Theme
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Samantha wanted a new cell phone. She worked all summer at the local Dairy Queen. She wasn’t able to attend parties, movies, or beach trips because she worked so many hours. By September 1st she had enough money to purchase the phone. When she got it home, she realized it wasn’t much different than the one she had.
Which is the BEST theme?
A. Work hard to achieve goals in life.
B. A young girl works all summer for a cell phone.
C. People should never work summer jobs.
D. Be careful what you wish for.
D. Be careful what you wish for.
(1) She didn’t mind that she sat on the bus all day. (2) Her daily work was not of the sitting-down kind, so it was a good break. (3) She started this trip on a Sunday at nine in the morning. (4) Because of the waiting times between buses, it took her until about two in the afternoon to arrive in Dublin. (5) Doree had to take the bus to Dublin.
These sentences are out of order. What is the correct order?
(5) Doree had to take the bus to Dublin.
(3) She started this trip on a Sunday at nine in the morning.
(4) Because of the waiting times between buses, it took her until about two in the afternoon to arrive in Dublin.
(1) She didn’t mind that she sat on the bus all day.
(2) Her daily work was not of the sitting-down kind, so it was a good break.
I was born on the 15th of October, during the last hurricane of the season. My mother named me Stormy, which I find very appropriate. It fits my personality!
Which is the point of view?
A. First Person
B. Third Person Objective
C. Third Person Limited
D. Third Person Omniscient
A. First Person
Roses are red,
Grass is green.
When Bob borrow money,
It is never seen.
Ever again!
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Roses are red, A
Grass is green. B
When Bob borrow money, C
It is never seen. B
Ever again! D
ABCBD
(1) Sonya ran quick as a bunny. (2) The trees were whispering in the wind, telling her to run home. (3) It doesn’t take a genius to figure out when all is lost.
Which line from this excerpt contains an example of personification?
(2) The trees were whispering in the wind, telling her to run home.
Open heart and open mind,
On a journey of a lifetime.
Love and respect all,
Get back up when you fall.
Which two themes are found in this poem?
A. Respect others and never give up.
B. Go on vacation and have fun.
C. Encourage others and get a good job.
D. Work hard but take time to play.
A. Respect others and never give up.
I come with no wrapping or pretty pink bows.
I am who I am, from my head to my toes.
I tend to get loud when speaking my mind.
Even a little crazy some of the time.
I'm not a size 5 and don't care to be.
You can be you and I can be me.
Which word BEST describes the speaker of the poem?
A. Charitable
B. Despondent
C. Devious
D. Confident
D. Confident
During which point of view can you hear the thoughts of two or more characters?
A. First Person
B. Third Person Objective
C. Third Person Limited
D. Third Person Omniscient
D. Third Person Omniscient
Which poem structure has a poem of fourteen lines using any of several formal rhyme schemes, in English, and typically having ten syllables per line?
Sonnet or Villanelle?
Sonnet
“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
Virginia Woolf
(1) Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. (2) She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. (3) She used her own experiences with depression as a major source. (4) In 1981, Louise DeSalvo published an alternate version of The Voyage Out under another title.
Which sentence from the excerpt BEST verifies the ideas behind the quote from Virginia Woolf?
(3) She used her own experiences with depression as a major source.
Never give up on your dream job. I began blogging in 2014 and thought it was only going to be a side hobby that was a bit of fun. Fast forward to now and I’m reaching millions of people a month and inspiring people to live a better life and help others along the way. It is so important to help others!
What TWO themes are found here?
Work hard to get ahead and help others along the way.
Tom grabbed his lunch and went to the back of the room. Bill sat down with him, hitting Ben on the head along the way. Andrew knocked his napkin off the table and stole Ted’s money on the way back. Ted didn’t notice. He laughed about a joke that no one thought was funny.
Which boy can be considered “devious”?
A. Tom
B. Bill
C. Andrew
D. Ted
C. Andrew:
Andrew knocked his napkin off the table and stole Ted’s money on the way back. Ted didn’t notice.
Sarah Elizabeth wanted the right to vote. She couldn’t understand why she was denied this right. She participated in many protests over the years. In 1920, women were given the right to vote with the 19th Amendment. Sarah Elizabeth died in 1990, content with the role she played many years earlier for women’s suffrage.
Which is the point of view?
A. First Person
B. Third Person Objective
C. Third Person Limited
D. Third Person Omniscient
C. Third Person Limited
Which poem structure has nineteen lines with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain?
Sonnet or Villanelle?
Villanelle
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one's name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson
Choose TWO character traits that BEST describe the speaker of this poem.
A. Introspective B. Cooperative
C. Impulsive D. Independent
E. Quarrelsome
A. Introspective and D. Independent
In The Battle of the Bogarts, the three Bogart children battle the wicked King of Summerlin, who steals from the poor. It took three long and challenging battles, but the children defeated the king in the end. The oldest child, Meredith, led the final rebellion with a team of overzealous ostriches. At the end, she was crowned queen. Peace reigned in the City of Emerald for years to come.
What two themes are found here?
Hard work pays off, and good always triumphs over evil.
In the course of her discussion, teacher and journalist, Caryn Windell, observes, “Thirty years ago people who thought they had a story to tell sat down to write a novel. Today they sit down to write a memoir.” She does not try to explain this shift towards personal narrative but concentrates instead on what distinguishes a successful memoir from a failed one.
What trend did Caryn Windell point out about writing?
A. Teachers assign more memoirs today.
B. Students are nervous about writing novels today.
C. In the past, students never wrote memoirs.
D. Today, people prefer to write memoirs over novels.
D. Today, people prefer to write memoirs over novels.
Carol and Bob lived in a lovely home, but something was missing. They traveled to Japan last year to find the missing piece. Since they were unable to have children of their own, they went there to adopt a little girl. After arriving, they were shocked by the number of children in the orphanage. Instead of adopting one little girl, they came home with three!
What is Carol and Bob’s perspective on adopting children?
The more the merrier!
What do the last four lines of this villanelle mean?
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night. (refrain 1)
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (refrain 2)
Keep fighting and don’t give up the battle of old age.
In Macbeth, the main character hears of his wife's death and gives this soliloquy:
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
What is Macbeth emphasizing with this soliloquy?
A. Life is sad, but it is silly to want a longer life.
B. Life is short and meaningless.
C. Life is fun, but we all have to go sometime.
D. Life is lonely without adventure.
B. Life is short and meaningless.
We are the dry wind,
but broken shadows of our former selves.
Left with nothing
but the jealousy in our hearts.
What two themes are found in this poem?
A. Stormy weather and bad friends
B. Past regrets and jealousy
C. Hopelessness and forgiveness
D. Past and Present
B. Past regrets and jealousy
The dresser in the cellar caught my interest. Somewhere along the way, it had been painted blue. It looked small. And cheap. I remembered it being a much bigger and heavier piece of furniture – more substantial. I recalled standing on the pulls of the bottom drawer to reach the top. Which explained why some of the pulls were missing. I smiled thinking of how I have seen my son scale his dresser in the same way.
Which word BEST explains how the narrator is feeling?
A. Disappointed
B. Nostalgic
C. Annoyed
D. Euphoric
B. Nostalgic
With this point of view, the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters. We know little about what drives them until we hear them speak or observe their actions.
Which is the point of view?
A. First Person
B. Third Person Objective
C. Third Person Limited
D. Third Person Omniscient
B. Third person objective
Who wrote this sonnet?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
It is a Shakespearean sonnet.
“Momma was the only one who wasn’t born in Flint, so the cold was coldest to her. All you could see were her eyes too, and they were shooting bad looks at Dad. She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called a giant icebox. Dad was bundled up on the other side of Joey, trying to look at anything but Momma. Next to Dad, sitting with a little space between them, was my older brother, Byron.”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
Which of these BEST describes how Dad is feeling?
A. Angry
B. Bored
C. Nervous
D. Distracted
C. Nervous
Dad was bundled up on the other side of Joey, trying to look at anything but Momma.