On POETRY
A. IDENTIFYING POETIC DEVICES
Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Write which technique is being used on the
line: ALITERATION, RHYME, ONOMATOPOEIA, IDIOM, SIMILE, METAPHOR,
HYPERBOLE, or PERSONIFICATION.

29. This falling spray of snowflakes is/ a handful of dead Februaries.

30. The moon is faithful, although blind.
31. Children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks
32. Time is a green orchard.
33. A final word: before you start/ the convulsions of your art
34. As the bird chirps/ the frog croaks
35. That’ll be the day when pigs fly.
36. I lost my freedom for free room and board/ like a monkey in a zoo
37. All that I hear/ is a slishity-slosh of the rain.
38. My sisters tears that sing upon my head.

B. On IDENTIFYING TYPES OF POETRY

Identify the type of poetry that is being described in the following statements. Write only the code.

LR - LYRIC POETRY BA -
NP - NARRATIVE BALLAD
POEM HA - HAIKU
OD - ODE LI -
EL- ELEGY LIMERICK
SO -
SONNET
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39. It is an unrhymed verse form having three lines (a tercet) and usually 5,7,5 syllables, respectively. It
is usually considered a lyric poem.
40. It has a very structured poem, usually humorous and composed of five lines (a cinquain), in an
aabba rhyming pattern.
41. It is a narrative poem that has a musical rhythm and can be sung.
42. It is usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an
elaborate stanza.
43. It is any poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses strong thoughts and
feelings.

IV. On FICTION
IDENTIFYING ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Identify the element of fiction that is dominant in the following passages. The choices are as follows:
LIMITED POINT OF VIEW, OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW, FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW,
SETTING, DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION, INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION, THEME, or PLOT

44. “They all laughed, and while they were laughing, the quiet boy moved his bare foot on the sidewalk and
merely touched, brushed against a number of red ants that were scurrying about on the sidewalk. Secretly his
eyes shining, while his parents chatted with the old man, he saw the ants hesitate, quiver, and lie still on the
cement. He sensed they were cold now.”
“Fever Dream” by Ray Bradbury

45. “Myop carried a short knobby stick. She struck out at random at chickens she liked, and worked out the beat
of a song on the fence around the pigpen. She felt light and good in the warm sun. She was ten, and nothing
existed for her but her son, the stick she clutched in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of
accompaniment.”
“The Flowers” by Alice Walker

46. “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, though a singularly dreary tract of
country.”
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

47. “The boy held his breath; he wondered whether his father would hear his heart beating… Through a crack in
the counter he could see his father where he stood, one hand held to his high stiff collar…”
“I Spy” by Graham Greene

48. “The thousands of injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I
vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I give utterance
to a threat.”
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

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