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That hotel room was so small that even the mice had hunched
shoulders.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

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time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."

• setting
• plot
• imagery
• exposition

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"We have some important news for you Mr. President.  We have discovered a terrorist plot against the United States" said the CIA agent.  The President closed the book, set it on the desk, and leaned forward, his eyes fixed straight ahead.  "Tell me everything you know." 
What is the tone of the dialogue?

• Informal
• Happy
• Serious
• Optimistic

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In his conversation with Benvolio in Scene 1, Romeo appears _____________.

• happy and pleasant
• sad and moody
• rough and angry
• sarcastic and rude

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Setting can give clues about a story's _____. 

• plot
• conflict
• mood
• all of the above

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The promise between us was a delicate flower.

• idiom
• personification
• metphor
• simile

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The books in the basement will probably smell musty.

• Action Verb
• Linking Verb

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An author's word choice 

• diction 
• tone 
• mood
• syntax

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"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. . ."

• assonance
• consonance
• none
• rhyme

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Read the passage and answer the question:
"The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood.  It looked smaller.  The roof sagged and the plaster was cracked.  The windows to the living room, the foyer and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames.  Like so much else in Kabul, my father's house was the picture of fallen splendor."   -Hosseini, The Kite Runner 
Which word best describes the tone?

• Sentimental
• Regretful
• Terrified
• Excited

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