Unit Assessment



1.	Through foreshadowing, an author uses clues to __________.
	A.	explain why something came to be
	B.	predict the future
	C.	hint at events that will happen later
	D.	reveal the antagonist

2.	A moral is a practical lesson about right and wrong.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

Read the following excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid's story What I Have Been Doing Lately. Then answer question 3.
A deep hole had opened up before me. I looked in. The hole was deep and dark and I couldn't see the bottom. I thought, What's down there?, so on purpose I fell in. I fell and I fell, over and over, as if I were an old suitcase. On the sides of the deep hole I could see things written, but perhaps it was in a foreign language because I couldn't read them. Still I fell, for I don't know how long. As I fell I began to see that I didn't like the way falling made me feel. Falling made me feel sick and I missed all the people I had loved. I said, I don't want to fall anymore, and I reversed myself. I was standing again on the edge of the deep hole.



3.	Which literary device is used in this excerpt?
	A.	free verse
	B.	flashback
	C.	stream of consciousness
	D.	freestyle

4.	Analogies compare two things that are similar.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

5.	What reasons are likely to set an author's purpose?


6.	Click on the letter of the word or phrase that means about the same as the underlined word. When the saxophone player blew on mouthpiece of his instrument, his cheeks became bloated
	A.	puffed up
	B.	flushed
	C.	sagged
	D.	softened

7.	List some of the techniques writers use to create humor.


8.	Authors create __________ through their choice of subject matter, setting, language, diction, and tone.
	A.	free verse
	B.	mood
	C.	paradox
	D.	irony

9.	A frame story is a story within which another story unfolds.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

10.	Click on the letter of the word or phrase that means about the same as the underlined word. The mother brooded about her son's careless spending habits.
	A.	was eager or excited about
	B.	approached someone in order to speak
	C.	thought fretfully or anxiously about
	D.	encouraged the development of

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