Creative Writing

Assessment
I.Fill in the Blanks: Provide what is being asked in each statement. Legibly write your answers preceding each number.
________1. What type of literature wherein words are laced together to form sounds and images?
________2. What type of poem that is either poetic or musical which tells the tales of ordinary people?
________3. Lines of poetry are arranged into groups called ________.
________4. Poetry that does not follow a specific form and does not have to rhyme is known as ____________
poetry.
________5. Metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, and personification are all examples of what?
________6.______ the way a poem looks, its physical structure or its arrangement on the page.
________7. _______ is a tribute to its subject, although the subject need not be dead, and has elaborated stanza
pattern
________8. _______ has no set metric pattern and is written to mourn and reminisce the dead.
________9. _______ is a 14-line poem which focuses on the topic of love. Its two types are the Italian or Petrarchan
which consists of an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) and Shakespearean/ Elizabethan which consists of
three quatrains (four lines each) and a concluding couplet (two lines).
________10. It is a poem that tells or narrates a story; its structure resembles the plot line of a story
________11. It is a poem that describes the world that surrounds the speaker which uses elaborate imagery and
adjectives and more personal and introspective than the lyric poetry.
________12.______ concerns the relationship between human and the natural world.
________13. _______ is believed to be the only thing that will make your poetry powerful and enticing. These are
mental pictures the poet creates through language.
________14. ________ is the repetition of similar sounds.
________15 _________ words are chosen for their soft consonant sounds and melodious quality.
________16. _______ words are chosen for their hard sounds and general obnoxiousness.
________17. _______ a form of repetition where the order of verbs and nouns is repeated; it may involve exact
words, but it more importantly repeats sentence structure
________18. A name for a line of poetry written in meter.
________19._______ are a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line
________20. It refers to a figure in a literary work which can either be a person or other form of being.
II.Enumeration: Provide what is being asked in each item.

3 Classification of fiction: 1. Sonnet – ____ lines

1. 2. Haiku – _____ line
2.
3. Couplet – _____ - line stanza
3.
Elements of Fiction 4. Triplet – _____ - line stanza
1. 5. Limerick – _____ lines
2.
3. 6. Heptameter – _____ meter
4. 7. Octometer – _____ meter
5. 8. Pentameter – _____ feet
6.
Types of Character: 9. Hexameter – _____ feet
1. 10. Monometer – _____ foot
2.
11. Quatrain – _____ - line stanza
3.
4. 12. Sestet – _____ - line stanza
5. 13. Dimeter – _____ feet
Elements of the Plot:
14. Trimester – _____ feet
1.
2. 15. Tetrameter – _____ feet
3. 16.Septet – _____ - line stanza
4.
5. 17. Octave – _____ - line stanza

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