Unit 2B Study Guide

When trying to identify the theme of a story, what are you looking for?

• Central message or underlying meaning of the narrative
• The number of pages in the story
• The author's favorite food
• The color of the book cover

When you make an inference about a story, what are you trying to determine?

• The author's favorite color
• The publication date of the story
• The meaning or conclusion that is not explicitly stated in the text
• The main characters in the story

What is dialogue?

• A type of plant
• A conversation between two or more people
• The main idea of a story

• The lesson or moral of a story

How can you identify stage directions in a drama or play?

• Identify them by looking for underlined text
• Identify them by looking for bolded text
• Identify them by looking for italicized text or text enclosed in parentheses.
• Identify them by looking for text in all caps

How do you identify the setting or plot of a story?

• By paying attention to the time, place, and events that occur in the story.
• By focusing only on the characters in the story

What is the purpose of having stage directions in a drama?

• To give historical background of the play
• To list the names of the characters
• To provide instructions for actors' movements and positioning on stage

What is an idiom?

• A phrase or expression with a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning
• The main idea of a passage

What does the word astonished mean?

• To be amazed or surprised
• To be uninterested
• To be indifferent
• To be bored

What should you do when the question asks you to look back at a certain paragraph?

• Ask the teacher for help
• Carefully read the paragraph again to find the relevant information
• Look at the next paragraph instead
• Skip the paragraph and guess the answer

What are graphical elements?

• Visual pictures used in design and presentation

• Written paragraphs and sentences
• Geometric shapes and patterns
• Musical notes and symbols