IN HIS NAME
Student’s Name:
Tehran International School
(Girls)
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Date: 93/3/7—Wed.May.28
Time: 60 minutes
Subject:Literature
Teacher’s Name:
Second Term Exam
2013-2014
Shahrzad Yazdanfar
Grade: Seven
No
Mark
Name
1 and define Two types of nonfiction.
Biographies: tell the story of someone’s life and are told from the perspective of another writer.
Autobiographiesandmemories: tell the story of the author’s life and reflect the writer’s thoughts and feelings about
events.
Letters: are written forms of communication from one person to another. A letter might share information, thoughts,
or feelings.
Journalsanddiaries: are records of daily events and the writer’s thoughts and feelings about them. They are meant to
be either public or private.
Essaysandarticles: are brief written works about a specific topic. The purpose of and essay or article might be to
explain, persuade, or inform
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Is “The Fall of The Hindenburg”, Fiction or nonfiction? How do you know?
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Nonfiction. Because it’s an article, which is a type of nonfiction.
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Define direct and indirect characterization.
 Direct Characterization: the writer described the character.
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 Indirect Characterization:the writer reveals the character through speech and actions.
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What are the five parts to which a plot is usually divided? Explainone of them.
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Exposition: includes the setting – the time and place of the story, the characters, and the basic situation.
Risingaction: includes the conflict, or the problem.
Climax: is the turning point of a story.
Fallingaction: is the part of the story when the conflict lessens.
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5. Resolution: is the story’s conclusion.
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Choose the letter of the short story element that best matches each item.
1. a deserted beach at dawn
A. setting B. plot
2. a student struggles to pass an exam
A. dialect
B. conflict
3. a wisecracking grandmother
A. characterB. setting
4. an unlikely hero saves another person
A. plot B. flashback
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Teacher’s name: Shahrzad Yazdanfar
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Teacher’s signature: ……………… Date: …………….
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Fill in the blanks using the following words:
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 (One of the words is redundant.)
epic
imagery
stanza
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Drama
script
Screen play
Oral tradition
a. Epic is story or long poem about the adventures of a larger-than-life hero.
b. Screenplay is the script for films .It includes camera angels and can allow for more scene changes
than a stage play.
c. Oraltraditionis the sharing of stories, cultures and ideas by word of mouth.
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d. Dramais a story told in dialogue in front of an audience.
e. Scriptmeans the text of a play with dialogue and directions for actors.
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Writers useimageryto bring poetry to life with descriptions of how their subjects look, sound, feel,
taste, and smell.
What is figurative language?
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It is writing or speech not meant to be taken literary. (poets use figures of speech to state ideas in new
ways.)
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Name and define 2 forms of poetry:
1. Narrativepoetry: tells a story in verse. Narrative poems often have elements similar to those
in short stories, such as plot and characters.
2. Haikuis a three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have five syllables and
the second line has seven.
3. FreeVersepoetry is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed
line length, or specific stanza pattern.
4. LyricPoetry expresses the thoughts and feeling of a single speaker, often in highly musical
verse.
5. Balladsare songlike poems that tell a story often dealing with adventure and romance.
6. Concretepoems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a
picture on the page.
7. Limericksare humorous rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme
scheme.
8. Rhyming Coupletsare pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length.
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For each item below, identify the correct literary term for the underlined portion.
1. Fire flamed ferociously throughout the farmer’s field.Alliteration
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2. The plane whizzed by on its way to the airport.Onomatopoeia
The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952
1 A boy told me
2 if he roller-skated fast enough
3 his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,
4 the best reason I ever heard
5 for trying to be a champion.
6 What I wonder tonight
7 pedaling hard down King William Street
8 is if it translates to bicycles.
9 A victory! To leave your loneliness
10 panting behind you on some street corner
11 while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
12 pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
13 no matter how slowly they fell.
What form of poetry is “The Rider”? Explain. Lyric.
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Expresses the poet’s thoughts and feelings about a single image or idea
Whose feelings does the poem express, “a boy” or the speaker? Explain.
Both. The beginning of the poem focuses on the boy’s idea about escaping loneliness, but the
speaker’s feelings are expressed. It is the speaker who rides a bicycle really and imagines the falling
could of flower petals.
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Write two pairs of words with alliteration in this poem.
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1.leave& loneliness
2.some & street
3. Float & free
4.pink & petals
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What subject matter do all Haiku have in common?Nature
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Identify the figure of speech in each of the following sentences, and then define their meanings.
1-My love is like a red, red rose.
Figure of speech: Simile
Explain:Compares two unlike things using like or as
2-The stars were dancing heel to toe.
Figure of speech :personification
Explain:giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject.
3-dove=peace, harmony
Figure of speech:
Symbol
Explain:it is an object, person, animal, place ,or image (anything) that represents something other than
itself
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Life
Naomi Long Madgett
Life is but a toy that swings on a bright gold chain
Ticking for a little while
To amuse a fascinated infant,
Until the keeper, a very old man,
Becomes tired of the game
And lets the watch run down.
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To what is life compared in this poem? What figure of language is used in this comparison?
Life is compared to a toy (the watch).
The figure of speech: metaphor. Comparing two unlike thing by stating one thing is the other.
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In the Poem, “The Courage That My Mother Had”, why would the speaker rather have her mother’s
character than the itemher mother left her?
She would rather have her mother’s character because it would help her survive and live more successfully.
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Miracles
Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892
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Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of
the water, …
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; …
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To which senses do lines 4 and 5 appeal?
Line 4: sight
Line 5: touch
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Why does the poet describe the new moon in so many details?
To let readers know about the beauty of the moon which they usually ignore.
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Choose the correct answer.
-We should-------- that the players must be here an hour before the game.
A. Emphasize
B. Summarize
C. Feature
D. Review
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-Synonyms are useful if you are trying to -------- a passage.
A. paraphrase
B. remember
C. highlight
D. add
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What is Hyperbole? Give an example.
It’s using exaggeration or overstatement, either for comic effect or to express heightened emotions.
“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.” “I haven’t seen you in forever.”
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For each item, indicate which term best applies.
1. A story about the Greek god Zeus.
A. fable B. myth
2. A narrative poem about the voyage of a great explorer.
A. legend B. epic
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Why does Demeter punish the earth?
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Because she thinks it is to blame for Persephone’s disappearance.
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Fill in the blank using the following words.
 (One of the words is redundant.)
metamorphosis
sluggishly
optimist
intervene
hideous
rummaging
1. Steve starts the engine. It turns over sluggishlyand then just stops dead.
2. The group suddenly starts toward the house. In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the first
step toward performing ametamorphosisthat changes people from a group into a mob.
3. When Saturday comes, I gorummagingfrantically through my closet, hoping to find something
descent to wear to the party.
4. “This cannot go on” said mighty Zeus. “I see that I must intervene.” And one by one he sent the
gods and goddesses to plead with Demeter.
5. Medusa was one of the three Gorgons-huge, hideous winged creatures.
Good Luck
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