WorksheetsMidterm Review
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 4hrs 50mins
a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces within a text
action
events
suspense
conflict
What is a protagonist?
A character that does not grow or develop as a story progresses
A character that serves as an obstacle to the resolution of a conflict
A story's central character who faces a major conflict that must be solved before the story's end
A method of showing characters in action
What is an antagonist?
A character that does not grow or develop as a story progresses
A character that serves as an obstacle to the resolution of a conflict
A story's central character who faces a major conflict that must be solved before the story's end
A method of showing characters in action
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
The Senate has instituted tyrannical rules, using adopted despotic methods.
democratic
dictatorial
accountable
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
You may censure me for my faults, but please commend me for my merits.
praise
criticize
approval
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
If you give the questions just a cursory look, you'll probably get the wrong answer.
halfhearted
thorough
painstaking
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
Mr. Rizzoli's piano recital drew a larger audience than expected. The older attendees sat in reverent silence, as if awed by the appearance of a god. Their faces seemed illuminated by the music. Meanwhile, the younger concertgoers fidgeted in their seats. Some wore the agonized expression of dental patients under the drill.
adoring
irreverent
cheeky
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
Mr. Rizzoli's piano recital drew a larger audience than expected. The older attendees sat in reverent silence, as if awed by the appearance of a god. Their faces seemed illuminated by the music. Meanwhile, the younger concertgoers fidgeted in their seats. Some wore the agonized expression of dental patients under the drill.
pained
blank
confused
Read the sentence. Use the underlined clues to help you define the word in red.
The fire began in the kitchen and soon spread to the first floor. Flames licked out the windows. The adjacent building soon caught fire. It went up quickly, perhaps because of all the cloth in the tailor's shop on the ground floor. The conflagration had torn through a third building before the firefighters arrived.
big fire
noisy chaos
complete destruction
a meaning suggested or implied by the use of a particular word, beyond it's literal (denotative) meaning.
denotation
connotation
etymology
context clues
Which phrase has a more positive connotation?
a peculiar object
a unique object
a strange object
Which category best identifies the text pictured?
theme
topic
text details
Which category best identifies the text pictured?
theme
topic
text details
Which category best identifies the text pictured?
theme
topic
text details
Which category best identifies the text pictured?
theme
topic
text details
Which category best identifies the text pictured?
theme
topic
text details
Which of the following is the BEST statement of a theme?
Cruelty.
Cruelty is bad.
Cruelty might be disguised as kindness.
The cruelty of good people.
Which of the following is the BEST statement of a theme?
High-school romances.
Love.
Young love can be true love.
Even though Hazel and Gus were teenagers, their love was mature and real.
The central idea is...
the focused idea of the text.
a detail from the text.
the first sentence of a paragraph.
a quote you provide from the text.
What is the Central Idea of this paragraph?
People often refer to taxes in terms of their being much too high. In reality, they are probably even higher than you think, because in addition to the federal income tax we are now studying, there are many other Federal, State, and local taxes, including sales taxes, inheritance taxes, state income taxes, personal property taxes, real estate taxes, and others. These are just some of the most obvious ones.
Taxes are much too high.
Some taxes are hidden.
We pay more taxes than we may realize.
Inheritance taxes and real estate taxes are unfair.
What is the central idea of the following paragraph?
The attitudes of Americans toward gambling are amazingly contradictory. You may find, for example, that horse racing is legal in your state, but that you cannot legally play poker for money on your front porch; bookies may be prosecuted by state law, but they are supposed to purchase a federal license nonetheless; one church condemns gambling, while another raises money by sponsoring Bingo games. Gambling laws are inconsistent from state to state or even from town to town and are very difficult to enforce.
Americans have negative attitudes toward gambling.
Gambling laws are difficult to enforce
Churches do not have uniform ideas about gambling.
Gambling laws are inconsistent from community to community.
What is the central idea of the following paragraph?
There is a common belief that while the dog is man’s best friend, the coyote is his worst enemy. The bad reputation of the coyote traces back to his fondness for small animals; he hunts at night and is particularly destructive to sheep, young pigs, and poultry. Yet it is sometimes wise to encourage coyotes. Provided valuable farm animals are protected, the coyote will often free the property of other animals, like rabbits, which are ruinous to crops and certain trees. He is especially beneficial in keeping down the rodent population. Where coyotes have been allowed to do their work without molestation, ranchers and fruit growers have found them so valuable that they would no more shoot them than they would shoot their dogs.
Under certain conditions the coyote is helpful to man.
The coyote is feared because of his fondness for small animals.
Modern ranchers would no sooner shoot coyotes than they would shoot dogs.
The coyote usually prefers rabbits and other rodents to sheep and poultry.
How does a theme differ from a central idea?
A theme is the same as a main idea.
A theme is a message most commonly used in literature, where as a central idea is most commonly used in non fiction writing.
A theme can be a lesson or message where as a central idea is something that a writing never has.
Often provides background information in a text.
Foreshadowing
Flashback
theme
resolution
What is foreshadowing?
An account of an event that happened at an earlier point.
The use of hints to suggest what will happen later, in the future.
The series of events in a narrative.
The struggle at the heart of a plot.
What is flashback?
An account of an event that happened at an earlier point.
The use of hints to suggest what will happen later, in the future.
The series of events in a narrative.
The struggle at the heart of a plot.
A long-forgotten memory came back to Peter as he drove through his old neighborhood. Mr. Smith’s dog was chasing him down the street. He fell, and pain shot through his arm.
Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?
foreshadowing
flashback
Mike felt as confident as ever when he started his boat engine that day. He noticed a few clouds gathering overhead, but did not worry about them.
Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?
foreshadowing
flashback
[1] When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years. [2] It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies . . . [3] But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood . . . . [4] Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care: a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor . . . remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father into perpetuity.
Where is the flashback?
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
Sentence 4
[1] It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. [2] Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. [3] The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. [4] At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.
Which sentence foreshadows the main conflict?
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
Sentence 4
At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.
And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary. We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone. We let her have one of the mattresses.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Which of these does not give any insight into the thoughts or feelings of characters and uses pronouns like he, she, and they?
Third Person Objective
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
“There were always children there, and I spent all my time with the children, only with the children. They were the children of the village where I lived, a whole gang of them who went to the local school. I was simply with them mostly, and I spent all my four years like that. I did not want anything else.” --Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Which word best describes the tone?
"The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. It looked smaller. The roof sagged and the plaster was cracked. The windows to the living room, the foyer and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. Like so much else in Kabul, my father's house was the picture of fallen splendor." -Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Which word best describes the tone?
"The neighbors' heads turned the afternoon the bus sputtered up the street and farted its way across our lot. . . . Baba killed the engine and let the bus roll silently into our designated spot. We sank in our seats, laughed until tears rolled down our cheeks, and, more important, until we were sure the neighbors weren't watching anymore. The bus was a sad carcass of rusted metal, shattered windows replaced with black garbage bags, balding ties, and upholstery shredded down to the springs." -Hosseini, The Kite Runner
What literary device used in this passage creates a giddy or silly tone?
