PRE-TEST IN CREATIVE WRTING

Direction/s: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following figures of speech uses

representations such as objects, actions, and ideas in a 11. Which of the following pertains to stories that are
manner that appeals to the senses? crafted from one’s imagination?
A. Imagery C. Metaphor A. Fiction C. Plot
B. Hyperbole D. Simile B. Nonfiction D. Setting
2. Which of the following DOES NOT belong to the 12. Which element of a story refers to the people or animals
group? that make things happen in fiction?
A. Hypertext C. Oxymoron A. Character C. Setting
B. Onomatopoeia D. Synecdoche B. Plot D. Techniques
3. Which figure of speech states comparison (formed with 13. Which of the choices below DOES NOT include to the
“like” or “as”) between two fundamentally dissimilar group?
things that have certain qualities in common? A. Exposition C. Rising Action
A. Hyperbole C. Personification B. Climax D. Technique
B. Metaphor D. Simile 14. Which of the choices below DOES NOT belong to the
4. Which of the following is the sense of musicality that group?
you notice in each line of verse, which most poetry A. Foreshadowing C. Symbolism and Motif
have? B. Point of View D. Tone and Mood
A. Diction C. Rhyme 15. Which type of theme is the most significant message
B. Phoneme D. Syntax found in any fictional work?
5. Which of the following means how words are arranged A. Formal Theme C. Major Theme
in a sentence or line? B. Informal Theme D. Minor Theme
A. Diction C. Phoneme 16. “The food may not be enough for us, but what is more
B. Morpheme D. Syntax important is that we stick together as a family through
6. Which of the following is the underlying message or the the harsh times.”
central idea of the whole work? A. Bitter Tone C. Optimistic Tone
A. Diction C. Syntax B. Humorous Tone D. Sentimental Tone
B. Morpheme D. Theme
17. Which of the following literary compositions is written
7. Which refers to a short poem with three lines and a either in prose or verse form?
syllable count of 5-7-5. It also contains elements such A. Acting C. Monologue
as kigo (seasonal reference) and ikireji (“cutting word” B. Drama D. Soliloquy
placed between juxtaposed imagery)?
18. Which of the following is defined as words or lines of
A. English Haiku C. Sestina
the characters that are meant to be delivered verbally by
B. Japanese Haiku D. Tanaga
the actors?
8. What Filipino poetic form that has four lines with seven A. Acting C. Monologue
syllables each, all of which rhyme together? B. Dialogue D. Script
A. English Haiku C. Sestina
19. Which of the following refers to the techniques or
B. Japanese Haiku D. Tanaga
method that dramatist and directors adhere to in creating
“The smell of a stone the way the play is written and interpreted?
The summer grass is red A. Audience C. Dramatic Devices
Dew is hot” B. Convention D. Genre
9. What kind of poetry is the given selection?
20. Which of the following refers to the viewers of the play?
A. Filipino Haiku C. Tanaga
A. Audience C. Genre
B. Japanese Haiku D. Villanelle
B. Characters D. Spectacle
“Dance with me across the sea, stunning island I’ll take 21. Which of the following refers to the rhythm of the
thee. actor’s voices as they speak/ the variations in how
Reign as grand queen overall, mild hand over big and dialogues are delivered?
small.” A. Music/Rhythm C. Spectacle
10. What kind of poetry is the given selection? B. Plot D. Theme
A. Filipino Haiku C. Tanaga
B. Japanese Haiku D. Villanelle 22. What element of drama refers to the things that can be
 seen on stage during the performance of the play such as
set design, costume, and special effects? It is also called 32. A. Makeup C. Sounds
visual elements. (Aristotle’s six elements of drama). B. Scenery D. Props
A. Characters C. Music/Rhythm
B. Dialogue D. Spectacle
23. Which literary element of drama refers to the persons,
animals, or other entities that are portrayed in a play?
A. Audience C. Genre
B. Characters D. Spectacle
33. A. Makeup C. Sounds
24. What refers to a dramatic device that the members of the B. Scenery D. Props
audience are fully and clearly aware of the significance
and implications of the character’s words, actions, or
situations except the character himself/herself?
A. Aside C. Monologue
B. Dramatic Irony D. Soliloquy
25. Which of the following refers to the theatrical equipment
such as backdrops and platforms that set the mood and
setting of each scene in the play?
A. Makeup C. Sound 34. A. Makeup C. Sounds
B. Scenery D. Props B. Scenery D. Props
26. Which literary element of drama mentions to the use of
costumes, body paint, wigs, and other similar body
accessories to transform an actor into the character that
he/she portrays?
A. Makeup C. Sound
B. Scenery D. Props
27. Which of the following sets the direction of the play and 35. A. Makeup C. Sounds
guides the director as he leads the entire production, B. Scenery D. Props
especially the actors, in bringing the characters and the
plot to life?
A. Characters C. Stage Directions
B. Scripts D. Title
28. Which literary element of drama describes the time and
place the story happens?
A. Plot Structure C. Stage Directions 36. [A nondescript apartment. There is nothing to
B. Setting D. Title differentiate this apartment from any other apartment in
any other building in any other city. A young WOMAN,
29. Which of the following is written inside round brackets, also nondescript, sits in a rocking chair, cradling an
describe how the actors, in the portrayal of their infant tenderly in her arms. Lost in thought, she is slow
characters, are expected to move, act, and speak? to notice the scuffling of feet just outside the apartment
A. Descriptions C. Setting door. Suddenly her eyes grow wide – she lunges out of
B. Plot Structure D. Stage Directions the chair, looks about the room in a panic, stuffs the
30. In which part does a script usually begin followed by the baby into a bureau drawer, and disappears into the
playwright’s name? hallway. A few moments later, a young MAN enters
A. Descriptions C. Setting carrying an enormous stack of files and papers…]
B. Dialogue D. Title
What part/element of script is the given example?
Analyze and identify which technical element of drama are A. Acting C. Dialogue
shown in the pictures below. Choose the letter of the correct B. Description D. Nonverbal Expressions
answer.
MAN - a hardworking manor employee who don’t want kids
31. A. Makeup WOMAN - a wife who lived in time of depression
B. Scenery MESSENGER - suit by the company to take the desired of
C. Sounds cake
D. Props
A nondescript apartment. There is nothing to differentiate
this apartment from any other apartment in any other
building in any other city. A young WOMAN, also
nondescript, sits in a rocking chair, cradling an infant
tenderly in her arms…… different readers.
c. It creates stories that heavily deviate from the
MAN: [His usual greetings.] I’m home. norm of linear progression, and instead create
[He loosens his tie and waits for a response, but none is stories with interactive plots.
forthcoming. He hesitates] MAN: I’m … I’m home. d. None of the above
[Still no response. He scratches his head, puzzled.] MAN:
Hello? Identify the parts of the essay below to form the original
WOMAN; [Offstage.] In here! MAN: I said I was – socio-political essay. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
WOMAN: In the kitchen!
MAN: Aren’t you going to – 41. Title
[ The WOMAN scurries into the room wearing an apron and
oven mitts. She kisses her husband dutifully on the cheek 42. Writer
and scurries back towards the kitchen.]
37. From excerpt above, what do you call on the lines of the 43. Introduction
MAN and WOMAN?
A. Dialogue C. Soliloquy 44. Body or Middle Section
B. Monologue D. Stage Whisper
45. Conclusion
38. What element of script that are in capital letters on the
excerpt above? (A) His Excellency Ferdinand E. Marcos President of the
A. Characters C. Genre Philippines [Released on May 12, 1982] (C) When we
B. Dialogue D. Props exercised the extraordinary powers provided for in the
Constitution in order to save a threatened republic and to
39. From the excerpt above, what are the sentences or words build a new society, we made a decisive act of freedom. You
inside the brackets? will recall that the Constitution referred to had to be
A. Convention C. Spectacle approved by a foreign legislature and its commander-in-chief
B. Speaking D. Stage Directions provision was intended to quell any act of anti-colonialist
resistance by the Filipino people. But we transformed that
40. What are the underlined phrases across each character on
imposition on our will into a weapon of self-preservation and
the excerpt above?
self-liberation.
A. Characterization C. Stage Directions
Having done so, we proceeded to draft a new charter, one
B. Description D. Stage Whisper
that stems from our own sovereign act, a fundamental law by
41. From the excerpt above, what part/element of drama are the Filipino, of the Filipino, and for the Filipino. Thus, the
the italicize sentences? New Society was new in its fundamental legal aspect: we
A. Dialogue C. Setting had a new charter for a new social existence.
B. Monologue D. Spectacle (B) From the very first uprising of our colonial history,
42. Love songs, party songs, and soundtracks – What Filipino have always had a dream of freedom, dignity, and
element of drama are these? equality. No Filipino who has read the writings of the heroes
A. Musical Score C. Sound Effect of the Propaganda Period cannot but be stirred by the
B. Rhythm D. Stage Whisper sentiments and ideas of Rizal, Mabini, Bonifacio, del Pilar,
Burgos and Aglipay. Their lives and literature are the well-
43. “Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where springs of Filipino ideology.
he and his scar were famous ...but now the school year
was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the (D) The True Filipino Ideology
summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled (E) The heroic men and women who fell in Bataan,
in something smelly.” (“Harry Potter and the Chamber Corregidor, and in the mountains and hills in the hour of
of Secrets,” J.K. Rowling) Analyze the excerpt above. In resistance, died for that ideology. The ideology burned in
what point of view is the given selection? them even if they did not seek to define it.
A. First Person C. Third Person (Limited) Now we need to define; it is the task of the moment. A few
B. Second Person D. Third Person (Omniscient) of our countrymen have strayed to foreign ideologies,
different and opposing ideologies, exalting on one side
44. Which of the following is the simple and easy learnable liberty and on the other, equality, pushing, as it were,
way of making hypertext? extreme positions.
a. HTML C. URL These are ideologies alien to our nature for they sprung from
b. HTTP D. Web 2.0 foreign soil, shaped by cultures different from our own. For
45. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in Hypertext? while it is true that Truth is universal to all of mankind, the
a. It creates unique storytelling opportunities for truths of experience are particularized by history and culture.
writers. Unless we can understand this, we cannot take the first step
b. It allows for the plot to become relatively towards national liberation.
malleable and creates different experiences for Happily, however, we have taken the first steps.