Pre-Assessment: English I Honors

Match the following

• Characterization

• The author’s attitude toward the text

• Conflict

• The perspective from which the story is told

• Tone

• The struggle between opposing forces

• Point of view

• The way the author presents the character to the audience

• Suspense

• The feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about the outcome of certain actions

Match the following

• Irony

• The author reveals a character’s attributes by stating them directly

• Direct Characterization

• The prevailing atmosphere or feeling in the story

• Mood

• A thought or idea the author presents to the reader that may be deep or moralistic

• Plot

• The events that make up a story

• Theme

• The expected outcome differs from the actual outcome

Match the following

• Denouement

• Conflicts within the story further the plot and cause tension and suspense to rise

• Climax

• Conflicts are beginning to be resolved; the story is wrapping up its loose ends. Tension typically begins to ease during this portion

• Rising Action

• The highest point of interest in the story; the point in which a story’s suspense reaches its peak

• Exposition

• The conclusion of a story where conflicts are typically defused

• Falling Action

• The characters and setting are introduced to the audience

Match the following

• 3^rd person POV

• Reading, analyzing, and making various notes as you read

• Annotation

• A perspective where the narrator knows the thoughts/feelings of every character

• 1^st person POV

• A perspective where the narrator is telling the story and is also a character in the story

• 3^rd person Omniscient POV

• A perspective where the narrator knows everything about only one character

• 3^rd person Limited POV

• The narrator is telling the story but not included in the story

Foreshadowing is one literary technique that authors use to build…

• Theme

• Characterization

• Suspense

• Conflict

A word’s dictionary meaning is called its _________ meaning.

• Thesaurus

• Denotative

• True

• Connotative

The implied attachments to a word forms its __________ meaning?

• True

• Denotative

• Connotative

• Accurate

Most often, a story’s theme will be…

• Inferred

• Revealed in the author's biography

• Missing

• Directly stated

To support their arguments, writers often use ___________ to support their claims.

• Opinions

• Relevant and sufficient evidence

• Information they found online

• Guesses and misinformation

What is nonfiction?

• Imaginary stories about real people

• Prose writing about imaginary places

• Imaginary stories about imaginary places

• Prose writing based on facts, real people, and real events