Literary Text Analysis Remediation

Which of the following analogies BEST describes a stanza?

• A stanza is to a poem what a paragraph is to a story.

• A stanza is to a story what a footnote is to a poem.

• A footnote is to an article what a definition is to a stanza.

• A story is to an article what a poem is to a stanza.

The tone of a text can be described as

• the mood created by the author's word choice

• the sounds included in auditory imagery

• the feeling a word gives a reader

• the quality or brightness of a color shade

It's a recurring element in a literary text that contributes to theme development.

• stanza

• motif

• archetype

• allusion

An archetype is

• images, figures, character types, settings, and story types that are universally shared across cultures

• themes, poems, and songs that are unique to literary genres

• characters, plot points, themes, and settings that occur in horror texts

• short stories, poems, anthologies that are passed down from generation to generation

Descriptive parts of a text that provide the reader with feeling from the five senses

• connotation

• imagery

• plot

• tone

The rhyme scheme in a poem refers to

• where the accents go for rhyming words.

• which stanzas match their rhymes.

• how the poet decides to illustrate theme.

• which lines rhyme with each other.

Making an inference involves all of the following EXCEPT

• an educated guess

• hints from the story

• prior knowledge

• the author's biography

Connotation refers to

• the definition of a word in the context of a text

• the feeling a word invokes beyond its literal meaning

• the way a poem makes a reader feel

• the dictionary definition of a word

The events that make up a story are the

• climax

• plot

• heading

• title

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• Her smile reminds me of my favorite teacher.

• Her hair is as soft as a cloud.

• Her eyes are the sun.

• Her smile is like the sun.