"Brown Girl Dreaming" Selection Test A

the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work

• outcome
• structure
• element
• process

an accepted source, such as a person or text, of expert information or advice.

• authority
• justify
• responsibility
• appropriate

suitable for a particular person, occasion, or place

• appropriate
• consequence
• required
• authority

written in first person point of view detailing the writer's observation about events in the writers life.

• biography
• autobiography
• informational writing
• memior

to demonstrate or prove to be just, right, reasonable, or valid.

• justify
• consequence
• structure
• appropriate

something that logically follows from an action or condition

• memior
• consequence
• justify
• element

an essential part of something

• structure
• element
• authority
• memoir

What is the most likely reason the author tells her memoir in verse, not prose?

• To reflect the way people often recall memories
• To describe several events from her childhood
• To tell about the events of her life in order
• To emphasize the setting and characters

Read the sentences from the poem “writing #1.” When I speak,/ the words come pouring out of me. The story / wakes up and walks all over the room. Which idea does the personification in the sentences best express?

• Making up stories often gets the speaker into trouble
• Writing stories is part of the speaker’s family traditions
• Sharing stories with others is enjoyable to the speaker
• Telling made-up stories aloud comes easily to the speaker

Read the sentence from “writing #1.” But as I bend over my composition notebook, / only my name / comes quickly. How does the sentence contribute to the poem “writing #1”?

• It introduces the speaker.
• It adds imagery.
• It describes the setting.
• It establishes the conflict.