Chapter 7

What is the purpose of a back-up quote?

• to support the lead immediately

• to reinforce the writer's opinion

• to make a story sound more authentic

• to lengthen a story that is too brief

What name is given to words, phrases, and sentences that hold a story together?

• clichés

• redundancies

• transistions

• tie-backs

What is the body of a story?

• the concluding paragraph

• everything after the lead

• the most important facts

• the opening paragraph

Developments that took place in the past are often important to the reader's understanding of a breaking news story. What is such background information called?

• redundancy

• cliché

• transition

• tie-back

Which of the following stories could not be written with the inverted pyramid?

• a bank robbery

• a profile of a rock star

• a city council meeting

• a warehouse fire

What name is given to a brief story that is related to but kept separate from the main story?

• action story

• surprise ending

• color sidebar

• profile

Many newspapers treat capitalization, abbreviations, and even spelling differently from the way they are treated in your English classes. Where would you look to discover how your newspaper treats these issues?

• dictionary

• encyclopedia

• grammar text

• stylebook

Writing prevaricate instead of lie or perambulate instead of walk are examples of which of the following?

• wordiness

• clichés

• jargon

• sexist language

What is wrong with the italicized part of the following sentence?

The blaze in the abandoned building raged out of control and burned furiously.

• it is a cliché

• it is redundant

• it is jargon

• it is slang

What name is given to overworked, overused, trite expressions?

• jargon

• slang

• redundancy

• clichés