What statements best describe a fictional story with limited omniscient narration? Select two options.It is written from the first-person point of view.It reveals the thoughts of all the characters.It reveals the thoughts of only one character.It directly addresses the reader as “you.”It maintains a sense of objectivity.
Which statement best describes a stream-of-consciousness style of narration?
Read the passage from "The Yellow Wallpaper.”John laughs at me. . . .John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.John is a physician, and . . . perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.You see, he does not believe I am sick! . . . .If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?
Read the passage from "Doe Season.”He stopped, backed up, and entered a narrow dirt road almost hidden by trees. Five hundred yards down, the road ran parallel to a fenced-in field. Charlie parked in a cleared area deeply rutted by frozen tractor tracks. The gate was locked. In the spring, Andy thought, there will be cows here, and a dog that chases them, but now the field was unmarked and bare.
Which are characteristics of a literary adaptation? Select three options.original point of viewaddition of charactersidentical narratorsame syntaxnew plot events
Read the passage from The Jungle.Suddenly . . . you discern Aunt Elizabeth, Ona’s stepmother . . . bearing aloft a great platter of stewed duck. Behind her is Kotrina, making her way cautiously, staggering beneath a similar burden; and half a minute later there appears old Grandmother Majauszkiene, with a big yellow bowl of smoking potatoes, nearly as big as herself.
Read the passage from "Doe Season.”She listened to the crunch of their boots, their breathing, and the drumming of a distant woodpecker. And the crackling. In winter the woods crackled as if everything were straining, ready to snap like dried chicken bones.
In what ways can wordplay be most helpful in improving a narrative? Select two options.It can help maintain objectivity within a text.It can help show a character’s emotions.It can help indicate the theme of a text.It can help give the text a social or cultural context.It can help make a text more logical and orderly.
Read the passage from "Doe Season.”She listened to the crunch of their boots, their breathing, and the drumming of a distant woodpecker. And the crackling. In winter the woods crackled as if everything were straining, ready to snap like dried chicken bones.We are hunting, Andy thought. The cold air burned her nostrils. They stopped to make lunch by a rock outcropping that protected them from the wind. Her father heated the bean soup her mother had made for them, and they ate it with bread already stiff from the cold.
Read the passage from "Girl.”Always eat your food in such a way that it won’t turn someone else’s stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don’t sing benna in Sunday School; you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don’t eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you.Read the passage from an adaptation of "Girl.”She didn’t believe her daughter. Not even a little bit. The girl insisted she hadn’t been to the wharf, where the men preyed, not boys. Where else, after all, would she have learned those ridiculous songs! Such places, she knew from her own experiences, were dangerous for girls, and life changing; but how to communicate that to a girl just that age, without sending her running, so misunderstood, in the wrong direction?
Why might an author write an adaptation of a literary text? Select four options.
What type of plot sequencing is used in a story that begins in the middle of the action?
Read the passage from A Christmas Carol."A few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?""Nothing!" Scrooge replied."You wish to be anonymous?""I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. . . ."It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Which details might the setting of a story include? Select three options.
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