CW 1.04B Elements of CNF 2 Quiz

What about self review is true?

• Self-review is unimportant in a creative nonfiction writing process.

• Self-review is completed after peer review in a creative nonfiction writing process.

• In creative writing, which is factual, self-review is the first step in the writing process.

• Self-review for creative writing plays the same part of the writing process as in other types of writing.

What is peer review best used for in creative nonfiction?

• proving that the essay or memoir is factual and true

• providing peer feedback so a writer can make revisions in content and organization

• making final editing recommendations to a writer

• suggesting more effective generative writing techniques to a writer

Read this passage from Murmurs: "Lest you think these sounds are music only for astronomers' ears, consider: The same wrinkles in space that created the gravity wells that gave it rise to the sound also blew up to form clusters, galaxies, stars, planets, us."

• theme

• plot

• tone

• point of view

Think about By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau. What is its theme?

• It doesn’t matter what your name is.

• Some names are better than others.

• Personal and cultural identities are important.

• Personal and cultural identities should be flexible.

What describes the tone of By Any Other Name?

• humorous

• serious

• exaggerated

• passionless

What describes the tone of Jeff Gundy's Hum?

• lighthearted

• serious

• exaggerated

• passionless

What describes the essay form of Kim Dana Kupperman's I Just Lately Started Buying Wings?

• travel essay

• memoir

• science essay

• nature essay

What describes the tone of Kim Dana Kupperman's I Just Lately Started Buying Wings?

• warm but distant

• warm and spiritual

• warm and passionate

• warm but proud

You are writing a creative nonfiction piece about science; your friend is writing a personal essay.

What should both pieces' introductions have in common?

• metaphors

• strong showing

• quoted facts

• the piece's theme

You are writing a piece of creative nonfiction about science. Your friend is writing a personal essay.

What should both pieces' conclusions have in common?

• metaphor

• the piece's theme

• quoted facts

• a climax