Lit Exam Study

Question 1

(A Chance in the World Story)
What was the biggest turning point in the narrator’s life?

Answer 1

When Mrs Levin gave him the books

Question 2

(A Chance in the World)
Why is “Watership Down” important to the story?

Answer 2

It shows how important reading is to the narrator and they show the parallels between the characters in the story and the narrator’s life.

Question 3

(A Chance in the World)
What do the rules that the Robinson’s make for the narrator cause him to do?

Answer 3

Value books

Question 4

(A Chance in the World)
How does the narrator justify (give a good reason) for stealing and lying?

Answer 4

By only using these methods for getting through the abuse in the Robinson’s house

Question 5

(A Chance in the World)
How do the books the narrator gets give him a chance others said he wouldn’t have?

Answer 5

They give him hope and a way to cope with the abuse.

Question 6

(A Chance in the World)
What is the narrator’s opinion of the Robinson’s?

Answer 6

They are cruel and abusive.

Question 7

(A Chance in the World)
What are two things that the narrator does to survive?

Answer 7

Stealing and hiding food and reading

Question 8

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
Who stretches out on the grass and looks at the clouds in the last stanza of the poem?

Answer 8

Someone that has completely forgotten/never knew about the war

Question 9

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
Why would the word “little” be repeated?

Answer 9

To show that memories of the war are lessening over time

Question 10

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
Why would the word “someone” be repeated?

Answer 10

To show that war is repetitive and that the people are nameless

Question 11

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
What do the lines “All the cameras have left-For another war…” show?

Answer 11

To show that there is always another war for the news to cover (they don’t really cover or show the after math it just gets ignored)

Question 12

(The End and the Beginning)
What time does the use of “unseavered head” create?

Answer 12

An ironic tone

Question 13

(The End and the Beginning)
Why would the author use the phrases “rusted-out arguments” and “garbage pile”?

Answer 13

To show that arguments are old and that they need to be “thrown out” and forgotten

Question 14

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
What does it mean when the narrator says “their sleeves will go ragged from rolling them up”?

Answer 14

It will take a long time to rebuild from the war

Question 15

(The End and the Beginning Poem)
What is the tone of stanzas 1-3?

Answer 15

It has a very practical tone

Question 16

(Entwined)
What is the lie that the narrator told at the beginning of the story?

Answer 16

That he wasn’t speeding

Question 17

(Entwined)
What has the accident done to the narrator?

Answer 17

Made him afraid of driving

Question 18

(Entwined)
How do you know the narrator is a music fan?

Answer 18

He turns up the music in the beginning of the story

Question 19

(Entwined)
What does Daria’s decision to call the narrator do?

Answer 19

Keeps the plot moving; allows the narrator to express his thoughts and feelings on the accident

Question 20

(Entwined)
What is the/a theme of the story?

Answer 20

We cannot escape the ties that bind us

Question 21

(Entwined)
Name some character traits of the narrator.

Answer 21

He likes music, is fearful of driving, is very honest, has a good heart

Question 22

(Entwined)
What did the narrator find out while watching the soccer game?

Answer 22

Chris Gramercy pushed Russel Gramercy in front of the narrators car.

Question 23

Metaphor

Answer 23

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 24

Tone

Answer 24

That attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject

Question 25

Diction

Answer 25

The linguistic choice a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, point of views, or tell a story

Question 26

Syntax

Answer 26

The set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence

Question 27

How to use a colon?

Answer 27

Use it when introducing a list, quotation, or explanation following an independent clause (complete sentence)

Question 28

Sensory details

Answer 28

Description that includes touch, sight, taste, sound, and smell