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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI- WESTERN VISAYAS
Division of Antique
NORTHERN ANTIQUE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Culasi, Antique

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

(Second Semester, S.Y. 2018-2019)

NAME: ______________________________________________________________ SCORE: _____________________

GRADE & SECTION: ________________________________________________

I. MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

Directions: Read and analyze the statements below. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and CHANGE the
underlined word or group of words if it is false.

1. A poem doesn’t have characters, it uses persona and his or her perspective to perceive his or her experience.
2. Creative nonfiction is “a more imaginative approach to reporting” yet remains truthful and accurate.
3. Hidalgo emphasizes that a good piece of fiction has a personal voice and a clearly defined point of view, which
will reveal itself in the tone, and be presented through scene, summary and description, as it is in nonfiction.
4. In the ancient times and periods, prose was the language of the people.
5. In writing the title, it should be misleading and should be long enough to explain the whole story.
6. Consonance focuses on the vowel sounds in a phrase, a line of text or poetry repeating them over and over to
a great effect.
7. The language of poetry is quite different from the language of prose (fiction and drama).
8. The speaker of the poem is not necessarily the poet. In many cases, poets create a persona who speaks the
poem in the first person.
9. The use of images is a constant in poetry.
10. What characters say or how characters express themselves provides readers ideas of the kind of people they
are.

II. SIMPLE RECALL

Directions: Recall the term/s being referred to in the sentences below. Write your answer in your answer sheets.

11. A figure of speech that contains words that are used to soften the message or make it sound better than it is.
12. A pattern of actions, events, and situations showing the development of the narrative.
13. A sequence of events that has a beginning, middle, and an end.
14. A thing that suggest more than its literal meaning. It is a concrete thing that represents something in the
abstract.
15. An “artistic” way of relating factual events to the reader. It is nonfiction that reads like fiction.
16. Before, this strategy is considered noble in both fiction and drama. Today, it’s a sign of weakness in the
written work. Once, referring to the Greek practice of physically lowering a “god” to the stage at the end of the
play to solve all the problems.
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17. This is what the viewers see and hear in a performance and these are the words uttered by the characters in a
dramatic play.
18. What element of Fiction and Drama refers to the sequence of events that happened in a story?
19. What figure of speech compares two things that are not alike and finds something about them to make them
alike?
20. The use of strange situations in which things happen in a way that is opposite of what you expected.

III. MULTIPLE CHOICE

General Directions: Read the statements below and answer the questions that follows. Write the letter of the
correct answer in your answer sheets.

The following words are terms from the stories that you have read. Analyze the statements below and
choose the meaning of the underlined words from the choices given.

21. The somber sight of the lonely sea and the barren land irritated Tungkung Langit.” What do the underlined
words mean?
a. dark; unproductive b. bright; productive c. beautiful; infertile d. brilliant; fruitful
22. Tungkung Langit took his wife’s treasured jewels and scattered them in the sky, hoping that when Alunsina
would see them she might be induced to return home.
a. to move by persuasion or influence c. to make her happy
b. to interfere with or slow in progress d. to impede or restrict
23. The television was resolutely shutdown.
a. wilfully b. angrily c. happily d. hesitantly
24. I proceed to bawl, hiccup and choke on my half-chewed food.
a. To give out a blaring cry.
b. To utter words in a low confused indistinct manner.
c. To whisper in pain.
d. To murmur in frustration.
25. The girl in the story needed to bear the pain stoically.
a. A manner of showing complaints on the pain and hardships.
b. A manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint.
c. A rebellious way of expressing pain.
d. No correct answer.
26. One perpetual lifetime probe, forever rummaging through bureaus and drawers and pages of my life’s past
disarray. . .
a. continuing; desk c. unsteady; department
b. occasional; office d. irregular; agency
27. My mother issued an edict that during the school year, vile distractions like the Family Computer must be
kept away from my grubby hands.
a. decree; good; clean c. announcement; black; fragrant
b. pronouncement; moral; filthy d. directive; dark; soiled
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Analyze and determine the figures of speech used in the statements below.

28. I shall go on seeking out lost faces and faiths in the cold, collecting, calculating crowd…
a. Assonance b. Consonance c. Alliteration d. Onomatopoeia

29. Which of the following statements are examples of irony? You can have more than one answer.
a. After begging for a cat and finally getting one, she found out she was allergic.
b. And the river jumps over the mountain.
c. A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets.
d. The titanic was said to be unsinkable.

30. “My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a water’d shoot
My heart is like an apple-tree
My heart is like a rainbow shell…
a. Metaphor b. Hyperbole c. Simile d. Antithesis
31. “Hadn’t she felt it in every touch of the sunshine, as its golden finger-tips pressed her lids open and wound
their way through her hair?”
a. Personification b. Metonymy c. Synecdoche d. Oxymoron
32. I am trying to solve a million issues today!
a. Metaphor b. Personification c. Oxymoron d. Hyperbole
33. “I am delighted to win 10 million dollars.”
a. Hyperbole b. Irony c. Anaphora d. Understatement
34. You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
a. Assonance b. Pun c. Anaphora d. Understatement
35. “England won the World Cup in 1966”
a. Synecdoche b. Hyperbole c. Understatement d. Metaphor

Read and evaluate the statements below. Choose the term/s that is being referred to.

36. This is a type of poetry that is brief in structure and subjective in expressing the thoughts and emotions of the
persona, the speaker of the poem.
a. Narrative Poetry b. Dramatic Poetry c. Lyric Poetry d. None of the above
37. Ballads and prose poems like metrical romance are examples of what kind of poetry?
a. Narrative poems b. Dramatic Poems c. Lyric Poems d. none of the above
38. What uses the traditional conventions of fiction but has an additional distinctive characteristics of being
performed and mounted on stage?
a. short story b. novella or novel c. epic d. drama
39. A brief artistic prose form that centers on a single main incident and intends to produce a single dominant
impression.
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a. short story b. novella or novel c. one-act play d. three-act play

40. Which of the following is NOT an example of Lyric poetry?
a. Pastoral poems b. Sonnets c. Epics d. Songs
41. A narrative device used in fiction and drama as a guide or hint at what us to happen next in the story.
a. Foreshadowing b. Flashback c. Irony d. deus ex machina
42. A development of plot that introduces the moment of insight, discovery, or revelation of the character.
a. Climax b. Falling Action c. Exposition d. Resolution/ Denouement
43. What narrative device used in both fiction and drama is uttered either by the author or the characters in the
story are opposites at what they actually mean?
a. Foreshadowing b. Flashback c. Irony d. deus ex machine

Principles, Elements, Techniques, and Devices of Creative Nonfiction

44. These are actual conversation the writer has remembered or recorded. It is an effective way for revealing
characters.
a. Character b. Dialogues c. Approach d. Plot
45. Which of the following is an important element in nonfiction that refers to actual people including the writer
himself.
a. Character b. Dialogues c. Approach d. Plot
46. What element of nonfiction refers to the narrator of the story, the vantage point from where readers observe
the events of the story, or the writer’s special angle of vision, the one whose perspective is told?
a. Point-of-view b. Angle c. Approach d. None of the above

47. This term has to do with the writer’s attitude toward his subject. This may be communicated through one’s
own choice of words.
a. Tone b. Voice c. Angle d. Style

48. The mark of personality upon the work; thus, in literature, would be the writer’s particular way of using
language. It is the result of many factors-gender, class, books, films, MTV or everything which makes up the
writer’s environment.
a. Tone b. Voice c. Angle d. Style

Evaluate the statements below and identify the approach/strategy used. Write the letters of the correct
answer.

49. My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus
came into your life! And God was with you from then on! She said you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your
soul. – “ Salvation,” Langston Hughes
a. Direct description b. Action c. Other Character’s Opinions d. Reaction
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50. I say to you today, my friends, even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is
a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the
true meaning of its creed: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
- “I Have a Dream, “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

a. Focusing on Character’s Idiosyncratic Behavior b. Dialogue c. Monologue d. Reaction

51. Tuesday, about 120 student leaders, representing thirty-six schools and at least a dozen national youth
organizations, gathered at the Far Eastern University. NUSP president Edgar Jopson, of the Ateneo, presided
over the three-hour meeting, during which a resolution was passed demanding the resignation of certain officials
of law enforcement agencies, and Friday was set as the starting date of a series of rallies…
a. Objective b. Subjective c. Optimistic d. Pessimistic

52. Her position was, indeed, an official one, but it was hardly the easier for that. In the hospital it was her duty to
provide the services of herself and her nurses when they were asked for by the doctors, and not until then. At
first some of the surgeons would have nothing to say to her, and, though she was welcomed by others, the
majority were hostile and suspicious. But gradually she gained ground…
a. First Person b. Second Person c. Third Person d. None of the Above

53. It’s this detail, the untucked blouse forming a ducktail, that brings me back to myself.
“Prim!” The strangled cry comes out of my throat, and my muscles begin to move again. “Prim!”
I don’t need to shove through the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight path to
the stage. I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me.
“I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!” - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
a. First Person b. Second Person c. Third Person d. None of the Above

54. – 56. Using a diagram illustrate the traditional structure of the plot.

57. – 60. Write a paragraph of 5-10 sentences and compare and contrast Fiction and Drama.
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-God Bless-

Prepared by:

RHIANN N. TONOG
Teacher II

Checked and Approved by:

ROCHEL M. TUMANGDAY, Ph.D.

Principal III, Academics

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