8th Grade Fiction Quiz Review

Match the following

• Situational Irony

• When a reader knows more information than the characters in a story.

• Verbal Irony

• When a character says something but actually means the opposite.

• Dramatic Irony

• When there is a contrast between what the reader anticipates and what ends up happening.

​ (a)   ​ is a device used to create tension in the reader.​

• Suspense
• Foreshadowing
• Humor

A device used to make the reader laugh or feel amused.

• Funny

• Suspense

• Humor

• Foreshadowing

A device authors use to hint at what will happen later in the story.

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Humor

Laurie's teacher saying that there is no one named Charles in the kindergarten is an example of...

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Situational Irony

• Foreshadowing

A town called Summit is actually very flat.

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Situational Irony

• Foreshadowing

Instead of being scared that he is kidnapped, Johnny says he's never had so much fun in his entire life.

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Situational Irony

• Foreshadowing

The kidnappers pay the ransom so that the father will take his son back.

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Situational Irony

• Foreshadowing

How does the author build suspense in the story "Charles"?

• By having Laurie's mom schedule a meeting with the teacher.

• By presenting the classroom through Laurie's descriptions.

• By never allowing the reader meet Charles and his mother.

• By having Charles hit the teacher and stay after school.

Johnny is throwing rocks at a kitten in the beginning of "The Ransom of Red Chief"

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Suspense