Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE DAGUPAN CITY
JUDGE JOSE DE VENECIA SR. TECHINICAL-VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL
Bolosan, Dagupan City

THIRD QUARTER EXAMINATION

CREATIVE WRITING – GRADE 11 - HUMMS
SY 2023-2024

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Shade the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.

1. Which form of writing that uses imagination and figurative language?

A. technical B. academic C. creative D. expository
2. Which of the following does not form a part of the 'character' element in creative writing?
A. Animals. B. Creatures. C. People D. The thread of a story
3. Figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Hyperbole D. Personification
4. The use of a word or phrase, such as “hiss” or “buzz” that imitates or suggests the sound of what
it describes
A. Alliteration B. Assonance C. Onomatopoeia D. Iambic parameter
5. Which of the following below utilizes synecdoche?
A. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
B. The ship was a tiger roaring through the water.
C. Moths cough and drop wings.
D. And time works for all the works and days of hands.
6. The phrase “The tree’s dark fingers reached out for him” demonstrates the use of which of the
following literary devices?
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Alliteration D. Personification
7. What is meant by the idiom “raining cats and dogs”?
A. beware of thunder and lightning
B. cats and dogs are falling from the roof
C. cats and dogs are fighting outside
D. it’s raining heavy
8. “She sells seashells by the sea-shore.” This tongue twister is an example of
A. Alliteration B. consonance C. metaphor D. simile
9. What type of point of view is depicted based on the picture?

A. First Person POV

B. Second Person POV
C. Third Person POV
D. Omniscient POV

10. Which of the following sentence is an Onomatopoeia?

A. I like pancakes so much I could eat a million of them
B. I was so hungry that I even ate the plate.
C. Hope is a thing with feathers.
D. Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime
11. Which is the kind of poetry that follows 5-7-5 pattern?
A. diamonte B. haiku C. concrete D. limerick
12. What is a group of lines in a poem similar to that of a paragraph; the way the poem is divided?
A. Alliteration B. Stanza C. Repetition D. Simile
13. Which format does not follow a rhyme scheme?
A. sonnet B. Blank verse C. free verse D. haiku

Directions: Read the following poem and answer the questions below.
 The West Wind
It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine;
Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine.

There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest;
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…
Answer the following questions about the poem, “The West Wind.”
14. What is the rhyme scheme used?
A. aabbaacc B. abababab C. aabbccdd D. abbcbccd
15. What is the literary device in the first line “warm wind, the west wind”
A. Onomatopoeia B. alliteration C. rhyme D. rhythm
16. What is the sound device used in the words “my eyes”?
A. onomatopoeia B. alliteration C. rhyme D. repetition
17. Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
A. thrushes B. song C. fluting D. nes
18.How is the poem written?
A. couplets B. stanzas C. quatrains D. cinquains
19. What are being compared in line 6?
A. song to a nest B. air to wine C. air to song D. blossoms to air
20. A woman was sitting in a restaurant when suddenly a waiter spilled some coffee on her dress.
She uttered in dismay, “Oh, I’m having a good day!” This statement is an example of
A. Alliteration B. Consonance C. Ellipses D. Irony
21. What is an “epic poem”?
A. An extended ballad containing quatrains
B. Free verse
C. A poem written in large print
D. A poem of considerable length, often dealing with heroic themes
22. This element of poetry adds musical quality to the poem which gives the readers reading
pleasure.
A. rhyme B. rhythm C. theme D. tone
23. How would you classify “Biag ni Lam-ang” or the Life story of Lam-ang?
A. Ballad B. Elegy C. epic D. ode

“I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.”

24. What is the idea or theme of this poem entitled “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer?
A. beauty of nature B. earth’s abundance C. life of trees D. gifts of God
25. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.”
A. Hyperbole B. Metaphor C. Simile D. Personification
26. How would you differentiate “assonance’ from “consonance”?
A. Assonance refers to the repetition of initial sounds while consonance refers to the vowel
sounds.
B. Assonance is repetition of the intermediate while consonant the final sound.
C. Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds while consonant the final sound.
D. They both refer to the emphasis of the vowel sounds.

“The Crocodile”
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the water of the Nile
On every golden scale!”

27. What is the main idea or tone of the poem?

 A. crocodiles are awesome creatures
B. crocodiles have shiny scales
C. the danger of a crocodile
D. these creatures can be tamed
28. “The thunder grumbled like an old man.” This means that ______.
A. the thunder looks like an old man
B. the thunder is approaching
C. the thunder makes loud and roaring sound
D. the thunder is scary
29.The line below from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is an example of what popular sonnet theme?
“Shall I compare thee for a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
A. Death B. Love C. Summer D. weather
30. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more
than I can ______. (Free Verse)
A. be B. see C. me D. thee
31. Which type of character is described as remained the same throughout the story?
A. Round B. Flat C. Static D. Dynamic
32. Which type of point of view is described as “god-like”?
A. first person B. second C. third person D. omniscient
33. Which sentence below is an example of internal conflict?
A. A character disagrees with the values, laws or beliefs of a group.
B. A character has a problem with outside forces like weather or land.
C. A character develops a struggle between his thoughts and ideas.
D. A character has an agreement or disagreement with another character.
34. The picture shows a specific kind of storyline which is?

A. Divine Intervention C. Man Vs. Society

B. Common Drama D. Comedic Tune

35. Which plot technique is described below?

As a man gets ready for work, we see that he is there and sweating. His wife kisses him goodbye,
the man throws her an uneasy look and he picks up his briefcase.
A. Suspense B. Foreshadowing C. motifs and symbols D. flashback
36. The element of character in drama can be defined as:
A. Moral quality such as patience
B. Everything that is heard
C. The events, what happens and how it unfolds
D. The persons carrying out the action/plot
37. In Maupassant's short story "The Necklace", the main character learns that honesty is indeed
the best policy. The main idea or the possible opinion of the author is known as what term?
A. Conflict B. setting C. point of view D. theme
38. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is told in what type of point of view?
A. First person POV C. Omniscient POV
B. Second person POV D. Third person POV
39. Desperately, he tried to rush after her and followed her down, but he is not allowed to return.
The three-headed dog and the ferryman blocked his return. What part of the story does the
situation belong?
A. Exposition B. Rising Action C. Falling D. Denouement
40. Which of the following scene uses foreshadowing literary technique
A. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says he prefers to die sooner than live without Juliet’s
love: “Life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogues, wanting of the love.”
B. In the novel series Harry Potter by JK Rowling, Harry’s scar is symbolic of his bravery, like a badge
of honor.
C. Orpheus made his way back to the living world and devoted his life to playing music.
D. In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, the author creates a pivotal connection between Katniss
and Peeta. When Peeta is called to the podium, she distinctly remembers Peeta giving her the bread
when her family was starving.
41. It is a particularly common form of deliberate intertextuality – it’s when one text makes a
deliberate, but subtle, reference to another.
A. Plagiarism B. Allusion C. Citation D . Rhetoric

42. It is when the composer alludes to another text through ideas, symbols, genre or style.
 A. External reference B. Internal reference C. Implicit reference D. Explicit reference
43. It is when the composer directly mentions, quotes or references another text in their work.
A. External reference B. Internal reference C. Implicit reference D. Explicit reference
44. The following statements are examples of intertextuality EXCEPT:
A. He was lying, so obviously you could almost see his nose growing.
B. He’s asking her to the prom. It’s like a happy version of Romeo and Juliet
C. It’s hard being an adult! Peter Pan had the right idea.
D. I’ve been hurt so many times, I tried but I’m tired.
45. The picture best describe the concept of?
A. Intertextuality C. Foreshadowing
B. Point of view D. Reference

46. Which of the following statements is not an example of intertextuality in Tom Stoppard’s
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
A. Tom Stoppard used the same character names as in Shakespeare’s original play.
B. The Disney movie The Lion King is also based somewhat on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
C. Parts of the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are exact quotes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
D. None of the above
47. Which of the following would not be an example of intertextuality?
A. A translation of one work into a different language.
B. A poetic homage to an earlier writer by adopting that writer’s theme and tone.
C. The main characters of two unrelated works coincidentally both named Bob.
D. All of the above.
48. Which of the following is an example of parody?
A. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
B. Marcel Duchamp’s artwork
C. The theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
D. Margaret Atwood’s speech, Spotty Handed Villainesses
49. Which type of intertextuality is manifested in the case below.
“A filmmaker decides to make a re-make of Citizen Kane Set on Mars in 2327 AD.”
A. Latent intertextuality C. deliberate intertextuality
B. External allusion D. citation
50. Which type of intertextuality is shown in the situation below?
A student was tasked to role play then suddenly he thought of a scene from a movie that he had
watched but could not remember its title.
A. Latent intertextuality C. external allusion
B. Deliberate intertextuality D. citation

Prepared by:

PAUL VINCENT B. JIMENEZ

Teacher II

Checked and Reviewed by:

CHRISTOPHER TORIO
Master Teacher II
 Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE DAGUPAN CITY
JUDGE JOSE DE VENECIA SR. TECHINICAL-VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL
Bolosan, Dagupan City

THIRD QUARTER EXAMINATION

CREATIVE WRITING – GRADE 11 - HUMMS
SY 2023-2024

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Shade the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.

1. Which form of writing that uses imagination and figurative language?

A. technical B. academic C. creative D. expository
2. Which of the following does not form a part of the 'character' element in creative writing?
A. Animals. B. Creatures. C. People D. The thread of a story
3. Figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Hyperbole D. Personification
4. The use of a word or phrase, such as “hiss” or “buzz” that imitates or suggests the sound of what
it describes
A. Alliteration B. Assonance C. Onomatopoeia D. Iambic parameter
5. Which of the following below utilizes synecdoche?
A. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
B. The ship was a tiger roaring through the water.
C. Moths cough and drop wings.
D. And time works for all the works and days of hands.
6. The phrase “The tree’s dark fingers reached out for him” demonstrates the use of which of the
following literary devices?
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Alliteration D. Personification
7. What is meant by the idiom “raining cats and dogs”?
A. beware of thunder and lightning
B. cats and dogs are falling from the roof
C. cats and dogs are fighting outside
D. it’s raining heavy
8. “She sells seashells by the sea-shore.” This tongue twister is an example of
A. Alliteration B. consonance C. metaphor D. simile
9. What type of point of view is depicted based on the picture?

A. First Person POV

B. Second Person POV
C. Third Person POV
D. Omniscient POV

10. Which of the following sentence is an Onomatopoeia?

A. I like pancakes so much I could eat a million of them
B. I was so hungry that I even ate the plate.
C. Hope is a thing with feathers.
D. Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime
11. Which is the kind of poetry that follows 5-7-5 pattern?
A. diamonte B. haiku C. concrete D. limerick
12. What is a group of lines in a poem similar to that of a paragraph; the way the poem is divided?
A. Alliteration B. Stanza C. Repetition D. Simile
13. Which format does not follow a rhyme scheme?
A. sonnet B. Blank verse C. free verse D. haiku
Directions: Read the following poem and answer the questions below.
The West Wind
It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills,
And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine;
Apple orchards blossom there, and the airs’ like wine.

There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest;
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…
Answer the following questions about the poem, “The West Wind.”
14. What is the rhyme scheme used?
A. aabbaacc B. abababab C. aabbccdd D. abbcbccd
15. What is the literary device in the first line “warm wind, the west wind”
A. Onomatopoeia B. alliteration C. rhyme D. rhythm
16. What is the sound device used in the words “my eyes”?
A. onomatopoeia B. alliteration C. rhyme D. repetition
17. Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
A. thrushes B. song C. fluting D. nes
18.How is the poem written?
A. couplets B. stanzas C. quatrains D. cinquains
19. What are being compared in line 6?
A. song to a nest B. air to wine C. air to song D. blossoms to air
20. A woman was sitting in a restaurant when suddenly a waiter spilled some coffee on her dress.
She uttered in dismay, “Oh, I’m having a good day!” This statement is an example of
A. Alliteration B. Consonance C. Ellipses D. Irony
21. What is an “epic poem”?
A. An extended ballad containing quatrains
B. Free verse
C. A poem written in large print
D. A poem of considerable length, often dealing with heroic themes
22. This element of poetry adds musical quality to the poem which gives the readers reading
pleasure.
A. rhyme B. rhythm C. theme D. tone
23. How would you classify “Biag ni Lam-ang” or the Life story of Lam-ang?
A. Ballad B. Elegy C. epic D. ode

“I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.”
24. What is the idea or theme of this poem entitled “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer?
A. beauty of nature B. earth’s abundance C. life of trees D. gifts of God
25. He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.”
A. Hyperbole B. Metaphor C. Simile D. Personification
26. How would you differentiate “assonance’ from “consonance”?
A. Assonance refers to the repetition of initial sounds while consonance refers to the vowel
sounds.
B. Assonance is repetition of the intermediate while consonant the final sound.
C. Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds while consonant the final sound.
D. They both refer to the emphasis of the vowel sounds.
“The Crocodile”
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the water of the Nile
On every golden scale!”
27. What is the main idea or tone of the poem?
A. crocodiles are awesome creatures
 B. crocodiles have shiny scales
C. the danger of a crocodile
D. these creatures can be tamed
28. “The thunder grumbled like an old man.” This means that ______.
A. the thunder looks like an old man
B. the thunder is approaching
C. the thunder makes loud and roaring sound
D. the thunder is scary
29.The line below from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is an example of what popular sonnet theme?
“Shall I compare thee for a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
A. Death B. Love C. Summer D. weather
30. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more
than I can ______. (Free Verse)
A. be B. see C. me D. thee
31. Which type of character is described as remained the same throughout the story?
A. Round B. Flat C. Static D. Dynamic
32. Which type of point of view is described as “god-like”?
A. first person B. second C. third person D. omniscient
33. Which sentence below is an example of internal conflict?
A. A character disagrees with the values, laws or beliefs of a group.
B. A character has a problem with outside forces like weather or land.
C. A character develops a struggle between his thoughts and ideas.
D. A character has an agreement or disagreement with another character.
34. The picture shows a specific kind of storyline which is?

C. Divine Intervention
D. Common Drama
E. Man Vs. Society
F. Comedic Tune
35. Which plot technique is described below?
As a man gets ready for work, we see that he is there and sweating. His wife kisses him goodbye,
the man throws her an uneasy look and he picks up his briefcase.
A. Suspense B. Foreshadowing C. motifs and symbols D. flashback
36. The element of character in drama can be defined as:
A. Moral quality such as patience
B. Everything that is heard
C. The events, what happens and how it unfolds
D. The persons carrying out the action/plot
37. In Maupassant's short story "The Necklace", the main character learns that honesty is indeed
the best policy. The main idea or the possible opinion of the author is known as what term?
A. Conflict B. setting C. point of view D. theme
38. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is told in what type of point of view?
A. First person POV
B. Second person POV
C. Omniscient POV
D. Third person POV
39. Desperately, he tried to rush after her and followed her down, but he is not allowed to return.
The three-headed dog and the ferryman blocked his return. What part of the story does the
situation belong?
A. Exposition B. Rising Action C. Falling D. Denouement
40. Which of the following scene uses foreshadowing literary technique
A. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says he prefers to die sooner than live without Juliet’s
love: “Life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogues, wanting of the love.”
B. In the novel series Harry Potter by JK Rowling, Harry’s scar is symbolic of his bravery, like a badge
of honor.
C. Orpheus made his way back to the living world and devoted his life to playing music.
D. In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, the author creates a pivotal connection between Katniss
and Peeta. When Peeta is called to the podium, she distinctly remembers Peeta giving her the bread
when her family was starving.
41. It is a particularly common form of deliberate intertextuality – it’s when one text makes a
deliberate, but subtle, reference to another.
A. Plagiarism B. Allusion C. Citation D . Rhetoric
42. It is when the composer alludes to another text through ideas, symbols, genre or style.
A. External reference B. Internal reference C. Implicit reference D. Explicit reference
43. It is when the composer directly mentions, quotes or references another text in their work.
A. External reference B. Internal reference C. Implicit reference D. Explicit reference
44. The following statements are examples of intertextuality EXCEPT:
A. He was lying, so obviously you could almost see his nose growing.
B. He’s asking her to the prom. It’s like a happy version of Romeo and Juliet
C. It’s hard being an adult! Peter Pan had the right idea.
D. I’ve been hurt so many times, I tried but I’m tired.
45. The picture best describe the concept of?
C. Intertextuality
D. Point of view
E. Foreshadowing
F. Reference
46. Which of the following statements is not an example of intertextuality in Tom Stoppard’s
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
A. Tom Stoppard used the same character names as in Shakespeare’s original play.
B. The Disney movie The Lion King is also based somewhat on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
C. Parts of the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are exact quotes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
D. None of the above
47. Which of the following would not be an example of intertextuality?
A. A translation of one work into a different language.
B. A poetic homage to an earlier writer by adopting that writer’s theme and tone.
C. The main characters of two unrelated works coincidentally both named Bob.
D. All of the above.
48. Which of the following is an example of parody?
A. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
B. Marcel Duchamp’s artwork
C. The theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
D. Margaret Atwood’s speech, Spotty Handed Villainesses
49. Which type of intertextuality is manifested in the case below.
“A filmmaker decides to make a re-make of Citizen Kane Set on Mars in 2327 AD.”
A. Latent intertextuality B. External allusion
C. deliberate intertextuality D. citation
50. Which type of intertextuality is shown in the situation below?
A student was tasked to role play then suddenly he thought of a scene from a movie that he had
watched but could not remember its title.
A. Latent intertextuality B. Deliberate intertextuality
C. external allusion D. citation

Prepared by:

PAUL VINCENT B. JIMENEZ

Teacher II

Checked and Reviewed by:

CHRISTOPHER TORIO
Master Teacher II

Approved:

RENATO R. SANTILLAN
Principal III