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What is the difference between tone and mood in literature?
Tone is what your voice sounds like while mood is how you feel.
Tone is the emotion or attitude of the speaker while mood is the overall emotion or atmosphere.
Tone is the overall emotion or atmosphere while mood is the emotion or attitude of the speaker.
Tone is the message you get from a passage while mood is the main idea.
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What is the theme of a literary text?
The characters' personalities
The emotion of the main speaker
The message or "moral"
The main idea
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What is the connotation of a word or phrase?
The emotion of the speaker using the word.
The dictionary definition
The correct spelling
The associated emotions and imagery
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How do you figure out what a word means in context (rather than looking it up? Select all that apply.
You look at the surrounding words.
You look at the root of the word.
You make a random guess.
You think about the overall plot and associations.
You pick the answer the sounds the best.
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How do you get full points on a short response question? Select all that apply.
You make your answer sound really fancy.
You write in complete sentences.
You elaborate on your answer using specific examples or evidence.
You start your sentence with "because".
You use big words to show how smart you are.
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What does it mean to compare two things?
To look for similarities
To look for differences
To analyze one thing in detail
To look for pros and cons
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Select all of the main types of figurative language.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Allusion
Personification
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What is hyperbole?
Comparing two unlike things.
Referencing an outside concept or text.
Giving non-humans, human traits.
Exaggerating to make a point.
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What is an allusion?
Comparing two unlike things.
Referencing an outside concept or text.
Giving a non-human, human traits.
Exaggerating to make a point.
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What is the rhetorical device of parallelism?
Repeating the exact same words over and over.
Two lines that have the same slope.
Repeating similar sentence structures or phrases over and over.
Repeating the same themes over and over.
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What is the rhetorical device of repetition?
Repeating the exact same words over and over.
Two lines that have the same slope.
Repeating similar sentence structures or phrases over and over.
Repeating the same themes over and over.
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What does it mean to infer something from a text? Select all that apply.
Read between the lines.
Read and answer a question directly.
Make an educated guess, based on limited information.
Understand explicit information.
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What is a stanza?
A paragraph in a poem
A fancy word for "stand"
A form of meter in a poem
Every five lines in a poem
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What does the word symbolize mean in literature?
To draw in picture form.
To represent or exemplify
To bang two cymbals together.
To mark in a key on a map.
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If a question asks you to "cite evidence," what do you need to do?
Use a general example from your own life.
Use an general example from the text.
Elaborate even longer than normal.
Use a specific quote from the text with citation.
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What is a character's motivation in a text?
The character's reason for action.
The character's physical traits.
The character's will to live.
The character's most important moment.
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If a story is in chronological order, how is it arranged?
Through a random series of flashbacks and flash forwards
From the most interesting part, to the least interesting part
From beginning to end
From the end to the beginning.
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What is imagery in a text? Select all that apply.
Descriptive language
Straight-forward language
Basic definitions and facts.
Descriptions that evoke the five senses.
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What is the central idea of a text?
The "moral" of the text
The most important point of the text
The theme of the text
A basic summary of the text
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What should you do while reading the passages on the FSA to make sure you are successful on the text questions? Select all that apply.
Take notes on important ideas and details as you read.
Paraphrase paragraphs and large sections of text as you read.
Actively look for central idea and/or theme as you read
Read everything quickly and try to remember all the details by memory.
Go back to the text to look for answers to questions.