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Miss C's ELA 1 post test review
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A summary of an act of a play would mention all EXCEPT
Main characters and their relationships
How the main characters are dressed
Main actions that move the plot forward
Each main characters motivation in the act
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What is imagery?
"Word pictures" that the writer creates to evoke emotional response
A figure of speech where the speaker addresses inanimate objects or an idea
A comparison that shows simularities between 2 things that are dissimilar
A figure of speech that compares two or more things
3
When you read a story and think about your personal experiences, you are...
Connecting to personal experience
Analyzing plot
Questioning
Monitoring comprehension
4
An object, person, place, or experience representing something in a literary work is called a...
Conflict
Symbol
Flashback
Motif
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In literary terms, what is a tragedy?
A play in which most characters die
A play in which a major character suffers a downfall
A play that includes a fool who provides comic relief
A play that involves a great love or a major war
6
A narrative essay is most like...
A descriptive essay
A formal essay
An editorial
A short story
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Term for when the reader/audience knows something that the characters do not?
Dramatic irony
Aside
External conflict
Tragedy
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What is a thesis in a work of non-fiction?
The point of view
Rising action
Main idea
Exposition
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When a writer writes about their own personal experience, which term would best describe her book?
Biography
Historical narrative
Narrative essay
Memoir
10
The problem and solution in a short start are parts of the.....
Setting
Tone
Plot
Mood
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What is parallelism?
The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds in two or more close words
A line(s) repeated at intervals in a poem or song at the end of a stanza
Series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
Literary device in which sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzas repeat
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Questioning is a method a reader can use to...
Respond to points the author makes
Jot down ideas that are not understood in a journal
Determine word meanings
Understanding what has been read
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An internal conflict takes place...
Outside the setting of the story
Between two conflicting characters
Between a character and an outside force
Within the mind of the character
14
A character who provides a strong contrast to another character is called?
A foil
A protagonist
A companion
An antagonist
15
Which of the following is not related to the structure of an essay?
Chronological order
Problem and solution
Cause and effect
Characterization
16
What is sequence in a play?
The relative importance of one event over the other
The order characters appear onstage
The set of events that lead to the climax of the plot
The logical, chronological, or spatial order of events
17
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
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The pattern of organization an author uses is a literary works...
Narrative style
Cultural context
Rhetorical device
Text structure
19
What is the purpose of persuasive writing?
To convince the reader to think or act a certain way
To inform the reader about important historical facts
To express author's personal thoughts
To entertain the reader
20
An allegory is?
A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality
A lit. work in which most characters/setting stands for ideas beyond them
A placement of two more more things besides each other
A traditional story passed down
21
What is a motif in a story?
Descriptive part of the setting
Something related to the theme that is represented
Motivation for a characters actions
Moralistic tone used by writer
22
Which of the following distinguishes a drama from a short story or novel?
Characters
Acts and scenes
Plot and dialogue
Setting
23
Which of the following is not an example of figurative language?
Metaphor
Simile
Form
Personification
24
Which of the following describes dialect?
Variation of a language spoken by a group of people from a specific region
The pointer on a compass
An author's choice of words
The standard form of a language
25
Which of the following contributes least to analyze characterization in a short story?
The characters appearance
The characters' thoughts and speech
The reactions to the other characters
The place where the character's actions occur
26
In non-fiction, the basis for persuasive writing is known as
argument
is
Logic
Emotion
Action
Disagreement
27
What is a flashback?
When a camera goes off, the flash... DUH
When your life flashes before your eyes
A scene in which a character mentions something that bugs them
An interruption of a storys chronology to describe and earlier event
28
The emotional quality of a literary work is called
Symbolism
Diction
Mood
Imagery
29
Exaggeration, funny dialogue, and amusing descriptions are all ways in which a writer creates
Humor
Foreshadowing
Suspense
Hyperbole
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The authors use of dialogue in a short story is primarily to _______
Amuse the reader
Address the reader
Develop plot
State the theme
31
To most usefully compare and contrast scenes of a play, a reader will study
The setting of various scenes
How characters' actions contribute to the development of the plot
The similarities and differences in a characters' behavior in each scene
How the playwright is developing the theme
32
What is the purpose of descriptions in writing?
Highlights the motivation of numerous characters
Appeals to logic, emotion, ethics, authority, or reasoning
Provides structure or pattern for presenting ideas
Helps the reader imagine what the character sees,hears,smells, touches, etc
33
The theme of a short story can be described as the
Summary of the story's plot
Voice of the author
Message of the story
Overall style of the story
34
A reader will most likely have to make an inference about characters if the author uses
Indirect characterization
A simple theme
An exotic setting
Flat characters
35
Which of these is a part of the plot of a short story?
Theme
Narrator
Humor
Climax
36
A speech delivered to the audience by a character alone on stage is called
An aside
Dialogue
Soliloquy
Monologue
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Recognizing an author's bias is essential when reading a...
Memoir of childhood
Short story
Persuasive essay
Math textbook
38
To evaluate an argument, you should
Look at the authors opinions and how it's supported
Determine the writers theme and how it is developed
Judge the quality of descritpive details and figures of speech
Create a cluster diagram to indentify relationships among characters
39
Which of these is a description of an aside?
A character makes a comment not heard by all other characters/for audience
A character enters the action from the side of the stage
A character exits through a door on side stage
A minor character accompanies the protagonist
40
Which of the following does NOT contribute to the voice of a story?
Language use
Theme
Word Choice
Tone
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Which of the following is part of the author's style?
Development of the theme
Where the author works
Length and arrangement
The historical times in which the author write
42
What contains visual sensory?
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,"
"And sorry I coould not travel both,"
"And that made all the difference,"
"I took the one less traveled by,"
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A writer builds suspense by making the reader ask which question?
What is the character's motivation?
What is the theme?
What does this event symbolize?
What will happen next?
