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WorksheetsEnglish 3 Semester 1 Exam
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 15hrs 51mins
The time and place of a story
Mood
Setting
Plot
Genre
a struggle or problem in a story that the main character encounters.
Resolution
Conflict
Exposition
Climax
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader
Tone
Mood
Plot
Metaphor
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work.
Mood
Tone
Conflict
Theme
Events after the climax, leading to the resolution
Rising Action
Exposition
Falling Action
Conflict
Most exciting moment of the story; turning point
Conflict
Climax
Resolution
Rising Action
A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.
Falling Action
Rising Action
Conflict
Resolution
provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
Conflict
Exposition
Resolution
Setting
Sequence of events in a story
Setting
Plot
Simile
Metaphor
The attitude of the author or narrator in a piece of writing.
Mood
Tone
Simile
Metaphor
The conflict in the story between a character and an OUTSIDE force such as nature, technology, or another character.
Internal Conflict
Metaphor
Simile
External Conflict
The conflict of a story where a character struggles with something INSIDE themselves.
External Conflict
Tone
Internal Conflict
Mood
When the author gives hints within a story about something that is going to happen later.
Mood
Tone
Simile
Foreshadowing
Perspective from which the story is told.
Foreshadowing
Point of View
Plot
Setting
How the writer assigns traits and features to a character
Mood
Tone
Characterization
Plot
A major category or type of literature such as fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, mystery, or historical fiction.
Mood
Tone
Plot
Genre
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using the word "like" or "as"
Metaphor
Simile
Genre
Mood
A DIRECT comparison of two seemingly unlike things.
Simile
Mood
Metaphor
Tone
A narrator can see and describe every character's thoughts.
first person
second person
third person, limited
third person, omniscient
The author reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character
first person
second person
third person, limited
third person, omniscient
In which point of view do you see these words?
I, me, my, mine
first person
second person
third person, limited
third person, omniscient
The end of a story where the conflict (problem) is solved
Characters
Internal Conflict
Resolution
Exposition
The tying up of loose ends after the reslution: the "happily ever after."
metaphor
resolution
theme
denouement
A/an ______________ is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
tone
antagonist
allusion
symbol
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
Diction
Inference
Syntax
Plot
Hyperbole...
Giving a non-human thing human characteristics
Exaggeration to prove a point
Recurs throughout the story and helps develop theme
Highly descriptive language
A figure of speech in which two seemingly opposing and contradictory elements are side-by-side.
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Paradox
Oxymoron
Shorter than a novel, this piece of literature can usually be read in one sitting. Because of its length, it has only a few characters and focuses on one problem or conflict.
novel
autobiography
short story
prose
What is narrative text?
An imaginative story to entertain people.
A funny story
A fact story
A real-life story
Man vs. Man
Man. vs. Nature
Man vs. Society
What type of conflict is being shown by these examples?
Extreme Conflict
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Physical Conflict
context clue
a hint in the surrounding text that can help a reader infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word, phrase, or description
text that provides the meaning of word through contrast
text that provides the definition of a word
text that provides a clue to the meaning of a word through one or more examples
I’ve told you to clean your room a million times.
Oxymoron
Personification
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Tyler stood up, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.
Simile
Metaphor
personification
alliteration
Love is a battlefield.
metaphor
simile
personification
alliteration
“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me.
"Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type.
"I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles.
"I'd be scared to let go," I type.
"Afraid you'd fall?" she asks.
"No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
"Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
What are the 3 types of point of view used in literature?
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Author's Point of View
Non-Fiction is :
Based on facts, describes real events, people, and ideas
Based on made up characters
Having a plot
Coming from the author's imagination
What is fiction?
Writing that is scientific fact
Writing that comes from the author's imagination
A tale that teaches a moral
About a real person
A mild, indirect, or less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant or embarrassing (ex. he passed away, instead of he died)
euphemism
allusion
idiom
personification
a litote is _______
used as a literary device to assert similarity.
invokes strong emotions through the exaggerations.
a figure of speech that uses negative terms to express a positive statement.
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things.
Running from a bear that is trying to eat you is what kind of conflict?
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Self
There is only one cupcake left. John and Caleb both reach for it. What sort of conflict is this?
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Self
Elsa has to be hidden away from the outside world because they would fear her secret magical powers.
Man vs Man
Man vs Nature
Man vs Society
Man vs Self
Which is the correct order of plot elements?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Rising Action, Exposition, Falling Action, Climax, Resolution
Exposition, Climax, Rising Action, Resolution, Falling Action
Climax, Falling Action, Exposition, Resolution, Rising Action
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
Syntax
Narrative
Inference
Claim
An essay which isolates and examines part of a literary work
All of the following are oxymorons except...
Poor health
Pretty ugly
Passed away
Random order
Niece of Samuel Parris, an orphan, leads girls to accusations, seventeen years old
Abigail Adams
Abigail Williams
Abigail Parris
Mercy Lews
From Barbados, first accused of witchcraft, calls out others to try to save herself, she is also a slave
Susanna Walcott
Abigail Williams
Mary Warren
Tituba
Controversial and insecure minister of Salem
Reverend Run DMC
Reverend Samuel Jackson
Reverend Samuel Parrs
Reverend Giles Corey
Betty Parris
10 year old daughter of Tituba
10 year old daughter of Samuel Parris who is one of the first to be "afflicted"
10 year old daughter of Samuel Parris who is a slave
10 year old meek and insecure servant
Putman's servant, Abigail's friend, afflicted
Mary Warren
Mercy Lewis
Giles Corey
Rebecca Nurse
Proctor's Meek and Insecure servant, friends with Abigail and afflicted
Mercy Lewis
Mary Warren
Abigail Williams
Betty Parris
The protagonist of the play, tragic hero, first to expose the girls
John Deer
John Proctor
Rebecca Nurse
Giles Corey
The Stage directions is the part of the text that is
italicized (slanted)
in bold
was numbers above it
Holds a grudge against Reverend Parris, concerned about land, married to Ann
The Puritans believed that witches do the work of Satan.
True
False
In Act IV of The Crucible, why does Parris urge Elizabeth to go to her husband, who is being taken off to execution?
so that she can show that she believes the death sentence is just
so that she can make a last appeal to the mercy of the judges
so that she can try once more to persuade him to confess
so that she can comfort him in his final moments
Part A According to Act IV of The Crucible, which of the following is the most likely reason that Abigail leaves Salem?
Abigail believes that the townspeople are about to turn against her.
Abigail feels too unhappy and guilty to stay in Salem any longer.
Abigail inherits enough money to lead a life of ease in Boston.
Abigail decides to rejoin her family and make a fresh start.
Part A According to Act IV of The Crucible, which of the following best describes what Hale hopes to accomplish by returning to Salem?
Hale hopes to persuade the court to pardon the condemned prisoners.
Hale hopes to persuade people to confess so that they will not be hanged.
Hale hopes to persuade people to come to God so that their souls will be saved.
Hale hopes to persuade the government to pardon the condemned prisoners.
What event begins the rising action in Act I of The Crucible?
Reverend Hale questions Tituba and the girls about their activities in the woods.
John Proctor appears at the Parris home and rebuffs Abigail's efforts to resume their affair.
Betty has fallen mysteriously ill after she and some other girls were found engaging in apparent rituals in the woods.
Abigail is dismissed from the Proctor household, and Mary Warren takes her place there.
What does Danforth do to those who signed the document presented by Proctor?
He has them arrested for questioning.
He has them arrested for witchcraft.
He orders that they be thrown out of the church.
He rewards them for opening his eyes to deception.
What does Elizabeth do to protect John Proctor's name?
She says he never cheated on her with Abigail.
She says he is not the father of her child.
She says that she is a witch but that her husband did not know.
She says that he is a good man who the court can trust.
What is the setting of Act II?
The Proctors’ home, eight days after the girls have begun to accuse people
The following day at the home of John and Elizabeth Proctor
The Salem meeting house, just before Abigail’s trial
Rev. Parris’s home, about a week after the accusations of witchcraft have begun
In Act II of The Crucible, what is most clearly Reverend Hale’s reason for visiting the Proctors?
He wants to gather information about the Proctors to make his personal evaluation of them.
He wants to find evidence in order to exonerate Elizabeth from witchcraft charges.
He comes to warn Elizabeth that she has been officially charged by the court.
He is required to visit as an authority of the court.
What is the most likely connection between the needle found in the poppet and the needle discovered in Abigail’s belly?
Elizabeth has stuck the needle into the poppet in hopes of causing Abigail to suffer.
Mary Warren has stuck the needle into the poppet in the hopes of causing Elizabeth to be arrested.
Abigail, observing Mary Warren sewing the poppet next to her in court, puts a needle in her own belly in order to cast suspicion on either Proctor and his wife, or both.
Why did the girls want to continue with this idea of witchcraft?
For sport (fun)
To avoid getting punished
To get back at all those who have done them wrong
To draw attention to themselves
What historical event is The Crucible about?
The Salem Witch Trials
The North Berwick Witch Trials
The Spanish Inquisition
The Crusades
...a story that represents something beyond itself.
...when the characters or story represent historical events.
...when we represent abstract or moral ideas through words.
...All of the above.
The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.
Condemnation
Hooverism
McCarthyism
Unitary
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s America was overwhelmed with concerns about the threat of communism growing. What was this called?
The Scarlet Panic
The Red Scare
The Palmer Raids
The author of The Crucible.
Arthur Miller
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Taylor Caldwell
The Crucible was clearly a comment on the "__________________" for Communists that were being carried out by McCarthy and the HUAC.
hearings
McCarthyism
Red Scare
witch hunts
