2nd Summative Test in Creative Writing

I. Multiple Choice. Read and analyze the statements below, then choose the letter and the word/s of the
correct answer. Write the chosen answer on a separate sheet of paper.

The Eagle
by Lord Tennyson Alfred
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

1. What happened to the eagle in the last part of the poem?

a. dying of old age c. learning to fly
b. hunting prey d. keeping watch over the nest
2. What imagery is implied on the fourth line of the poem?
a. gustatory b. visual c. olfactory d. auditory
3. What is the figurative language shown in the last line of the poem?
a. Metaphor b. Personification c. Allusion d. Simile
4. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
a. aabbcc b. abcabc c. ababcc d. aaabbb
5. Which of the following is not part of the group?
a. elegy b. sonnet c. ballad d. ode
6. What genre of poetry is the below?
a. lyric poetry b. narrative poetry c. descriptive poetry d. dramatic poetry
“Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me.”
7. What type of figurative language does “Death” represent in this line?
a. Personification b. Allusion c. Imagery d. Metaphor
8. Which of the following describes “tone” as element of poetry?
a. The author's style of writing. c. The reader’s feelings before reading the text.
b. The reader's feelings while reading the text. d. The author's attitude or feelings.
9. Which of the following refers to the group of lines that form a division of a poem?
a. meter b. rhyme c. stanza d. genre
10. “I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;”
(excerpt from “Tree” by Joyce Kilmer)
What form is used in the poem?
a. sestet b. octave c. couplet d. tercet
11. Refer to the item number 10. What is the meter of the poem?
a. 8-8-8-8-8-8 b. 9-9-9-9-9-9 c. 6-6-6-6-6-6 d. 7-7-7-7-7-7
12. What is the tone of the poem “Tree” by Joyce Kilmer?
a. light b. serious c. curious d. skeptic
13. Ballad is like a song. Which of the following is repeated in a ballad?
a. stanza b. meter c. refrain d. image
14. What is the main function of simile and metaphor as literary devices?
a. to exaggerate b. to narrate c. to compare d. to contrast
15. “Here Captain! Dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.”
(excerpt from “Oh Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman)
What do the underlined words describe?
a. true rhyme b. slant rhyme c. internal rhyme d. off rhyme
16. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of poetry?
a. It expresses creative thoughts. c. It connotes deeper meaning
 b. It has musical quality. d. It uses everyday language
17. As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
- Sonnet 23 by William Shakespeare
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
a. A-B-A-B-C-D b. A-A-B-B-C-C c. A-B-C-D-E-F d. A-B-A-C-A-D
18. Refer to the poem in number 4. What can you infer about the underlined phrase?
a. natal celebration b. farewell c. matrimony d. punishment
19. How many lines are there in a quintain?
a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6
20. What literary device refers to the descriptive language that is used to appeal to the human
senses?
a. figurative language b. mood and tone c. imagery d. syllabic meter

For nos. 21-25. Directions: Read the poems below. Identify the imagery used whether visual,
auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile. Write your answer on your answer sheet.
__________________21. “Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:”
(excerpt from “Summer Night” by Alfred Tennyson)
__________________22. “The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:”
(excerpt from “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Rothke)
__________________23. “Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
(excerpt from “To Autumn” by John Keats)
__________________24.“the old strange fragrance filled the air
a fragrance like the garden pink,
but tinged with vague medicinal stink
of a camphor, soap, new sponger, blent,
with chloro form and violent scent.”
(excerpt from “Miss Thompson Gees Shopping” by Martin Amstrong)
__________________25. “He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.”
(excerpt from “ Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert
Frost)

For nos. 26-30. Directions: Pick out the figurative language in the poem excerpts and identify its kind. Write
your answers on your answer sheet. Number 26 is done for you.
_________________26. “Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all –
(excerpt from “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson)
Example: “Hope” is the thing with feathers – Metaphor

_________________27.“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?”
(excerpt from “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes)
_________________28.“Another age shall see the golden ear
Embrown the slope, and nod on the parterre,
Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned,
And laughing Ceres reassume the land.”
(excerpt from “Epistles to Several Persons” by Alexander Pope)
_________________29.“To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all —”
(excerpt from “Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock” T.S. Eliot)
_________________30. “I’d love to take a poem to lunch
or treat it to a wholesome brunch
of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.”
(excerpt from “Take a Poem to Lunch” by Denise Rodgers)

II. Rearrange the letters to decode the correct word to complete the line of the poem. The meanings of the words are
provided on the box. Then write the figures of speech and imagery used in the poem.

1. calmly; peacefully free from disturbance

2. irritation; act of harassing; cause of trouble
3. dishonesty; practice of deception
4. to fake; to pretend
5. doubtful; suspicious; disbelieving
6. dullness; boredom
7. everlasting; undying; lasting
8. hypocrisy; falseness; pretense
9. dull and fatiguing work; doing hard labor

Desiderata
Max Ehrmann

Go (ydlcipal) 1. ________________ amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and
listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are (soinxevat) 2. __________________to the spirit. If you compare
yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than
yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of (ryicrtke) 3. _______________________. But let this
not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not (eifgn) 4. ________________ affection. Neither be (aclincy) 5. _________________
about love; for in the face of all ( tydiria) 6. _____________and disenchantment it is as (nnialerep) 7.
_______________ as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield
you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and
loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not
it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the
noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its(hsma) 8. ____________, (ruddryge) 9. _____________, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be
cheerful. Strive to be happy.