Literary Elements 1 Test Review

Directions: Read each passage. Select the choice that correctly answer each question.

You really want to go to the Valentine’s Day dance, but your mom said that you can only go if you didn’t have anything lower than a C on your report card. It just so happens that your teachers must hate you and want to ruin your life, because you received two D’s and an F. You tried to explain to your mother that it’s the teachers’ fault because they don’t like you, but she isn’t trying to hear that mess.

This passage is told from the point of view of--

• your teacher

• third person narrator

• first person narrator

• second person narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Directions: Read each passage. Select the choice that correctly answer each question.

“Mom,” Aaron whined, “I turned in my work, but the teachers must have lost it!”

“Aaron,” mom replied, “you expect me to believe that three of your teachers lost several of your assignments, which resulted in D’s and F’s in their class? You must think I was born yesterday!”

“But mom, they don’t like me. This isn’t my fault! I should get to go to the dance.”

The narrator of this passage is--

• outside the story

• a mom

• a teacher

• inside the story

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Directions: Read each passage. Select the choice that correctly answer each question.

“Aaron, enough!” mom snapped. “I have had it with your excuses. I know how hard your teachers work, and I know that sometimes you “forget” to turn in your work. I found some of your papers just the other day balled up in your book bag. Now enough with the whining, or you will be grounded from your phone and I-Pad for a month!”

I stomped off to my room and slammed the door. Not only were my teachers trying to ruin my life, but obviously my mother was as well. I couldn’t wait for dad to get home. Maybe he would talk some sense into Mom and make her see the light. After all, everyone else would be at the dance, so I should get to go too.

You can tell that this passage is told from the point of view of a first person narrator because the narrator--

• is not a character in the story.

• does not take part in the action of the story.

• is annoyed with Aaron's excuses.

• refers to himself as I and uses my.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Which of these occur in a story written from the point of view of a third person narrator that does NOT occur in a story written from the point of view of a first person narrator?

• YOU are the main character in the story.

• The narrator is outside of the story and knows the thoughts of one or more characters.

• The narrator can describe how other characters look.

• The narrator is a character in the story.

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

Check all parts of a CER.

• reasoning

• claim

• repeat answer

• citation

• evidence

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

True or False:

The author NEVER uses dialogue to help us to understand a character.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

True or False:

The author tells us about the character through their interactions with others.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

True or False:

The actions of a character do NOT tell us anything about the character.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

Using this short story below, who is the protagonist?

“Mom,” Aaron whined, “I turned in my work, but the teachers must have lost it!”

“Aaron,” mom replied, “you expect me to believe that three of your teachers lost several of your assignments, which resulted in D’s and F’s in their class? You must think I was born yesterday!”

“But mom, they don’t like me. This isn’t my fault! I should get to go to the dance.”

• Aaron

• Mom

• Narrator

• Teachers

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Using the short story below, who is the antagonist?

“Mom,” Aaron whined, “I turned in my work, but the teachers must have lost it!”

“Aaron,” mom replied, “you expect me to believe that three of your teachers lost several of your assignments, which resulted in D’s and F’s in their class? You must think I was born yesterday!”

“But mom, they don’t like me. This isn’t my fault! I should get to go to the dance.”

• Mom

• Mom and the Teachers

• Aaron

• Dad

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3