WorksheetsElements of Voice/Short Story Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins
POV of "The Lesson"
First person objective
First person subjective
Third person omniscient
Third person limited
POV of "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
First person subjective
First person objective
Third person limited omniscient
Third person omniscient
"Thirty-five dollars could buy new bunk beds for Junior and Gretchen's boy. Thirty-five dollars and the whole household could go visit Grand-daddy Nelson in the country. Thirty-five dollars would pay for the rent and the piano bill too."
Which is the best answer (most accurate and most insightful) about the syntax used in this short passage? ("The Lesson")
Parallelism: rule of three used with the conditional tense to build a sense of urgency and purpose in the rhetoric
Parallelism: rule of three used with the past tense to build a sense of crestfallen wistfulness in the rhetoric
Parallelism: rule of three and inverted syntax to emphasize poverty
Parallelism: rule of three and imperative sentences to browbeat the reader with a lesson
"But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores."
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about the elements in this sentence from "A Rose for Emily"?
The semi-colon gives balance to the two clauses
The dash sets off the final verdict about Miss Emily's house
The diction in "stubborn and coquettish" is contradictory and odd for a description of an old house, implying something about the house was once charming
It is a jolting fragment of a sentence that is missing a main verb
"So the next day we all said, 'She will kill herself'; and we said it would be the best thing."
Which type of irony?
Situational
Verbal
Dramatic
Sarcasm
"'I think he likes me,' Julian's mother said, and smiled at the woman. It was the smile she used when she was being particularly gracious to an inferior. Julian saw everything lost. The lesson had rolled off her like rain on a roof."
("Everything That Rises Must Converge") Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement of analysis about the passage?
The third person limited POV is apparent here, since we are learning of Julian's mother's actions and understandings from Julian's perspective only.
Julian's mother's smile at the Black woman characterizes his mother as condescending and racist.
The third person omniscient POV is apparent here, since we are given Julian's mother's perspective and thoughts about the Black woman.
Julian's reaction to his mother's condescension towards the Black woman characterizes him as (ironically) condescending and cruel towards her.
"Most miraculous of all, instead of being blinded by love for her as she was for him, he had cut himself emotionally free of her and could see her with complete objectivity. He was not dominated by his mother."
BEST, MOST ACCURATE observation about the syntax here? ("Everything That Rises")
Long sentence followed by a short sentence emphasizes the irony of the short sentence
Long sentence followed by a short sentence emphasizes the pathos of the short sentence
Long sentence followed by a short sentence emphasizes Julian's independence from and objectivity towards his mother
Periodic sentence emphasizes Julian's objectivity towards his mother
"'I suppose you've got young Don all upset about the fact that his daughter is already six months old and hasn't yet begun to learn to dance?'"
Miss Adela Strangeworth shows the following tone towards Helen Crane in this quote from "The Possibility of Evil"
Melancholy
Tongue-in-cheek
Wistful
Matter-of-fact
"She debated having a cup of tea and then decided that it was too close to midday dinnertime; she would not have the appetite for her little chop if she had tea now."
("The Possibility of Evil") Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about the details here?
Miss Strangeworth's appetite is revealed to be so small that a cup of tea would spoil it
The exacting, persnickety deliberation here about what to eat and when is almost comical; this does not seem like a personality who "lets loose" and likes to have fun
The careful deliberation reveals a character who is trying to lose weight and may have an eating disorder
The third person limited narrative gives abundant insight into Miss Strangeworth's quirky and stultifying habits and routine
"All of her life had been a struggle to act like a Chestny without the Chestny goods, and to give him everything she thought a Chestny ought to have; but since, said she, it was fun to struggle, why complain? And when you had won, as she had won, what fun to look back on the hard times!"
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about the author's syntactical choices here? ("Everything That Rises Must Converge")
The question/answer progression with an interrogative sentence followed by an exclamatory sentence gives insight into the simplistic, naive understanding of Julian's mother
The semi-colon balances the guilt-trip of the first clause with a conclusive interrogative clause that conveys Julian's mother's trademark false-martyr tone
The long sentence contrasts with the short sentence to emphasize the declarative nature of the short sentence
The exclamatory sentence is hyperbolic and uncomfortably bright and cheerful
POV of "The Possibility of Evil"
First person subjective
First person objective
Third person limited omniscient
Third person omniscient
Which of the following is NOT a typical implication of a 1st person subjective POV on a text?
It almost always creates an unreliable narrator and you have to "read between the lines" to understand what is really happening
The speaker generally feels differently about the subject (at least sometimes) than the author feels and it's important to frequently stop and think about the discrepancy between the two
There are often authorial interjections of information that the narrator doesn't have, which helps provide balance and reliability to the narration
Though the narrator is usually unreliable, he or she is also usually charming and fun to read, and the narration is accessible and interesting
Which of the following is a loose sentence?
She's always reading; it makes me nervous.
Stop reading all the time!
If she doesn't stop reading, she will become filled with dangerous ideas.
She liked to read after she had finished all her other homework.
Which of the following is NOT a typical implication of 3rd person omniscient narration on a text?
The most balanced and reliable form of narration; the author provides the reader with multiple perspectives and extra information that only the author knows
Frequently personable and intimate; a POV for those who like to "make friends" with the characters of a narrative
Frequently dry and action-oriented; a POV for those who like action, plot, and lots of information about complicated epic-like stories
Balanced and reliable but can be overwhelming in scope and detail
"The victim was murdered in her home by her estranged husband."
Which is the BEST analysis of the syntax here?
Imperative sentence: the sentence suggests that the murderer must be punished.
Passive voice: the sentence structure makes it unclear who did the murdering.
Inverted sentence/passive voice: the sentence structure highlights the victim and de-emphasizes the murderer.
Interrogative sentence: the sentence structure questions whether the victim was indeed murdered.
