Narrative Unit Test Review

How should dialogue be formatted? Check all that apply.

• Always put what characters say inside quotation marks

• Always put what characters say in italics

• Always put punctuation inside the quotation marks

• Always start a new paragraph when someone speaks

Which is the best use of figurative language?

• Her fingers felt like ice.

• A glacier inched its way into her heart.

• She felt really quite cold.

• She was an ice cube.

What is wrong with this example of figurative language?

It was raining cats and dogs.

• It is a metaphor.

• It does not mean what it literally says.

• It is a simile.

• It is an over-used cliche.

Which of the following pieces of dialogue is correctly punctuated and capitalized?

• "Mia, come here," Gwen said. "It's a surprise for you!"

• "Mia, come here." Gewn said. "It's a surprise for you!"

• "Mia, come here," Gwen said, "it's a surprise for you!"

• "Mia, come here," Gwen said. "it's a surprise for you!"

"I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries

the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself."

What does this simile by Pablo Neruda imply?

• His love for her is obvious to anyone who sees him.

• His love cannot keep him from feeling pain.

• His love is very special.

• His love for her gives him a secret, inner joy.

Which is the correctly punctuated and capitalized dialogue?

• "I'd like," Marie whispered shyly. "To come with you."

• "I'd like," Marie whispered shyly, "to come with you."

• "I'd like." Marie whispered shyly. "tocome with you."

• "I'd like", Marie whispered shyly, "to come with you".

Identify the point of view of the following passage:

When I come out of it, Ryter is there, holding a damp cloth to my forehead. They must have carried me here – I certainly didn’t walk.

“You’re ok,” he tells me. “It’s over.”

Like always, I’m exhausted and weak and ashamed. I hate it when someone sees me like this.

“A grand mal seizure,” Ryter says. “Very impressive. I tried to put a stick between your teeth, and you bit it in half.”

That explains my sore teeth. I have that familiar dreamy feeling that always comes afterward, and more than anything, I want to sleep and forget.

• third person

• first person

Identify the point of view of the following passage:

Anastasia went to her room to sulk. She always left the door open when she was sulking. She had perfected the art of sulking, and one of the essential points was that people had to know that you were doing it. So it was important to leave the door open.

She lay on her bed which was the best place for sulking and visible from the open door. But when no one was walking past, she felt like sulking was boring.

• first person

• third person

Identify the point of view of the following passage:

But the truth was the drain had made him very slimy, and it was necessary for him to take a bath and sprinkle himself with a little bit of his mother’s violet water before he felt himself again. Everybody in the family thought he had been awfully good about the whole thing.

• first person

• third person

Identify the point of view in the following passage:

Wrapped in her quilt, Meg shook. She wasn’t usually afraid of the weather. It’s not just the weather, she thought. It’s the weather on top of everything else. On top of me.

School was all wrong. She had been dropped down to the lowest section in her grade.

• first person

• third person