🚫 Midterm Exam for Creative Writing

According to expert writers, "It is a writing that expresses the writer's thoughts and feelings in imaginative, often unique way."

All of the following below are some good reasons why do we write, EXCEPT

• Write to be entertained

• Write to touch people's lives

• Write to be the person you wish to be

• Write to negate other's opinion

These are part of the Writing Process.

• Pre-writing

• Writing the draft

• Revising

• Editing

• Publishing

These are the movers in the story.

• Characters

• Setting

• Plot

• Theme

The ___________ of the story refers to where the events take place.

• Plot

• Setting

• Theme

• Conflict

What are the three methods or ways in describing the setting in a story?

• Creating a Detailed Setting

• Putting the Character Together

• Connecting Setting to Characters

• Getting Ideas for your Character

• Incorporating Details into your Story

In creating a detailed setting, what step are you most likely using if you have this description; “The planes tore through the city, leaving piles of burnt rubble where our houses used to be.”

• Incorporate the 5 senses to your description.

• Visit a location similar to your setting if you can to experience it for yourself.

• Look at photographs of a similar setting for inspiration on specific details.

• Include references to give clues to the time your story takes place.

Identify what element is being described on this statement; "It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels."

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Conflict

Which of the following could be the setting of a Fairy Tale?

• A King and Queen

• A faraway castle

• People change as they get older

• A wicked with and the princess

All of the methods below are ways on how to reveal your character in the story. Which is NOT?

• By direct statements

• By presenting or describing the environment

• Through his face

• Through character’s

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