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3rd MONTHLY ASSESSMENT
November 27, 2020
Name:_____________________________________________________Grade &Section:______________________
Subject: CREATIVE WRITING 12 Score:_________________________________

I – TRUE OR FALSE: Read the items carefully. Write”T” if the statement is correct; “F” if the statement is wrong. Write
your answer on the blank provided.
___1. Drama is a more theatrical term and deals with the art of play production.
___2. Play is a literary genre written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogues between characters intended for a
theatrical performance rather than just reading.
___3. Tragedy is play that is meant to be humorous with a happy and vivacious ending.
___4. Comedy is a play that is more serious and deals with darker themes, usually marked by a sad and depressing ending.
___5. Burlesque is a comedy play that tries to make people laugh by caricaturing the spirit of serious works, or by the
ridiculous treatment of their subjects.
___6. Comedy of manners is a generally nonsensical, overacted comedy play that often uses slapstick humor.
___7. Melodrama is a tragedy where you exaggerate sensational and romantic topics to play with your readers’ feelings and
emotions.
___8. If you want to make a full-length play/ evening-length play, your work, when performed, must run from 75 or 85
minutes to about two hours, enough to be an evening on its won, but not very long enough to push your audience to
suicide.
___9. A good ten-minute play is not a sketch or an extended gag, but rather a complete, compact play, with a beginning,
middle and end.
___10. One-Act Play can fit on a bill with a pair of other one-acts, and if your play is suitable for high school production,
thirty minutes is a good length for a competition play.
___11. Full-length plays are also called evening-length plays, because they're long enough to be their own evening.
___12. Musicals can run the gamut in length from ten minutes to three hours.
___13. Closet drama is a play that is intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or sometimes out loud in
a small group.
___14. A puppet play uses puppets of many types including glove or hand puppets, rod puppets, or the marionette on strings.
___15. Intertextuality is a literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates related understanding
in separate works. 

II – ESSAY. Answer what is being asked. Write your answers at the back of this test paper. (25 pts.)
1. How long is Full-length Plays? How up is up?

2. What is Industry Standard Format?

3. Differentiate tragicomedy and melodrama.

4. What is dramatic structure? Why is it important?

5. What popularized the ten-minute play?

“Never stop praying.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17