WHICH ELEMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE FICTIONAL NARRATIVE DOES THIS SENTENCE BEST REPRESENT?

29 Jul WHICH ELEMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE FICTIONAL NARRATIVE DOES THIS SENTENCE BEST REPRESENT?

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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question.
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1. Which one of the following statements contains a simile?

A. The soaring bird quickly disappeared from our sight.

B. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

C. The maple wears a gayer scarf.

D. The woods went up in flame.

2. Below is the last stanza of a poem, “Dover
Beach,” written in 1876 by Matthew Arnold.

Ah, love, let us be
true

To one another! for
the world, which seems

To lie before us like
a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful,
so new,

Hath really neither
joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor
peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on
a darkling plain

Swept with confused
alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies
clash by night.

Which of these statements best describes the remedy Arnold
proposes for the world?

A. In this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith.

B. Our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive
chaos.

C. Look to your dreams for answers to life’s questions.

D. The world may end, but love conquers all.

3. In poetry and fiction, the main reason for using vivid
words is to

A. explain an idea.

B. illustrate the writer’s bias.

C. create a mental image.

D. keep the reader guessing.

This question is based on the following poem.

Some say life’s a
monopoly game,

spread like a picnic
to kill the grass, assuring no winners
save some ants,

until amid the fading
rants,

none there are to
punch one’s pass

into the halls of
fame.

4. The metaphor for life in this poem is

A. a picnic.

B. some ants.

C. a monopoly game.

D. halls of fame.

This question based on the “The Little Match
Girl,” which you read in this

study unit.

5. Who is the protagonist in “The Little Match
Girl”?

A. The passerby who finds the little girl’s body

B. The little match girl’s cruel father

C. The little match girl’s grandmother

D. The little match girl

This question is based on the following passage.

Except for a few pigeons, Central Park was deserted. Mist
hung above the chilled grass. Patches of old

snow, scattered here and there, looked like white puddles.
The sun hung just above the horizon, casting red

and orange streaks across low-hanging clouds. The portly,
gray-haired gentleman jogging down the path

looked out of place. For one thing, he was dressed in
ordinary street clothes, not a sweat suit. Also, every

few seconds, he looked anxiously back over his shoulder.
Coming closer to me, I saw that his face was

flushed. He was panting, almost gasping. Abruptly, looking
this way and that, he moved behind a tree.

Seeming not to notice my presence, he stood with his back
against the trunk, panting heavily. After a

moment, he poked his head out to survey the path. It was
still empty, except for a squirrel that dashed

across the path like a furry dart. I checked my watch. It
was now 7:30. Mentally marking the time, I aimed

my camera toward the man’s face.

6. In this paragraph, a white puddle is a simile for

A. snow.

B. grass.

C. mist.

D. fear.

This question is based on the following sentence.

Detective Simon Levant had the unconscious habit of
caressing his moustache while pondering evidence.

7. Which element of an effective fictional narrative does
this sentence best represent?

A. Conflict

B. PlotC. Theme

D. Characterization

This question is based on the following poem:

Seasons are
celebrations.

A year’s a Ferris
wheel.

Both honor our
world’s habit

of spinning ’round a
star.

8. Which one of the following sentences best expresses the
main idea of this poem?

A. There are four seasons in a year.

B. Season are celebrations, while a year on Earth is a
habit.

C. Seasons and Ferris wheels are like Earth’s journey around
the sun.

D. The world has a habit of spinning around.

This question is based on the following paragraph.

(1) After my interview with these four young people, I
reflected on the quiet sense of “difference” I sensed

with many of these Upward Bound students. (2) As a college
teacher who has also taught seventh-grade

science, I have some experience with the faces and attitudes
of adolescence. (3) Upward Bound students

had those faces. (4) There was the puzzled coping with
changing bodies—hormone hell. (5) There was

ambivalence about “authority figures” and
uncertainties about whether or not the world would have some

place for them. (6) There were the studied rationalizations
about lapses on homework assignments,

moments of despair, adolescent angst—all of that. (7) But
there was also that “difference.” (8) Maybe it’s

one part knowing people care and one part beginning to trust
the future. (9) I wasn’t sure.

(Turner, “Onward and Upward: Upward Bound Helps Open
College Doors,” Virginia Journal of Education,

June 1992. Adapted as fair usage.)

9. Which sentence in the passage can best be considered
factual?