Reading Comprehension
In the following example, whom the author is biased towards:
Petroleum companies should be allowed to drill for oil. The concerns of environmentalists are exaggerated.
What is petroleum companies?
The kind of sentence that ends in a question mark
What is interrogative?
A simile
What is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
The kind of text in which you would look up election results
What is a newspaper?
The ear with which most people hear best
What is the right ear?
In the following example, whom the author is stereotyping:
Female drivers must be banned from city streets and highways. They talk on their cell phones and put on makeup while driving.
What is female drivers?
It modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
A metaphor
What is "a comparison of two things not using "like" or "as" but stating that one thing is the other"?
Where your mom would look if she wanted to cut down on food costs
What is grocery store ads (circulars)?
The 2nd most commonly spoken language
What is Mandarin (Chinese)?
What must be done before making any adjustments to the picture:
To make adjustments to the picture, first press the MENU button and highlight VIDEO. Then press SELECT. To adjust the contrast, highlight PICTURE. Press the up arrow to increase the contrast. Press the down arrow to decrease the contrast. Press SELECT.
What is press MENU, highlight VIDEO, and press SELECT?
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
It joins words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
An onomatopoeia
What is "a word that phonetically imitates or resembles the sound it describes"?
In writing, what T.A.P.E. stands for
What is Topic, Audience, Purpose, Example?
The highest grossing movie of all time
What is Avatar?
In this message, the author's viewpoint:
On Tuesday, voters in District #892 go to the polls. We are at a turning point. Please vote for Proposition 1 to increase property taxes. If this proposal is defeated, the school board will be forced to eliminate 20 full-time teaching positions.
What is pass Proposition 1 and increase property taxes?
It is a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun.
What is an appositive (or appositive phrase)?
In art and literature, a "pathetic fallacy"
What is "the attribution of human emotions or responses to inanimate things or animals"?
Fill in the blank:
A(n) ________ is a short story about and event or incident.
a. Description
b. Anecdote
c. Fact
d. Example
What is an anecdote?
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
Buttercup, Westley, Inigo Montoya, Dread Pirate Roberts
What is The Princess Bride?
What you highlight to adjust the contrast:
To make any adjustments to the picture, first press the MENU button and highlight VIDEO. Then press SELECT. To adjust the contrast, highlight PICTURE. Press the up arrow to increase picture contrast. Press the down arrow to decrease picture contrast. Press SELECT.
What is PICTURE?
It is an exclamatory word that expresses emotion.
What is an interjection?
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
A synecdoche
What is "a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa"?
Fill in the blank:
A(n) _______ shows rather than tells, helping readers see rather than giving them a formal deļ¬nition, thus making the subject come alive rather than remaining abstract.
a. Example
b. Passage
c. Description
d. Epiphany
What is a description?
Author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)?