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LEADS and HOOKS

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the part of the introduction that catches the reader's attention called?

a)

Start

b)

Hook/Lead

c)

Dialogue

d)

Intro.

2.

What type of lead is this? - The black makeup around his eyes and demonic look scared me every night I went to bed.

a)

Close Up of Feelings

b)

Close Encounter of the Third Kind

c)

Close Up of a Character

d)

Close Reading

3.

What kind of lead/hook is this? - "I can't believe this! Who broke grandmothers lamp?" roared my mother as we hid in the dark corner of the room, behind the sofa.

a)

Action

b)

Reaction

c)

Dialogue

d)

Question

4.

What kind of lead/hook is this? Have you ever had one of those days? You know, the kind you'll never forget?

a)

Action

b)

Reaction

c)

Dialogue

d)

Question

5.

What kind of lead/hook is this? - I gulped my milk, pushed away from the table, and bolted out of the kitchen, slamming the broken screen door behind me.

a)

Action/Movement

b)

Personal Narrative

c)

Dialogue

d)

The Good Strategy

6.

Dialogue is

a)

Action at the end of the story

b)

The exact words of a speaker

c)

Authors point of view

d)

Chronological order

7.

What kind of lead is this? - In a small school, tucked up in the town of Sleepy Hollow, students are discovering the power of excellence.

a)

Exaggeration

b)

Personal Anecdote

c)

Describe the Setting

d)

Happy Time

8.

What kind of lead is this? - I will always remember my grandmother for her kindness and generosity.

a)

Close up of a Character

b)

Question

c)

Dialogue

d)

Personal Feeling

9.

What kind of lead is this? - What has lots of windows, is yellow and take students to and from school? A school bus!

a)

Question

b)

Close up of a Character

c)

Riddle

d)

Action

10.

What kind of lead is this? - I saw him eat 23 hot dogs at the barn and I knew it was only a matter of time before he threw up!

a)

Question

b)

Personal Experience

c)

Riddle

d)

Close up of a Character

11.

What kind of lead is this? - What pet has four legs, slobbers and barks at squirrels? A dog does!

a)

Close up of a Character

b)

Action

c)

Question

d)

Riddle

12.

Which type of lead involves characters having a conversation?

a)

action

b)

dialogue

c)

reaction

d)

quotation marks

13.

Where can the lead of a narrative be found?

a)

At the beginning of each paragraph, especially the introduction

b)

middle of the text

c)

end of the text

d)

the lead of a narrative is found all throughout the text

14.

What is the purpose of a lead?

a)

to hook the reader and then get them to stop reading the text

b)

to hook the reader and make the reader want to continue to read the text

c)

to tell the readers what the text is about

d)

to tell the readers where to read when looking at the text

15.

What kind of lead is this? - He stood 6 foot 4 inches tall, weighed 277 pounds, and was called "The Manster" because all that encountered him believed he was half man and half monster.

a)

Dialogue

b)

Close up of a Character

c)

Personal Feeling

d)

Personal Experience

16.

What kind of lead/hook is this? - Battlecat bolted towards Skeletor, and as He-Man raised his sword, both were willing to defend Castle Grayskull at all costs.

a)

Close up of a Character

b)

Dialogue

c)

Movement/Action

d)

Personal Experience

17.

Which of the following is true about Leads:

a)

They are sometimes in a narrative

b)

They come at the end of a narrative

c)

They are the first sentence of a narrative

d)

There is only one type of Lead

18.

All of these are types of narrative Leads except:

a)

Personal Narratives

b)

Personal Feelings

c)

Personal Experience

d)

Close Up of a Character

19.

The butterflies in my stomach had turned into nerves that launched out of my body and all over the living room. This is what type of lead?

a)

Describe the Setting

b)

Personal Feeling

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Dialogue

20.

The crowd was electric and the anticipation of seeing the band play all of my favorite songs was exciting.

a)

Amazed by his photos

b)

One Person Talking

c)

Personal Experience

d)

Good Punctuation