Brown - Benchmark Review

What is theme in a story?

• The setting
• The main idea
• The lesson or moral of the story
• The characters

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is a central idea in the story?

• Something the author mentions but doesn't explain
• An idea that is explained throughout the entire essay or story
• The topic of a paragraph
• The introduction

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following can be used for characterization?

• How a character feels

• What a character says

• How a character is described

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does characterization mean?

• The names of the characters

• How the characters are described

• Who the good guys are

• Who the bad guys are

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following could be an author's purpose?

• to inform
• to persuade
• to entertain
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

What is an inference?

• An uneducated guess

• Using context clues to figure something out
• Copying quotes from the book
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What context clues can be used to make an inference?

• Setting
• What characters say
• How characters act
• What characters look like
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What are supporting details

• Evidence that helps to prove a point
• The entire story
• Details that are important
• Details that aren't important
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Connotation is:

• a word's meaning in social context
• a word's dictionary definition
• a made up definition
• what you think the word means
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Denotation is:

• a word's meaning in social context
• a word's dictionary definition
• a made up definition
• what you think the word means
• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D