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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Knight suggest about rhyme, alliteration, and consonance?
(a) They are appropriate in creating clarity and fluency.
(b) They are poetry that is prose-like.
(c) They are necessary despite his disdain for them.
(d) They are prose that are almost too poetic.

2. If a reader already knows information that the writer is repeating, what does it become?
(a) Detail.
(b) Noise.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Imagery.

3. Which of the following does Knight not suggest is significant for the author to include in the beginning of the story?
(a) When.
(b) Why.
(c) Who.
(d) What.

4. What type of resolution does Knight suggest a writer needs to create?
(a) Mediocre.
(b) Calm.
(c) Satisfying.
(d) Surprising.

5. What types of names should characters have?
(a) Strange names.
(b) Nicknames in addition to believable names.
(c) Believable names.
(d) Ordinary names.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of market is subject to cycles and fads?

2. What is consonance?

3. What does Knight suggest is most important to consult when a writer hits a troublesome spot?

4. What are the emotions that the author intends to evoke from a reader indirectly?

5. Through which viewpoint does the writer avoid entering the mind of any character?

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