Poetry, Stories, and Drama

This text is a

• poem

• drama

• story

The sentences are from paragraph 14 of the story. What element in the text of a play would most likely give this information to the reader?

• cast of characters

• setting

• dialogue

• stage directions

What is the best definition of ¨callers¨ as it is used in paragraph 11 of the story?

• people who call on the phone

• people who come to the door

• people who call out numbers in a Bingo game

• people who call someone´s name out loud

How would the story be different if told from Jesse´s point of view?

• The reader would know why Jesse was late getting out of bed.

• The reader would know why Jesse didn’t go fishing.

• The reader would know Jesse’s inner thoughts instead of Winnie’s.

• The reader would know why Jesse doesn’t offer to go answer the door

The setting is the time and place where the story happens. How does the reader know the setting in the story?

• The author states the setting in the first paragraph.

• The reader must infer the setting from clues in the text.

• The author reveals the setting through the dialogue in paragraph 6.

• The author doesn’t provide enough clues for the reader to know the setting

Which best describes the narrator in the story?

• The narrator is one of the characters

• The narrator tells the story in first-person.

• The narrator tells the story in third-person.

• There is no narrator.

This text is a

• poem

• drama

• story

Here is a line from the play of “Tuck Everlasting.” What two features of a play does this line include?

• cast of characters and stage directions

• setting and dialogue

• stage directions and dialogue

• cast of characters and dialogue

Read the line from the play, ¨Tuck Everlasting.¨ What does the term “slug-a-bed” mean?

• someone who sleeps in

• someone who has slugs in his bed

• someone whose alarm clock doesn’t go of

• someone who doesn't usually eat breakfast

The stage directions tell that Miles and Winnie are returning from an early-morning fishing trip. Which line from the play best explains why they aren’t carrying any fish?

• line 3

• line 4

• line 5

• line 6