WorksheetsLanguage & Literature- 9/07/2022
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 15mins
In which work do readers meet Sylvia?
"The Kettle on the Boat"
"The Way of the Machete"
"The Rich People's School"
"Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild"
Someone who is "valiant" is .......
brave/courageous
thoughtful
bright/brilliant
heroic
"singing a sweet song somewhere"- What literary device is being used in this line?
metaphor
alliteration
symbolism
anaphora
Which of the following is NOT a "collective noun"?
cast
team
crew
author
The perspective from which a story is told is the ........
point of view
antagonist
protagonist
simile
Who is the author of "The Way of the Machete"?
Martin A. Ramos
Vanessa Gebbie
Jonathan Green
Kathy Fish
"To ruminate" means .......
to write quickly
to think deeply
to read aloud
to compare and contrast
A/an ________________ character is one who changes/develops throughout a piece of literature/film.
static
antagonistic
trite
dynamic
"Like a dying ember the sun had begun to smolder beyond the cordillera." This line comes from what piece?
"Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild"
"The Way of the Machete"
"The Kettle on the Boat"
"The Rich People's School"
Which of the following is NOT synonymous with "trite"?
overused
cliched
commonplace
unusual
Which piece illustrates an Inuit family?
"The Kettle on the Boat"
"The Rich People's School"
"Two Names, Two Worlds"
"The Way of the Machete"
The title of a short story should be .........
underlined
italicized
in quotation marks
"overly sentimental/emotional"
ostentatious
trite
antecedent
mawkish
"understanding how different facets of an individual (race, gender, religion, class) impact them"
symbolism
intersectionality
resplendence
personification
The giving of human traits to non-humans.
personification
symbolism
anaphora
juxtaposition
"Ubiquitous" means .......
overly emotional
overused
universal, widespread
short, quick
Who states: "The duality of my identity like two sides of the same coin."
Jonathan Rodriguez
Jonathan Green
Kathy Fish
Vanessa Gebbie
A character is described pointedly by the author. This is ______________ characterization.
direct
indirect
static
implicit
Which of the following characters is moved to another family?
Jonathan Rodriguez
Sylvia
Qissunguaq
Juanito
"giving meaning to objects or things" (example: the machete representing death and livelihood)
personification
anaphora
juxtaposition
symbolism
"When ____________ saw the school, she thought perhaps she had been taken to another country."
Sylvia
Qissunguaq
Juanito
Gran
What is "flash fiction"?
Jonathan Green? I really enjoy his work. (What is the "antecedent" in this sentence?")
Jonathan Green
his
work
really
Someone who is "ostentatious" is ..............
over the top/pretentious
thoughtful
sentimental
brave/courageous
