MULTIPLE CHOICE PROSE A QUICK GUIDE FOR STUDYING.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE PROSE A QUICK GUIDE FOR STUDYING

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on situation and content Examples: - The main subject of the passage is… -The primary distinction made in the first paragraph is between… -According to lines 3-7, which of the following is the chief… -In the third paragraph, the author is chiefly concerned with…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on meaning or words or phrases Examples: -As it is used line 2, the word x can be understood to mean… -In line 7, the word x employs all of the following meanings except… -The phrase xyz is best understood to mean…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on Grammar Examples: -In the opening clause, the word “which” refers to… -In line 12, the antecedent of “it” is… -The subject of the long sentence that makes up the third paragraph is…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on diction Example: -The speaker’s choice of verbs in the paragraph is to stress… -The speaker’s anger is suggested by all of the following except…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on figurative language Examples: The comparison in lines 1-3 compares… The analogy of the second paragraph compares… The phrase xyz is best read as a metaphor relating to… The purpose of the astronomy metaphor in line 9 is to…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on Structure Examples: -The transitions from the first to the second and the second to the third paragraph are dependent upon… -The last paragraph of the passage is related to the first chiefly by…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on literary techniques Examples: -In the third paragraph, the description of the cat on roller skates is an example of… -All of the following phrases are paradoxes except… -The phrase “silent scream” is an example of…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on rhetoric Examples: -The rhetorical purpose of lines 1-6 is to… -The argument of the passage can best be described as progressing from… -Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence? -The effect of shifting from the past to the present tense in the third paragraph…

TYPES OF QUESTIONS Questions on tone Examples: -The tone of the passage may be described as… -In discussing x in the second paragraph, the speaker adopts a tone of …