Which answer best defines the concept of setting?

Time and place in which a work occurs

Why do author's use regional dialect?

To add to the authenticity of the narrative

Which is an example of direct characterization?

Before them towered a man sad, preoccupied, and unaware.

Which answer choice provides the clearest example of an internal conflict?

The struggle of guilt for a mistake as a child

Which sentence contains an introductory clause?

If you see smoke, you know there is fire.

Which answer choice provides the best example of situtational irony?

A runner, set to win, gets to the arena too late to compete.

Which answer choice provides the best definition of dramatic irony?

The reader knows a truth that a character does not.

Which answer choice best defines the literary concept of theme?

The insight or meaning through details

Are you ready for this week to be over?

I was done yesterday, Of course, its not friday?, No

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between plot and conflict?

All plots are driven by conflict

Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier?

Listening carefully, distant thunder could be detected.

Which is not an example of regional dialect?

Of course, she was faster than that!

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1
What is a rhyme scheme?
The pattern the poem follows.
The long words in a poem.
The title of a poem.
The sounds used in a poem.
2
The use of extreme or exaggerated statements is called _____________.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Puns and word play
Understatement
3
Which answer best defines the concept of setting?
Time and place in which a work occurs
A real life place
Physical environment
A location that generates conflict
4
Why do author's use regional dialect?
To add to the authenticity of the narrative
To teach the reader to speak in dialect
To show that the character has special knowledge
To make the reader research the origin of unknown phrases
5
Which is an example of direct characterization?
His gaze glittered with a grim smile.
He leaned slouchingly against the wall.
Abraham Lincoln journeyed with his party.
Before them towered a man sad, preoccupied, and unaware.
6
Which answer choice provides the clearest example of an internal conflict?
The struggle against restriction of traditional gender roles
The struggle of guilt for a mistake as a child
The struggle to survive after being lost in a blizzard
The struggle to distinguish one's self against siblings
7
The root -pend-, as in pendulum and pendant, means?
To hang
To happen
To look
To write
8
Which sentence contains an introductory clause?
You will find the missing shoe in the corner of the room.
Yes, she is going to the party.
You have given me no choice, but I would rather eat now.
If you see smoke, you know there is fire.
9
Which answer choice provides the best example of situtational irony?
A runner, set to win, gets to the arena too late to compete.
A character in a play tells the audience a secret.
An A+ student claims she "hates it" when she makes A's.
A candidate who is leading in the polls wins the election.
10
The word orchestrated means?
To take suggestions
To organize and direct
To arrange music
To avoid decision
11
If the root genus, or gen-, means birth, then what word is similar to generation?
Plant
Spirit
World
Beginning
12
Which answer choice best defines the concept of plot?
All actions in a story
Sequence of events in a story
Changes in setting or characters in a story
Portrayal of characters in a story
13
Which is an example of indirect characterization?
The President gazed at him.
He was a finished gentleman.
He was a careful student.
He was an heir of traditions of learning and breeding.
14
Which answer choice provides the best definition of dramatic irony?
The story ending contradicts what "should have" happened.
The reader knows a truth that a character does not.
A character realizes the truth.
A character understands a secret.
15
Which answer choice best defines the literary concept of theme?
The use of images that express meaning
The moral of a story
The series of conflicts characters face
The insight or meaning through details
16
Are you ready for this week to be over?
I was done yesterday
Of course
its not friday?
No
17
Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between plot and conflict?
All plots are driven by conflict
Conflict is useful but not essential to plot
In most plots, internal conflicts are more important
In most plots, external conflicts are more important
18
In general, how is narrative poetry similar to narrative prose?
Both tell a story.
Both contain irony.
Both have strong rhyme patterns.
Both use first person.
19
Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier?
Together, we worked to get the project finished in time.
Standing on the bench, the children saw dolphins
Walking in the park, I saw a rabbit under a bush.
Listening carefully, distant thunder could be detected.
20
Which is not an example of regional dialect?
Thish-yer Smiley had a mare.
He use to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow.
As near as you could cipher it down.
Of course, she was faster than that!

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