English 10 Year in Review Quiz

Dragons are based off what creature?

• dinosaurs

• snakes

• racoons

• turtles

In the short story by Poe, "Masque of the Red Death," the events of the story are an allegory of...?

• a popular ballroom dance

• a spreading, infectious disease

• a nickname for Prince Prospero

• costumes for masquerade ball

An allegory is...

• ...a story that represents something beyond itself.
• ...when the characters or story represent historical events.
• ...represent abstract or moral ideas.
• ...All of the above.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This novel "A Separate Peace" is

• told from Finny's point of view

• told from Brinker's point of view

• 100% true and accurate

• A flashback style of narrative told from Gene's point of view

What is the "peace" found in "A Separate Peace?"

• Finny breaking his leg

• Gene pushing Finny out of the tree

• Creating Blitzball

• Gene revisiting Devon School to confront his guilt over Finny

What is a Roman a' clef as used in "Animal Farm?"

• a novel with a key, about real life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction

• a coming-of-age novel

• a novel where the most important character dies

• a novel with no climax or tuning point

In "Animal Farm," what is the name of the quasi-Marxist socialist philosophy advocated by Napoleon and Snowball?

• Feudalism

• Animalism

• Fourleggism

• Communism