Unit 4 The Fight for Freedom Unit test review

What is mood?

• The feeling the reader gets from the story

• The author's attitude towards the subject in the story

• When I get mad because my mom yells at me

• To gives clues as to what is going to happen next in the story

What is a historical fiction story?

• A piece of writing that is written with the purpose of educating or instructing the reader

• A piece of writing that is made up.

• A story that is made up but based on real historical events

• A piece of literature that has figurative language, rhyme scheme, rhythm

Read the sentence from the selection.

I would march around the New York apartment, wearing pink-flowered pajamas and his major’s cap, and he would laugh and tell me I was the best floor show in town.

• a show produced by children for their parents

• a series of musical or dance acts by professional performers

• a comedy routine done before bedtime

• a performance that is not professional enough to be on stage

What is an allusion?

• When the author refers to something well known in their writing

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• To give non human objects human qualitites

Read the paragraph from the selection. “Because that’s the way sky is,” I whispered to her. “Sky is all over, not just at the top.” But my voice trailed and made it more a question than a conviction. What is the meaning of conviction in this paragraph?

• A guilty verdict

• A questioning strategy

• A casual observation

• A strong statement

What is imagery?

• A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• When the author uses sensory details to paint a picture in the reader's mind

• To give a non human object human qualitites

Which sentence from the selection contains enough context clues to help determine the definition of the underlined word?

• It was true, I knew, that in the faraway part of the countryside where the sky and hills met, the colors were unclear.

• There was his uniform: deep khaki and glamorously foreign.

• My sister, too sophisticated at seven to provide a floor show, glowered.

• Elizabeth was me; but what were perceptions: kinds of mountains or trees?

What is an autobiography?

• A story written about a person's life by someone else

• A story written about a person's life by that person

• A story that is made up but based on historical events

• A completely made up story

Which text structure gives you an example of something that happened and then what happened because of it?

• Compare/Contrast

• Problem/Solution

• Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

What is a memoir?

• A story written about a person by another person

• A story written about a person's life by that person

• A completely made up story

• a narrative composed from personal experience