1. Unit 4 Pretest
1. A writer’s unique use of language that allows a reader to “hear” a distinct human personality in his or
her writing is known as what?
a. Point-of-view
b. Genre
c. Voice
d. Tone
2. What term is used to describe a writer or speaker’s choice of words?
a. Dialogue
b. Speech
c. Rhetoric
d. Diction
3. What is the writer’s attitude towards his or her subject?
a. Mood
b. Tone
c. Point-of-view
d. Main idea
4. Rewriting someone else’s idea in my own words is called:
a. Paraphrasing
b. Copying
c. Quoting
d. Scanning
5. What type of story is known for being very funny and having lots of exaggeration?
a. Tragedy
b. Drama
c. Fable
d. Tall tale
6. The exaggerated statement, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse,” is an example of what?
a. Lie
b. Imagism
c. Hyperbole
d. Realism
7. What style of writing truthfully imitates ordinary life from a particular region?
a. Local color
b. Naturalist
c. Romantic
d. Transcendentalist
8. ______________________ is saying less than is actually or literally true.
a. Overstatement
b. Exaggeration
c. Tall telling
d. Understatement
2. 9. What words and phrases in the text help a reader figure out unfamiliar words?
a. Context clues
b. Dialogue
c. Diction
d. Vocabulary
10. There are two types of ___________, the struggle between opposing forces that drives a story’s plot:
external and internal.
a. Connotation
b. Conflict
c. Climax
d. Cliché
11. First-person, second-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient are all types of what?
a. Tone
b. Mood
c. Purpose
d. Point-of-view
12. Knowing when and where a story takes place helps provide _____________________.
a. Cultural context
b. Biography
c. Atmosphere
d. Ambiance
13. What is the term used to describe the one or two sentences in a story that state its main idea?
a. Works cited
b. Thesis statement
c. Source
d. Plot
14. The following statement is an example of what?
The pink roses, smelling of morning dew and perfume, curved upwards towards the feverish sun.
a. Point-of-view
b. Simile
c. Imagery
d. Setting
15. The way the events in a story are put together is known as ___________________.
a. Parallelism
b. Inverted parallelism
c. Paradox
d. Plot structure
16. Who is the character or voice that relates the story’s events to the reader?
a. Narrator
b. Protagonist
c. Antagonist
d. Anti-hero
3. 17. The following is an example of what type of point-of-view?
I walked to the store to buy some eggs. A man tried to talk to me, but I didn’t answer.
a. Third-person omniscient
b. Third-person limited
c. Second person
d. First person
18. If a reader knows how a particular society views a specific topic that a text is describing, he or she has
_________________.
a. Secondary sources
b. Social context
c. Logical fallacy
d. Purpose
19. _____________________ is the time and place in which the action of a story happens.
a. Location
b. Plot
c. Setting
d. Exposition
20. A person, place, or object that has a concrete meaning but also represents something else, like an idea or
feeling, is a what?
a. Suspense
b. Structure
c. Symbol
d. Style
Bonus: Who is Mark Twain?
