Unit 1 Assessment

What are the characteristics of a personal narrative? Choose three correct answers.

• A personal narrative must be true.
• A personal narrative can be made up.
• The author is not involved in a personal narrative.
• The author writes about a story that happened to them.
• A personal narrative is written in first-person point of view.

What is a verb?

• a word that shows action
• a person, place, or idea
• a word that describes a noun or pronoun
• a word that describes an adverb

What is an adjective?

• a word that shows action
• a person, place, thing, or idea
• a word that describes a noun or pronoun
• a word that describes a verb

Joey threw the ball to the catcher.

• Joey tossed the ball to the catcher.
• He threw the ball to the catcher, and then Joey threw another ball to the catcher.
• As sweat dripped off his brow, Joey, exhausted, tossed the ball to the catcher.
• Joey threw the ball in the air to the catcher.

Timmy ordered a pizza from the waiter.

• Timmy was hungry and ordered a pizza.
• Ready to eat, Timmy ordered a pizza from the waiter at the restaurant he was at.
• "I want to order a pizza," Timmy said to the waiter.
• Timmy impatiently scanned the menu for options then demanded the waiter bring a pizza.

What two things are being compared in the following simile? The thin, slender girl was like a new moon.

• "thin" and "girl"
• "girl" and "slender"
• "girl" and "new moon"
• Nothing is being compared.

What two things are being compared in the following metaphor? The calm, still lake was a mirror in the early hours of the morning.

• "calm" and "lake"
• "lake" and "mirror"
• "mirror" and "morning"
• Nothing is being compared.

What is the meaning of the personification in the following example? My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

• This is not an example of personification.
• The author loves mornings.
• The author is awoken by their alarm clock each morning.
• The author has a clock that shouts.

Identify the best way to correct the following sentence of dialogue. He said, Well, I'm going to have you arrested.

• remove the comma after Well
• add quotation marks before Well and after the period
• add quotation marks before He and after said,
• no change is needed

What is the correct way to punctuate the sentence?

• "I asked him" Why do you all push us around?
• I asked him, "Why do you all push us around"?
• I asked him, Why do you all push us around"?
• I asked him, "Why do you all push us around?"