What is the idea or demand of Drama?

Understand how dialogue portrays character, plot, and theme

The sequence of events in a story

What is an element or demand of Expository texts?

To use text features and interpret graphics

Central message of a work of literature

What is the purpose of Poetry?

To experience rich language and emotion

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What is the idea or demand of Drama?
Evaluate and judge logic
Recognize missing information
Understand how dialogue portrays character, plot, and theme
Remember important factual details
2
Which of the following is NOT an example of Literary language and devices?
Imagery
Idiom
Hyperbole
Consonance
3
Words or phrases that cause strong emotions are called
Loaded terms
Caricature
Premise
Logic
4
Functional documents...
examine a specific issue and solutions to it
tell you how to do something
visual clues that help readers locate info quickly
present key idea of a topic
5
What is Plot?
Words of a song with regular rhyme scheme
A figure of speech in which an object is given human traits
The sequence of events in a story
Emotional quality of a story or poem
6
A person or force that opposes the protagonist in a story is called the
Memoir
Antagonist
Metamorphisis
Subject
7
What is an element or demand of Expository texts?
To use text features and interpret graphics
Follow stucture
Follow flashbacks
Understand stage directions
8
What is theme?
A humorous use of words that are similar in sound.
Central message of a work of literature
Use of a word that imitates or suggests the sound
A regular pattern of stressed syllables in a line of poetry
9
Techniques used to emphasize sounds in writing are called
Suspense
Sound devices
Voice
Simile
10
What is the purpose of Fiction?
To make decisions
To be entertained
To learn how to do something
To perform
11
Highest point of emotion or conflict...
Resolution
Climax
Metaphor
Myth
12
What is the purpose of Poetry?
To make decisions
To learn how to do something
To gather information
To experience rich language and emotion
13
What is the purpose of Literary Nonfiction?
To learn how to do something
To perform
To make decisions
To gain information or insight

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