Which answer choice provides the best example of situtational irony?

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

Which of the following sentences contains a dangling modifier?

Listening carefully, distant thunder could be detected.

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

The struggle of guilt for a mistake as a child

Why do author's use regional dialect?

To add to the authenticity of the narrative

Which answer best defines the concept of setting?

Time and place in which a work occurs

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

Which is an example of direct characterization?

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

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

All plots are driven by conflict

Which is not an example of regional dialect?

Of course, she was faster than that!

Which sentence contains an introductory clause?

If you see smoke, you know there is fire.

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Created for 10th Grade English Language Arts, Alabama Standards, Benchmark 4 Preparation.

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

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