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AP English Language and Composition Unit 3: Textual Analysis and Literary Discourse — practice questions — page 2

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Sort cold words by what they describeRead the answer and worked solution →Order the five steps of the street planRead the answer and worked solution →Line up three words of one feelingRead the answer and worked solution →A reader names the hero at the centre of a novel. That character is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The character or force set against that hero is the:Read the answer and worked solution →At one point the tension peaks and one opposing force finally overcomes the other. That moment is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A character is struck by a sudden flash of understanding partway through a story. That flash is an:Read the answer and worked solution →Language that suggests special meanings or effects rather than the literal sense is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Cicadas humming and leaf blowers roaring appeal to the reader's hearing. Language like that is:Read the answer and worked solution →The vantage point from which a story is perceived and told is its:Read the answer and worked solution →Two points of view turn up far more often than any others. They are third person and:Read the answer and worked solution →A red rose stands for a rose and for romance at the same time. Such an object is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The meaning or governing idea of a literary text is its:Read the answer and worked solution →The sequence of events in a story or play is its:Read the answer and worked solution →A detective is described as sly as a fox. Comparing unlike things with as or like makes this a:Read the answer and worked solution →Elsewhere the same detective simply is a sly fox, with no signal word at all. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The person who tells the story, whether a character or not, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Repetition of sounds, usually at the ends of lines of a poem, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Fiction and nonfiction, film and print, digital and paper are all treated in this kind of analysis as:Read the answer and worked solution →Writing an analysis, a student takes a position on the work and supports it with material drawn from:Read the answer and worked solution →Like most academic writing, a textual analysis develops one central claim and defends it with:Read the answer and worked solution →Deciding what to analyse, a student may weigh the historical context, the theme and the development of:Read the answer and worked solution →A student may also examine form, organisation, tone and the author's choice of words, known as:Read the answer and worked solution →In one analysed story, a storm works as part of the plot, part of the setting and also as a:Read the answer and worked solution →A course objective asks students to identify the components of textual analysis and compare it with:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the story partsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the figures of speechRead the answer and worked solution →Run the literature gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the literary wordsRead the answer and worked solution →People or devicesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Sort cold words by what they describe

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Left
Describes a man
Items
  1. Region
    both
    Item
    Frosty rime
  2. Region
    Describes a man
    Item
    Hard as flint
  3. Region
    Describes weather
    Item
    Falling snow
  4. Region
    both
    Item
    Iced his office
  5. Region
    Describes a man
    Item
    Lone as oyster
  6. Region
    Describes weather
    Item
    Pelting rain
Right
Describes weather
Instructions
Drag each cold phrase into the ring it fits, or into the overlap when it fits both at once.
_Source: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave I Marley's Ghost_

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Order the five steps of the street plan

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Steps
  1. Street row starts
  2. He falls hurt
  3. They carry him in
  4. A cry of fire
  5. She runs to it
Instructions
Tap the five moments of the street plan in the order they happen outside the house.
_Source: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), A Scandal in Bohemia_

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Line up three words of one feeling

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Grid
    1. Group
      Mean
      Item
      Cold
    2. Group
      Warm
      Item
      Kind
    3. Group
      Mean
      Item
      Hard
    1. Group
      Fear
      Item
      Dread
    2. Group
      Mean
      Item
      Icy
    3. Group
      Warm
      Item
      Merry
    1. Group
      Fear
      Item
      Grim
    2. Group
      Fear
      Item
      Scared
    3. Group
      Warm
      Item
      Jolly
Groups
  1. Item
    Mean
  2. Item
    Warm
  3. Item
    Fear
Instructions
Swap two neighbouring tiles to line up three words that carry the same feeling.
_Source: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave I Marley's Ghost_

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