Story Elements Diagnostic Assessment

Which of the following elements would NOT provide clues to a story’s setting?

• The types of transportation used in the story

• The writer's description of the character's clothing

• The type of language used by the characters

• The use of suspense in the story's plot

Which of the following sentences describes a conflict that pits a character against elements of the setting?

• In the Midwest in the 1940s, two sisters argue over the inheritance of the family farm.

• A boy attending a boarding school in England must decide whether to report his friend for cheating.

• Stranded in the desert, a woman must overcome terrible heat and thirst to survive,

• Alone with his family at a campsite, a teenager confronts his parents about a family secret.

The overall feeling conveyed in a literary work is called —

• foreshadowing

• mood

• imagery

• climax

What is the tone of a literary work?

• The writer's attitude towards his or her subject

• The author's reason for writing the work

• The main idea expressed by the writer

• The writer's cultural background

In a story written in chronological order, the author —

• uses the present tense throughout the story

• interrupts the plot to tell about events the happened in the past

• describes events in the time sequence in which they occur

• imagines what will happen to characters in the future

Captions in magazine articles provide information about —

• titles

• the table of contents

• illustrations

• subtitles

A series of causes and effects explains —

• the similarities between two items

• ideas in the order of their importance

• how or why one event leads to another

• the steps necessary for completing a task

What is generalization?

• A guess based on prior knowledge or clues in the text

• A broad statement that can apply to many situations

• An opinion or belief shared by many people

• A type of evidence used to support an argument

The words pear and pair are examples of —

• homophones

• synonyms

• adjectives

• idioms

To complete a word analogy, you should first —

• write a sentence that conveys the meanings of the words

• explain the associations you have with the words

• show how the words have the same origin

• define the relationship between a given pair of words