ELEMENTS OF PROSE Answers: 1.Theme 2.Setting 3.Point of View 4.Conflict 5.Character 6.Plot Write the letter of your answer.
1. The time and location in which a story takes place
A. Plot B. Setting C. Conflict D. Characterization
2. What is the genre name that uses characters, settings,
and plots, that aren't real but could resemble the truth? A. Non-Fiction B. Fantasy C. Fiction D. Historical Fiction
3. The underlying meaning or main idea of a story is called
the ______________. A. Theme B. Mood C. Plot D. Setting Write the letter of your answer.
4. The angle from which the story is told
A. Camera view C. Point of view B. Character view D. None of the above
5. The central, main character of a story is called the
____________. A. Antagonist C. Antagonizer B. Protagonist D. Instigator
6. The opposition of forces, essential to the plot is
called__________? A. Setting B. Conflict C. Character D. Climax 7. The most exciting part of the story is called the _____. A. Setting B. Exposition C. Climax D. Rising action
8. What is a person or animal which takes part in the action
of a story called? A. Setting B. Plot C. Character D. Narrator
9. What is the sequence of events involving characters and
a central conflict called? A. Setting B. Plot C. Character D. Conflict
10. The character who opposes the main character is called
the __________. A. Protagonist B. Antagonist C. Lead D. Narrator 11. Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people. A. conflict B. genre C. nonfiction D. fiction
12. Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of
as though it were something else. A. hyperbole B. metaphor C.personification D. apostrophe
13. Anything that stands for or represents
something else. A. Genre B. fiction C. symbol D. sound 14. General term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality. A. allusion B. metaphor C. irony D. limerick
15. A person or an animal that takes part in the
action of a literary work. A. character B. imagery C. haiku D. symbol 1. The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Epic
2. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Epic
3. I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great by Stephen Spender
A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Epic
4. The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare
A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Epic
5. Ida B. Wells and Her Passion for Justice by Lee D. Baker
A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Epic “THE LOTTERY” By Shirley Jackson Answers: 1.Beamed 2.Clung 3.Boisterous 4.Lapse 5.Daintily 6.Petulantly 7.Lottery Central Idea of the story “The Lottery”
The danger of blindly following
traditions Sensory Images are images created in your head from a very detailed description of something, often using more than one of the five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing
1. The buzzing sound filled the air.
2. The perfumed smelled like flowers and vanilla. 3. The pizza tasted like cardboard. 4. The muddy socks were piled on top of the rug. 5. The mud felt silky and cold between my toes. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT AND HER PASSION FOR JUSTICE By Lee. D. Baker 1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett is known as the crusader of _____. A. courage B. justice C. heroism D. goodness
2. Her _________ escalated as she was commissioned to
write for major black newspapers across the country. A. writing skills C. computer skills B. typing skills D. singing skills
3. Equal rights, fighting against segregation, unfair
practices of the law, lynching and other social injustices are Ida’s __________. A. Beliefs B. Advocacies C. Choices D. Dreams 4. She was an educator, a journalist, a feminist, a businesswoman, a newspaper owner, a public speaker, a suffragist, a civil rights activist, and a women's club leader. A. Shirley Jackson C. Lee D. Baker B. Ida B. Wells-Barnett D. Stephen Spender
5. Ida B. Wells-Barnett fought for the equal rights
of the ____________ people. A. American C. African-Mexican B. African-American D. Filipino-American 6. It means to kill (someone) as punishment especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. A. lying C. leaving B. lynching D. limping
7. The literary work entitled Ida B. Wells-Barnett and
Her Passion for Justice by Lee D. Baker is a ______________. A. Poem B. Prose C. Fiction D. Poetry LIMERICK LIMERICKS ABOUT ME Make an autobiographical limericks. In other words, you will create a poem of five lines about yourself. Observe the use of rhyme scheme. To be sure, label each line with corresponding letters. For example: I seem to be as prickly as a cactus spike But really I am as soft as the juicy flesh inside a____________. Suggested beginnings: • I'm good at.../ I'm not good at... • I used to be.../ But now I'm... • I am.../ I am not... • If you.../ Then I'll… • I like.:./ But I don't like... • I know a lot about... / I know nothing about... • I admire.../ I don't respect... A limerick is a five-line witty poem with a distinctive rhythm. The first, second and fifth lines, the longer lines, rhyme. The third and fourth shorter lines rhyme (AABBA). What effect does the rhyme scheme give the poem? Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, It was many and many a year ago, Went envying her and me— In a kingdom by the sea, Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know, That a maiden there lived whom you may know In this kingdom by the sea) By the name of Annabel Lee; That the wind came out of the cloud by night, And this maiden she lived with no other Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. thought But our love it was stronger by far than the love Than to love and be loved by me. Of those who were older than we— I was a child and she was a child, Of many far wiser than we— In this kingdom by the sea, And neither the angels in Heaven above But we loved with a love that was more than Nor the demons down under the sea love— Can ever dissever my soul from the soul I and my Annabel Lee— Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven For the moon never beams, without bringing me Coveted her and me. dreams And this was the reason that, long ago, Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; In this kingdom by the sea, And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; My beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side So that her highborn kinsmen came Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, And bore her away from me, In her sepulchre there by the sea— To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.