Advanced Creative Writing Concepts

Creative Writing

A challenging set of questions covering literary devices, narrative structures, and historical terminology in creative writing.

Literature Narrative Poetics

8 Questions Hard Ages 16+ Apr 4, 2026

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1 Which dramatic principle states that every element in a story must be necessary, exemplified by the rule that a gun shown in the first act must be fired later?

A The Red Herring
B Chekhov's Gun
C MacGuffin
D Deus Ex Machina

2 In prosody, which metrical foot consists of two syllables, where the first is stressed and the second is unstressed?

A Iamb
B Anapest
C Dactyl
D Trochee

3 Which literary technique involves starting a narrative in the middle of the action rather than at the chronological beginning?

A In media res
B Flash-forward
C Deus ex machina
D Epistolary

4 What is the specific term for the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot, typically occurring at the end?

A Exposition
B Denouement
C Peripeteia
D Hamartia

5 Who is credited with defining the 'Hero's Journey' or monomyth in the 1949 work 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'?

A Carl Jung
B Joseph Campbell
C Northrop Frye
D Vladimir Propp

6 Which narrative mode involves a character's internal thoughts and feelings being expressed in a continuous, often non-linear flow?

A Soliloquy
B Free indirect discourse
C Stream of consciousness
D Objective narration

7 What is the name of the literary device where the weather or environment is used to reflect or mimic the emotions of the characters?

A Pathetic fallacy
B Personification
C Allegory
D Synecdoche

8 In rhetoric, what term describes the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?

A Epistrophe
B Anaphora
C Chiasmus
D Litotes

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