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Miss C's ELA 1 post test review
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An object, person, place, or experience representing something in a literary work is called a...
Flashback
Conflict
Motif
Symbol
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To evaluate an argument, you should
Create a cluster diagram to indentify relationships among characters
Judge the quality of descritpive details and figures of speech
Determine the writers theme and how it is developed
Look at the authors opinions and how it's supported
3
When you read a story and think about your personal experiences, you are...
Connecting to personal experience
Monitoring comprehension
Questioning
Analyzing plot
4
The problem and solution in a short start are parts of the.....
Mood
Setting
Tone
Plot
5
A reader will most likely have to make an inference about characters if the author uses
An exotic setting
Flat characters
Indirect characterization
A simple theme
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Which of the following distinguishes a drama from a short story or novel?
Acts and scenes
Characters
Setting
Plot and dialogue
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What is a flashback?
When a camera goes off, the flash... DUH
When your life flashes before your eyes
An interruption of a storys chronology to describe and earlier event
A scene in which a character mentions something that bugs them
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The emotional quality of a literary work is called
Symbolism
Imagery
Diction
Mood
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A character who provides a strong contrast to another character is called?
A foil
A companion
A protagonist
An antagonist
10
In non-fiction, the basis for persuasive writing is known as
argument
is
Emotion
Disagreement
Action
Logic
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What is sequence in a play?
The relative importance of one event over the other
The order characters appear onstage
The logical, chronological, or spatial order of events
The set of events that lead to the climax of the plot
12
In literary terms, what is a tragedy?
A play in which a major character suffers a downfall
A play that includes a fool who provides comic relief
A play in which most characters die
A play that involves a great love or a major war
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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 entertain the reader
To express author's personal thoughts
14
A summary of an act of a play would mention all EXCEPT
Each main characters motivation in the act
How the main characters are dressed
Main characters and their relationships
Main actions that move the plot forward
15
Exaggeration, funny dialogue, and amusing descriptions are all ways in which a writer creates
Humor
Hyperbole
Suspense
Foreshadowing
16
What is imagery?
A figure of speech that compares two or more things
A figure of speech where the speaker addresses inanimate objects or an idea
A comparison that shows simularities between 2 things that are dissimilar
"Word pictures" that the writer creates to evoke emotional response
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The authors use of dialogue in a short story is primarily to _______
State the theme
Develop plot
Amuse the reader
Address the reader
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The theme of a short story can be described as the
Summary of the story's plot
Overall style of the story
Message of the story
Voice of the author
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Which of the following does NOT contribute to the voice of a story?
Word Choice
Theme
Language use
Tone
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Which of the following is not an example of figurative language?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Form
21
A speech delivered to the audience by a character alone on stage is called
Monologue
Dialogue
Soliloquy
An aside
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A writer builds suspense by making the reader ask which question?
What will happen next?
What is the theme?
What does this event symbolize?
What is the character's motivation?
23
An allegory is?
A placement of two more more things besides each other
A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality
A traditional story passed down
A lit. work in which most characters/setting stands for ideas beyond them
24
What is a thesis in a work of non-fiction?
Rising action
Exposition
Main idea
The point of view
25
Questioning is a method a reader can use to...
Jot down ideas that are not understood in a journal
Respond to points the author makes
Understanding what has been read
Determine word meanings
26
Which of the following contributes least to analyze characterization in a short story?
The reactions to the other characters
The place where the character's actions occur
The characters' thoughts and speech
The characters appearance
27
An internal conflict takes place...
Within the mind of the character
Between a character and an outside force
Between two conflicting characters
Outside the setting of the story
28
Which of the following describes dialect?
Variation of a language spoken by a group of people from a specific region
The standard form of a language
The pointer on a compass
An author's choice of words
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Recognizing an author's bias is essential when reading a...
Memoir of childhood
Short story
Math textbook
Persuasive essay
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Term for when the reader/audience knows something that the characters do not?
Tragedy
Aside
External conflict
Dramatic irony
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What contains visual sensory?
"I took the one less traveled by,"
"And that made all the difference,"
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,"
"And sorry I coould not travel both,"
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Which of the following is part of the author's style?
Length and arrangement
Development of the theme
Where the author works
The historical times in which the author write
33
A narrative essay is most like...
An editorial
A formal essay
A descriptive essay
A short story
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Which of these is a part of the plot of a short story?
Theme
Climax
Narrator
Humor
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Which of these is a description of an aside?
A character makes a comment not heard by all other characters/for audience
A character exits through a door on side stage
A character enters the action from the side of the stage
A minor character accompanies the protagonist
36
When a writer writes about their own personal experience, which term would best describe her book?
Historical narrative
Memoir
Biography
Narrative essay
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What is parallelism?
Literary device in which sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzas repeat
The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds in two or more close words
Series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
A line(s) repeated at intervals in a poem or song at the end of a stanza
38
The pattern of organization an author uses is a literary works...
Rhetorical device
Cultural context
Narrative style
Text structure
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What is a motif in a story?
Moralistic tone used by writer
Something related to the theme that is represented
Descriptive part of the setting
Motivation for a characters actions
40
To most usefully compare and contrast scenes of a play, a reader will study
The setting of various scenes
How the playwright is developing the theme
How characters' actions contribute to the development of the plot
The similarities and differences in a characters' behavior in each scene
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"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
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What is the purpose of descriptions in writing?
Appeals to logic, emotion, ethics, authority, or reasoning
Helps the reader imagine what the character sees,hears,smells, touches, etc
Highlights the motivation of numerous characters
Provides structure or pattern for presenting ideas
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Which of the following is not related to the structure of an essay?
Chronological order
Problem and solution
Cause and effect
Characterization
