WRIT 304 Quiz 1,2,3

WRIT 304 Quiz 1,2,3

WRIT 304 Quiz 1

1. According to Burroway, beginning writers should ONLY write from their personal experience.
2. According to Burroway, the essential thing that you write about is ______________.
3. Which of the following are story ideas that Burroway mentions as helpful story starters?
4. What are some of the ways Janet Burroway suggests writers might jumpstart actually writing their stories?
5. According to Burroway, what is the writer’s essential work?
6. Which of the following are story ideas that Burroway mentions as helpful story starters?
7. According to Burroway (and Warren Buffet), what should you do first in the day?

WRIT 304 Quiz 2

1. How can our readers experience powerful emotions?
2. How are our ideas and judgements formed?
3. Writers should avoid ‘filtering’ images. What does this mean?
4. You should write in the active voice.
5. According to Burroway, what is essential to your story’s believability—the ‘life of fiction’?
6. What will most distract a reader from a story’s believability?
7. Rhythm can add to your prose if:
8. What is described as ‘a kind of magic’ in the end of the chapter?

WRIT 304 Quiz 3 

1. Dialogue can be a form of action
2. What are the two main indirect methods of character presentation?
3. Characters should be allowed to speak consistently in long monologues.
4. Characters should always be consistent because people are always consistent.
5. What are the three degrees of directness for fictional speech?
6. Characters’ credibility are established, in large part, based on:
7. Besides dialogue, other direct forms of characterization include