Literary Passages Quiz

Which of the following is NOT a key idea or detail to focus on when reading literary passages?

• Locate and analyze literary elements, including style and character development.

• Use strong and thorough textual evidence when writing or speaking about the passage.

• Summarize the passage including your own opinions.

• Draw inferences from the passage to support textual analysis.

What should you analyze to understand the effects of diction and imagery in a passage?

• The author's biography.

• The effects of diction and imagery on the reader's emotions.

• The structure of the passage.

• The author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.

Which of the following is a technique used to develop central ideas or themes in a passage?

• Exposition, dialogue, imagery, and conflict.

• Summarizing the passage.

• Analyzing the author's biography.

• Ignoring textual evidence.

What should you do to understand words and phrases as you read?

• Ignore figurative and connotative meanings.

• Make sure you understand words and phrases, including figurative and connotative meanings.

• Focus only on the literal meanings of words.

• Summarize the passage without understanding the words.

What is one of the skills you need to analyze the impact of the author's choices in a passage?

• Understanding the author's personal life.

• Analyzing how the author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of the passage contribute to its overall structure and meaning.

• Ignoring the structure of the passage.

• Summarizing the passage with your own opinions.

What is the purpose of generalizing concepts of setting, plot, characterization, and other narrative elements in literature?

• To identify the author's personal life

• To recognize the authors' treatments of similar themes or topics

• To summarize the entire text

• To compare different genres of literature

Which of the following is NOT an example of a literary text?

• Fiction

• Dramas

• Poetry

• Scientific research papers

What does the term "analyze" mean in the context of literature?

• To summarize the text

• To look closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole

• To rewrite the text in one's own words

• To memorize the text

What does it mean to "cite" a text?

• To summarize the text

• To mention a specific portion of a text to support an analysis

• To ignore the text

• To rewrite the text in one's own words

What is "textual evidence"?

• A summary of the text

• Specific details from the text that support the author's tone, purpose, characterizations, or central theme

• The author's biography

• A list of references