Reading Comprehension Test #2 - Terms Review

What is a flashback?

• hints or clues suggesting what may happen later in a story

• interrupting the plot of a story to recreate an incident of earlier time

• the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• when something happens that is different from what is expected

What is foreshadowing?

• hints or clues suggesting what may happen later in a story

• interrupting the plot of a story to recreate an incident of earlier time

• the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• when something happens that is different from what is expected

Which answer choice provides the best example of foreshadowing?

• "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong."

  -Ponyboy Curtis

• "Man, that's a tuff car. Mustangs are tuff."

  -Johnny Cade

• "I remembered you sayin' something about it once. And me and you went to see that movie, 'member?"

  -Johnny Cade

• "You like fights, don't you, Soda?"

  -Ponyboy Curtis

What is tone?

• the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• interrupting the plot of a story to recreate an incident of earlier time

• the author's attitude toward the subject

• when something happens that is different from what is expected

What is mood?

• the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

• interrupting the plot of a story to recreate an incident of earlier time

• the author's attitude toward the subject

• when something happens that is different from what is expected

Which detail from the passage best creates a gloomy, lonely mood?

• "All those years ago, I had sat in a desk in this room..."

• "The school was dark and cold, and the hallways were empty."

• "It was here that I was a freshman in high school..."

• "I walked by rows of blue-gray locker doors..."

Which words best describe the tone of the passage?

• biting and sarcastic

• enthusiastic and energetic

• formal and polite

• casual and informal

Which passage below has the most critical tone?

• On the train, the man slowly clipped his fingernails. He focused on the task, beginning with his pinky finger and finishing with his thumb.

• On the train, the tired, old man began clipping his fingernails. He was trying to distract himself from his loneliness by focusing on this one small task, moving from pinky to thumb.

• The man -- right in the middle of the crowded train -- began to clip his long, yellow fingernails. He did it slowly, as if he didn't even care that a dozen other people could see and hear him.

• The man on the train clipped his fingernails.  It took him 2 minutes 8 seconds.  He started on his pinky and finished with his thumb.  When he was finished, he put the clippers back in his pocket.

Which words and phrases best show a sentimental tone in the passage?

• "warmth", "comforting hug", and "home"

• "car", "tomato soup", and "door"

• "old", "halting", and "out the window"

• "driveway", "screen door", and "slowly stirred"

Which word best describes the tone of the sentence?

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful