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FINAL EXAMINATION IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter that best fits your answer.
1. What is creative nonfiction?
a. Creative nonfiction is a branch of writing that employs the literary techniques usually associated with fiction or poetry to report
on actual persons, places, or events.
b. Literal account of someone’s adventures in Vietnam is not a novel, it is a memoir or part of an autobiography.
c. The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
d. Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables which sets the overall rhythm of certain poems
2. Why Comedy tend to bring humor and induce laughter in plays, films, and theatre?
a. A traditional form of rising meter consisting of lines of five iambic feet (i.e., ten syllables total)
b. the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words
c. the pattern of end rhymes that may be designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme
d. Because primary function of comedy is to amuse and entertain the audience
3. What is “free verse”?
a. Epic verse
b. Poetry that is given away free with longer works
c. More modern poetry with no prescribed pattern or structure
d. Rhyming couplets
4. Which of the following is a good technique for presenting your creative writing online?
a. Restricting your work to either a blog or a website – having both is always confusing
b. Placing sample opening chapters on a highly visual website that is interlinked with blogs and discussion boards to draw
attention to your work
c. Putting the entire work online
d. Placing your work online anonymously
5. The phrase “The tree’s dark fingers reached out for him” demonstrates the use of which of the following literary devices?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Alliteration
d. Personification
6. What is an “epic poem”?
a. An extended ballad containing quatrains
b. Free verse
c. A poem written in large print
d. A poem of considerable length, often dealing with heroic themes
7. Which of the following elements of diction in drama is BEST defined?
a. Everything that is seen
b. The way the characters speak
c. Everything that is heard
d. Characters
8. The element of plot in drama can be defined as:
a. The events, what happens and how it unfolds
b. The characters
c. Everything the character’s say
d. All of the above
9. The element of character in drama can be defined as:
a. Moral quality such as patience
b. Everything that is heard
c. The events, what happens and how it unfolds
d. The persons carrying out the action/plot
10. What would be a good example of prose writing? 
a. Paragraph about the benefits of eating carrots
b. Dictionary definitions
c. Newspaper article
d. All of the above

11. Choose the example of perfect rhyme.

a. Cat, Hat
b. Fright, Freight
c. Laughter, Slaughter
d. Coup, cop
12. What are the elements of creative nonfiction?
a. Character, setting. Plot and theme
b. Fact, Reporting, Essay Format.
c. Issues, narration, dialogue and style.
 d. All the above.
13. Which of the following is not part of Folktale?
a. Legend.
b. Tall tale.
c. Mystery
d. Myth
14. Which of the following major genres of Literature are from invented stories with characters and events?
a. Fantasy.
b. Biography.
c. Travelogue.
d. Essay.
15. Figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
d. Personification
16. What figure of speech compares seemingly unlike things, but does not use like or as?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
d. Personification
17. Which of the following Figures of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
d. Personification
18. Why do we need to use literary devices to tell a story?
a. It stimulates and entertains the reader, such as simile, metaphor, imagery.
b. Everything will be easy to write
c. It gives the story a hint.
d. Literary devices make the story short.
19. What events contribute to the tension/suspense of a story?
a. Climax
b. Exposition
c. Setting
d. Resolution
20. Resolution The repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Rhyme
d. Onomatopoeia
21. The repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry.
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Rhyme
d. Onomatopoeia
22. Maria wrote a poem and used the words hiss and buzz. The two words that she used are examples of what figures speech?
a. Assonance
b. Rhyme
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Rhyme
23. The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. Rhythm can be regular or
irregular.
a. Rhyme
b. Rhythm
c. Meter
d. Tone
24. Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables which sets the overall rhythm of certain poems.
a. Rhyme
b. Rhythm
c. Meter
d. Tone
25. The traditional Japanese haiku is an unrhymed poem that contains exactly 17 syllables, arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables
each.
a. Lyric Poetry
b. Dramatic poetry
c. Haiku
d. Narrative poetry
26. Verse that tells a story. The 2 major examples includes ballads and epics
a. Lyric Poetry
b. Dramatic Poetry
c. Haiku
d. Narrative Poetry
27. What type Poetry in which one or more characters speak?
a. Lyric Poetry
b. Dramatic Poetry
 c. Haiku
d. Narrative Poetry
28. What type poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts and feelings? It is usually short and musical.
a. Lyric poetry
b. Dramatic poetry
c. Haiku
d. Narrative poetry
29. What do you call an emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word?
a. Denotation
b. Connotation
c. Diction
d. Tone
30. The following is a list of the most common literary devices that writers incorporate into their nonfiction writing EXCEPT:
a. Theme
b. Climax
c. Dialogue
d. Point of View
31. A reflection of the poet’s attitude toward the subject of a poem. It can be serious, sarcastic, humorous, etc.
a. Denotation
b. Connotation
c. Diction
d. Tone
32. The feeling or atmosphere that a poet creates. It can suggest an emotion or the quality of a setting. In a poem, mood can be
established through word choice, line length, rhythm, etc.
a. Assonance
b. Rhyme
c. Tone
d. Mood
33. A Form invented in Italy, usually written in a series with each ____ a continuous subject to the next. (Sequels in movies)
a. Narrative Poetry
b. Dramatic Poetry
c. Sonnets
d. Lyric Poetry
34. Is a group of lines forming a unit. The stanzas in a poem are separated by a space.
a. Line
b. Stanza
c. Speaker
d. None of the above
35. The following are the sub-genres of Nonfiction EXCEPT:
a. Essay
b. Biography
c. Informational
d. Comedy
36. What do you call a story that often uses that speaks and acts like humans?
a. Fable
b. Fantasy
c. Myth
d. Legend
37. Maria was tasked to introduce the speaker for the Seminar next week. What does she need to prepare?
a. The feature story
b. Her autobiography
c. The Biography of the speaker
d. Essay about her experiences.
38. Anna really loves to listen to Gods and Goddesses stories. What genre of Literature does she prepare to listen?
a. Historical Fiction
b. Realistic Fiction
c. Mythology
d. Fairy tales
39. Jose watched the movie entitled Harry Potter last year and discovered that there were parts of the story with full of science-
defying magic spells. What genre of Literature does it belong?
a. Nonfiction
b. Fiction
c. Play
d. Poetry

40. Creative Nonfiction is also known as?

a. Literary journalism
b. Reading skills
c. Commonness
d. None of the above
I. MATCHING TYPE. Identify words and phrases in column A and B. Find out the meaning of the word from
column A in column B. Write your answer by writing the letters of the alphabet which preceding each phrase or
word in column B.
41. Antagonist a. a character does not change
42. Dynamic character b. goes through a significant change
43. Flat character c. dominated by one or two traits
44. Protagonist d. exhibit a full range of personality traits
45. Round character e. the main character of a story
46. Static character f. in conflict with the main character

47. 1st person g. all knowing

48. 3rd person limited h. follows the POV of a few characters closely
49. Omniscient i. the story is told by "I"
50. point of view j. who is telling the story
51. theme k. the message the author delivers to his/her
readers

52. conflict l. a boy faces a bully

m. problem or situation in a story that causes
53. external conflict
tension
54. internal conflict
n. a teenager spend the night in a haunted house
55. person vs. nature
o. students rally against the dress code at school
56. person vs. person
p. a hiker tries to stay alive after being stranded in
57. person vs. self
the wild
58. person vs. society
q. a football players struggles to overcome an
59. person vs. supernatural
injury
60. climax
r. a struggle a character faces on the outside of
him/herself
s. a struggle a character faces on the inside of
him/herself
t. events contribute to the tension/suspense of a
story

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