Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Rizal
SOUTHVILLE 8B SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
San Isidro Rodriguez, Rizal
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
TABLE OF TEST SPECIFICATIONS
Creative Writing/ Malikhaing Pagsulat

Number Number of Item

Learning Competencies Code
of Days Items Distribution
Differentiate imaginative writing
from among other forms of HUMMS_CW/MP11/12- 2 10 1-10
Ia-b-1
writing

Use imagery, diction, figures of

speech and specific HUMMS_CW/MP11/12- 7 10 11- 20
Ia-b-4
experiences

Identify various elements,

21, 23, 29, 32,
techniques and literary devices HUMMS_CW/MP11/12- 7 10 33, 34, 35, 36,
c-f-6
in poetry. 37, 38,

Determine specific forms and HUMMS_CW/MP11/12- 22,24,25,

7 10 26,27,28, 30,
conventions of poetry. c-f-7
31, 39, 40, 50
Identify various elements,
techniques, and literary devices HUMMS_CW/MPIg-1- 7 10 40-50
11
in fiction.

Utilize language to evoke

emotional intellectual HUMMS_CW/MPIg-1a-
and 2 5 51-55
b2
responses from readers.

Write a short poem applying the

various elements, techniques HUMMS_CW/MPIg-1- 2 5 56-60
f10
and literary devices.
Total 60

Prepared by:

MR. MELBERT H. TARRAGO

Checked by:

MR. RANDOLPH I. ANGELES

 Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Rizal
SOUTHVILLE 8B SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
San Isidro Rodriguez, Rizal

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Creative Writing/ Malikhaing Pagsulat
Directions: Write CW if statement describes creative writing and NC if not.
1. It contains ample number of vivid descriptions.
2. It is characterized by short or concise sentences.
3. It attempts to state ideas using metaphors.
4. It intends to amuse or entertain the readers.
5. It strives to communicate symbolic meaning of the writer’s thoughts.
6. It integrates replication of human experiences through fictitious narration.
7. It contains words evoking sensations from hearing, touching, smelling, tasting and seeing.
8. It commonly employs long sentences to flow continuous and connected description.
9. It extracts both intellectual and emotional response from the readers.
10. It endeavors to share specialized body of knowledge.

Directions: Select the letter of the correct answer from the choices in the box.
a. allusion e. metonymy i. simile
b. hyperbole f. oxymoron j. synecdoche
c. imagery g. paradox k. understatement
d. metaphor h. personification

11. This is the transformation of one thing or idea into another through the use of colorful language.
12. This is the exaggeration through a statement of something for either much more or much less of quality.
13. This is the deliberate avoidance of emphasis in description.
14. This figure of speech calls uses name of a person, place of thing for its signifying complex things.
15. This is a form of paradox that combines two seemingly contradictory elements.
16. This is the comparison of two different things on the basis of shared quality employing words like and as.
17. This figure of speech that suggests a part of a thing for the whole thing.
18. This is reference to literary or technical knowledge by a word or phrase to something other than its literal
meaning.
19. This is a statement that seems self-contradictory or illogical but transcends logic asserting greater truth.
20. This grants human attributes to things that are not human.
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer.
21. This the oldest form of literature.
a. poetry b. fiction c. figure of speech d. imagery
22. Which lyric poetry is inspired by admiration of something or someone?
a. elegy b. narrative c. soliloquy d. encomium
23. This is a poems are in letter form.
a. lyric poetry b. epic poetry c. epistolary poem d. dramatic poetry
24. What is the kind of stress in speech within a word?
a. accent b. emphasis c. rhythm d. meter
25. These is the measuring of stresses in a line of verse, determining their number and placement.
a. accent b. emphasis c. rhythm d. meter
26. This is the unit of meter.
a. emphasis b. foot c. rhythm d. accent
27. What is the stress within a word in a whole sentence?
a. accent b. emphasis c. rhythm d. meter
28. What lyric poetry is inspired by the impact of death?
a. elegy b. narrative c. soliloquy d. encomium
29. This is the pattern of stress and absence of stress in a poem.
a. soliloquy b. encomium c. rhythm d. meter
30. A poetry that becomes public through the music of language is known as .
a. lyric poetry b. epic poetry c. dramatic poetry d. narrative poetry
31. What is the longest narrative which include Iliad and Aeneid?
a. lyric poetry b. epic poetry c. dramatic poetry d. narrative poetry
32. A line with five feet is .
a. monometer b. dimeter c. heptameter d. pentameter
33. The following are principal kinds of feet in verse EXCEPT;
a. iambic foot b. trochee c. anapest d. rhyme
34. This is a feature of poetry that functions as a rhythmic and sense unit.
a. meter b. anapest c line d. rhyme.
35. This is a line ending that ends with a stressed word.
a. masculine b. feminine c. verse d. trochee
36. The repetition of consonant sounds is .
a. assonance b. alliteration c. verse d. trochee
37. This is the similarity between the sounds between lines or words.
a. meter b. verse c. rhyme d. anapest
38. The repetition of vowel sounds is .
a. trochee b. verse c. assonance d. alliteration
39. A fiction element that refers to the individuals involved in a story is .
a. point of view b. character c. setting d. plot
40. The sequence of events in a story is called .
a. point of view b. character c. setting d. plot
41. A point of view stated in first person whose narrator has no involvement in the actions is .
a. major b. minor c. bystander d. objective
42. Which point of view in which the narrator injects his or her personal opinion
a. subjective b. objective c. omniscient d. limited omniscient
43. This part of plot presents the highest level of interest among the other events.
a. exposition b. complication c. climax d. denouement
44. The element of fiction that states the time and place the story occurs is .
a. exposition b. plot c. setting d. point of view
45. These are the problems that stand against protagonist of the story.
a. conflict b. setting c. antagonist d. theme
46. This literary devise involves the premature presentation of the latter events in the story.
a. foreshadowing b. flashback c. motif d. recall
47. This is when the poet means opposite to what he says.
a. metaphor b. iamb c. irony d. rhyme
48. The man was so fast he could kiss a bullet uses .
a. metaphor b. personification c. hyperbole d. oxymoron
49. The figure of speech used in A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot is;
a. personification b. synecdoche c. irony d. oxymoron
50. I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve; uses which figure of speech?
a. paradox b. oxymoron c. rhythm d. hyperbole

Directions: Make written outputs observing requirements.

51-55. Write a short paragraph or vignette using atleast three (3) sensory words or imagery.
56-60. Write a 1-2 stanza poem and indicating literary (poetry) device used.
 Midterm Examination
ANSWER KEY
Creative Writing/ Malikhaing Pagsulat

1. CW 26. b
2. NC 27. b
3. CW 28. a
4. CW 29. c
5. CW 30. a
6. CW 31. b
7. CW 32. d
8. CW 33. d
9. CW 34. d
10. NC 35. a
11. d 36. b
12. b 37. c
13. k 38. c
14. e 39. b
15. f 40. d
16. i 41. c
17. j 42. a
18. a 43. c
19. g 44. c
20. h 45. a
21. a 46. a
22. d 47. c
23. c. 48. c
24. a 49. b
25. d 50. a