HMH Thrill of Horror Unit Quiz

What is the intense feeling an audience goes through while waiting for what happens next?

• tone

• suspense

• tension

• foreshadowing

What is the literary term that defines the atmosphere or feeling of a text?

• foreshadowing

• mood

• 
  setting

• suspense

What is the literary term that defines where and when the story takes place?

• mood

• tone

• setting

• place

What is it called when situations begin ordinary and then become extraordinary?

• 
  surprising sequence of events

• chronological order

• 
  Magical events

• cause and effect

The feeling of not knowing what is going to happen to a character. It gets more intense because we know that bad things happen when characters go where they shouldn't in horror stories

• 
  External Conflict (Source of Threat)

• Suspense

• Parallel World (Supernatural Event)

• Setting

The events of a story that make the reader interested in the story being told.

• Quest for Forbidden Knowledge

• 
  Good vs. Evil

• 
  Plot

• Setting

When the story doesn't happen in our "regular world," but in a similar world that is different in a creepy way.

• 
  Plot

• 
  Parallel World

• 
  External Threat

• Unreliable narrator or "crazy person"

Something goes wrong inside the character, and the person turns into a monster

• 
  Parallel World (Supernatural Event)

• Logical Event (Supernatural Event)

• THEME

• 
  Internal Conflict (Source of Threat)

The author's message about humanity as a whole.

• External Conflict (Source of Threat)

• 
  Internal Conflict (Source of Threat)

• Plot

• Theme

The Food Group Pyramid tells how to eat healthy. It shows how food is divided into six groups. It is important to eat foods that belong to each group every day. The pyramid helps show how much of each you should eat.
What is the author's purpose?

• 
  to tell a story about pyramids

• 
  to convince you to eat vegetables

• to inform you about the Food Group Pyramid

• 
  

  to explain how to go shopping for food