Benchmark Review

Consider the following sentences.

1. I hear my brother talking on the phone with his girlfriend.

2. I hear my brother chatting on the phone with his girlfriend.

How does the connotation of the word 'chatting' in the second sentence convey the author's purpose?

• it implies that the conversation is not serious.

• It implies the conversation is very serious.

• It implies the conversation is funny.

• It implies anger and resentment in the conversation.

Citing textual evidence includes

• A lead-in

• Parenthesis

• quotes around the evidence

• page number

• All of the above

What is a character?

• a statement of truth

• language used by authors and poets

• a person, thing, animal in a story

• a break in the middle of the sentence.

Which of the following has the positive connotation?

• lazily

• carefree

• hastily

What is Central Idea

• The title of a source

• The topic of a source

• The main idea of the source

• The author's opinion on the subject

Read the sentence and answer the question.

1. I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most stubborn person that I know.

2. I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most persistent person that I know.

How does the connotation of the word "persistent" in the second sentence convey the author's purpose?

• it implies a positive characteristic

• It implies a careless characteristic

• It implies a playfully irresponsible characteristic

• It implies an increasingly negative characteristic.

Which of the following has a negative connotation?

• stare

• look steadily

• gaze

What is conflict?

• the time or place of the story

• what drives the plot and the action

• the point in the story in which the tension hits the highest point

• a main idea of a literary work.

What occurs when events or complications begin to resolve?

• Rising action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

Find the word that has the SAME meaning as this sentence.

The bat flew out of the cave at night.

• I had to bat away the swarm of flies.

• The coach threw the bat in the bag.

• The girl used the bat to hit a home run.

• The house was covered with bats at Halloween.