The Literature of the Americas Unit Test

Metaphor

A comparison

All of the following description identify a theme explored in "Learning Guitar" except

A. the kindness of friends.

How does the author of "Learning Guitar" mostly reveal the character of Holly's mother?

A. through her interactions with other characters

In the selection from "Day of the Butterfly," how does the writer mostly reveal Gladys's character?

A. through what she says

Which of the following sentences from "Learning Guitar" beats reveals the central conflict?

B. "I don't know. I just don't think I'll ever play well."

Read the following sentences from "No Dogs Bark." "Are you crying, Ignacio? The memory of your mother makes you cry, doesn't it? But you never did anything for her. You always repaid us badly. Somehow your body got filled with evil instead of affection." Which of the following words best describes the speaker's tone?

B. Judemental

Read the following sentence from "No Dogs Bark." "I'll get you to Tonaya. There I'll find somebody to take care of you. They say there's a doctor in the town. I'll take you to him. I've already carried you for hours, and I'm not going to leave you lying here now for somebody to finish off." What is the author's main purpose for including these words spoken by the father?

B. to emphasize the father's determination to find help his son

Read the following lines from "No Dogs Bark." "See if you can't see something now. Or hear something. You'll have to do it from up there, because I feel deaf." "Too bad for you, Ignacio." "I'm thirsty." "You'll have to stand it. We must be near now. Because it's now very late at night, they must've turned out the lights in the town. But at least you should hear dogs barking. Try to hear" "Give me some water." "There's not water here. Just stones. You'll have to stand it. Even if there was water, I wouldn't let you down to drink." Which of the following words best describes the relationship between the two characters?

C. Unstable

Read the following sentences from "Learning Guitar." "Give me a G," her dad said, and Holly played the note on the guitar. "That's pretty good," he responded. "Now give me a D... Not bad... I'd say you're coming along." Which of the following words best describes the father's tone?

C. encouraging

Read the following sentence from "Learning Guitar." "No one's asking you to make records like the Beatles," her dad said. What is the author's main purpose for making a reference to the Beatles in the sentence?

C. to emphasize that Holly was playing

Read the following lines from the poem "At the Tourists Centre in Boston." is this a manufactured hallucination, a cynical fiction, a lure for export only? Which of the following words best describes the speaker's tone?

D. Mocking

Use sentence 1 Ragtime

Noun

Tone

The attitude of the writer toward the subject, ideas, theme, or characters

Use sentence 3 ragtime

adjective

Use sentence 6 probably

adverb

Use sentence 7 today

adverb

Use sentence 4 and

conjunction

Archetype

images, plot patterns and characters that occur frequently in literature

Use sentence 8 Hey

interjection/exclamation

Use sentence 5 cakewalk

noun

Use sentence 2 until

preposition/conjunction

Use sentence 10 you

pronoun

Theme

the main idea

Use sentence 9 wrote

verb

Imagery

words that create pictures