SOL Review 2

What does the word contaminate mean?

• poison

• enjoy

• surround

• purify

What does the word exchange mean?

• to pretend

• to follow to a new place

• an act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same type or value) in return:

• none of these

Choose the correct word according to its definition.

__________, a group of people elected to perform a service.

• Campaign

• Committee

• Continent

• Democratic

The author's attitude or feelings towards the writing and the readers is the ________.

• mood
• tone

_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.

• mood
• tone

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.

• space
• height
• words
• funny faces

"They plan to kill General  Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103). 
What is the tone of the dialogue? 

• informal
• happy
• serious
• optomistic

What is the tone of the following text?
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108).
 

• pleased
• angry
• happy
• suspicious

Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?

• how a character is feeling
• a "life lesson" the main character learns
• a big idea that people from any culture or any place can understand
• the moral of the story

One way you could figure out the theme is to...

• Skim through the story
• Just read the beginning of the story
• Think about what the character has learned
• Read the ending of the story