English III Semester EXAM Review

What is Early American Literature?

• A genre of modern American novels

• A broad term that encompasses the cultures and literatures of the Americas from the colonial period through the early national period of the United States

• A collection of European folk tales

• A type of poetry from the 20th century

What does folk literature include?

• Novels and short stories

• Scientific journals and articles

• Folk tales, myths, fables, and legends passed orally from generation to generation

• Modern plays and screenplays

What is a fable typically characterized by?

• Long narratives with complex plots

• Short stories with animals as characters, conveying a moral

• Historical accounts of real events

• Poems with no moral lesson

What are archetypes?

• Unique characters with no common traits

• Characters, situations, or actions that represent universal examples of human nature

• Specific plot points in a story

• Random events in a narrative

What is the theme of a story?

• The sequence of events in a story

• The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative

• The setting and time period of a story

• The dialogue between characters

What is the plot in a narrative or creative writing?

• The main character's dialogue

• The sequence of events that make up a story, whether it’s told, written, filmed, or sung

• The background music in a film

• The moral lesson of a story

What is the purpose of a resolution in a story?

• To introduce new characters

• To resolve remaining issues and end the story

• To create suspense

• To describe the setting

What does a flashback do in a narrative?

• Moves the narrative forward in time

• Introduces a new character

• Moves the audience from the present to a scene in the past

• Describes the setting in detail

What is a flash-forward in literature?

• A scene that moves back to the past

• A detailed description of a character

• A short scene that jumps ahead to the future of the narrative

• A summary of the plot

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main verb tenses?

• Past

• Present

• Future

• Conditional