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NABAS, AKLAN
FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS IN HUMANITIES 2

NAME: __________________________________________________________ GRADE & SECTION: _____________

PROCTOR: _______________________________________________________ DATE: _________________________

NOTE: ANSWER INTELLIGENTLY. READ EVERY DIRECTION CAREFULLY. OBSERVE CLEANLINESS.

I. IDENTIFICATION
Identify what was being described. Write the correct answer on the space provided before each number.
Choose your answer inside the box.

Flashback Reverse Chronology Red Herring

Flash Fiction Stanza Free Form Writing

Form Internal Rhymes Third Person POV

Rising Action Iamb Script

Omniscient POV Poetry Round Character

Writing Darwin Villain

Dactyl Flat Character Foreshadowing

Cliff Hanger Freytag Creative Writing

__________________1. It is the process of writing stories or narrations that focus more on entertaining and
telling a story than simply relating facts.
__________________2. It is the expression of the author’s thoughts, emotions, culture and traditions in verse
with rhymes, lines, stanzas and meters.
__________________3. It is a type of writing that has time limit of 15 minutes and the author has to finish
writing within the given time.
__________________4. It is a five-line humorous nonsense poem.
__________________5. It is written for plays to be performed on stage and the whole play is dependent on it.
__________________6. It is a condensed story with minimal words, shorter than short stories, but gives the
reader the whole image of the story.
__________________7. It is one of the types of conflict which show the character’s inner struggle.
__________________8. It is a type character who has the same traits at the end of the story as at the start.
__________________9. A protagonist that causes problems or conflict in the story is also known as _____.
__________________10. The sequence of the plot of a story is based on whose pyramid?
__________________11. It is a type of point of view which is also known as “know-it-all”.
__________________12. It is one of the elements of the plot where the complicating factors are introduced.
__________________13. It is a plot device which starts at the ending of the story and will be succeeded by the
events of the exposition part.
__________________14. It a device for an ending also known as open-ended which ends suddenly without
resolution.
__________________15. It is a device which shows events that can clearly explains the currents events, origins
and backgrounds.
__________________16. It refers to the groupings of lines or the succession of lines arranged together
according to substance.
__________________17. It refers to the words with similar sounds that appear within the lines.
__________________18. It is one of the types of foot where in it is consisting a stressed syllable followed by
two unstressed syllable.
__________________19. It is the pattern of sounds or the organized arrangements of sounds.
__________________20. It is a type of foot consisting of a short syllable which is followed by a long syllable,
or an unstressed syllable which is fooled by a stressed syllable.
II. SENSORY IMAGES (2 points each)
Analyze the statements from different literary text and identify what senses do the statements appeal to.
__________________1) . . . the quick sharp scratch cause by carelessness . . .
__________________2) . . . then a mile of warm sea-scented beach welcomes me . . .
__________________3) No food on earth, no wine, not even a woman’s kiss is sweeter to me . . .
__________________4) . . . the yellow half-moon large and low . . .
__________________5) . . . a voice less loud, thro’ its joy and fears, than the two heart beating for each other
__________________6) . . . as stifling as a June night can be, and the red-hot wind from the westward . . .
__________________7) . . . the creaking sound of a decade old door sent chills into my spine . . .
__________________8) . . . as I stumble down the rocks, I a coppery taste liquid in my lips . . .
__________________9) I coughed at the musty, mildew smell that felt like it was already clogging my throat. .
__________________10) as the soup touched my lips, I already know it is my mother’s cooking . . .

III. FACT or BLUFF

Tell whether the statements are stating the truth or the opposite. Write FACT if the statement is true and
BLUFF if it is false.
__________________1. In olden times, people spent their time in telling stories for amusement.
__________________2. Writing is an easy task opposite for what they say that it is complicated.
__________________3. Writing is not dependent in the writer’s mood and emotion.
__________________4. In writing fiction story, we needed to consider the different elements before we write.
__________________5. The authors can express their culture, traditions and language through poem writing.
__________________6. In writing a story or poem, we don’t have to stick to the main theme or rather write
whatever comes to your mind.
__________________7. Writers always state the meaning of what they are writing.
__________________8. In creative writing, writers gain a license to form their own rules in writing.
__________________9. Writers should only write according to the information gathered.
__________________10. You all have the skill to write creatively and artistically.

IV. THE WRITING PROCESS (2 points)

Rearrange the following by putting numbers on the space before each statement to indicate the sequence.
__________________ Editing __________________ Revising
__________________ Writing the draft __________________ Publishing
__________________ Pre-writing

V.ENUMERATION

6 Different Types of Conflict

4 Plot Devices
4 Devices to illustrate Visions
5 Plot Devices for Ending
5 Elements of Poetry
4 Types of Foot
Mistakes are proof that you
are trying.
– Unknown

PREPARED BY:
MS. SHIELAH MARIE
P. REQUIZ