Unit Skills Assessment



1.	Which of the following is NOT an essential part of a plot?
	A.	metaphor
	B.	exposition
	C.	conflict
	D.	falling action

2.	Through ________, a reader recognizes the order of events in a literary work.
	A.	setting
	B.	making prediction
	C.	identifying sequence
	D.	paraphrasing

3.	Click on the letter of the word that means about the same as the underlined word. He often made impetuous decisions.
	A.	delibrate
	B.	wrong
	C.	difficult
	D.	rash

4.	A literary work’s mood is its overall emotional quality.
	A.	True
	B.	False

5.	Which of the following is NOT always true of an allegory?
	A.	It includes symbols.
	B.	It has two levels of meaning.
	C.	It is set in the past.
	D.	It teaches a moral lesson.

6.	Which of the following is an example of a theme?
	A.	love
	B.	It can be difficult to feel a sense of belonging in a new culture.
	C.	Tennis is a game that requires endurance and agility.
	D.	hope

7.	When you evaluate characters, you
	A.	make judgments and form opinions about them.
	B.	identify them.
	C.	make predictions about them.
	D.	analyze them in conjuction with the author's purpose.

8.	Diction refers to an author’s use of figurative language.
	A.	True
	B.	False

9.	Which of the following is an example of first-person point of view?
	A.	Tom went to the store to buy groceries.
	B.	You went to the store to buy groceries.
	C.	I went to the store to buy groceries.
	D.	Tom and Beth went to the store to buy groceries.

10.	Internal conflict is
	A.	a character's struggle against an outside force.
	B.	a struggle that takes place within the mind of a character.
	C.	when complications in a plot lead to the climax.
	D.	the distinctive use of language that conveys the narrator's personality

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