Module 1 Review - Semester B

Question 1

Which of these sentences is an adage?

Accepted Answer

The early bird gets the worm.

Question 2

Which of these sentences includes a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

The opossum’s tail was an ugly pink snake.

Question 3

What is the main difference between poetry and prose?

Accepted Answer

the way the words are arranged on a page

Question 4

How is free verse different from other forms of poetry?

Accepted Answer

It sounds more like ordinary speech.

Question 5

Which kind of figurative language appears in the sentence below? The moon hid its face behind a small cloud.

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 6

When are sentence fragments most often used in the dialogue of a play?

Accepted Answer

when a character is excited, angry, or afraid

Question 7

When you read a play, how do you know that the characters are interrupting each other?

Accepted Answer

You see a sentence fragment followed by a dash.

Question 8

Where do the homophones there, their, and they're belong? ___ is more room in____garage, but ___ not going to buy a car.

Accepted Answer

there, their, they're

Question 9

Which type of verbs often appear before an adjective in a sentence? For example, I am tired” and “It was awful.”

Accepted Answer

am, is, was (forms of the verb "to be")

Question 10

Which word could appear in the sentence below, to show the pattern of repeated sounds? Day by day, we _______ and dream.

Accepted Answer

drown

Question 11

When a poet chooses carefully between words with only slightly different meanings, what is he or she trying to do?

Accepted Answer

to create just the right nuance

Question 12

How can you tell which parts of a play are stage directions?

Accepted Answer

Stage directions usually appear in parentheses and italics.

Question 13

Which sentence includes a simile?

Accepted Answer

My cat Loco has a tail like a bottle brush.

Question 14

Which part of speech is “long” in the sentence below? My grandmother loved to take long walks in the woods with me.

Accepted Answer

adjective

Question 15

Which phrase describes a group of words without a subject or without a verb ?

Accepted Answer

a sentence fragment

Question 16

When does the setting of a play often change?

Accepted Answer

when a new scene start

Question 17

When are sentence fragments used in stage directions?

Accepted Answer

when they appear between a character’s name and the character’s line

Question 18

Which part of a poem is most like a paragraph?

Accepted Answer

stanza

Question 19

Choose the correct homophones to complete the blanks in the sentence. The ___ boys were ___ afraid ____cross the street.

Accepted Answer

two, too, to

Question 20

Which sentence uses alliteration?

Accepted Answer

The fox was a fearless foe.

Questions 20