English II Modules 1-4

Aria and James are writing stories in class. What is the main purpose of narrative writing?

• To tell a story

• To define a topic

• To argue a point

Lily, David, and Aria are writing a story for class. Which of these do they NOT need to put in their story?

• Plot

• Poetry

• Characters

Benjamin and Lily are reading a story together. Lily asks, "How can we describe the author’s tone in this story?" Which of the following best explains what tone means?

• A word part added to a root word to make a new word

• The authors’ voice or attitude in a piece of writing

• The lesson learned from a story

Noah, Benjamin, and Abigail are editing their writing. Which of these is a complete & correct sentence?

• Today’s weather!

• what is your favorite season

• The average temperature in North Carolina in the summer is 90 degrees.

Michael and Evelyn see the prefix PRE- in a word. What does PRE- mean?

• before

• not

• wrongly

Ethan and Kai are playing a word game! They see the word 'RESTART.' Ethan asks, "Kai, what does the prefix RE- mean in 'RESTART'?" Can you help them?

• not

• again

• under

Abigail and Ethan read a poem that says, "The wind whispered secrets to the trees." What does personification mean?

• A. A part of a story that happens before the main story.

• B. When things that are not alive are described as if they are people.

• C. Words that help you imagine what something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels like.

Charlotte and Daniel are having a talk! Charlotte says connotation means what a word really means in the dictionary. Daniel thinks it’s about the feelings words give us. Who is right? What does connotation mean?

• what a word really means in the dictionary

• the good or bad feelings we get from a word

• the words we choose

Zoe found a word in her book that ends with –LESS. What does the ending –LESS mean?

• characteristic of

• comparing 2 things

• without

Nora and Mason are writing stories, but they keep making run-on sentences! What is a run-on sentence?

• When two or more sentences are put together with punctuation.

• When two or more sentences are put together without punctuation to separate them.

• One sentence that contains a subject and a verb.