Midterm Review

Question 1

What point of view is this ?

Tim slammed the door. He walked upstairs and read a note from Shay. He kicked her trash and started crying.

Answer 1

It is a a third person objective point of view.
(It is like a camera.)

Question 2

Is that a theme or a topic?
“The importance of recognizing the symptoms of depression”

Answer 2

It is a topic
because it is not a independent clause

Question 3

What literary device can be linked to the fact the readers knows from the beginning of the story that Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with a heart trouble ?

Answer 3

Foreshadowing

Question 4

A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

Answer 4

Fable

Question 5

What component of setting is this sentence?
“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life “

Answer 5

Time

Question 6

What literary device is present in the following sentence: ‘’ Then I pick up Ruby-Doo-he’s as light as a girl-and throw him on my mom’s bed.’’

Answer 6

Direct characterization

Question 7

What is diction?

Answer 7

The words used.

Question 8

In the following sentence, where should one place the comma?
In “The Story of an Hour” the author uses diction to emphasize the idea that grief is full of complexe reactions.

Answer 8

In “The Story of an Hour,” the author uses diction to emphasize the idea that grief is full of complexe reactions.

Question 9

What literary device can be associated to the fact the author uses the word “illumination” in his sentence ?

Answer 9

Diction

Question 10

Identify the punctuation mistake in the following sentence: “The small birds are drinking water, the family is watching them.”

Answer 10

Comma splice

Question 11

Identify the syntactical error in the following sentence: “After finishing the game, it was clear that both were evenly matched.”

Answer 11

Dangling Modifier -> Who finished the game?

Question 12

What point of view is used in the story “Pig” by Roald Dahl?

Answer 12

First person point of view

Question 13

What literary device is used when the authors writes, “ When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - a joy that kills” ?

Answer 13

Situational irony. They think that she has died from happiness from seeing him but it is not the case. Also dramatic irony because the reader knows that she has died because of the realization that she is not free after all.

Question 14

What are the three types of irony ?

Answer 14

Verbal (say one thing but mean the other)

Situational (expect something but the opposite happens)

Dramatic (Reader knows something the character doesn’t know)

Question 15

What is the definition of foreshadowing ?

Answer 15

It is something that prepares the reader for what is going to happen.

Question 16

What literary device is shown in the following excerpt from the story “Pig”: “For the past thirty year, she had lived […] in a tiny cottage high up on the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, several miles from the nearest village.”

Answer 16

Setting (place)

Question 17

What are the three hints that can indicate symbolism ?

Answer 17

It occurs more than once.

It is use at strategic place (climax, beginning, end, title)

It is describe at length.

Question 18

What is the name of the literary device that represents something abstract with something concrete ?

Answer 18

Symbolism

Question 19

What literary device is shown in the following excerpt from the story “Pig”: “He was a small spongy man with livid jowls and a huge magenta nose, and when he smiled, bits of gold flashed at you marvellously from lots of different places inside his mouth.”

Answer 19

Characterization

Question 20

What’s the point of view used in “The Story of an Hour” ?

Answer 20

The author is using the third person limited.

Question 20

What is this kind of irony ?

I am going outside for fresh air and I light up a cigarette.

Answer 20

Situational irony