Academic and Literary Vocabulary - Springboard Activities 1.1-1.9
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- Q1
What is a literary genre?
The author's purpose in writing a text.
The setting of a narrative.
The type of figurative language used in a literary text.
The category or class to which a literary work belongs.
30s - Q2
Which is untrue about a narrator?
The narrator can also be the main character of the story.
The narrator can be involved in the story.
The narrator can be all-knowing.
The narrator is always the author.
30s - Q3
What is connotation?
The exact, literal meaning of a word.
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word.
30s - Q4
What is denotation?
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word.
The exact, literal meaning of a word.
30s - Q5
What is a narrative?
A type of writing that is organized in cause and effect structure.
A type of writing that is always fictional.
A type of writing that has a plot.
A type of writing that is always nonfictional.
30s - Q6
External coherence is ...
coherence within a single paragraph.
coherence between the paragraphs of an entire text.
30s - Q7
Internal coherence is ...
coherence within a paragraph.
coherence between the paragraphs of an entire text.
30s - Q8
Coherence is ...
the clear and orderly presentation of ideas in a paragraph or essay.
the final paragraphs of a text.
how a reader interprets a word's mood.
30s - Q9
Sensory language (or details) is ...
words or phrases that alway appeals to nature.
descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the five sense.
words or phrases that give you the sense that you can see dead people.
language that exaggerates the details.
30s - Q10
Which of the following does not apply to transition words and phrases?
help the writing flow.
creates a disconnected feel to writing.
help create internal and external coherence.
connect one sentence to the next, indicating the order in which things happen.
30s - Q11
A plot is ...
the peak of a story.
transition words in a coherent essay.
the sequence of events in a narrative.
a comparison between two seemingly unlike things.
30s - Q12
The exposition in a plot is ...
when the protagonist (main character) defeats the antagonist.
when the reader understands how the story is resolved.
when the reader learns important background and setting knowledge.
when the conflict is resolved.
30s - Q13
The conflict of a narrative is ...
when the protagonist fully addresses the problem.
the main problem that moves the plot forward.
the background knowledge that readers gain at the beginning.
the dialogue that occurs between the protagonist and antagonist.
30s - Q14
The protagonist in a narrative is ...
the bad guy.
the character in opposition of the main character.
the good guy.
the main character.
30s - Q15
The antagonist in a narrative is ...
the character in opposition of the main character.
the main character.
the bad guy.
the good guy.
30s