TSI TEST 1|61 Questions with Verified Answers
Elements of Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER Plot and Structure
Characterization
Theme
Setting
Point of
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Style
Symbol, allegory, and fantasy
Humor and irony
Commercial fiction - CORRECT ANSWER Written and published primarily to make money
Literacy fiction - CORRECT ANSWER Written with serious artistic intentions who hopes to broaden, deepen, and sharpen the readers awareness of life. - Focuses more on real world
Signal words - CORRECT ANSWER Indicates that you are moving from one idea to another. - gives the reader clues about where the writer has been, and gives directions about where the writer is going
Recognizing signal words - CORRECT ANSWER Contrast - although, however
Additional information - also, and, another
Explanation - because, the reason for
Example - for example, for instance
Enumeration - 1, 2, 3, next, then
Conclusion - therefore, in summary
Plot - CORRECT ANSWER Sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story. - The plot is not merely the action itself, but the way the author arranges the action towards a specific end (structure)
Conflict - CORRECT ANSWER A clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills.
Types: Person vs. person, person vs. environment, person vs. self
Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER The central character in a conflict
Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER Any force arranged against the protagonist - persons, things, conventions of society, or the protagonists own personality trait
Suspense - CORRECT ANSWER The quality in a story that makes readers ask "what's going to happen next?"
Deus Ex Machina - CORRECT ANSWER Latin for God from a machine, the saving of the protagonist from an impossible situation
Symbol - CORRECT ANSWER Something that makes more than it suggest on the surface
Style - CORRECT ANSWER The manner in which an author uses words, constructs sentences, incorporates non-literal expressions, and handles rythm, timing, and tone. - When asked to describe, you are being asked to describe how or explain why the words, sentences, and imaginative comparisons are effective in the term of what is being created
Characterization - CORRECT ANSWER Analyzing characterization is more difficult than describing plot; human nature is infinitely complex, variable and ambiguous. It is much easier to describe what a person has done instead of who a person is
Types of characters - CORRECT ANSWER Flat - usually have one or two predominant traits. Character can be summed up in a few lines.
Round - complex and many faceted, have the qualities of real people.
Stock - a type of flat character, appears so often the reader recgonizes them right away
Static - remains essentially the same throughout.
Developing - undergoes a significant change during the story
Theme principles - CORRECT ANSWER In the form of a statement with a subject and predicate, stated as a generalization about life, avoid terms like, every, all, and always, the central and unifying concept of a story, there is no way of stating the theme of a story, avoid statements that reduces the theme to a familiar saying that we have heard all our lives
Theme - CORRECT ANSWER Exists only when the author has seriously attempted to record life accurately or to reveal some truth about it, or when the author has deliberately introduced as a unifying element some concept or theory of life that the story illuminates
Irony - CORRECT ANSWER A humerous technique with a range of meanings that all involve some sort of discrepancy of incongruity
Fantasy - CORRECT ANSWER A nonrealistic story that transcends the bounds of known reality
Allegroy - CORRECT ANSWER A story that has a second meaning beneath the surface
Verb - CORRECT ANSWER A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrance, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen
Reading - CORRECT ANSWER The active skill of reading written or printed material silently or aloud
Literacy - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to read and write
Active voice - CORRECT ANSWER Use when you want to emphasize the person performing the action
Passive voice - CORRECT ANSWER Use to emphasize the action itself, not the person performing it
Citation - CORRECT ANSWER A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author especially in a scholary work
Common ground - CORRECT ANSWER A point or argument accepted by both sides in a dispute. Ideas or interests shared by different people
Effective argument to a specific audience - CORRECT ANSWER Subjectively convincing while objectively following the rules of logic by avoiding using fallacies (a mistaken belief, one based on unsound argument) to argue the point
Present - CORRECT ANSWER Give something to someone formally or ceremonially. - A ver form in the present time
Summarizing - CORRECT ANSWER Putting the main ideas into your own words, including the main point, attribute to the original source, significantly shorter than the original material and take a broad overview of the source material
Paraphrasing - CORRECT ANSWER Putting material into your own words, must attribute to the original source, usually shorter than original material
Quotations - CORRECT ANSWER Must be identical to the original, must match the source word for word and must attribute to the original author
Different types of patterns of organization - CORRECT ANSWER Explanation, example, compare and contrast, cause and effect, definition, enumeration
Patterns of organization - CORRECT ANSWER A way that a writer organizes their thoughts to effectively communicate, a patter that a reader looks for to help identify the writers perspective and purpose usually by determining what kind of details they are given, or how they have arranged their ideas
Personal narrative main points - CORRECT ANSWER Am interesting story about the writer written in first person (I, me, and my), has a beginning, middle, and end, presents events in clear order, uses details to help readers see people, places, and events, shows how the writer feel about the experience and why it's meaningful
Purpose of figurative language - CORRECT ANSWER Enhances fiction, explanes more about what is happening, describes people and actions, add emphasis
Onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWER Words that are sounds - MOOO, SWISH, ZOOOM
Metaphor - CORRECT ANSWER Used to compare 2 things, instead of saying something is "like" or "as", it just sates that it IS!
ex - John's mind is a computer, My mom is a workhorse
Personification - CORRECT ANSWER To compare something that is NOT human as if it has human traits.
Ex - The flowers danced in the wind, the friendly gates welcomed us
Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER Repetition of the first consonant
Ex - Stan the Strong Surfer Saved Several Swimmers on Saturday
Assonance - CORRECT ANSWER The repetition of internal vowel sounds
Ex - I Like Ike
Simile - CORRECT ANSWER Used to compare 2 things, uses the words "like" or "as" to make comparisons
Ex - her hair shines LIKE the sun, Krissy is AS pretty AS a picture
Figurative language - CORRECT ANSWER Phrases that don't mean what they say, a writers tool, it helps the reader visualize (see) what the writer is thinking, it puts a picture in the readers mind
Plagiarism - CORRECT ANSWER Using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information
Modal/ auxiliary verbs - CORRECT ANSWER Providing supplementary or additional help and support
Verb Phrase - CORRECT ANSWER A group of related words that contains one or more helping verbs and a main verb
Ex - Jim HAS BEEN WORKING on his science project
Different ways to narrow your subject to a topic - CORRECT ANSWER Focus on a particular aspect of your topic, link your broad topic with a key word
Progressive - CORRECT ANSWER 3 types: present, past, and future:
Present - describes an ongoing action that is happening at the same time the statement is written
Past - describes a past action which happened when another action occurred
Futre - describes on ongoing or continuous action that will take place int he future
Indirect - CORRECT ANSWER Not directly caused by or resulting from something
Credibility - CORRECT ANSWER The quality of being trusted and believed in
Present perfect tense - CORRECT ANSWER Describes an action that happened at an indefinite time in the past or that began in the past and continues
Writing process - CORRECT ANSWER Preview - gather information and forms a thesis
Arrangement - organizes material
Drafting and revision - the essay is written and then rewritten
Editing - correcting spelling errors, punctuation, and grammar
Topic sentence - CORRECT ANSWER A sentence stating the main idea of the paragraph, often opens the paragraph
Past - CORRECT ANSWER A verb tense used to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past
Verb Tense - CORRECT ANSWER Having all your verb tenses accurate and consistent
Thesis statement - CORRECT ANSWER More than a title, an announcement of your intent, or a statement of fact.
Ex - in "A Hanging," George Orwell shows that capital punishment is not only brutal but also immoral
Paraphrase - CORRECT ANSWER Using another persons words in one's own words, it follows the order and emphasis of the original
Transition - CORRECT ANSWER Words or expressions that show chronological sequence, cause and effect, time, comparison, contrast, examples, and conclusions
Social writing - CORRECT ANSWER Instant feedback, informal, less thought about response and analysis
Ex - facebook, texting
Academic writing - CORRECT ANSWER Why are you writing, who are you writing for, what were you asked to write, did you follow directions
Ex - class, e-mail to the Boss
Direct - CORRECT ANSWER Extending or moving from one place to another by the shortest way without changing direction or stopping, being clear and concise, use specific examples, use transitions [Show Less]