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Which of the following is usually required when submitting non-fiction to a literary agent or publishing
editor?
What is "rhetoric"?
Which of the following is the main font and size used in the U.S. by both print publishers and the
Hollywood film industry?
b. Courier New 12
c. Garamond 12
d. Arial 12-14
e. All of the above
a. Most copyright licenses or contracts last for seventy years after the author's death.
b. Randomly or by lottery
c. By lots of ten years either in the Western world or east of the international date line
d. By time and territory; i.e., in terms of regions of the world and the length of time for which the
copyright is licensed
a. It is less important than one might think; many non-fiction books are published with factual errors.
b. It is important because the credibility of the author and publisher are reflected in the reliability of
factual claims made in the book.
c. It is less important than one might think; the work may contain a mixture of verifiable facts and
approximate facts or guesswork by the author.
d. It is important because sales will be higher if there is more fictional content, even in a non-fiction
book.
Editors will take a professional blog seriously as an example of someone's writing skills, as long as the
blog is regularly updated, clear, and relevant.
a. True
b. False
What is a "heroic couplet"?
b. A traditional form of rising meter consisting of lines of five iambic feet (i.e., ten syllables total)
e. a and d
What is "elision"?
b. fiction
c. creative design
d. non-fiction
Regarding the inclusion of creative expression in non-fiction writing, which of the following statements is
most true?
a. Non-fiction writing should always be factually verifiable, but that does not preclude creative style or
expression as long as the creative expression serves an overall purpose of conveying facts, information,
and learning.
b. Non-fiction is required to be only 75% truthful; the remainder can be given over to creative
expression.
c. Non-fiction should always aim to be as creative and imaginative as fiction, occasionally at the cost of
verifiable truth.
a. A written account of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly and usually for private use
b. Writing articles to submit to newspapers
The Internet is a good source of famous works of literature and non-fiction, which are often available
free in fully downloadable or full-text online formats.
a. True
b. False
c. A production company that has a certain youth appeal, but that is still backed by a major studio
a. background
b. big gun
c. beautiful generation
d. big gap
What is "personification"?
a. The endowment of inanimate objects or concepts with living qualities
d. A poem that resembles a person but does not actually include one
b. Diary or memoir
c. Electronic journal
Which of the following is the closest definition of the expression "high concept" as it is applied in the
field of screenplay writing?
a. A simple premise that describes a proposed film in just a few sentences, often by juxtaposing two
known ideas
Among writing professionals, which of the following are well-known programs for creating and editing
screenplays?
a. The screenplay has been bought and will be put into development; it may or may not be made into a
full production.
b. The screenplay has been bought and will definitely be made into a film, and the screenwriter will
receive a royalty.
c. The screenplay has been partially bought and will now pass through re-writes before being returned to
the screenwriter for a final polish.
c. A memoir is written by the author about him or herself, while a biography is written by an author
about someone else.
In screenplay terminology, the abbreviations "INT." and "EXT." mean ____________ and ___________
respectively.
a. inner, outer
A manuscript that has been edited and proofread, that includes all images, and that is about to be
published is said to be in the __________________ stage.
a. page proof
b. editorial mark-up
c. typesetting
d. camera-ready copy
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
a. Subjective truth is independently verifiable, whereas objective truth is dependent on a limited point of
view.
b. Objective truth is independently verifiable whereas subjective truth is dependent on a limited point of
view.
e. Objective truth involves two people, while subjective truth involves only one.
Which of the following is the recommended length for a screenplay when submitting to production
companies?
a. 80-125 pages
b. 60-80 pages
c. 100-180 pages
Which of the following considerations is most important when keeping a personal journal?
a. That you write regularly, regardless of how you choose to express your thoughts and feelings
b. That the grammar and punctuation be accurate
What is a "quatrain"?
e. b and d
When translated to the screen, a screenplay of 150 pages will generally run for how long?
a. 2.5 hours
b. 1.5 hours
c. 2 hours
d. 3 hours
e. 1.75 hours
What is "assonance"?
b. Stupid behavior
Creative writing or blogging - especially when the format is interactive and allows comments or provides
discussion rooms for readers to express their own views - is said to be a part of which of the following
web generations?
a. Web pages
d. Web 2.0
When staging a play, what does the abbreviation "SPFX" stand for?
a. Special Entrance
b. Special Effects
c. Second Prompter
d. Special Affects
e. Extra Speaker
What is "metonymy"?
b. Same as "synonymous"
c. Rhyming couplets
d. A closely related word that is substituted for another word, object, or idea
e. Two words with exactly the same meaning
What is "bias"?
d. When an author prejudices the reader in favor of one side of a subject by not covering the topic fairly
b. the audience stands and pulls down the curtains with great excitement
b. the antagonist
d. a line or passage that captures the audience's attention (originally a term borrowed from songwriting)
What is a "pun"?
a. A bucket for audience tips
b. A so-called "play on words," or the comic use of a single word with two or more meanings
c. A stage prompt
d. A character foil
In playwriting and theatre terminology, the term "ad lib" (from the Latin ad libitum, meaning in
accordance with desire) refers to _________________.
a. dialogue or action that the actors make up, often on the spur of the moment
c. what the prompt or cue person in the front row delivers to actors who forget their lines
a. a compound noun
d. a figure of speech in which the author refers to something as the opposite of what it actually is
e. a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, usually introduced by the
words like or as
b. the author's desire to keep writing and ward off writer's block
Why are short stories sometimes more challenging than novels for writers to write?
b. The characters and plot must be introduced and developed quickly rather than over a period of time.
a. a summary of the main plot in relation to the characters and the main events
b. an expansion of the main plot in terms of what could be included for an even longer version
b. one writer steals characters or ideas from another writer without changing his or her style of writing
in representing those ideas or characters on the page
d. one writer borrows and sufficiently changes the characters created by another writer, so that they no
longer resemble their originals
Literary agents usually have _________ clients or authors on their client list.
a. 1-5
b. 1-10
c. 1-100
d. 1-200
e. None of the above: the number of clients can vary a great deal.
d. the voice adopted by the author to tell the story, which may or may not be like the real author's voice
b. the protagonist
c. the hurried dialogue between two characters that expresses frustration or unhappiness
d. the antagonist
e. a character who calls attention, by contrast, to the good qualities or traits of the protagonist or other
characters
When an author agrees to give a publisher worldwide audio rights, he or she gives the publisher the
right to record the author's written work for listeners anywhere in the world.
a. True
b. False
In a fictional work, the section that appears before the first chapter - and that is not the introduction,
table of contents or dedication - is most likely a/an _________ .
a. afterword
b. prologue
c. marketing trick
d. by-line
e. a and b
a. the printing of a book that occurs at one particular time and for a determined number of copies
b. the printed copies of a book that are quickly distributed to the bookstores
c. the reprinting of titles that have sold out at the retail stores
d. the author's term for a particular kind of editing that assures good quality printing
According to the old adage about making every significant detail count, if a gun is placed on the wall in
the first part of a story, ________________________ .
b. it should be ignored
b. The mystery at the heart of the tale, especially one involving a secret plan
e. c and d
a. one or more
b. five
c. ten
What is typesetting?
b. The laying out of a book in terms of how the book will actually look when printed
c. The editorial method in which proofs are passed between publisher and author
d. The name for the code that publishers and literary agents use when deciding whether to offer an
author a contract or not
b. A collection of stories in which the same character appears in all of the stories
c. A series of short stories that share similar themes or characters within the same overall work
d. A collection of stories in which each story shares the same subject matter
c. the highest point in the story or conflict just before potential resolution
d. a sequel to a work
A story is often said to have three parts: a beginning, a middle and an end. What are these parts
sometimes called?
Which of the following describes language that refers to meanings other than the literal meaning?
a. Symbolic or figurative
b. Stream of consciousness
c. Symbiotic or parasitic
d. Open-ended
A line break in a story is often associated with what kind of change in the action or narrative?
a. A change in tense
b. A change in tension
___________ is a method by which an author enters into a contract with a publishing company, at the
author's expense, to have his or her manuscript printed in book form.
b. Professional journaling
c. Self-publishing
d. A query letter
e. Third-party printing
a. pick of vice
b. particle of vector
c. piece of venom
d. part of version
e. point of view
a. An open plot involves marriage at the end, while a closed plot involves murder.
b. An open plot is one in which conflict is resolved at the end, while a closed plot is one in which conflict
is not resolved.
c. A closed plot is one in which conflict is resolved at the end, while an open plot is one in which conflict
is not resolved.
In his book Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster famously described characters as 'flat' or 'round'. Which
of the following best describes flat characters as opposed to round characters?
a. Round characters are one-dimensional, often with a single character trait, while flat characters are
more believable because they have a fuller personality with multiple character traits.
b. Flat characters are physically flat, while round characters are physically round.
c. Flat characters are major characters, while round characters are minor characters.
d. Flat characters are one-dimensional, often with a single character trait, while round characters are
more believable because they have a fuller personality with multiple character traits.
What is a copyright?
c. The authority an author gives to a book agent to sell his or her work
d. The legal right granted to an author or publisher to exclusive publication, copy, sale, or distribution of
a creative work
e. The legal self-promotion an author engages in to sell his or her work
In copyediting, red ink and blue ink generally signify which kinds of changes?
d. Blue ink is used to show additions, and red ink is used to show deletions.
e. a and b
When you agree to first UK serial rights, you give a publisher the first right to publish your work in serial
form only in the UK; they would have to negotiate any other rights separately.
a. True
b. False
a. super-conglomerates
b. corporations
c. houses
d. cottages
a. a brighter, more positive moment for a character or for the tone of the story as a whole
b. a flashy sequence during which the style of writing becomes disjointed, similar to modernist writing
c. a section in which the narrative goes back in time, often within the mind of a character, to events
preceding the current action
If the narrator of a story refers to him or herself as "I", which of the following perspectives is being used?
a. Omniscient
b. Ambivalent
c. First-person
d. Third-person
e. Second-person
What is the difference between a publisher's 'front list' and its 'back list'?
a. The front list is put in the window, and the back list stays in the office.
b. The front list contains the titles that have gone on sale in the current year, while the back list are the
titles that are older than frontlist title.
d. The front list is contains the names of genre writers, while the back list contains the names of literary
writers.
b. A collection of sonnets
c. A short novel
According to Ernest Hemingway's "iceberg theory" for determining the power of a narrative and the
impression it makes on a reader, which of the following statements is most true?
a. Most of the story's effect should be below the surface and conveyed by relatively fewer words on the
page.
b. More words should be used on the page, with the effect on the reader being reduced.
In terms of time, a story without temporal disjunctions, flashbacks or dream sequences that could
confuse the main action is said to be _______________.
a. plain
b. over-determined
c. non-linear
d. linear
Which of the following best describes a 'roman a clef' (novel with a key)?
d. A novel in which actual events and/or people are depicted as fictional events and/or characters
Which of the following statements best illustrates the primary purpose of writing dialogue?
b. Dialogue is less important than other aspects of story-telling such as setting, theme, and
characterization.
c. Dialogue propels the plot forward through a character's actions rather than through his words.
a. middle part
b. exposition
c. conflict
d. premise
e. resolution
Written questions
INCORRECT
No answer given
THE ANSWER
Raw Magazine
INCORRECT
No answer given
THE ANSWER
Roxane Gay
exploit the enlightened self interest of your audience, indicate the world that you are writing in and how
reality has changed in some significant way. Promise to delight, inform or entertain someone.
INCORRECT
No answer given
THE ANSWER
JJ Lee's tips
It resembles memoir and it has a build up (like in the Freytag pyramid) and then reaches a climax and
then quickly wraps up.
INCORRECT
No answer given
THE ANSWER
Speech or dialogue that doesn't involve quotations. Can be used to summarize dialogue
CORRECT
indirect discourse
5 Matching questions
Understatement
CORRECT
Pitch Letters
CORRECT
E. Where you have a thesis along with an animating idea. What can sometimes work nicely is if you
introduce yourself briefly and then segue into the story proposal and why you should be writing it, then
why now.
Narrative
CORRECT
B. You're compressing time and are glossing over months or years into a couple paragraphs:
Lyric Essay
CORRECT
D. It is implicit with the theme. They are not narrative essay because they forsake narrative line and
discursive essay.
CORRECT
You're compressing time and are glossing over months or years into a couple paragraphs:
It is implicit with the theme. They are not narrative essay because they forsake narrative line and
discursive essay.
Where you have a thesis along with an animating idea. What can sometimes work nicely is if you
introduce yourself briefly and then segue into the story proposal and why you should be writing it, then
why now.
Understatement
Francis Bacon
Leah McClaran
John Vaillant
Gary Shteyngart
Jessica Johnson
Jonathan Lethem
John Vaillant
Rebecca Solnit
Jessica Johnson
Arts journalists have long used THIS to distinguish a secondary consideration of something or a broader
reflection of the artistic scene, from a straight review. Sometimes it can have an insulting undertone (EG.
if you're talking about a movie you don't like)
Perspective
Personal Essay
JJ Lee's tips
Where you have tons of line breaks or numbers that separates the text and makes it more disjointed.
Indirect Discourse
Jessica Johnson
5 True/False questions
The guy who coined the term "essays" and wrote them. He wrote about anything → Michel De
Montaigne
CORRECT
True
show not tell, control the point of view, use active versus passive construction, commit to the
concreteness of a scene, a moment, a remembrance, create new ideas through the juxtaposition of
images and thought, Don't write the word "suddenly" → Pitch Letters
INCORRECT
True
THE ANSWER
False
What was Nickel and Dimed about? → Working as a low wage worker at several bars and how Barbara
overcame tons of obstacles and horrible bosses
INCORRECT
False
THE ANSWER
True
CORRECT
False
It should be → Flashbacks
INCORRECT
False
THE ANSWER
True