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1. VILLA DOMINGO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FIRST QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN
CREATIVE WRITING 12
NAME: ______________________________ SECTION: _____________________ SCORE: _____
PART I
IDENTIFICATION A
Directions: The following statements are lines from the text, “How my Brother Leon Brought Home a
Wife” by Manuel E. Arguilla. Read carefully the given lines from the text and determine whether the
author used imagery, diction, figures of speech and specific experience in each line from the text.
Write IM for imagery, DI for diction, FS for figures of speech and SE for specific experience on the
space provided for.
____ 1. She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick delicate grace. She was lovely. She
was tall. She looked up through my brother with a smile and her forehead was on a level on his mouth.
_____2. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom.
_____3. He swallowed and brought up to his mouth more cud and the sound of his insides was like a
drum.
_____4. I laid on Labang’s massive neck and said to her. “You may scratch his forehead now.”
_____5.The sun was in our eyes for it was dripping into the bright sea. The sky was wide and deep and
very blue above us but along the saw-tooth rim of the Katayaghan hills to the southwest flamed huge
masses of clouds.
_____6. She was smiling at him and I stopped tying the sinta across Labang’s neck to the opposite end of
the yoke, because her teeth were very white, her eyes were so full of laughter and there was a small
dimple high up on her right cheek.
_____7. “Look Noel, yonder is our star!” Deep surprise and gladness were in her voice. Very low in the
west, almost touching the ragged edge of the bank was the star, the biggest and the brightest in the sky.
____8. He must have taught her the song because she joined him, and her voice flowed into his like a
gentle stream meeting a stronger one.
____9. There was no light in my father’s room. There was no movement. He sat in the big arm chair by
the western window, and a star shone directly through it.
____10.I looked at Maria and she was lovely. She was tall. Beside my brother Leon, she was tall and very
still. Then I went out, and in the darkened hall the fragrance of her was like a morning when papayas are
in bloom.
IDENTFICATION B.
Directions: Identify the imagery used in the following lines whether it is sense of sight, smell, taste,
touch or hearing.
_______________11. I laid on Labang’s massive neck and said to her. “You may scratch his forehead
now.”
_______________12. “Look Noel, yonder is our star!” Deep surprise and gladness were in her voice.
Very low in the west, almost touching the ragged edge of the bank was the star, the biggest and the
brightest in the sky.

2. _______________13. He must have taught her the song because she joined him, and her voice flowed
into his like a gentle stream meeting a stronger one.
_______________14. There was no light in my father’s room. There was no movement. He sat in the big
arm chair by the western window, and a star shone directly through it
_______________15. I looked at Maria and she was lovely. She was tall. Beside my brother Leon, she
was tall and very still. Then I went out, and in the darkened hall the fragrance of her was like a morning
when papayas are in bloom
IDENTIFICATION C
Directions: The following statements use figures of speech. Write the correct figure of speech used in
each item on the space provided for.
“The Celebrated Jumping frog of Calaveras Country”- Mark Twain
Wheeler enumerates all the things that Jim Smiley would bet on anything saying that he even bet on
Parson Walker’s wife who had fallen ill.
16. Answer: _________________________
He never changed his voice from the gentle flowing key to which he turned the initial sentence.
17. Answer:__________________________
Jim Smiley had a dog that he would fight when this dog fought, his underjaw’d stick like the forcastle
steamboat……his teeth would…. shine savage like the furnaces.
18. Answer:__________________________
At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning and he button-heeled me.
19. Answer:__________________________
When speaking of his frog, Smiley says that it is, “as solid as a glob of mud.”
20. Answer: _________________________
IDENTIFICATION D
Directions: Identify the elements of poem through the descriptions presented in the following
statements. Choose your answer below.
LINE IMAGERY STANZA SYMBOLISM RHYTHM DENSITY THEME
_____________21. This functions as a natural pause to signal a break in the flow.
_____________22. This could be anything from a story to a thought that is being portrayed in the poem.
_____________23. It is a reflection of our emotions written artistically to keep readers engaged as they
embark on a journey inside a poet’s complex mind.
_____________24. These lines may vary depending on the type of poem being crafted.
_____________ 25. This can help create a mental picture that readers form through their imagination.

3. IDENTIFICATION E
Directions: Identify which technique is used in the line from the choices below.
alliteration rhyme onomatopoeia idiom
simile metaphor hyperbole personification
26. This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful of dead Februaries_________________________
27. The moon is faithful, although blind_________________________
28. children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks_________________________
29. At dusk there’s a thin haze like cigarette smoke / ribbons_________________________
30. Life is a bowl of cherries_________________________
31. All that I hear / Is the slishity-slosh of the rain._________________________
IDENTIFICATION F
Directions: Read and analyze the poem below. Encircle SEVEN(items 32-38) lines and identify what
poetic device has been used by the author. Write your answer on the space opposite each line you
have chosen.
Blessing
by Imtiaz Dharker
I. The skin cracks like a pod.
There never is enough water.
II. Imagine the drip of it,
the small splash, echo in a tin mug,
the voice of a kindly god.
III. Sometimes, the sudden rush of fortune.
The municipal pipe bursts,
silver crashes to the ground
and the flow has found
a roar of tongues
From the huts,
a congregation: every man woman
child for streets around
butts in, with pots,
brass, copper, aluminium,
plastic buckets,
frantic hands,
IV. and naked children
screaming in the liquid sun,

4. their highlights polished to perfection,
flashing light,
as the blessing sings
over their small bones.
PART II
POEM WRITING
Directions: Write a 12-line free verse poem for on the theme: “My Dream School”. Write each line of
your poem opposite each number provided below.
“MY DREAM SCHOOL”
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
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50