First Major Exam in Creative Writing Where, night and day, with harps, lutes, &

citherns,
Name: _________________________________
They spend their time in dicing and in dancing,
Grade & Section: ______________________
Eating and drinking more than they can carry;
Date: ____________ Score: ___________
And with these abominable excesses
Teacher: __________________________
They offer up the vilest sacrifices. . .
Test I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
a. humble c. nervous
Directions: Read the following statements b. sensitive d. immoral
below and choose the best answer from the
given choices. Write the letter of the correct _____5. What rhyme scheme is the poem in
answer. item number 4?

_____1. Identify the rhyme scheme of the a. abaabcdd c. aaacccdd

quatrain: b. aabbcadd d.ababcdcd

Roses are red. _____6. A two-line rhyming stanza is called a:

Violets are blue. a. quatrain c. sextet

b. couplet d. quintet
Sugar is sweet,
_____7. What does the phrase “my heart leaps
And so are you. up…” mean in the following lines?
a. aabb c. abab “My heart leaps up when I behold
b. abba d. abac
A rainbow in the sky…”
_____2. The line below from Shakespeare’s
Sonnet 18 is an example of what popular sonnet a. His heart is beating fast.
theme? b. He is getting old.
c. He doesn’t like nature.
“Shall I compare thee for a summer’s day? Thou d. He is very happy.
art more lovely and more temperate.”
_____8. In Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare
a. death c. summer draws on sight, sound and smell when he
b. love d. weather compares his mistress’ eyes to the sun, her lips
to red coral, her breasts to white snow, her hair
_____3. Identify the rhyme scheme of the
to black wires, her cheeks to red and white
quatrain.
roses, her breathe to perfume and her voice to
I want to come out and play. music. Which literary element is being used?
I think that I could play all day. a. Repetition c. Rhyme
b. Imagery d. Alliteration
So, my friend, what do you say?
_____9. This is to a poem what a paragraph is
Will you come outside and play?
to prose.
a. abab c. abcc
a. Repetition c. Meter
b. aaaa d. bbbb
b. Tone d. Stanza
_____4. Which word best characterizes the
_____10. It can describe, explain or tell a story
young people in this passage?
using words, pictures and special forms, sounds
In Flanders there was once a company and rhythms.

Of youngsters wedded to such sin and folly a. Prose c. Poetry

b. Story d. Journal
As gaming, dicing, brothels, and taverns,
_____11. To which of the five senses do these ______19. What literary device is used in the
lines from “The Bells” appeal? following line?

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle “Upon the murderer, I invoke this curse—
whether he is one man and all unknown.”
In the icy air of night!
a. Metaphor c. Simile
While the stars, the oversprinkle
b. Personification d. Irony
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
______20. This refers to the use of formation of
With a crystalline delight letters or the font of specific words to represent
a feature of the poem’s subject.
a. sight and smell
b. taste and touch a. Calligram c. Onomatopoeia
c. sight, hearing and touch b. Ode d. Stanzas
d. hearing and taste
______21. This is defined as the writing of
_____12. What kind of meter is used in these fiction, where the author creates events,
lines by Dr. Seuss? scenes, and characters, sometimes even a
world.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
a. Technical Writing
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. b. Creative Writing
a. iambic pentameter c. Narrative Writing
b. iambic tetrameter d. Scriptwriting
c. iambic hexameter ______22. To which of the five senses do the
d. trochaic tetrameter following line appeal?
_____13. Which of the following is an example “Feeling chalk scrape across the chalkboard,
of Iamb Rhythm? and the powder it leaves behind on your
a. roses c. awake fingers.”
b. pieces d. runway a. sense of sight c. sense of smell
_____14. Which of the following is an example b. sense of touch d. sense of taste
of Anapest Rhythm? ______23. “Freshly ground coffee” is an
a. understand c. volleyball example phrase of what sensory imagery?
b. cleanliness d. radiation a. sense of sight c. sense of smell
_____15. Which animal symbolizes wisdom and b. sense of touch d. sense of taste
knowledge? ______24. Mary Joy works as a professional
a. Mouse c. Rabbit blogger and content writer. Oftentimes, she
b. Owl d. Monkey writes some reviews and feedbacks on a certain
product and service that she has used. What
_____16. “She sells seashells by the sea-shore.” classification of writing does Mary Joy practice
is an example of what poetic device? with her profession?
a. Allusion c. Alliteration a. Imaginative Writing
b. Assonance d. Consonance b. Technical Writing
_____17. This device is used in both prose and c. Narrative Writing
poetry which can be understood as the d. Scriptwriting
repetition of sounds that are produced by the ______25. It is a phonetic structure and
consonants in a phrase or a sentence. repeated usage of sound or letter used in the
a. Allusion c. Alliteration first syllable of a word.
b. Assonance d. Consonance a. Allusion c. Alliteration
_____18. In order for to put extreme emphasis b. Assonance d. Consonance
on our writing style, we use this technique. The ______26. The King and Queen of Hearts and
words and phrases are periodically used. What their playing-card courtiers comprise only one
literary technique is this? example of Lewis Carroll’s extensive use of this
a. Rhyme c. Imagery poetic device.
b. Rhythm d. Repetition a. Hyperbole c. Personification
 b. Metaphor d. Anthromorphism “How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale.
Is not this something more than fantasy? What
_____27. This is characterized as non-rhyming
think you on’t? Stay! Speak, speak! I charge
poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter.
thee, speak!”
a. Rhyme verse c. Blank verse
a. Fearful c. Lighthearted
b. Free verse d. Rhythm verse
b. Calm d. Angry
_____28. Mr. Stevens called him “the greatest
human being ever to walk the earth.” What
figures of speech is described in the above _____36. Ulysses:
statement?
“It little profits that an idle king,
a. Hyperbole c. Metonymy
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
b. Personification d. Oxymoron
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
_____29. What literary device is used in the
following phrases? Unequal laws unto a savage race,
‘cold fire’, ‘sick health’, ‘beautiful nightmare’ That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not
me.”
a. Paradox c. Parallelism
b. Simile d. Oxymoron a. melancholic c. angry
b. romantic d. lighthearted
_____30. This refers to sounds that are spelled
out as words. _____37. Pickwick Papers:
a. Hyperbole c. Oxymoron “The river, reflecting the clear blue of the
b. Onomatopoeia d. Paradox sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed
noiselessly on.”
_____31. “The dish ran away with the spoon.”
What figure of speech is used in the preceding a. Madness c. Angry
statement? b. Calm d. Romantic
a. Simile c. Metaphor _____38. A Farewell to Arms
b. Personification d. Hyperbole
“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not
_____32. She is the star of our family. with you.”
a. Simile c. Metaphor a. Madness c. Angry
b. Personification d. Hyperbole b. Calm d. Romantic
_____33. Give every man thy ear, but few thy
voice.
Test II. Essay/Composition
a. Metonymy c. Oxymoron
b. Synecdoche d. Antithesis 39. With the use of T-Chart, contrast the
differences between Tone and Mood in poetry.
(6 pts.)
For items 34-38, identify the mood that is being
shown based on your inference of the following 40. Give at least 3 examples of Symbolism with
excerpt from different stories. corresponding 2 to 3 connotative meanings that
are commonly used in poetry. (6 pts.)
_____34. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:

“She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped

over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes
immediately met those of a large caterpillar,
that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not
the smallest notice of her or of anything else.”

a. melancholic c. gloomy

b. romantic d. lighthearted

_____35. Hamlet: