Vocabulary
Ways to use sounds in poetry to achieve certain effects
sound device
Choose the answer that correctly identifies the italicized word.
“Western Canada also gives us the art of the Kwakiutl Indians.”
indirect object
Identify the italicized part of speech.
“Dolley Madison, the wife of the fourth United States president, is one of history’s many interesting women.”
adjective
Read this passage from "Black Girl."
"Thank you very much, Monsieur," he said. "I too am happy, very happy, because Monsieur and Madame are happy. Monsieur very nice. My family big, unhappy. Monsieur leave, me no more work."
"We'll be back, my good man. And then, with your talent you'll soon find another job!"
Samba, the cook, wasn't so sure. The whites were stingy. And in a Dakar filled with country people each claiming to be a master cook, it wouldn't be easy to find a job.
Samba's main conflict is that he is:
worried about how he will support his large family.
Conflict can be defined as
a struggle between two opposing forces in a work of literature. In literature the conflict of a story is related to the protagonist or main character in some way.
giving human qualities to nonhuman subjects
personification
In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is “to play basketball”?
“Porpoises have been trained to play basketball.”
infinitive
Identify the italicized part of speech.
“The dynamic wife of James Madison became the unofficial first lady during Jefferson’s eight years as president."
preposition
Read the following paragraph from "Forbidden Fruit."
Many years have passed since. I have long been eating pork like everyone else, though perhaps this does not make me any happier. Still, at that time I realized that no principle justifies treachery, and besides, that treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
Which of these words is most closely related to the theme in this paragraph?
regret
The difference between internal and external conflict is
Internal conflict is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. External conflict sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.
identified as physical movements of characters in a play
stage direction
In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is “to the library”?
“I will be going to the library soon.”
prepositional
In the following sentence, “famous” is the complement. What kind of complement is it?
“In 1975, Margaret Thatcher became famous as the first woman leader of the British Conservative Party."
predicate adjective
Read the following sentences from "The Third Bank of the River."
My father was a dutiful, orderly, straightforward man. And according to several reliable people of whom I enquired, he had had these qualities since adolescence or even childhood. By my own recollection, he was neither jollier nor more melancholy than the other men we knew. Maybe a little quieter.
Which of the following sentences is the best paraphrase of this excerpt?
Ever since he was a child, my father was both serious and subdued.
Four different types of conflict we studied are
reason a writer writes about a topic
author’s purpose
In the following sentence, what kind of phrase is “Moving away”?
“Moving away made my little cousin sad.”
gerund
Choose the answer that correctly identifies the italicized word.
“The ice fields of the north are still relatively barren.”
predicate adjective
Read the following sentences from "No Dogs Bark" in which the main character is speaking to his son, Ignacio.
"I'm not doing all this for you. I'm doing it for your dead mother. Because you were her son. That's why I'm doing it. She would've haunted me if I'd left you lying where I found you and hadn't picked you up and carried you to be cured as I'm doing. She's the one who gives me courage, not you. From the first you've caused me nothing but trouble, humiliation, and shame."
Which of the following best describes the relationship between the father and Ignacio?
resentful
Read the following sentences from "First Confession."
When Mother was at work and my grandmother made the dinner I wouldn't touch it. Nora once tried to make me, but I hid under the table from her and took the bread-knife with me for protection. Nora let on to be very indignant (she wasn't, of course, but she knew Mother saw through her, so she sided with Gran) and came after me. I lashed out at her with the bread-knife, ad after that she left me alone.
The main conflict in these sentences can be identified as
man vs. man.
symbolism
What is the tense of the italicized verb in the following sentence?
“I will be studying his painting techniques this summer.”
future progressive
Choose the answer that correctly identifies the italicized word.
"The grain of the western prairies is a major source of income."
predicate nominative
Read the following lines from "Love after Love."
"...Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart."
Which of the following stylistic elements is used by the writer in these lines?
paradox
Read the following lines from "Ten Songs."
The consul banged a table and said:
"If you've got not passport you're officially dead":
But we are still alive my dear, but we are still alive.
Went to a committee; they offered me a chair; Asked me politely to return next year
But where shall we go to-day, my dear, but where shall we go to-day?
Came to a public meeting; the speaker got up and said:
"If we let them in, they will steal our daily bread"';
He was talking of you and me, my dear, he was talking of you and me.
The main conflict in these sentences can be identified as
man vs. society