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Joey and Steve nervously bit on their pencils during the ominous final exam. The fear was foreboding; the answers would not jump out at them, but instead curled at the tips of their brains, alluding them, while the administrator yelled, "5 MINUTES!" What evidence describes the speaker's feelings?
What are nervously, ominous, foreboding, alluding, etc.
Which word means : To lessen; to reduce in severity a. abate b. consequence c.triviality d.prosperity
What is answer A - abate
What is the author's purpose of writing the following: The Underground Railroad was a secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom. Many slaves were able to escape because of the conductors and stationmasters. The northern states were free states and slaves were free once they arrived in the north. Secret codes and signals were used to identify the conductors and stationmasters
a. persuade b. inform c. describe d. explain
What is answer B - inform
What can you infer happened in the following example? The baby was asleep upstairs in his bed. Suddenly, I heard a loud, "THUMP!" and he began crying hysterically
What is that the baby fell off the bed.
Which of the following is a noun? Rayna's shirt is super sparkly.
What is a shirt?
Joey giggled. "No way!" His smile lit up the classroom, beaming at everyone around him. "I passed English class!" His hard work and determination to never give up paid off. He earned his grade. What group of words from the selection conveys the author's attitude toward his grade?
What is giggles, smile, lit up, beaming, hard work, determination, etc.
Which word means: Warlike; given to waging war a. belligerent b. cacophony c. conflagration
What is answer A - belligerent
What is the author's purpose of writing the following? Guitar Hero is the best of all of the Wii games. When you play Guitar Hero, you feel like a real rock star. This game is much more fun than any others. When you choose a Wii game, make sure that you choose Guitar Hero.
a. persuade b. inform c. describe d. explain
What is answer A - persuade
What is implied by the following text? n third grade, you cannot be promoted to fourth grade unless you pass the final exam. My classmate said she was going back to third grade again. I know she's got o.k. grades..
What is that her friend failed the final exam.
Which of the following is a pronoun? Wade saw a big bear pooping in his backyard.
What is his?
The smell of wet, rotted wood, mixed with old hot dog water penetrated my nostrils. I tried to sit in his tiny car, but I could barely buckle the seat belt. Ariel tried to rev his raggity engine, but instead his exhaust fell off. How does the speaker's point of view affect his impression of Ariel's car?
First person point of view allows the speaker to see everything as negative and raggity, instead of seeing how hard Ariel worked on his car.
What word means: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity a.encroachment b. permeate c. caucus d. sultry
What is answer D - sultry
How does the author achieve his purpose? The Slim-O-Matic will help you lose pounds and inches from your body in only one month. This amazing machine helps you to exercise correctly. If you buy now, you will also receive an easy video to show you the proper way to exercise. Send $75.99 and begin exercising today.
The author uses words like help, lose, amazing, easy, proper and today to achieve his purpose of persuading the audience that this product will help them lose weight.
What is the type of diction (formal or informal) used in the follow: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on”
What is formal diction?
Which of the following sentence is a prepositional phrase? I was waiting in my classroom, hiding from Mr. Jordan.
What is "in my classroom"
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.” “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a hoot if she’s late? Nobody.” “Stupid money. It always ends up making you blue as heck.” “Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re Catholic.” What does the tone of this passages tell us indirectly about the character?
What is he is sarcastic
What word means: shower with love; show excessive affection for a. belie b. cajole c. dote
What is answer choice C - dote
How does the author achieve his purpose? It was a beautiful morning in Austin, Texas. The sun was just rising in the sky. Juan couldn't wait to find his fishing pole and call his friend Sammy to go fishing. They had a great time on these early morning fishing trips. They took their dogs with them and the dogs would swim in the lake while they fished. It was so funny to watch those dogs paddle around the lake.
The author uses an anecdote to help him achieve the purpose of entertaining the audience.
What is the diction (formal or informal) used in this poem? What words support this? “Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch,”
What is formal diction? Examples are : old, fool, thou (you), us, etc.
Which of the following is the direct object? Edward sat eating his sunflower seeds.
What is sunflower seeds
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” How does the the speaker's tone change in the stanza?
What is it goes from feeling negative with the sigh, to positive with it making a difference.
What word means a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual a. lancet b. whittle c. diffidence d. idiosyncrasy
What is answer choice D - idiosyncrasy
How does the author achieve his purpose? Guitar Hero is the best of all of the Wii games. When you play Guitar Hero, you feel like a real rock star. This game is much more fun than any others. When you choose a Wii game, make sure that you choose Guitar Hero
The author uses words like best, real, rock star, more fun, and Guitar Hero to achieve his purpose of persuading the audience that the game is the best.
How does the speaker achieve the tone in the passage? “And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
The author repeats the word died and dead to give is a somber, gloomy feel.
What kind of sentence is the following: Shawn stood there texting and holding his basketball.
a. simple b. compound c. complex d. compound-complex
What is a complex sentence