General MCQ for Creative Writing

1. Which of these plays a role in character development?

2. The most intense part of a story is called...

3. What refers to the order in which subjects, objects and verbs are arranged in a sentence?

4. What is an oxymoron?

5. What is satire?

6. Generally employing either similes or metaphors, _______ language is not literal and requires a leap in imagination on behalf of the reader in order to describe something.

7. True or False? "Screaming wind" is an example of personification.

8. A damsel in distress, a heroic warrior and a wise old man are all examples of:

9. Third person point of view

10. The ______ of a work gives the reader clues as to what they can expect from that work's setting, plot events and character archetypes, even before they read the work.

11. Which is the best example of hyperbole?

12. There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger. --Edward Lear This poem is an example of which poetic type?

13. Which defines the rules of a literary genre?

14. What is the opposite of a non-linear narrative?

15. "To be or not to be," is an example of what metrical foot?

16. Consonance is defined as

17. A bildungsroman is a novel in which the central character:

18. An invective is

19. Sentences using passive voice often run into problems with _________.

20. Ernest Hemingway, Bret Easton Ellis, Grace Paley, and Tobias Wolff are usually associated with this style of writing:

21. Which is true of a haiku?