Close Reading Practice

The author emphasises "misery" in line 18 in order to…..

• to tell the audience that humans are miserable

• tell the audience that the earth is in pain

• To show the misery that the world is in

• to show that the world is in pain due to the miserable humans

Which of the following best summarizes the main topic of the passage?

• The world in is danger if we do not learn to love and live in peace

• That the world is like a beach sweeping rocks back into the ocean

• That tranquility is the key to peace

• that the world must be tranquil like a beach

which of the following describes the author's method?

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• flash-forward

• back story

The diction of this piece is best described as...

• dreary

• melencholy

• peaceful

• happy

The tone of the passage shifts from one of ----- to one of ------

• Pain, peace

• tranquility, war

• joy, misery

• happiness, tranquility

The author uses a pattern of organization best described as?

• chronological

• problem and solution

• cause and effect

• sequential

What is the theme of this story? 

• Don't be lazy.

• Have as much fun as you can before you die.

• Don't steal.

• Look before you leap.

Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. Today explorers still carry and eat this food.
What is the passage mostly about?

• who uses pemmican today

• what can be put into pemmican

• how pemmican was prepared by Native Americans.

• why people eat pemmican today

What is the primary purpose of close reading in literary analysis?

• To quickly skim through a text for general understanding

• To identify and analyze specific details and patterns in a text

• To memorize the text for future reference

• To rewrite the text in simpler language

Which of the following is a key component of close reading?

• Ignoring the author's tone

• Focusing on the text's surface meaning only

• Analyzing the text's structure and language

• Reading the text once for a quick overview