Deck 24: Discovering Causes and Effects

Question 1

Which of the following skills will not help you create more interesting personal narratives?

A) finding significance or meaning
B) avoiding the use of direct dialogue
C) emphasizing conflict, suspense, and a climax
D) telling and showing

Answer 1

avoiding the use of direct dialogue

Question 2

A person coping with the world around him or her (for example, driving in a blizzard) is an example of __________.

A) comprehension
B) collaboration
C) conflict
D) conclusion

Answer 2

conflict

Question 3

How a story affected other people at the time or how it affects them now is an example of a(n)
__________ point.

A) subjective
B) objective
C) narrative
D) persuasive

Answer 3

narrative

Question 4

When writing narratives, you should bring them to life by telling and ______________ action.

A) showing
B) stopping
C) sharing
D) shouting

Question 5

____________ uses quotation marks and reproduces what a person has said word for word.

A) Indirect dialogue
B) Direct dialogue
C) Revealed thought
D) Unrevealed thought

Question 6

Films, most TV programs, novels, and short stories are forms of narrative, or storytelling.

Question 7

People tell stories only to entertain others; narratives are not used to inform or persuade.
FALSE

Question 8

For a story to interest most people, it must not have conflict.

Question 9

Suspense is a state of uncertainty that makes readers wonder what will happen next.

Question 10

The high point of action in a story is called an anticlimax.

Question 11

Stories that stick with us usually have a point.

Question 12

Good writers mix telling and showing, choosing which moments to summarize and which to elaborate upon.

Question 13

Narratives do not benefit from space and time transitions.

Question 14

In a narrative, your purpose may be to inform, persuade, or entertain your reader.

Question 15

Finding the answer to who, what, when, where, why, how, and what was the result can be especially useful in writing a narrative.

Question 16

The setting of a story is irrelevant; only the action of the story is important.

Question 17

Arranging ideas in chronological (time) order is not helpful in writing a narrative paragraph.

Question 18

Describing in detail is especially critical near the climax because that is where you want the reader to slow down and pay attention.

Question 19

Specific words and sensory details are important for scene building.

Question 20

An organized narrative paragraph does not require a topic sentence or concluding sentence.