PHILIPPINE MERCHANT MARINE SCHOOL

San Antonio Valley Rd., Talon Uno, Las Pinas City

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Creative Writing
First Quarterly examination

Name: _________________________________ Gr./Strand/ Section: _______________

Teacher: _______________________________ Date: ___________________________

General Directions:
1. Read and follow all test directions.
2. For the identification type of test, DO NOT use big letters for your
answer except the beginning letter, for it will be automatically marked
wrong by Google Form.

Test I. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the word or group of words referred to in the following
sentences.

_____________ 1. It mainly deals with the use of imagination to produce a literary piece
that fully expresses the idea of the writer.
_____________ 2. It often contains facts and straightforward in its tone of writing,
commonly addressing its target readers.
_____________ 3. It requires more time to be comprehended fully.
_____________ 4. It is intended to be performed on stage.
_____________ 5. It is mainly used in the publications and references used by the
teachers and researchers, or in educational conferences
_____________ 6. It is the writing style employed in various mass media.
_____________ 7. It is associated with mental pictures.
_____________ 8. It may include fragrances and odor.
_____________ 9. It is the use of a word or image that signifies something else other than
what literally represented.
_____________ 10 It is also known as English sonnet.
.

Test II. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Tick the letter of the words/phrases that corresponds to your correct
answer.

________ 11 "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those
. who prepare for it today."
a. alliteration c. personification
b. metaphor d. simile
________ 12 "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a
. harvest."
a. alliteration c. personification
b. metaphor d. simile
CW1-A
________ 13 "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy."
 . a. alliteration c. personification
b. metaphor d. simile

________ 14 What does the quote below mean? "Striving for success without hard work
. is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."
a. It is important to strive for c. To be successful, you must first
success. work hard.
b. It is wrong to work hard for d. You should plant crops where you
success. plan to harvest them.
________ 15 What does the quote below mean? "Experience is a hard teacher because
. she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
a. Everyone has the experience of c. Experienced teachers give the
making mistakes both in school and lesson first and then the test.
in life. d. It's a helpful experience to have a
b. Experience can be a difficult way hard teacher.
to learn because you learn from
making mistakes.
________ 16 Which of the following lines is most likely from a haiku?
. a. Fall into water c. When lilacs last in the dooryard
bloom'd
b I wandered as lonely as a cloud d. When the frost is on the pumpkin'
________ 17 Which type of imagery is present in these song lyrics from the Beatles song
. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
"Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies....
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head"
a. Kinesthetic c. Organic
b. Olfactory d. Visual
________ 18 In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as the characters are overwhelmed by
. everything in the Chocolate Room, what type of imagery is used?
"...above the noise of the waterfall, you could hear the suck-suck-sucking
sound of the pipes as they did their work."
a. Auditory c. Organic
b. Gustatory d. Tactile
________ 19 Which type of imagery is present in these lines of Mary Oliver's poem Spring
. Azures?
"Sometimes the great bones of my life feel so heavy, and all the tricks my
body knows-the opposable thumbs, the kneecaps, and the mind clicking and
clicking-don't seem enough to carry me through this world"
a. Auditory c. Kinesthetic
b. Gustatory d. Tactile
CW2-A

________ 20 As Harry and his friends go to Nearly Headless Nick's Death Day party in
. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which two types of imagery are
used?
"The temperature dropped with every step they took. As Harry shivered
and drew his robes tightly around him, he heard what sounded like a
thousand fingernails scraping an enormous blackboard."
 a. Auditory c. Kinesthetic
b. Gustatory d. Tactile
________ 21 And a little bit more imagery from the Death Day party...?"The smell was
. quite disgusting. Large, rotten fish were laid on handsome silver platters;
cakes, burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great
maggoty haggis, a slab of cheese covered in furry green mold..."
a. Auditory c. Tactile
b. Kinesthetic d. visual
________ 22 And a little bit more imagery from the Death Day party...?"The smell was
. quite disgusting. Large, rotten fish were laid on handsome silver platters;
cakes, burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great
maggoty haggis, a slab of cheese covered in furry green mold..."
a. gustatory c. tactile
b. kinesthetic d. visual
________ 23 What kind of poetry is shown below?
.

a. acrostic c. shape
b. altar d. none of the above

________ 24 What kind of poetry is shown below?

.

CW3-A
a. acrostic c. shape
b altar d. none of the above

________ 25 What kind of poetry is shown below?

 .

a. acrostic c. shape
b. altar d. All the above.

Test III. TRUE OR FALSE: Read each statement carefully. Write True on the blank if the
statement is correct and False if it is wrong.

_____________ 26 Creative writing should be only fiction and nothing else.

.
_____________ 27 To have creativity, one would need order and structure.
.
_____________ 28 Creativity is the ability to produce something out of nothing.
.
_____________ 29 Knowing the type of figure of speech is more important than
. understanding the meaning of the figure of speech.
_____________ 30 When words are literal, they mean exactly what they say.
.
_____________ 31 Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say.
.
_____________ 32 Creatively crafted literary pieces are not just meant to be read, for like
. other works of art, they must entice the basic senses of people to
achieve their very purpose.
_____________ 33 Writing a poem can be as rigid as one sculpts a monument and as
. rigorous as one paints a portrait.
_____________ 34 Writing poetry can be as easy as one tinkers with the notes to
. compose a song.
_____________ 35 The 20th century has seen the rise of fiction as the dominant literary
. form widely used and patronized by writers and readers alike.

Test IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct word that will best complete the statement.

_____________ 36 Writing creatively mainly deals with the use of one’s _____________
. to produce a literary piece
_____________ 37 The use of ____________________ and diction plays an important role
. in completely utilizing the language that creative form of writing
requires.

CW4-A
 _____________ 38 In coming up with a good literary piece, every writer must learn how
. to use the language in such a way that it will form _________________
in the minds of the readers.

_____________ 39 ___________________ devices help a lot in adding flavor to literary

. compositions especially in poems.
_____________ 40 The right choice of __________________ greatly contributes to the
. development of a composition.
_____________ 41 Stimulating the five basic human ____________________ is essential
. to establish the connection between the imaginative realms and the
mind of the reader.
_____________ 42 Its 14 lines of iambic pentameter is divided into two: the first eight
. lines or ______________________
_____________ 43 And the final six lines or _________________.
.
_____________ 44 Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines and are divided into three 4 lines or
. __________________
_____________ 45 And the final two lines called __________________.
.

V- Identify what kind of rhyme is used in each of the following examples. Write
A for syllabic rhyme; B for imperfect rhyme; C for assonance; D for consonance
and E for alliteration.

_____________ 46 Ship and short

.
_____________ 47 Wing and caring
.
_____________ 48 Patter and pitter
.
_____________ 49 Wall and ball
.
_____________ 50 Ship and sheep
.

VI – Essay Explain briefly. (10 points)

Why are your sensory experiences important in creative writing?

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Prepared by: Reviewed by: Approved by:
Marie Joy L. Francisco, LPT Sebastiana E. Tupaz, LPT, MAEd Dr. Magdalena T. Corre
Teacher SHS Program Head Dean of Studies

RREMINDERS for Test Preparation (for uniformity)

1. The text box format above is applicable to IDENTIFICATION and TRUE or

FALSE test types.
2. All exams in different subjects will be 60 items only for the first quarter
3. Types of exams that will fit in the Google form:
 Identification – Sentences / statements are in declarative form
 True or False – NOT modified
 Multiple choice – Sentences can be in declarative /or interrogative
but NO blanks.
Alphabetize the 4 choices following the format above
 Essay / Situational analysis / Problem solving / Application type
Put lines for essay answers.
All subjects will include these 4 types of exam. You decide yourself the
order of test type and the number of items for every test type.
4. Follow the test paper heading and the bottom signatories
You may put the school logo if you wish at the upper left margin
5. Use font size 12 and font style – Calibri.
Observe 1 inch margin in all sides: 1.15 spacing within text and double
spacing between test types.
6. In place of the TOS discussed by Sir Rafael during our webinar, I requested
Sir Kilala to devise a simpler one for the SHS that you will all adapt. You will
notice in the form that there are only 8 weeks, I excluded the 9 th wk for the
exam. This will allow you to construct test items for every weekly lesson or
topic. In that case, every lesson is represented with a certain number of
test items that may fall in any of the 4 types of exam. The test item
 distribution sheet will also be submitted together with the test
questionnaire.

7. Do not forget to remove the text box (NO BORDER) before printing your
test questionnaire.