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HMH Thrill of Horror Unit Quiz

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the intense feeling an audience goes through while waiting for what happens next?

a)

tone

b)

suspense

c)

tension

d)

foreshadowing

2.

What is the literary term that defines the atmosphere or feeling of a text?

a)

foreshadowing

b)

mood

c)


setting

d)

suspense

3.

What is the literary term that defines where and when the story takes place?

a)

mood

b)

tone

c)

setting

d)

place

4.

What is it called when situations begin ordinary and then become extraordinary?

a)


surprising sequence of events

b)

chronological order

c)


Magical events

d)

cause and effect

5.

The feeling of not knowing what is going to happen to a character. It gets more intense because we know that bad things happen when characters go where they shouldn't in horror stories

a)


External Conflict (Source of Threat)

b)

Suspense

c)

Parallel World (Supernatural Event)

d)

Setting

6.

The events of a story that make the reader interested in the story being told.

a)

Quest for Forbidden Knowledge

b)


Good vs. Evil

c)


Plot

d)

Setting

7.

When the story doesn't happen in our "regular world," but in a similar world that is different in a creepy way.

a)


Plot

b)


Parallel World

c)


External Threat

d)

Unreliable narrator or "crazy person"

8.

Something goes wrong inside the character, and the person turns into a monster

a)


Parallel World (Supernatural Event)

b)

Logical Event (Supernatural Event)

c)

THEME

d)


Internal Conflict (Source of Threat)

9.

The author's message about humanity as a whole.

a)

External Conflict (Source of Threat)

b)


Internal Conflict (Source of Threat)

c)

Plot

d)

Theme

10.

The Food Group Pyramid tells how to eat healthy. It shows how food is divided into six groups. It is important to eat foods that belong to each group every day. The pyramid helps show how much of each you should eat.
What is the author's purpose?

a)


to tell a story about pyramids

b)


to convince you to eat vegetables

c)

to inform you about the Food Group Pyramid

d)


to explain how to go shopping for food

11.

When you can't trust the person telling the story, you have an

a)

limited narrartor

b)

humorous narrator

c)

trustworthy narrator

d)

unreliable narrator

12.

When information is not directly given, you can attempt to ______ 

a)

guess

b)

infer

c)

hypothesize

d)

give up

13.

Writers build suspense using which of the following techniques?

a)

Mysterious sounds and characters

b)

Foreshadowing

c)


Unexpected events and twists

d)


All of these

14.

What is the definition of climax? 

a)


the turning point of the story

b)


the beginning of the story

c)


the struggle between two characters

d)


the point when the conflict is resolved

15.

Interest and suspense are built during which part of the story? 

a)

exposition

b)

rising action

c)

climax

d)

falling action

16.

Choose the two words that best complete the sentence.
During the introduction, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.

a)


characters, conflict 

b)


climax, conflict 

c)

characters, falling action 

d)


conflict, resolution

17.

Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order? 

a)


exposition, falling action, climax, rising action, resolution 

b)


exposition, falling action, rising action, climax, resolution

c)


exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution 

d)

rising action, falling action, exposition, climax, resolution

18.

What is the synonym we use to describe the part of the story where the loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved?

a)

conclusion

b)

exposition

c)

inciting incident

d)

resolution

19.

Irony

a)


hinting at what is to come

b)

the opposite of what is expected

c)


a message or overall idea

d)


an item that represents a bigger idea

20.

When the audience knows something that that characters in the story don't?

a)


Situational Irony

b)


Dramatic Irony

c)


Verbal Irony

21.

When the situation turns out differently than expected

a)


Situational Irony

b)


Dramatic Irony

c)


Verbal Irony

22.

When someone says the opposite of what they mean

a)


Situational Irony

b)


Dramatic Irony

c)


Verbal Irony

23.

The struggle between opposing forces; the problem to be solved.

a)

conflict

b)

dynamic character

c)

static character

24.

When a repeats a word in a poem or prose it is too

a)

to signify that they really like that word

b)

to show an insight into the character's/author's feelings

c)

to irritate the reader into paying attention

d)

to give a clue about the ending

25.

What is the definition of the word TONE?

a)

serious and immediate danger

b)

the feeling there reader gets for the overall work

c)

the author's attitude towards the work, setting, or characters

d)

the way you convey words

26.

Which word does this definition apply to? Forbidding or uninviting in appearance.

a)

eerie

b)

setting

c)

peril

d)

grim

27.

What is a "genre"? Select the best answer.

a)

A movie

b)

A category of film, literature, music, or other art form

c)

A type of story

d)

A type of book

28.

Which type of writing examines, analyzes, and interprets a particular work?

a)

argumentative

b)

narrative

c)

opinion writing

d)

literary criticism

29.

What do you do when you "paraphrase"?

a)

restate ALL information using your own words

b)

retell the central points and most important details

c)

a group of sentences with the same topic in a piece of writing

d)

write what ever feels right

30.

What's the author's purpose?

a)

The writers reason for living

b)

the author's favorite part of the story

c)

the author's reason/goal for writing something

d)

the writer's audience

31.

What does "justify" mean?

a)

to make something grow in strength

b)

having similar or comparable parts

c)

to prove something is right or vaild

d)

to contribute to the development of the central idea

32.


Which punctuation mark can be used to signal a break OR a pause to the reader?

a)

question mark

b)

exclamation point

c)

apostrophe

d)

comma

33.

Add a comma in the appropriate place : If Frankenstein's monster is frightening he is also sympathetic.

a)

If Frankenstein's monster is frightening, he is also sympathetic.

b)

If Frankenstein's monster, is frightening he is also sympathetic.

c)

If Frankenstein's monster is frightening he is, also, sympathetic.

d)

If Frankenstein's monster is frightening he is also sympathetic.

34.

Epic poems use word choice, imagery, and figurative language to carefully convey meaning and tone. "A whirlpool thick with sludge," is an example of which poetic language?

a)

word choice

b)

figurative language

c)

theme

d)

imagery

35.

What does it mean to be an "unreliable narrator"?

a)

to have a narrator that cannot be trusted for some reason

b)

to have a narrator that does nothing interesting in the story

c)

to have a narrator that tell s the story from his point of view

d)

to have a narrator who has an attitude

36.

How the main conflict is resolved

a)

resolution

b)

ending

c)

rising action

d)

alliteration

37.

Which one is correct?

a)

"Now you know why I couldn't wait to get here," said Elba.

b)

"Now you know why I couldn't wait to get here said Elba."

c)

Now you know why I couldn't wait to get here" said Elba."

d)

"Now you know, why I couldn't wait to get here." said Elba.

38.

Before a "CONJUNCTION" (For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So (FANBOYS)) which joins two sentences, there needs to be a comma. Which best show cases this?

a)

The little boy replied, "Mom! Sally ate all the cookies!"

b)

She lives at 508 Eqast Courtland Ave., Stateville, NC.

c)

I knew that Bugatti would sell quickly, but I had no idea the price would skyrocket after the purchase.

d)

Your car, by the way, got squashed by an elephant.

39.

Which example best shows a comma separating a dependent and independent clause?

a)

Certainly, Liza is going to be here by noon.

b)

I hate doing homework, because I feel like I'm never doing it right.

c)

Zack lives on West Elm St., NY.

d)

When you have the time, please make me some of your world famous cake.

40.

The purpose of irony in literature is often to:

a)

confuse the reader

b)

make the story longer

c)

create tension or humor

d)

avoid using metaphors