9 wks review

9 wks review

Theme/ Story Elements

Multiple Choice

The theme of a text can be determined by examining which of the following?

• characters' words and thoughts

• characters' responses to challenges

• characters' motivations

• characters' actions

• all of the above

The Lottery Ticket

https://youtu.be/flzg5HiDcNc

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of this text?

• You should travel the world if you are able to.

• Love is made stronger through wealth and power.

• The love of money can destroy the love of family.

• Wealth will come when faith is strong.

Multiple Choice

Which piece of dialogue foreshadows the character change that is key to the theme of the text?

• "I forgot to look at the newspaper today," his wife said to him as she cleared the table. "Look and see whether the list of drawings is there."

• "Yes, an estate, that would be nice," said his wife, sitting down and dropping her hands in her lap.

• "Oh, yes! There's the number of the ticket too. But stay... wait! No, I say! Anyway, the number of our series is there! Anyway, you understand..."

• "And if we have won," he said, "why, it will be a new life, it will be a transformation!

Multiple Choice

Throughout the story, Ivan changes from a happy family man to being resentful of his life and his spouse. How does this character change reveal the theme of the story, The love of money can destroy the love of family?

• Ivan becomes resentful when he realizes that his wife cares more for the money she will win in the lottery than for him.

• Ivan becomes resentful when he finds that his wife has been secretly plotting to take his money away from him.

• Ivan becomes resentful because he begins to dream of everything he could have if his wife didn't get in the way of spending the lottery money.

• Ivan becomes resentful because he begins to dream of everything he and his wife could have if she had agreed to play the lottery.

Multiple Choice

Which character trait is used to develop and reveal the theme?

• the couple's ambition

• Ivan's wife's ugliness

• Ivan's wife's creativity

• the couple's doubt

Multiple Choice

Which character action most directly reveals the theme?

• Ivan thinks negatively about his wife during his daydream.

• Ivan reads the newspaper.

• Ivan thinks about the good things that would happen if he won the lottery.

• Ivan discovers that he did not win the lottery.

Story Elements/Point of View/ Authors Purpose

point of view of character actions

Multiple Choice

^{John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. "If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you," he at last managed to say in a choking voice. "It's my dog," Hal replied, wiping the blood from his mouth as he came back. "Get out of my way, or I'll fix you." Thornton stood between him and Buck, and evinced no intention of getting out of the way. Hal drew his long hunting-knife. Thornton rapped Hal's knuckles with the axe-handle, knocking the knife to the ground. He rapped his knuckles again as he tried to pick it up. Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck's traces. As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones. By the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away. John Thornton and Buck looked at each other. "You poor devil," said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.}

What do John's actions in this passage tell you about his point of view about Hal?

• John cared about Hal but disapproved of his behavior.

• John wanted to help Hal but did not know how to offer.

• John was dissatisfied with Hal's services.

• John was disgusted by Hal's behavior.

Multiple Choice

^{"The lazy brutes, I'll show them," he cried, preparing to lash out at them with the whip. But Mercedes interfered, crying, "Oh, Hal, you mustn't," as she caught hold of the whip and wrenched it from him. "The poor dears! Now you must promise you won't be harsh with them for the rest of the trip, or I won't go a step." "Precious lot you know about dogs," her brother sneered; "and I wish you'd leave me alone. They're lazy, I tell you, and you've got to whip them to get anything out of them. That's their way. You ask any one. Ask one of those men." Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face. "They're weak as water, if you want to know," came the reply from one of the men. "Plum tuckered out, that's what's the matter. They need a rest." "Rest be blanked," said Hal, with his beardless lips; and Mercedes said, "Oh!" in pain and sorrow at the oath. But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother. "Never mind that man," she said pointedly. "You're driving our dogs, and you do what you think best with them."What do Mercedes' words tell you about her point of view about the dogs?}

• Mercedes dislikes the dogs and wishes them to be whipped.

• Mercedes' affection for the dogs is shallow.

• Mercedes values the dogs' well being over humans'.

• Mercedes is indifferent about the dogs.

Multiple Choice

^{Walk around the city on a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. What do you see? Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! Some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; who spend week days tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? What do they here? But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,— north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. What do the narrator's thoughts tell you about his point of view about the sea?}

• He prefers life on land to life at sea.

• He believes all men are naturally drawn to the sea.

• He believes landsmen have no business admiring the sea.

• He doesn't understand why everyone loves the sea.

Fig Language, Story Elements, Authors Purpose

Multiple Choice

Not Another Teen Movie is a parody that pokes fun at cliché and typical young adult roles as well as popular teen movies.

What is the effect that movie writers and directors are going for in this spoof of films aimed at young adults?

• Writers and directors are making an attempt at ironic humor by making fun of typical teen movies.

• Writers and directors are trying to make young adults assume a typical role of a particular teen.

• Writers and directors are making an attempt at suspense because viewers don't know the plot.

• Writers and directors are trying to show that they can identify with teen sentiments by creating convincing teen characters.

Multiple Choice

Skyler is an incredible writing teacher. She inspires students to use their imagination and shows them how to critique their writing together to make it better. Many best-selling authors have graduated from her writer's workshop. None, however, know Skyler’s dark secret: she doesn’t know how to read.

Why does the author use dramatic irony in this passage?

• to show her students' ignorance for not realizing her secret

• to show the unimportance of being able to read

• to show how improbable it was that Skyler couldn't read

• to show that most people in Skyler's profession cannot read

Multiple Choice

^{The scene was one of great devastation—the smouldering remains of a dated pickup truck jutted out from the ditch beside the rural country road. Within, a young man wearing a plaid blue shirt clung to life as he attempted to remove himself from the burning vehicle. Hours earlier, Chris plopped into his classic blue truck just like any other morning. The road to work was long and desolate, but today was a day like no other, filled with the bliss of a newly rekindled love. Nothing could bring him down on this day. Why does the author use dramatic irony in this passage?}

• The author isn't a very good writer and reveals too much.

• The author hopes to ease the audience into Chris's wreck.

• The author is trying to warn the audience about the danger of country roads.

• The author creates tension by informing only the reader of Chris's fate.

Multiple Choice

Alison arrived to the audition with great confidence in her preparation for the character she would shortly portray. Though the casting director appeared to look familiar to her, she did not realize it was actually the mother of her fiercest rival. Allison performed beautifully, fully embracing the emotion and sadness of a young widowed newlywed. Though days later she would learn her efforts were fruitless, at that moment, she left the audition proud and hopeful. What effect does the author’s choice to make the reader aware of Alison's future have?

• ^{The effect is happiness for Alison because she won't have to deal with her rival anymore.}

• ^{The effect is great shock that her rival's mother is the casting director.}

• ^{The effect is an easing of tension because the audience knows what will happen to Alison.}

• ^{The effect is anticipation and sadness for Alison and what she does not yet know.}

Multiple Choice

Pain and regret filled the eyes of a young father as he glimpsed his family in the rear-view mirror, seeing them together, perhaps, for the last time. His youngest daughter, Lilly, sobbed in her mother's arms as she watched the tail lights slowly blur and fade in the darkness of that winter night. Lilly, her mother, and her older brother felt only the deep pang of betrayal as their father abandoned them.

Years later, Lilly still struggles to catch her breath when she remembers the fading red lights of that evening, flames that took with them a part of her own life when they were extinguished by the frigid, wintry air. She longed only for an explanation from the man she once loved so dearly, who chose to turn his back on those closest to him. Unbeknownst to Lilly, her father's absence had truly saved her life, and his vigilance over her that very day was her only hope of surviving the danger that lay ahead.

Which effect does the author's withholding of information from the daughter regarding her father not have on the reader?

• curiosity regarding why the father left his family

• appreciation for the father's sacrifice

• suspense regarding what caused danger for Lilly

• anger towards the daughter for hating her father

Writing ... Make point, provide evidence

Open Ended

How can the characters in a story or novel help to reveal the theme?

Please write your answer in complete sentences.

Open Ended

^{"Is Zog more powerful than the mermaids?" asked Trot anxiously. "I do not know, for we have never before met to measure our strength," answered Aquareine. "But if King Anko could defeat the magician, as he surely did, then I think I shall be able to do so."}

^{"I wish I was sure of it," muttered Cap'n Bill.}

^{Absolute silence reigned in the silver passage. No fish were there; not even a sea flower grew to relieve the stern grandeur of this vast corridor. Trot began to be impressed with the fact that she was a good way from her home and mother, and she wondered if she would ever get back again to the white cottage on the cliff. Here she was, at the bottom of the great ocean, swimming through a big tunnel that had an enchanted castle at the end, and a group of horrible sea devils at the other! In spite of this thought, she was not very much afraid, for Cap'n Bill was here.}

^{-From The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum}

^{What do Trot's thoughts tell you about her point of view about Captain Bill and the adventure she is on?}

Open Ended

Read the passage below.

Stepping into the dark hallway, Janet could feel her heart beating against her ribcage. Each creak on the floor sounded like a thunderclap. Janet's sweating hands squeezed the baseball bat like she could juice aluminum. Waiting at the end of the hallway, stood a dark silhouette.

Which details help the author create suspense in the passage?

Please write your answer in complete sentences.