7.3 Post Test Lit

Question 1

What is the theme of a story?

Answer 1

The message or lesson conveyed in a text.

Question 2

What is an objective summary?

Answer 2

An unbiased summary of a story

Question 3

What type of figurative language is this?
The pesky pigs were purposely petrified by the wolf.

Answer 3

alliteration

Question 4

What type of figurative language is this?

The pigs were as dumb as a bag of rocks.

Answer 4

Simile

Question 5

What is an indirect quote?

Answer 5

An indirect quote does not have quotation marks. For example: The little pig told the wolf to go home.

Question 6

What is personification?

Answer 6

Giving human characteristics to an animal or object.

Question 7

What is dialogue?

Answer 7

A part of a text where two characters are having a conversation.

Question 8

How do you punctuate dialogue?

Answer 8

with a comma separating the tag from the dialogue and quotation marks around what the character says. Example below.

The wolf said, “I am going to blow your house down!”