Unit 1 Test Review

A verb is in the active voice when its subject performs the action.

Which POV has a narrator that is not a character in the story and can relate details about any of the characters'?

A type of writing in which an author explores an experience using descriptive details and events.

What part of the plot introduces background, setting, and characters?

A word's dictionary definition

Often suggests meaning beyond the word's dictionary definition.

What part of the plot states the final outcome?

Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.

Tone is the writer's attitude about a subject.

A verb is in the passive voice when its subject receives the action.

Explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page

What part of the plot begins to draw the story to a close?

Gives the central message, the universal lesson and the big idea:

A concise, complete, and accurate overview of the text that should not give your opinion or analysis.

Which type of poetry tells a story and includes the main elements of a short story?

Which type of poetry is to create a single, vivid impression of an object, person, or moment in time?

Figurative language is when words mean something other than their literal meaning.

What part of the plot develops the conflict?

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

What part of the plot is the point of greatest interest in the story?

What part of the plot propels the action?

Which point of view is the narrator also a character in the story?