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Grading Period: Second Quarter

Subject and Year Level: Creative Writing/Grade 12

Directions: Read the questions

carefully and write only the letter of the A. Literary Devices
correct answer on a separate sheet of B. Literary Elements
paper. C. Literary Strategies
D. Literary Model
1. Which of the following
statements best discusses 5. Which of the following
“literary elements”? statements best describes the
“tone”?
A. It is the motif and point-of-
view of a literary piece. A. It refers to the attitude the
B. It can be used to create mood work takes toward the
in a story. audience and subject.
C. It is a method used by writers B. It is a literary technique used
to produce artistry. to set stage for the main
D. It is the components of a story.
literary work C. It is one of the integral parts
of literary device that creates
2. This refers to a scenario with conflict.
the involvement of conflict of D. It is the central problem of a
emotions which came from the text.
ancient Greek verb meaning “to
do or to act” and the literal 6. An author’s mode that tells us
meaning evolved. something about his/her project
in a book and how we, as an
A. Drama audience, are invited into the
B. Essay world of the book.
C. Fiction
D. Poetry A. Exposition
B. Motif
3. Identify the literary element C. Tone
used in the excerpt below: D. Setting
“In the Land of Men” is set over two
brutally cold winter evenings in 7. Nilo is telling his classmates his
Chicago.” own struggles in pursuing his
studies amid being a working
A. Setting student. Nilo can be identified as
B. Exposition what type of character?
C. Tone
D. Motif A. First person observer
B. First Person Protagonist
4. It refers to a literary technique C. Third person limited
employed by the author to D. Third person omniscient
produce an effect to the readers.
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8. Rita is telling the love story of A. Setting

her friends during their B. Characterization
wedding. She was the witness of C. Motif
their love story being the closest D. Image
to the couple. What type of
character is Rita portraying? 12. What type of character
sometimes serves as a hero but
A. First person observer sometimes does not and can
B. First Person Protagonist also be the story’s narrator?
C. Third person limited
D. Third person omniscient A. Antagonist
B. Protagonist
9. When the narrative follows C. Image
around one character mainly D. Character
and has access to his/her
thoughts, this is referred to 13. In the famous teleserye
as__________? Kadenang Ginto, the role of
Dimples Romana as Romina is
A. First person observer considered as what type of
B. First Person Protagonist character?
C. Third person limited
D. Third person omniscient A. Antagonist
B. Protagonist
10. Which of the following C. Image
statement best discusses D. Character
“motif”?
I. A series of reoccurring 14. What type of
details that have symbolic characterization the author uses
importance in the story if the character changes a lot
II. The idea or image occurs over the course of the story?
repeatedly to enhance an
idea A. Dynamic
III. It reinforces author’s B. Flat
overall idea. C. Round
D. Static
A. I, and II only
B. I Only 15. If the character stays
C. 1,II and III pretty much the same
D. 1 and III only throughout the story, what type
of characterization is used by
11. What literary device the writer?
enables the writer to let his/her
readers/ audience see, hear, A. Dynamic
smell or touch something that B. Static
he/she presents in the text? C. Round
D. Flat

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20. What powerful technique

16. If the character is very commonly used by composers to
complex in his/her motivations create multiple layers of
and/or actions, he/she is meaning?
considered _______.
A. Literary Technique
A. Flat B. Implicit Reference
B. Static C. Intertextuality
C. Dynamic D. Interference
D. Round
21. T.S Eliot mentions a
celestial rose in his poem Hollow
17. What type of character is Men’, this rose comes
intended as a thematic opposite from Dante’s Paradiso. This
of the main character, revealing subtle or indirect reference to
his/her salient qualities? another text, historical period,
or religious belief is called
A. Frame Story ________.
B. Imagery
C. Foil A. Quotation
D. Theme B. Allusion
C. Parody
18. Bryan tells a story at the D. Appropriation
opening of his work to establish
the stage for his main story. This 22. What literary technique is
literary technique is called used in Margaret Atwood’s
_________. speech, Spotty Handed
Villainesses where she quoted
A. Frame Story Dame Rebecca West, saying,
B. Imagery “Ladies of Great Britain… we
C. Foil have not enough evil in us.”
D. Theme
A. Quotation
19. What literary device is B. Allusion
used when an author hints at C. Parody
what is to come in the narrative D. Appropriation
through a particular description
or image? 23. Identify the speaker in the
excerpt:
A. Figurative Language ” He is what a young man ought
B. Symbolism to be,” said she, “sensible, good-
C. Foreshadowing humored, lively; and I never saw
D. Conflict such happy manners! – so much
ease, with such perfect good

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breeding!”- Jane Austen in Pride kind of staging modality, what

and Prejudice. do you think will be the
disadvantage of it during
A. First Person performance?
B. Second Person
C. Third Person A. It is not easy to adjust
D. Fourth Person lightings since audience are
everywhere.
24. In the line, “And I like B. It is hard to control the sight
parties. They’re so intimate. At lines, or what the audience can
small parties, there isn’t any see.
privacy.”-The Great Gatsby by C. Theatres in-the-round are
Scott Fitzgerald, the speaker is good only to those sitting in
in the __________. front.
D. It can only accommodate few
A. First Person people.
B. Second Person
C. Third Person 28. What stage encloses the
D. Fourth Person audience on all sides and the
actors enter through aisles or
25. What visual element of a vomitories between the seating?
play includes costumes, stage
display, special effects and A. Proscenium stages
everything that you see while B. Thrust stages
watching a performance? C. Theatres in-the-round
D. Arena theatres
A. Spectacle
B. Convention 29. A stage director is
C. Dialogue planning to increase their
D. Audience closeness with the audience.
What staging modality could be
26. What type of stage is envisioned to attain the
described as deep and director’s plan?
sometimes raked, meaning the
stage is gently sloped rising A. Proscenium stages
away from the audience? B. Thrust stages
C. Theatres in-the-round
A. Proscenium stages D. Arena theatres
B. Thrust stages
C. Theatres in-the-round 30. What type of stage usually
D. Arena theatres allows for the temporary setup of
seating in several different
27. The group of stage actors configurations to enable a wide
wanted to have an intimate variety of productions to be
space and so they chose the presented?
Arena stage. Envisioning this

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A. Arena theatres moving from place to place

B. Thrust stages following the actors and
C. Theatres in-the-round performance. After the play, he
D. Black-box was asked by his cousins what
type of staging is used by the
31. Tony is watching a play director that kept them moving
where he sits in a row facing the all throughout the performance?
stage. It is open and without
curtains as well. What type of A. Site-specific theatre
stage is used by the director of B. Promenade theatre
the play? C. Open air theatres
D. Hippodromes
A. Arena theatres
B. Platform stages
C. Theatres in-the-round 35. What element of the
D. Black-box drama refers to the words
written by the playwright and
32. Which of the following spoken by the characters in the
statements best discusses the play which can be found in a
advantage of a Proscenium script?
stage? A. Dialogue
I. Can accommodate large B. Plot
houses C. Setting
II. Creates a distinct world of D. Theme
the play
III. It becomes necessary to 36. What technical element
“cheat things out that refers to the effects an
A. I audience hears during
B. II performance to communicate
C. I, II character, context, or
D. I, II, & III environment?
A. Lights
33. During the death B. Props
anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, C. Scenery
group of actors performs a play D. Sound
inside a pub depicting his
martyrdom. What type of stage 37. If you are to direct a play
is used in this performance? and envisioned for a stylistic
effect, what technique should
A. Site-specific theatre you focus on?
B. Promenade theatre A. Audience
C. Open air theatres B. Conventions
D. Hippodromes C. Genre
D. Props
34. Adil is watching a play
where he and his cousins were

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38. What type of 42. Which of the following

intertextuality that entails statements best defines
creating a film, TV drama or intertextuality?
stage play based on a specific
written work? A. Intertextuality is only limited
A. Adaptation to plays or stories.
B. Appropriation B. Using intertextuality is
C. Parody similar to copy-paste approach
D. Quotation in writing.
C. Intertextual references allow
39. A filmmaker decides to for a deeper understanding of
make a remake of Senakulo. the text.
What type of intertextuality is D. Intertextuality is used to
used by the filmmaker? confuse the readers and
A. Adaptation audience of the story’s true
B. Appropriation meaning.
C. Parody
D. Quotation 43. What type of intertextual
figure is used in the sentence,
40. What type of allusion is “He was lying so obviously; you
used in the statement “He was a could almost see his nose
Nero”? growing.” ?
A. Adaptation
A. Historical Allusion B. Allusion
B. Literary Allusion C. Parody
C. Mythological Allusion D. Quotation
D. Religious Allusion
44. What type of staging
41. Which of the following modality in which the audience
statement does not denote is sitting on the sides of the
intertextuality? stage?
A. Arena
A. A translation of one work into B. Chromium
a different language. C. Proscenium
B. Movies having different titles D. Traverse
but same characters and
content. 45. Which part of the Greek
C. The main characters of two
theater that is a level space
unrelated works coincidentally
both named Bob. where the chorus would dance,
D. A poetic homage to an earlier
sing, and interact with the
writer by adopting that writer’s
theme and tone. actors who were on the stage
near the skene?

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A. Orchestra I. Knowing the audience of

the play
B. Parados
II. Creating an interesting
C. Skene plot of the story
III. Finding and developing
D. Theatron
your lead character
IV. Survey clothing designed
46. What part of the Greek for the characters
theater that is usually part of A. I,II & IV
hillside overlooking the B. II,III & IV
orchestra, and often wrapped C. II & III
around a large portion of the D. I,II & III
orchestra?
A. Orchestra 50. What type of
B. Parados intertextuality is used to create
C. Skene a comparison or association in
D. Theatron the text?
A. Obligatory
47. Which of the statements B. Latent
below best explains why C. Accidental
dramatic techniques are used by D. Optional
a playwright?
A. To solve conflicts or struggles "Do the best you can until you
present in the play. know better. Then when you know
B. To enhance the emotional, better, do better.” -Maya Angelou-
aural, and visual experiences
of the audience.
C. To emphasize the lines
delivered by the characters.
D. To make the plot or the flow
of the story more complicated.

48. Which of the following

talks best about the climax of a
play?
A. The conclusion of a story line.
B. The initial incident that
captures the audience’s
attention
C. The turning point of a plot
D. The ongoing through line that
links the scenes together.

49. Which of the following

statements is a must in creating
a play and writing scripts?

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