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Quiz RL.5

For each question, read the quotation and circle the part of plot/plot device the quotation best represents.

Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

1. “The story of Zenia ought to begin when Zenia began.” – Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride, 1993

a) climax

b) denouement

c) exposition

d) falling action

e) rising action

2. “We were nearly to the road when I felt Jem's hand leave me, felt him jerk backwards to the ground. More scuffling, and there came a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

a) climax

b) denouement

c) exposition

d) falling action

e) rising action

3. “One summer he was taking leave of his family before setting out for the fair at Nizhny, when his wife said to him: 'Ivan Dmitrievitch, do not go today. I had such an evil dream about you last night'.” – Leo Tolstoi, “The Confessed Crime”, 1928

a) deus ex machina

b) foreshadowing

c) MacGuffin

d) personification

e) surprise factor

4. “The town does not exist / except where one black-haired tree slips / up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.” – Anne Sexton, “The Starry Night” (1961)

a) deus ex machina

b) foreshadowing

c) MacGuffin

d) personification

e) surprise factor

5. “I’ll tell you my story in a way you can understand, with a beginning, a middle and an end. We’ll start in the middle.” —Professor Paradox, “Ben 10: Alien Force”

a) deus ex machina

b) foreshadowing

c) in media res

d) personification

e) surprise factor