Worksheets1st Semester FINAL EXAM
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 22mins
the beginning of a story where setting, characters, and conflict are introduced
Antagonist
Exposition
Climax
Protagonist
Theme
the main character or hero
Antagonist
Theme
Climax
Protagonist
Exposition
the turning point of the story
Antagonist
Theme
Climax
Exposition
Protagonist
events that build towards the turning point
Dialogue
Setting
Theme
Mood
Rising Action
the message about life
Dialogue
Setting
Theme
Mood
Rising Action
a conversation between characters
Dialogue
Setting
Theme
Mood
Rising Action
time and place of the story
Dialogue
Setting
Theme
Mood
Rising Action
series of events that make up a story
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Foreshadowing
Plot
Flashback
a big exaggeration to emphasize something
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Idiom
Hyperbole
a comparison that does not use like or as
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Idiom
Hyperbole
Which passage best represents a story's setting?
A fire snapped all day in our cook stove and another in the stone fireplace in the living room, but still the farmhouse was never warm.
It was late February, and I remember the bleak, dead cold that had set in, cold that was a rare thing for our Carolina hills.
Three weeks before, Bandit, the pet fox Colin and I had raised from a tiny kit, had disappeared, and not even a rumor had been heard of him since.
Which passage best represents a story's setting?
A fire snapped all day in our cook stove and another in the stone fireplace in the living room, but still the farmhouse was never warm.
It was late February, and I remember the bleak, dead cold that had set in, cold that was a rare thing for our Carolina hills.
Three weeks before, Bandit, the pet fox Colin and I had raised from a tiny kit, had disappeared, and not even a rumor had been heard of him since.
Read the following passage:
Once a king and a queen had three daughters. All three were beautiful, but the youngest, Psyche, was different. She was so lovely that men called her a new Aphrodite, a young goddess of love and beauty, but no man dared to marry a goddess. So while the two older sister found husbands and went on to live in their own homes, Psyche stated alone with her mother and father.
This part of plot is called the:
Resolution
Rising action
Exposition
Climax
Read the following passage:
His feet had hardly touched the floor when a nerve-shattering scream filled the house and a glistening body flashed toward him through the band of moonlight. Crouching, he flung the blanket out protectively almost at the same instant the snarling panther was upon him.
Which words in the passage most strongly create a tone of tension?
hardly, scream, glistening, moonlight, instant
nerve-shattering, scream, glistening, flung, snarling
scream, flashed, protectively, instant, upon
touched, nerve-shattering, body, band, panther
Which literary device is used in this sentence:
She was tall and thin with hair black as night and a sweet face that never could hide thoughts.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Read the following passage:
As the months went by, Mr. Okada not only accepted every invitation, he began to come uninvited. He had a distasteful habit of coming in the late afternoon and staying until my mother had to prepare supper and, consequently, felt obliged to ask him to stay.
Based on the passage, the word consequently most likely means
therefore
sadly
truthfully
however
Read the following passage:
Usually I enjoyed the daily feeding of the dogs. But not today; I went through the motions dumbly, silently, not paying any attention to the fine bird dogs crowding around me. I cleaned the watering troughs with my usual care, but my heart was not in it.
From this passage, the reader can infer that
The character owns several dogs.
The character has experienced something upsetting.
The character could have done a better job.
The character knows a great deal about bird dogs.
Read the following passage:
“I’m old enough to go on the Christmas hunt,” I said. Incredibly, my father laughed. “At ten?” he said. “I’m afraid not.” I stood, stricken. “But--” I said. “No,” my father said, in the voice that meant No, and no more talking about it.
The author uses dialogue mainly to
Reveal conflicting points of view
Reveal a side of the narrator's personality
Show how a character changes
Show cause and effect
Which response is an example of third-person omniscient point of view?
Neither Dick Wilcox nor Dolores could figure out why the flowers kept coming, and each of them assumed somebody had a crush on the other.
The lady there was nice; he could see it right off
After my father had gone outside, my mother hugged me to her in a sudden rush of affection.
The next day she heard her sisters calling to her from the mountaintop, and she called back.
An author writes an article about her frustrations with people using cell phones when driving. She believes that if fines were increased to $1,000, people would stop picking up their phones when behind the wheel.
Which text structure fits this piece of writing?
Cause and effect
Chronological
Problem/Solution
Sequence
A writer tells a story of a boy who comes to the United States from Japan with his family and encounters bullying when he enters school.
Which text structure fits this piece of writing?
Compare and Contrast
Chronological
Sequence
Problem/Solution
Which word has the strongest connotation:
terrified
afraid
fearful
frightened
Read the following passage:
“Let’s go in and see if it’s still in the jar,” somebody said as we approached the sweetshop. “Don’t,” Thwaites said firmly. “It’s too dangerous. Walk past as though nothing has happened.”
What does the dialogue reveal about Thwaites’s personality?
He’s dependable
He’s secretive
He’s self-confident
He’s cooperative
Read the following passage:
The farmer became very nervous. He began to suspect that there was something very wrong. He shouted at the druggist, “Stop looking at me and hand over the bag of money!”
The author uses this scene to develop the story in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
to reveal a side of the farmer’s personality
to show an important theme
to provoke a decision to be made
to keep the action moving forward
Which passage reflects an author’s foreshadowing?
Now we knew why this ship, in perfect condition, was sailing without her crew aboard.
There was nothing we could do but watch.
Its great teeth were as long as a man’s arm.
The trail passed through the deep woods, and it seemed to the boy as if something was following them among the trees.
