Week 5 Quiz

In the camping-trip set, the expository version reads: "First, practice pitching the tent once at home on a dry day. Next, at the campsite, choose the highest flat ground so that water drains away from you. Then lay out the ground sheet and the tent, and connect the poles. After that, clip the tent to the poles and stake each corner. Finally, stretch the rain fly over the top and stake it tight." Which rhetorical mode is this passage?

Select one.

• Narration, because it walks through the writer's own camping trip from the first step to the last
• Exposition, because it explains how to do a task without taking a side
• Argument, because it tells the reader what to do
• Narration, because it moves through events in time order

A writer adds this opening line to the camping material: "Every family should go camping at least once a year." Which mode has the passage switched to?

Select one.

• Narration, because the sentence mentions families and trips
• Exposition, because the sentence gives the reader general information about camping trips
• Argument, because it asks the reader to agree that something should happen
• Exposition, because the sentence takes no side on camping

The camping story can end with this line: "The next weekend, we pitched the tent twice in the backyard, in full sun." What kind of ending is it?

Select one.

• Implied significance: a final action carries the point without naming it
• Stated significance: the sentence names the lesson about preparation in so many words
• Narrative summary: the sentence moves quickly over unimportant time
• Purple prose: the sentence over-writes the moment

The told version of the camping night reads: "Our first camping trip was a disaster. I was miserable and frustrated the whole time, and setting up the tent was the worst part." Why is this telling rather than showing?

Select one.

• It is too short to count as showing
• It is written in the first person
• It moves through the night in chronological order
• Its key words name feelings and judgments instead of giving sensory detail

A classmate turns the told version into this sentence and says it now shows: "The cruel, relentless, icy rain poured down furiously from the dark and angry heavens as my heart sank into a bottomless ocean of misery." Which response is right?

Select one.

• Yes, because it has many more descriptive words and a much bigger comparison than the told version
• No: piled-on adjectives are not showing; showing is specific sensory evidence
• Yes, because a comparison to an ocean always counts as showing
• No, because a narrative should never describe the weather

Which of these words from the camping-trip set are concrete words, words that name something a reader could see, hear, touch, taste, or smell? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• cap
• disaster
• flashlight
• frustrated
• tent poles
• miserable

In the camping story, the three-hour drive gets one sentence ("We drove for three hours, found our campsite, and unloaded the car as the clouds came in."), while a few minutes with the tent poles get three sentences. Why?

Select one.

• The drive is narrative summary because it does not carry the point; the struggle with the poles is the scene because it does
• The drive is less interesting, so the writer should have cut it entirely
• Longer stretches of time always get fewer words in any narrative
• The pole sentences are purple prose that should be cut to one sentence

In the expository version, why must "Then lay out the ground sheet and the tent, and connect the poles" come before "After that, clip the tent to the poles and stake each corner"?

Select one.

• Because chronological order puts the most dramatic moment last
• Because the transition "Then" always comes before "After that" in any list
• Because process order follows the task: the poles have to be connected before the tent can be clipped to them
• Because a reader can sort out the order of the steps on their own

In this course, a narrative essay's significance does the job of which part of an academic essay?

Select one.

• The hook that opens the introduction
• A transition between two body paragraphs
• The restatement of the introduction that ends the final paragraph of the essay
• The thesis, the sentence that states the essay's main point

True or false: because a narrative essay tells a story, it does not need body paragraphs that each do one job or an ending that lands its point.

True or false.

• True
• False