Review Midterm

Question 1

What type of quote-integrating technique requires you to adapt the verb tense?

Answer 1

3: Truncating and paraphrasing

Question 2

Fix the comma splice in the following sentence: I am not angry with you, I am not happy with you, either.

Answer 2

I am not angry with you, but I am not happy with you, either.
I am not angry with you. I am not happy with you, either.

Question 3

Mowervator, ultra-sonic dryer, retina-pattern-scanner, jumbo-jet, are four words used by the writer in the story. What can they tell us about the world that Monica and David live in?

Answer 3

These words tell us that they live in a futuristic and advanced technological world.

Question 4

What type of clause should be found on both sides of a colon?

Answer 4

Independent clauses

Question 5

What differentiates the topic from the theme?

Answer 5

A topic is a phrase or word describing what the story is about. In contrary, the theme is an independent clause or sentence telling us what it is saying about the topic.

Question 6

How do we call something concrete that represents something abstract beyond its literal meaning?

Answer 6

A symbol

Question 7

What is the literary device that allows the reader to be prepared for what is coming next in a work?

Answer 7

Foreshadowing

Question 8

What is a stock character?

Answer 8

It is a stereotyped and easily recognizable character.

Question 9

What type of irony corresponds to the definition below?
The narrator says one thing but means the opposite.

Answer 9

Verbal irony

Question 10

What are some hints that something is a symbol in a story?

Answer 10

If the thing is described at length, mentioned more than once, and placed at a crucial moment in the story.

Question 11

What is the point of view in this passage? “And the boy thought ‘this is wonderful!’ and left his father.”

Answer 11

It is a Limited 3rd person point of view

Question 12

What is wrong with the integration of this quotation? Correct the error.
- The bear says: “That sounds fine. Go downstairs and give it to her.”

Answer 12

• The bear gives advice to the child: “That sounds fine. Go downstairs and give it to her.”

Question 13

Consider the following passage describing Lexington’s journey in ‘‘Pig’’: [Lexington] he followed a series of signposts (THIS WAY FOR GUIDED TOURS), and came eventually to a small corrugated-iron shed set well apart from the main building (VISITORS’ WAITING-ROOM)” (631). Of which device is this an example?

Answer 13

Foreshadowing

Question 14

What kind of irony is used in the passage below?
“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”

Answer 14

Situational irony

Question 15

What does an objective point of view mean?

Answer 15

The objective point of view is when the narrator only describes only what he can see.

Question 16

What kind of characterization is the character of LeFou in Beauty and the Beast?

Answer 16

He is a foil character.

Question 17

Consider the following passage: “Monica Swinton was up in the nursery.” David is three years old. He is too old to be nursed. A the end of the story, it is said that Monica can finally have a biological child. In the earlier-mentioned passage, what literary device is used?

Answer 17

Foreshadowing