Cateel Vocational High School

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Creative Writing – First Periodical Examination

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the correct answer from the choices given below. Write the
letter and the words of the best answer; write your answer on your answer sheet.
For numbers 1-4. Read the text and answer the questions that follow.
The abode of Somnus, the God of Sleep, is near the blank country of the Cimmerians, in a
deep valley where the sun never shines and dusky twilight wraps all things in shadows. No
cock crows there. No watchdog breaks the silence. No branches rustle in the breeze. – Ceyx
and Alcyone

1. Which is a visual imagery?

a. Sentence 1 b. Sentence 2 c. Sentence 3 d. Sentence 4
2. What element of fiction is described in the paragraph?
a. character b. plot c. setting d. theme
3. What figurative language is used in sentence 1?
a. Hyperbole b. Metaphor c. Personification d. Simile
4. What type of fiction is the above paragraph?
a. Chic lit b. Fairytale c. Myth d. Speculative
The beast turned its head to look at him with dumb faithful eyes – Footnote to Youth
5. What figurative language is the line above?
a. Hyperbole b. Metonymy c. Personification d. Synecdoche
She stepped down from the carretela of CaCelin with a quick, delicate grace. She was lovely.
She was tall. She looked up to my brother with a smile, and her forehead was on a level with
his mouth. – How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife
6. What element of fiction is described in the text?
a. Characterization b. Plot c. Setting d. Theme
The Saturday before my lola’s funeral, I went to the cemetery with Tita Menchu and Tita Ems
to check on the gravesite. I really didn’t want to go but Tita Menchu would be leaving for
New Jersey after the funeral and Tita Ems would be going back to Switzerland. I wanted to
spend as much time as I could with them. They told me so many stories about Mommy. – In a
Bed of Roses.
7. From which point of view is the story above is told?
a. First person b. Innocent eye c. Third person omniscient d. Third person – limited
8. What is the climax of the plot in The Cask of Amontillado?
a. Montresor strikes Fortunato with a rock, then approaches him while stunned, and chains
him to the wall.
b. Fortunato took the De Grâve and drank it all without stopping for a breath.
c. Montresor put the old bones again in a pile against the wall; For half a century now no
human hand has touched them.
d. Montresor could hear Fortunato pulling at the chain, shaking it wildly.
9. What does Fortunato symbolize?
a. Unfortunate b. Fortunate c. Triumphant d. Heroic
10. What nationality is Fortunato?
a. Mexican b. Italian c. Spartan d. American
11. Why the story is entitled “Don’t Wait To Give Daddy A Hug”?
a. Because the little girl regretted not giving her daddy one last hug before he died.
b. Because the little girl was pulled and used as a pawn between her divorced parents.
c. Because the girl’s Mom prohibited the little girl to hug her Daddy.
 d. Because the little girl loves her Daddy so much.
12. Who is the author of the story Don’t Wait To Give Daddy A Hug?
a. Edgar Allan Poe b. Francis Bacon c. Frances Fleckner Schletty d. Adam Smith
13. “Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each (man) carried a
green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or groundsheet or makeshift tent. With
quilted liner, the poncho weighed almost 2 pounds, but it was worth every ounce – Tim
O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
Which setting is described in the story?
a. description of a place b. historical condition c. weather condition d. time of the day
14. 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
15. 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
16. “Time flies so fast!” Which kind of figurative language is used here?
a. Simile b. Metaphor c. Personification d. Onomatopoeia
17. The following statement is an example of which figurative language?
My mom’s voice is annoying as nails scratching against a chalkboard!
a. Imagery b. Metaphor c. Simile d. Symbolism
18. The following are the types of imagery except ________________.
a. Visual imagery b. Auditory imagery c. Tactile imagery d. Extrasensory imagery
19. Who is the main character in the story “Footnote to Youth”?
a. Blas b. Dodong c. Teang d. Tona
20. What is the theme of the story “Footnote to Youth”?
a. Bravery and courage c. No man is an island
b. History repeats itself d. Love knows no gender
21. What point of view was used in the story “Footnote to Youth”?
a. 1st person point of view c. 3rd person limited
b. 2nd person point of view d. 3rd person omniscient
22. What do you think will happen if Blas continues to marry Tona?
a. They will always fight.
b. His married life will not be blessed.
c. Tona will find another man years after their marriage.
d. He will also experience what his father experienced.
23. Where do you think the story “Footnote to Youth” takes place?
a. Far flung area
b. Near the shore
c. Rural area particularly where the farm is
d. Urban area where there are big establishments
24. How did Teang find married life?
a. Married life is fun not until your children will get sick.
b. Married life is easy as long as you have your parents with you.
c. Married life is difficult especially when you are not yet financially stable.
d. Married life is difficult but having the person you love with you makes life easy.
25. Writing goes straight to the point; does not use unnecessary words. It expresses exactly what
you
want to say.
a. Connotation b. Diction c. Imagery d. Tone
26. 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.
27. 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
28. Refer to the poem in number 27. What can you infer about the underlined phrase?
a. natal celebration b. farewell c. matrimony d. punishment
29. 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
30. April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
(excerpt from “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot)
What figurative language is shown in the first line of the poem?
a. simile b. alliteration c. personification d. metaphor
For nos. 31-34. Read the poem below and choose the best answer.
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.

31. 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
32. What imagery is implied on the fourth line of the poem?
a. gustatory b. visual c. olfactory d. auditory
33. What is the figurative language shown in the last line of the poem?
a. metaphor b. personification c. oxymoron d. simile
34. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
a. aabbcc b. abcabc c. ababcc d. aaabbb
35. What is the main function of simile and metaphor as literary devices?
a. to exaggerate b. to narrate c. to compare d. to contrast

II. Read the poem excerpts, pick out the figurative language and identify its kind. Number 1 is
done for you.
1. “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 thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson)
Answer: “Hope” is the thing with feathers. – Metaphor
2. “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)
3. “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)
4. “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” by T. S. Eliot)
5. “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)
6. “A spot for the splendid birth
Of everlasting lives,
Whereto no night arrives;
And this gaunt gray gallery
A tabernacle of worth”
(excerpt from “In a Whispering Gallery” by Thomas Hardy)
7. “How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,”
(excerpt from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe)
8. “Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know’.”
(excerpt from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats)
9. “Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.”
(excerpt from “Paradise Lost” by John Milton)
10. “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
(excerpt from “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Prepared by:
JOHNCY E. PUERTOLLANO
Teacher-III
Checked by:
JOHANNE L. UY
MT-I/SHS Asst. to the Principal Designate