7th-3rd Qtr Assessment Practice

Characterization is

• A method authors use to show readers what a character's personality is like.

• An author’s opinion of a character they are writing about.

• A method used to show readers what a character looks like.

• How an author reveals the conflict of a story.

An author’s goal is to make characters seem

• perfect in every way

• like characters in other books or stories

• like real people

• different from real people

Character traits show a character’s

• appearance

• inner qualities

• decision making skills

• inner and outer qualities

Physical traits tell readers about a character’s

• intelligence

• personality

• decision making skills

• inner and outer qualities

story plotA narrative is made up of...

• story plot

• characters

• dialogue

• all of the above

A thoughtshot is a pointed look into exactly what the author or a character is thinking or feeling.

• True

• False

Dialogue is the author's exact spoken words.

• True

• False

A speaker tag identifies the speaker and tells how the character is speaking.

• True

• False

Choose two types of resolutions that would be considered Dynamic?

• full circle

• dilemma

• Reflection/Lesson

• foreshadowing

Define figurative language

• figurative language uses rhyming to emphasize ideas

• figurative language uses literary devices to compare and emphasize ideas