What is one of the ways an author forms characterization?
A) presenting the character's own thoughts, speech, and actions
B) making a movie about characterization
C) Hosting a public speaking event about characterization
A) presenting the character's own thoughts, speech, and actions
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Plays are often divided into sections called __________.
A) sentences and paragraphs
B) chapters and verses
C) acts and scenes
C) acts and scenes
100
What are the characteristics of a lyric poem?
A) focus on many ideas
B) lengthy prose
C) a single speaker
C) a single speaker
100
The combination of ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs that influences the way a writer looks at a topic is the author's _____.
A) personality
B) perseverance
C) perspective
C) perspective
100
Which is NOT included in functional text?
A) memos
B) guidebooks
C) novels
C) novels
200
In order understand a story, a good strategy is to first examine __________.
A) who is telling it
B) the theme
C) the symbolism
A) who is telling it
200
A drama is different than a story because it contains __________.
A) props, scenery, and stage directions
B) characters, setting, and plot
C) protagonists and antagonists
A) props, scenery, and stage directions
200
What is the restating compete information in similar terms or your own words called?
A) paraphrasing
B) meter
C) quotation
A) paraphrasing
200
What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?
A) an autobiography is written by the person who is telling his or her life
B) a biography is written by an author who is telling about the life of another person
C) both of these
D) none of these
C) both of these
200
When reading a table what should you do to find specific figures?
A) track down the columns and rows
B) circle the columns
C) circle the rows
A) track down the columns and rows
300
When a narrator is a character in the story and relates the action as it happens to him or her, this is called __________
A) first person point of view
B) second person point of view
C) third person point of view
A) first person point of view
300
A playwright must communicate all the information about the characters through _____.
A) anecdotes
B) dialogue
C) tall tales
B) dialogue
300
_____ is measurement of the syllables in a line of poetry.
A) meter
B) rhyme scheme
C) assonance
A) meter
300
What is a conversation conducted by a writer or a reporter in which facts or statements are elicited from another person?
A) interview
B) essay
C) memoir
A) interview
300
Which is not a kind of graph?
A) circle
B) chart
C) line
D) bar
B) chart
400
An author might use _____ to create suspense and preview a bit about what is to come in the story.
A) irony
B) setting
C) foreshadowing
C) foreshadowing
400
A scene is a brief portion of the action in the plot of a drama. A group of scenes is called a(n) _____.
A) script
B) dialogue
C) act
C) act
400
What is historical and cultural context?
A) the message a writer wants the reader to understand
B) the time, place, and social conditions that influenced a work of literature
C) the time period an author wishes they grew up in
B) the time, place, and social conditions that influenced a work of literature
400
If a writer wants to get his or her readers to do something or think a certain way, the writer is writing to _____.
A) inform
B) entertain
C) persuade
C) persuade
400
The sender's address, city, state, zip, and date go under what section of a friendly letter?
A) heading
B) date
C) closing
A) heading
500
The __________ introduces the setting, main conflict and the characters.
A) rising action
B) resolution
C) exposition
C) exposition
500
A monologue, aside, and soliloquy are dramatic elements that pertain to __________.
A) talking to the audience
B) script writing
C) author's purpose
A) talking to the audience
500
What is assonance?
A) the repetition of vowel sounds in two or more syllables
B) the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
C) repeated lines in a poem
A) the repetition of vowel sounds in two or more syllables
500
If an author was writing about how Styrofoam cups are unnecessary pollutants, and that people should use their own, reusable cups, this author's purpose is to _____.
A) inform
B) entertain
C) persuade
C) persuade
500
The _____ gets a colon and is aligned with the left-hand margin when writing a business letter.
A) closing
B) signature
C) salutation