Unit 1 Assessment

What are the characteristics of a personal narrative?

• 1st person, sometimes true, the author participates in the event being described
• 1st person, true, the author participates in the event being described
• 2nd person, true, the author participates in part of the story
• 2nd person, false, the author is the narrator of the story

What is personification?

• describing nonhuman things by using descriptive details
• describing human things with nonhuman qualities
• describing nonhuman things as if they had human qualities or acted in a human way
• describing animals as if they had abilities that other animals have

Select the sentence that lists things that can be personified.

• Mrs. Culver, Mrs. Helton, Mrs. Auberson, Mrs. Aldridge
• Car, Toothbrush, Mrs. Morgan, Cat
• Brick Wall, Brittney Spears, Hamster, Sandwhich
• Squirrel, Turtle, Pencil, Chair

What is theme?

• it is one idea from the text
• a central idea in a text
• comparing two stories
• the summary of a text

What is sequence of events?

• outlining events in time order
• outlining events from middle, last, first
• outlining events from first, last middle
• outlining events based on how you think they should go

What is point of view?

• where you are sitting when an event happens
• how you see something the moment it happens
• a particular attitude or way of considering a matter (opinions, emotions, life experiences)
• what you think will happen next

What is tone?

• what the author says about an event
• how an author see an event
• the author's emotion and feeling towards an event that reflects in their writing
• the author's opinion towards a topic

Showing vs. Telling: Does the following sentence show or tell? The blue bird swooped down to the bird feeder to grab himself a snack.

• Showing
• Telling

Showing vs. Telling: Does the following sentence show or tell? The dog went to his water bowl to get a drink.

• Showing
• Telling

True or False: Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• True
• False