The statements below are steps on “How to Read a Short Story Critically”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the critical reading of a narrative ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?

   A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
   B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
   C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
   D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.

2. The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

   A. Identify the Mode of Development
   B. Analysis of the Author
   C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
   D. Identify External Factors Related to the Work

3. The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

   A. Identify the Mode of Development
   B. Analysis of the Author
   C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which comes in as second thing to do before writing a critical essay of a play ?

   A. Identify External Factors Related to the Work
   B. Interpret the Play
   C. Analyze the Staging
   D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play

5. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Explicate Poetry”. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?

   A. Interpret the Poem.
   B. Introduce External Support.
   C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem
   D. Evaluate the Poem.

6. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

   A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
   B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
   C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
   D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

7. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative”, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?

   A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
   B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
   C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
   D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

8. Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?

   A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
   B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
   C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
   D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.

9. Which characteristic of the slave narrative did Frederick Douglass include in the first chapter of his Narrative ?

   A. Narration of a deserved punishment.
   B. Depictions of a beautiful rural environment.
   C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and clothing slaves were given.
   D. The author’s father is often a white man.

10. What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?

    A. John Foxe
    B. John Lyly
    C. Sir Thomas More
    D. Sir Walter Raleigh