Unit One Test Review Trivia

Question 1

"I suppose what says it best is that my 'serious friends hated rock & roll; I loved it."

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Metaphor

Question 2

"But I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it off"

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Repetition

Question 3

The conclusion includes all but the following:

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Include one last piece of evidence to prove your point

Question 4

A combination of contradictory terms.

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Oxymoron

Question 5

We have a little problem here. It seems an airplane just crash landed in our yard!

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Understatement

Question 6

The chewed, bloody wallet found in the nursery in the story “The Veldt” is an example of

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Foreshadowing

Question 7

Each body paragraph should begin with...

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A topic setence

Question 8

Whenever you write the title of a short story in your essay, you should identify it using...

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Double quotation marks

Question 9

The introductory paragraph of a literary essay begins with...

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An attention grabber

Question 10

Punctuation marks such as periods and commas should appear after the parenthetical citation.

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True

Question 11

A description which exaggerates. I.e. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."

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Hyperbole

Question 12

The character of Elsa in Frozen is an example of...

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A protagonist

Question 13

Which is NOT a formatting requirement when you set up your essay according to MLA format?

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Include an extra space between paragraphs

Question 14

The introductory paragraph of a literary essay should end with...

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The thesis statement

Question 15

The tone that best describes "Stop All the Clocks" is...

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Devastated

Question 16

Which is NOT true about the speaker in "Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"?

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The speaker is alarmed at all of the recent development

Question 17

The attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work's central theme.

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Tone

Question 18

Stories concerned with societies that are incredibly imperfect.

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Dystopian fiction

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT true of in text citations?

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Include the author's first name & page number in parentheses

Question 20

The last step of the body paragraph is..

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Tie in/transition

Question 21

A sentence highlighting the argument of a piece of literature.

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Theme

Question 22

Identify the error: After the plane crashes, you can easily see Lavery's frustration.

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Uses second person point of view

Question 23

"The Veldt" expresses the fear that overuse of technology threatens to diminish our humanity.

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Theme

Question 24

The use of the names Peter and Wendy in "The Veldt" is an example of which device?

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Irony

Question 25

Crawl like a creepy crawly caterpillar

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Alliteration

Question 26

What's the error in this essay? The window alienated her kid when she publicly humiliated him.

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Informal language

Question 27

"And moreover, in many respects the new story is the same as the old."

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Metafiction

Question 28

"He was my North, my South, my East, and West"

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Metaphor

Question 29

George laments to the Dr. McLean, " 'We've given the children everything' " (Bradbury 175).

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No errors in citation

Question 30

The mood in "The Veldt" can best be described as:

Accepted Answer

Tense

Unit One Test Review Trivia

Questions 30

Unit One Test Review Trivia

Questions 30