You Have a Way with Words (Vocabulary)
This word means to reference from a source.
A. graph
B. connotation/meaning
C. austere
D. cite/citation
D. cite/citation
The location where Frederick Douglass was born.
Tuckahoe
How many main classes are in the game Destiny?
A. 8
B. 2
C.7
D. 3
D. 3
Titan, Hunter, Warlock
5W-1H (who?, what?, where?, when?, why?, and how?)
What formula can you use to determine the slope of a line?
y2-y1/x2-x1
Name 2 of the 3 parts necessary for including evidence into your writing.
Sentence starter (For evidence), evidence, citation.
Which technique does NOT speed up a moment?
A. use vivid verbs
B. use short, rapid dialogue.
C. include the character's thoughts
D. include multiple images in short phrases, one after another.
C. include the character's thoughts
What is our school's address?
1350 McNeil Rd
This figurative language represents, imitates, or tries to reproduce (copy) the sound it tries to describe.
Onomatopoeia
A free-falling object falls at ____ meters per second
-9.8 m/s2
Also accepted: 9.8m/s2
What is the definition of despairing?
hopelessness, extreme sadness
Which piece of evidence most strongly counters John Calhoun's argument that a slave would be "in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress"
A. "Here, too, the slaves of all the other farms received their monthly allowance of food, and their yearly clothing."
B. "I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time... in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release. "
C. "...old and young, male and female, married and single, drop down side by side, on one common bed,—the cold, damp floor,—each covering himself or herself with their miserable blankets..."
D. "Added to his cruelty, he was a profane swearer. It was enough to chill the blood and stiffen the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk."
B. "I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time... in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release. "
Who is the main character of One Piece?
Monkey D. Luffy
In this part of a plot pyramid, the conflict reaches its peak and is usually considered the most exciting part of the story.
A. Rising Action
B. Climax
C. Conflict
D. Exposition
B. Climax
On a volleyball team, this person is a back-row defensive position who is not allowed to serve or rotate to the front line.
Libero
This word means to write an idea using your own words.
paraphrase
What is the figurative language Douglass used to describe his entry into the cruel reality of slavery? For double points, what kind of figurative language was used?
"Blood-stained gates"
Metaphor/Analogy
This animal kills an estimated 20 people per year. But they seem so innocent!
A. Poodle
B. Hippo
C. Cow
D. Anole (lizards in Florida)
C. Cow
This is the name for groupings of lines in a poem.
stanza
Which line has a zero slope:
A. a horizontal line
B. a descending diagonal line
C. a vertical line
D. an ascending vertical line
A. a horizontal line
This word means an argument against a claim.
Counterclaim/counterargument
“I saw an endless blur of enemy fighters whizzing towards me from every side. They came from above and they came from behind and they made frontal attacks from dead ahead, and I threw my Hurricane around as best I could and whenever a Hun came into my sights, I pressed the button. It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life. I caught glimpses of planes with black smoke pouring from their engines. I saw planes with pieces of metal flying off their fuselages. I saw the bright-red flashes coming from the wings of the Messerschmitts as they fired their guns, and once I saw a man whose Hurricane was in flames climb calmly out on to a wing and jump off.” (21)
A. Dahl speeds up the narrative briefly describing a lot of action-packed images that he can see from his plane.
B. Dahl slows down the narrative by pausing the action to explain what is the situation in the cockpit of his plane.
A. Dahl speeds up the narrative briefly describing a lot of action-packed images that he can see from his plane.
Who is Barry Allen's daughter?
A. Nora Allen-West
B. Natali Allen-West
C. Nicole Allen-West
D. Noi Allen-West
A. Nora Allen-West
What does objective mean? (hint: think about this class specifically)
A. The goal for the day
B. without feeling or opinion; neutral
C. with feeling and opinion; subjective
D. counting objects in a space
B. without feeling or opinion; neutral
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are also known as __________
The Bill of Rights
Putting two opposite ideas together to create a powerful statement is called a________
Antithesis
On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. She was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. The kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: A slimy rock cod with bulging eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. Tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. A bowl soaking dried fungus back to life. A plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.
Select two phrases that convey the author's viewpoint and tell me what her viewpoint is.Words like "appalling", "bulging", "rubbery white sponges", "fungus", "bicycle tires", "slimy" describe her almost horrified or repulsed view of the food.
Izuku Midoriya is the ____ user of One for All.
9th
What was the subject of the last WriteScore essay you wrote?
Music censorship
Which ordered pair (x,y) satisfies the system of equations shown below?
2x - y = 6
x+2y = -2
A. (-6,2)
B. (-2,2)
C. (2,-2)
D. (4,2)
C. (2,-2)