Exam 5: Narrating

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What does Mrs. Price do when the real owner of the sweater comes forward?

Most narratives are organized ______________________, according to a time sequence.

We probably rely more on __________________ than on any other ___________________ mode.

He then took a job in a sawmill in Clatskanie, Oregon, a little town alongside the Columbia River. I was born there, and my mother has a picture of my dad standing in front of the gate to the mill, proudly holding me up to face the camera. My bonnet is on crooked and about to come untied. His hat is pushed back on his forehead, and he's wearing a big grin. Was he going in to work or just finishing his shift? It doesn't matter. In either case, he had a job and a family. These were his salad days. -Raymond Carver -Give two vivid details the author provides in this paragraph. Why are they vivid?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The item really belonged to _____________________________.

Which of the following is not one of the six journalist questions used in writing a well-developed narrative?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Why is the color of the sweater an important detail?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -She savored a good joke.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Why did Maliszewski stop rocking her daughters to sleep?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The item that caused the narrator so much grief is ____________________.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How old does Rachel wish she were?

Why are the five Ws and one H important in writing a well-developed narrative?

In the short narration by Bernard Bragg, the author's main point was

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How does Mrs. Price respond to Rachel when Rachel tries to push the sweater to the edge of her desk?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -How old was Maliszewski's grandmother when her grandfather died?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Maliszewski's daughters's ages are ____________________ and ____________________.

A good narration must include

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -By the end of the story, why does Rachel not want to be eleven?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. We lived in Puerto Rico until my brother was born in 1954. Soon after, because of economic pressures on our growing family, my father joined the United States Navy. He was assigned to duty on a ship in Brooklyn Yard-a place of cement and steel that was to be his home base in the states until his retirement more than twenty years later. He left the Island first, alone, going to New York City and tracking down his uncle who lived with his family across the Hudson River in Paterson, New Jersey. There my father found a tiny apartment in a huge tenement that had once housed Jewish families but was just being taken over and transformed by Puerto Ricans, overflowing from New York City. In 1955, he sent for us. My mother was only twenty years old, I was not quite three, and my brother was a toddler when we arrived in El Building, as the place had been christened by its newest residents. -Judith Ortiz Cofer -Give two vivid details Cofer provides in this paragraph. Why are they vivid?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What details does the narrator remember about the sweater?