Department of Education

Region III
Schools Division of Zambales
MENA MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Bolitoc, Sta. Cruz, Zambales
School ID: 301022

CREATIVE WRITING
PRETEST

NAME:____________________________________________________________ DATE:_______________
GRADE & SECTION:_________________________________________________ SCORE:______________

I. Directions: Choose the correct answer being referred in each item.

Antihero Dynamic Character Protagonist Tragic Hero Indirect Characterization Plot

Flat Character Myth Fiction Conflict Short Story Antagonist Direct Characterization

__________________1. It is the main character in a novel, play or in story.

__________________2. It is a character in a story who deceives, frustrates or works against the main character or
the protagonist.
__________________3 It is a character who is the same kind of person at the end of the story as he/she was at
the beginning.
__________________4. It is a term used to describe e an imaginative work of prose, either a folktale, a myth, a
novel, a short story or a novella
__________________5. A ______ is a narrative tale involving gods and goddesses, it also describes practices
and some explain certain phenomena.
__________________6. It is a fictional narrative that deals with a single incident that can be read at one sitting.
__________________7. It is a character who undergoes a permanent change in the aspect of his/her personality
or outlook.
__________________8. It is a protagonist who comes to a bad end as a result of his own behavior, usually caused
by a personality disorder.
__________________9. It is also known as explicit characterization.
__________________10. It is a protagonist character who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of
a hero.
II. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
_____1. Which of the following consists of 14 lines and is usually written in iambic pentameter?
a. ode b. elegy c. sonnet d. limerick
_____2. What refers to series of lines grouped together and separated by a space from others?
a. lines b. stanza c. form d. meter
_____3. What type of poetry is a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or
historical hero?
a. epic b. descriptive c. ballad d. limerick
_____4. What stanza describes as having seven lines?
a. sestet b. septet c. tercet d. cinquain
_____5. What type of poetry is usually organized into quatrains or cinquains, has a simple rhythm structure, and tells
the tales of ordinary people?
a. epic b. sonnet c. ode d. ballad
_____6. What is called the one-line stanza?
a. couplet b. tercet c. monostich d. quatrain
_____7. What is referred to as a poem that is usually humorous and composed of five lines in an AABBA
rhyming pattern?
 a. haiku b. limerick c. ode d. elegy
_____8. What type of poetry describes the world that surrounds the speaker?
a. sonnet b. lyric c. descriptive d. narrative
_____9. Which of the following sonnet does not consist of three quatrains
a. Petrarchan b. Shakespearean c. Spenserian d. English sonnet
_____10.What is the lyric poem that that praises an individual, an idea or an event?
a. ballad b. ode c. elegy d. sonnet
_____11. When and where a story takes place is the ______ of a story.
a. Characters b. Point of view c. Setting d. Climax
_____12. The resolution is where the story ___________.
a. Tells how the problem was solved b. Introduces characters and setting
c. Shows when and where the story takes place d. Has an event that starts the story
_____13. ___________ is another name for the problem.
a. Point of view b. Conflict c. Plot d. Setting
_____14. The perspective from which a story is told is called the _______. Usually it is in 1st or 3rd person.
a. Point of view b. Conflict c. Setting d. Plot
_____15. Plot refers to ______.
a. the lesson learned in the story b. the events in the story
c. the conflict d. the characters and the setting
_____16. What is the setting?
a. where and when the story takes place b. the main character’s home
c. where the author wrote the story d. a place to visit
_____17. What is conflict?
a. fighting b. the problem the main character faces
c. feeling sick d. the flow of the story
_____18. The people, animals, or things that are in the story. The WHO of the story.
a. Setting b. Conflict c. Character/s d. Plot
_____19. WHEN and WHERE the story happens.
a. Plot b. Character c. Setting d. Conflict
_____20. The series of events in the story. WHAT happens in the story.
a. Conflict b. Setting c. Plot d. Character
III. Directions: Identify what figure of speech is exemplified in each number.
Simile Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Apostrophe

Hyperbole Synecdoche Metonymy Oxymoron Paradox

_________________1. “Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony” (McCartney & Wonder)
_________________2. “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-
waking sleep, that is not what it is!” (Shakespeare
_________________3. “Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes Whom envy
hath immured within your walls” (Shakespeare)
_________________4. “He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.” (Tennyson)
_________________5. “That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me.” (Donne)
_________________6. “Even at night time, Mama is sunrise.” (Hunt)
_________________7. “The western wave was all a-flame. The day was well night done!” (Coleridge)
_________________8. “A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for
there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no moneyto buy it with…” (Lee)
_________________9. “…the glish of squirting taps plus slush of foam knocked off and a faint piddle
of drops...” (e.e. cummings)
_________________10. “Fall had barely touched the full splendor of trees…” (Knowles