Craft and Structure Literature

In "Brown Girl Dreaming," how did the author show dialogue?

• Quotation marks

• Italics (slanted) letters

• Bold letters

• Colored words

The structure of a poem is _______.

• The way a poem sounds

• The way a poem's words and lines are laid out on a page

• A similie

• How a poem functions

Memoirs are usually written in...

• Cause/effect text structure

• Problem/solution text structure

• Chronological text structure

• Any of these

What is the purpose of the following passage? One day, my little brother decided he wanted to bake a cake. He was only five years old at the time, but he was determined. He pulled out all of the pots and pans in the kitchen and filled them with chocolate, flour, eggs, and any other ingredient he could find. When no cake appeared after all of his work, he stood in the middle of the room and cried. Needless to say, Mom was not very sympathetic.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Stanzas are.....

• paragraphs

• sentences

• sections of poetry

If the story is told from the author's perspective, which point of view is being used?

• 1st person

• 3rd person

When characters speak in a story, it is called __________.

• prose

• dialogue

• stanzas

• memoir

In "Brown Girl Dreaming", how did the author show dialogue?

• quotation marks

• bold letters

• italics (slanted) letters

"Brown Girl Dreaming" is written in stanzas.

• True

• False

In literature, what does the term 'narrative structure' refer to?

• A) The sequence of events in a story

• B) The use of figurative language

• C) The development of characters

• D) The setting of the story