Grade 9 English (Literary Analysis: Symbols & Imagery)

Grade 9 English (Literary Analysis: Symbols & Imagery)

Wednesday, February 10, 2021_ Term 2/Week 3

Multiple Choice

The structure or organization of events that make up a story is known as . . .

• Resolution

• Antagonist

• Flashback

• Plot Development

Multiple Choice

What is the correct order of the plot diagram's elements?

• resolution, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action

• resolution, rising action, climax, falling action, exposition

• exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• exposition, rising action, resolution, falling action, climax

Multiple Choice

Hints or clues that indicate what may happen later in the story is known as . . .

• Plot

• Protagonist

• Foreshadow

• Exposition

Multiple Choice

When the current setting is interupted to go back in time to learn more about a character or a situation, it is called...

• Foreshadow
• Flashback

Multiple Choice

With this plot structure, the events of a story are presented in a non-chronological order. Authors will use this to more closely mimic the way human memory works.

• Linear

• Non-linear

• Chronological

• Non-Chronological

Multiple Choice

This plot consist of a series of events that have a clear beginning, middle and end.

• Linear

• Nonlinear

• Chronological

• Non-Chronological

Open Ended

What is this image of? What do you think of or remember when you see it?

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of symbol?

• An idea that shows up in a story over and over again.

• Something that connects the reader to one of the five senses.

• The most important idea in a text that all the readers can see.

• An object that stands for itself and something else.

Multiple Choice

The use of an item, word, place, or person to represent another idea or quality is called what?

• idealism

• symbolism

• characterization

• conflict

Open Ended

What is the symbol in the following story, and what does it represent?

Open Ended

Which sentence sounds better? Why?

Multiple Choice

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood

Multiple Choice

Which of these is the best definition of imagery?

• anything that is literal

• giving a human trait to something non-human

• language that appeals to the reader's five senses

• descriptions that are not literally true

Open Ended

Identify 3 examples of imagery in this story and match it with the sense it targets.

Open Ended

Exit Ticket:

Write one thing you knew in today’s lesson, one new thing you learned, and one thing you want to learn more about.