Eng.I Unit 2: Narrative Element & Literary Devices Preassessment

​Narrative Elements

Today we are going to review the narrative elements and literary devices we have already studied and assess how much we know about some new ones!

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​Narrative elements are the tools writers use to craft narratives. A great way to approach analyzing a narrative is to break it down into its different narrative elements, and then examine how the writer employs each one. The following is a summary of the main elements that a writer might use to build his or her narrative.

​Narrative Elements

Multiple Choice

Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order?

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

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

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

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

Reorder

Reorder the following in proper PLOT Structure from exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion.

• The 3 little pigs leave home to begin their lives

• Each pig builds their house out of different materials: straw, sticks and bricks.

• The wolf blows down the straw and stick houses but couldn't blow down the brick house.

• The wolf tries to climb down the chimney but lands in a pot. The pigs eat him.

• The pigs lived happily ever after.

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2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Open Ended

The Rising Action of the text should further build the conflicts, internal or external, occurring in the text and incite the climax of the text, helping to make those conflicts come to a head and "turn" the conflicts towards resolve.

The rising action of "Marigolds" involves the first interaction with Miss Lottie and Lizbeth experiencing mixed emotion and then the overheard conversation between her parents that evening.

Is this an effective rising action? Why? How does it:

1. further build the conflicts, internal or external

2. incite the climax of the text, helping to make those conflicts come to a head and "turn" the conflicts towards resolve.

Fill in the Blank

a struggle between characters; types of "...." in literature are man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, and man vs. society

Multiple Choice

"The sun was just peeking over the horizon as the runner made her way down the street. The air was crisp, and the sky was turning orange, pink, lavender, and blue."

This quote gives details about the...

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Plot

• Setting

Multiple Choice

Identify the point-of-view illustrated by the following sentence.

"Out of nowhere, she slapped my face, and I didn't know how to react. I was shocked! What could I have done or said to deserve that?"

• First person POV

• Second person POV

• Third person POV

Multiple Choice

"As the music started, Elisha tapped out the beat with her right foot before springing into the air and beginning her dance routine."

The POV of this sentence is...

• First person POV

• Second person POV

• Third person POV

Multiple Choice

Identify the point-of-view of this sentence:

"You watched them curiously, but when one of them saw you looking, you quickly ducked your head and turned away. The embarrassment was clearly all over your face."

• First person POV

• Second person POV

• Third person POV

Multiple Choice

What element of narrative writing is described here?

The people or creatures that in the story that help the story develop

• Setting

• Conflict

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

Multiple Choice

If the author directly tells you what the character is like, that is:

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

Multiple Choice

If the author shows you what the character is like and you have to infer, that is

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

Multiple Choice

Q. 

the character who can represent evil in some plots, but who primarily presents obstacles for, and who works against the story's main character.

• Dynamic Character

• Round Character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

Open Ended

How is the character "Lizbeth" from "Marigolds" both the protagonist and antagonist?

Multiple Choice

a character who is not fully developed; one who has none to only a few characteristics

• Round Character

• Flat Character

• Dynamic Character

• Antagonist

Multiple Choice

the character who stays basically the same throughout the story's plot, despite the circumstances he/she endures

• Dynamic Character

• Flat Character

• Round Character

• Static Character

Multiple Choice

a character who is fully developed; one who exhibits numerous characteristics

• Flat Character

• Round

• Protagonist

• Static Character

Multiple Choice

Ginny thought she was the bomb. She had a popular powerful boyfriend at school which allowed her to hold power over the other girls. She also had wealthy parents who were able to talk the principal out of suspending her for bullying the other girls. One day her parents refused to go to school and get her out of yet another bullying suspension. That same day, Ginny's boyfriend dumped her for a much nicer girl (one of Ginny's victims). Ginny learned a lot of lessons that day that had been a long time in coming. She realized that she had some major changes to make. What type of character is Ginny?

• Flat

• Dynamic

• Round

• Static

Fill in the Blank

the main idea or underlying meaning in a literary work

Multiple Choice

The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing

• tone

• mood

• theme

• irony

Multiple Choice

 the overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text often created by the author's use of imagery and word choice

• Tone

• Mood

• Theme

• Irony

​Literary Devices

​A literary device is a writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes in a piece of text.

​Literary Device

Match

Match the following

• Onomatopoeia

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Oxymoron

A word that resembles a sound

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Compares two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

When two opposing words are placed side by side for effect.

• A word that resembles a sound

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Compares two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• When two opposing words are placed side by side for effect.

Multiple Choice

What is a Motif in Literature?

• repeated pattern or image

• repeated sound

• repeated word

• ALL of the above

Multiple Choice

Motifs can highlight something specific about a character to ...

• to establish the mood of the text

• to help the reader better understand a specific character

• to help the reader better understand a character and/or establish the mood of the text.

• to help the reader identify the minor vs major characters in a story

Fill in the Blank

Motifs can help us more easily identify or understand the ___________ of a story.

Multiple Choice

IS a metaphor and symbolism the same thing?

• they're related but not by blood.

• Metaphor is used to convey to draw a message through objects whereas symbolism is used to convey the main idea of literature.

• Metaphor is used to draw a comparison between objects, whereas symbolism is used to convey more abstract idea/message.

Multiple Choice

What effect does symbolism have on the reader?

• Allows writers to express complex ideas while giving readers visual and sensory experience.

• Allows writers to express complex ideas while giving readers visual and sensational experience.

• Provokes the power of language to affect the readers emotions and understanding.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence shows a correct use of Parallelism?

• In my dream, I was strolling across the meadow and enjoying the puffy white clouds

• In my dreams, I was strolling across the meadow and enjoyed the puffy white clouds

Multiple Select

'Now you hang from my lips

Like the Garden of Babylon

With your boots beneath my bed,

Forever is the sweetest con'

Cowboy Like Me, Taylor Swift

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Allegory

Multiple Choice

Zombies eat brains. You’re safe.

• Pun

• Verbal Irony (Sarcasm)

• Contrast

• Paradox

Multiple Choice

'Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle'

The Wanderer, W.H. Auden

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

'Time, curious time

Gave me no compasses, gave me no sign'

Invisible String, Taylor Swift

• Imagery

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

'O brawling love, O loving hate,

O anything of nothing first created,

O heavy lightness, serious vanity,...

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,'

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

• Paradox

• Contrast

• Oxymoron

• Pun

Multiple Choice

'"Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.

"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?"

And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking.'

Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

• Pun

• Understatement

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

Multiple Choice

when the plot or another character hint at what is to come later on in the story

• flashback

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

• author's purpose