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Miss C's ELA 1 post test review
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An allegory is?
A traditional story passed down
A lit. work in which most characters/setting stands for ideas beyond them
A placement of two more more things besides each other
A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality
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The pattern of organization an author uses is a literary works...
Cultural context
Text structure
Rhetorical device
Narrative style
3
In non-fiction, the basis for persuasive writing is known as
argument
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Action
Emotion
Disagreement
Logic
4
Which of the following distinguishes a drama from a short story or novel?
Acts and scenes
Plot and dialogue
Characters
Setting
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What is imagery?
"Word pictures" that the writer creates to evoke emotional response
A comparison that shows simularities between 2 things that are dissimilar
A figure of speech where the speaker addresses inanimate objects or an idea
A figure of speech that compares two or more things
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The authors use of dialogue in a short story is primarily to _______
Address the reader
Develop plot
State the theme
Amuse the reader
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What is the purpose of persuasive writing?
To entertain the reader
To inform the reader about important historical facts
To convince the reader to think or act a certain way
To express author's personal thoughts
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The theme of a short story can be described as the
Voice of the author
Summary of the story's plot
Overall style of the story
Message of the story
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Recognizing an author's bias is essential when reading a...
Short story
Memoir of childhood
Persuasive essay
Math textbook
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Which of these is a description of an aside?
A minor character accompanies the protagonist
A character exits through a door on side stage
A character makes a comment not heard by all other characters/for audience
A character enters the action from the side of the stage
11
Exaggeration, funny dialogue, and amusing descriptions are all ways in which a writer creates
Suspense
Humor
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
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What contains visual sensory?
"I took the one less traveled by,"
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,"
"And that made all the difference,"
"And sorry I coould not travel both,"
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To most usefully compare and contrast scenes of a play, a reader will study
The setting of various scenes
The similarities and differences in a characters' behavior in each scene
How the playwright is developing the theme
How characters' actions contribute to the development of the plot
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What is sequence in a play?
The order characters appear onstage
The relative importance of one event over the other
The set of events that lead to the climax of the plot
The logical, chronological, or spatial order of events
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An object, person, place, or experience representing something in a literary work is called a...
Conflict
Symbol
Flashback
Motif
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Which of the following describes dialect?
The standard form of a language
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
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When a writer writes about their own personal experience, which term would best describe her book?
Historical narrative
Narrative essay
Memoir
Biography
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Term for when the reader/audience knows something that the characters do not?
Aside
Tragedy
Dramatic irony
External conflict
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A reader will most likely have to make an inference about characters if the author uses
Indirect characterization
An exotic setting
Flat characters
A simple theme
20
To evaluate an argument, you should
Create a cluster diagram to indentify relationships among characters
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
21
Which of these is a part of the plot of a short story?
Climax
Humor
Theme
Narrator
22
Which of the following is not related to the structure of an essay?
Chronological order
Cause and effect
Characterization
Problem and solution
23
A writer builds suspense by making the reader ask which question?
What will happen next?
What is the theme?
What is the character's motivation?
What does this event symbolize?
24
Which of the following is not an example of figurative language?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Form
25
A character who provides a strong contrast to another character is called?
A companion
A foil
A protagonist
An antagonist
26
The problem and solution in a short start are parts of the.....
Mood
Plot
Tone
Setting
27
What is the purpose of descriptions in writing?
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
Appeals to logic, emotion, ethics, authority, or reasoning
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Questioning is a method a reader can use to...
Jot down ideas that are not understood in a journal
Understanding what has been read
Respond to points the author makes
Determine word meanings
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Which of the following is part of the author's style?
Where the author works
The historical times in which the author write
Development of the theme
Length and arrangement
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What is a flashback?
An interruption of a storys chronology to describe and earlier event
When your life flashes before your eyes
A scene in which a character mentions something that bugs them
When a camera goes off, the flash... DUH
31
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
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When you read a story and think about your personal experiences, you are...
Analyzing plot
Connecting to personal experience
Questioning
Monitoring comprehension
33
A speech delivered to the audience by a character alone on stage is called
Monologue
Soliloquy
Dialogue
An aside
34
A summary of an act of a play would mention all EXCEPT
Each main characters motivation in the act
Main characters and their relationships
How the main characters are dressed
Main actions that move the plot forward
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What is parallelism?
Series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
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
A line(s) repeated at intervals in a poem or song at the end of a stanza
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An internal conflict takes place...
Between two conflicting characters
Within the mind of the character
Between a character and an outside force
Outside the setting of the story
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A narrative essay is most like...
A descriptive essay
A short story
An editorial
A formal essay
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What is a motif in a story?
Descriptive part of the setting
Motivation for a characters actions
Moralistic tone used by writer
Something related to the theme that is represented
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What is a thesis in a work of non-fiction?
Exposition
Main idea
The point of view
Rising action
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In literary terms, what is a tragedy?
A play that involves a great love or a major war
A play in which a major character suffers a downfall
A play in which most characters die
A play that includes a fool who provides comic relief
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Which of the following does NOT contribute to the voice of a story?
Tone
Theme
Word Choice
Language use
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Which of the following contributes least to analyze characterization in a short story?
The characters' thoughts and speech
The characters appearance
The place where the character's actions occur
The reactions to the other characters
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The emotional quality of a literary work is called
Symbolism
Imagery
Diction
Mood
