Tone
Determine the tone of the following passage:
I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.
I'll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet,
A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat,
Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate,
But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff and kick, and hate.
Not for me the other dogs, running by my side,
Some have run a short while, but none of them would bide1.
O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best,
Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest!
1. bide: endure, bear, tolerate
Independent or strong; touch of loneliness and pain
Many of us have ambivalent feelings about our politicians, admiring but also distrusting them. Ambivalent means
A. mixed
B. critical
C. approving.
mixed
Extreme exaggeration I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
The atmosphere created by an author's word choices; this is how the audience feels.
Mood
A reference to a famous person, place, thing, or idea.
Example: When I thought about my chemistry final, I knew what David must have felt when facing Goliath.
Allusion
Determine the tone of the following passage:
How could I love you more?
I try to think of one lovely gift
No lover yet in all the world has found;
I think: If the cold somber1 gods
Were hot with love as I am
Could they not endow2 you with a star
And fix bright youth forever in your limbs?
Could they not give you all things that I lack?
You should have loved a god; I am but dust.
Yet no god loves as loves this poor frail dust.
The tone is loving but he also feel inadequate.
The adverse effects of this drug, including dizziness, nausea, and headaches, have caused it to be withdrawn from the market. Adverse means
A. artificial
B. energetic
C. harmful.
harmful
Determine a theme of the following passage and explain why that is a theme.
It's better to do things right the first time.
The point on the lot chart when we are introduced to our characters, setting, and the main conflict.
Exposition
"My locker is a garbage dump" is an example of what type of figurative language?
metaphor
Determine the tone of the following passage:
I look at the swaling sunset
And wish I could go also
Through the red doors beyond the black-purple bar.
I wish that I could go
Through the red doors where I could put off
My shame like shoes in the porch
My pain like garments,
And leave my flesh discarded lying
Like luggage of some departed traveller
Gone one knows not where.
Then I would turn round
And seeing my cast-off body lying like lumber,
I would laugh with joy.
Tone is regretful and ashamed
Mundane activities such as doing the laundry or dishes or going food shopping or reading the newspaper all help me relax. Mundane means
A. exciting
B. painful
C. ordinary.
ordinary
True or False
You should skip or flag a question on your PM test if you don't know it, and then go back to it later.
FALSE
You have as much time as you need on the test, so take your time and stay on each question until you have answered it and then move on. Otherwise the test will change your score, thinking you didn't understand the question(s).
Determine the point of view of the following passage:
The birds were chirping and the sun was shining. Kevin and Juno were sitting on a park bench together. Neither of them was smiling. After a long period of silence, Kevin said, "This isn't going to work. I mean, you're a dog person and I'm a cat person." Juno nodded. A tear rolled down her face. Kevin went on, "If we got married and bought a house, what kind of pet would we get? Some kind of cat-dog? Somebody's going to be unhappy." Juno began sobbing and said, "Ok, let's just end it now. Have fun with your slobbery dogs." She jumped off the bench and ran into the woods.
Third person objective
"The moon was as round as a glowing baseball" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Simile
Determine the tone of the following passage:
Little park that I pass through,
I carry off a piece of you
Every morning hurrying down
To my work-day in the town;
Carry you for country there
To make the city ways more fair.
I take your trees,
And your breeze,
Your greenness,
Your cleanness,
Some of your shade, some of your sky,
Some of your calm as I go by;
Your flowers to trim
The pavements grim;
Your space for room in the jostled street
And grass for carpet to my feet.
Your fountains take and sweet bird calls
To sing me from my office walls.
All that I can see
I carry off with me.
But you never miss my theft,
So much treasure you have left.
As I find you, fresh at morning,
So I find you, home returning --
Nothing lacking from your grace.
All your riches wait in place
For me to borrow
On the morrow.
Do you hear this praise of you,
Little park that I pass through?
Appreciative or fond
Some animals have remarkable longevity. For example, the giant land tortoise can live several hundred years. Longevity means
A. appearances
B. length of life
C. habits.
length of life
True or False
On your PM test you have as much time as you need.
True
Plot element with the point of highest emotional intensity in a story, often called "turning point."
Climax
Determine the tone of the poem:
I wish there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,
And all our poor, selfish grieves
Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the door,
And never put on again.
We would find the things we intended to do,
But forgot and remembered too late--
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken,
And all of the thousand and one
Little duties neglected3 that might have perfected
The days of one less fortunate.
So I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,
And all our poor, selfish grieves
Could be dropped, like a ragged old coat, at the door,
And never put on again.
Tone is regretful
Today was a day of turmoil at work. The phones were constantly ringing, people were running back and forth, and several offices were being painted. Turmoil means
A. discussion
B. confusion
C. harmony
confusion
The attitude an author takes toward a subject
Tone
Determine the point of view of the following passage:
If suddenly a clod of earth should rise,
And walk about, and breathe, and speak, and love,
How one would tremble, and in what surprise
Gasp: "Can you move?"
I see men walking, and I always feel:
"Earth! How have you done this? What can you be?"
I can't learn how to know men, or conceal
How strange they are to me.
First person pov
Dale kept telling his mother the matter was grave. They had to report the person who hit their car today. What is the meaning of the word grave in the sentence above?
A. curious
B. unusual
C. boring
D. serious
serious