Literary Analysis Quiz

What is literary analysis?

• The reasons behind a character's actions

• An essay involving examining literature closely and writing an analysis of one or more story elements or author's moves

• The person telling a story

• How a character changes and/or grows throughout a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What does character development refer to?

• Adjectives describing a character's personality, habits, attitudes, and conduct

• How a character changes and/or grows throughout a story

• The person telling a story

• The perspective from which the story is told.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is characterization?

• The reasons behind a character's actions

• The method used by authors to help readers get to know the characters in a story

• An essay involving examining literature closely and writing an analysis of one or more story elements or author's moves

• When a character in the story is telling the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are character traits/attributes?

• The person telling a story

• The reasons behind a character's actions

• Adjectives describing a character's personality, habits, attitudes, and conduct

• The person telling the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is motivation in the context of a story?

• The person telling a story

• An essay involving examining literature closely and writing an analysis of one or more story elements or author's moves

• The reasons behind a character's actions

• Giving credit to the author's words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the narrator in a story?

• The method used by authors to help readers get to know the characters in a story

• The reasons behind a character's actions

• The person telling a story

• Adjectives describing a character's personality, habits, attitudes, and conduct

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the perspective from which a story is told, and what the character or narrator telling a story can see?

• Textual evidence

• Claim

• Paraphrase

• Point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Which point of view is used when the story is told by one character using words "I" and "we"?

• Second person point of view

• Third person point of view

• First person point of view

• Objective point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How is the third person point of view described?

• The narrator is a character in the story and speaks directly to the reader.

• The narrator is outside of the story and doesn't directly address the reader.

• The story is told using the words "you" and "your."

• The story is told from the perspective of multiple characters.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is a claim in the context of a story or argument?

• A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else

• A debatable point that must be proven with evidence and reasoning

• Information from the text that supports a claim

• To quote or paraphrase a text

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3