7th Grade Descriptive Reading & Writing Unit Review

Question 1

How are tone and mood different from each other?

Accepted Answer

Mood= reader's feelings & Tone= speaker's attitude

Question 2

Whether it's a story or a poem, 1st person point of view lets the reader better understand -

Accepted Answer

a speaker's inner thoughts and feelings

Question 3

Indirect characterization is what we learn about a character by --

Accepted Answer

making inferences from the text

Question 4

When we talk about an "author's purpose", we might mean

Accepted Answer

whether he/she is trying to inform, entertain, describe, etc, the reason that an idea or concept is so important, why he/she is writing this piece, what he/she wants us to understand

Question 5

Setting is really important to a story because it --

Accepted Answer

helps the reader imagine the time and place of the selection, allows the writer to create specific types of conflicts, creates the mood the writer wants the reader to feel

Question 6

Writers sometimes use rhetorical questions in order to

Accepted Answer

Make a point and get the reader or audience thinking

Question 7

TP-CASTT is a method of analyzing poetry because it helps readers think about --

Accepted Answer

title, purpose, connotation, audience, shift, title, theme

Question 8

Irony makes stories interesting because -

Accepted Answer

the unexpected happens, it's a way for the writer to add a twist, it makes some stories memorable long after we've read them

Question 9

The topic of a story or poem is simply what it's about. The theme, however, is --

Accepted Answer

the life lesson or central message we learn

Question 10

Titles can be important in both stories and poems for all of the following reasons except -

Accepted Answer

they show the length of a reading selection

Question 11

When we make an inference, we are basically

Accepted Answer

making a logical, educated guess based on text evidence

Question 12

DIDLS is one method of analyzing poetry because it helps the reader think about --

Accepted Answer

diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax

Question 13

How are similes and metaphors both similar and different from each other?

Accepted Answer

All of these answers are correct!

Question 14

Figurative language is what we call --

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 15

A summary that contains just the important facts about the text without personal opinions is -

Accepted Answer

an objective summary

Question 16

When we talk about the "connotation" of a word, we mean how a word -

Accepted Answer

makes us feel and why it's used instead of another word

Question 17

Why do writers use sound devices like repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia?

Accepted Answer

To create sensory imagery for the reader

Question 18

Writers use elements like flashback and foreshadow for the purpose of --

Accepted Answer

allowing the reader to understand important events & details, meeting the requirement that all stories must include them

Question 19

When an author tells us what a character looks like, thinks about, says, does, etc., that's -

Accepted Answer

direct characterization

Question 20

Which of the following is not an example of characterization?

Accepted Answer

What the teacher tells the class about the character

7th Grade Descriptive Reading & Writing Unit Review

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7th Grade Descriptive Reading & Writing Unit Review

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