Vocab Schmocab
(n.) the native language or dialect of a country or region; everyday or informal language; (adj.) using everyday language.
a.) rhetorical
b.) vernacular
c.) terse
d.) epithet
b.) vernacular
Fix the Run-On with a period:
My teacher read my essay she said it was excellent.
My teacher read my essay. She said it was excellent.
(v.) to examine closely or critically.
a.) infer
b.) scrutinize
c.) conjecture
d.) foreshadow
b.) scrutinize
Fix the fragment:
Ran to the store faster than a rabbit.
The man ran to the store faster than a rabbit.
What literary term is seen in the following line:
"Hope is the thing with feathers."
a.) simile
b.) metaphor
c.) allusion
d.) repetition
b.) metaphor
a.) evoke
b.) accentuate
c.) provocative
d.) usurp
c.) provocative
Fix the Run-On with a Semi-colon:
My cat meowed angrily, I knew she wanted food.
My cat meowed angrily; I knew she wanted food.
(adj.) avoiding by cleverness; not straightforward; misleading.
a.) evasive
b.) perpetuate
c.) lucid
d.) dissolute
a.) evasive
Fix the fragment:
On the morning of my driver's test.
On the morning of my driver's test, my mom got a speeding ticket.
(Answers will vary)
What poetry term is seen through the quote:
"My haze-headed friend."
a.) simile
b.) personification
c.) alliteration
d.) symbol
c.) alliteration
(adj.) given to examination of one's own thoughts and feelings; contemplative.
a.) evasive
b.) intricate
c.) ambiguous
d.) introspective
d.) introspective
Fix the Run-On by Revising the Sentence:
The largest tree by volume in the world is the General Sherman Sequoia, it is a little over 52,500 cubic feet.
The largest tree by volume in the world is the General Sherman Sequoia, which is a little over 52,500 cubic feet.
(v.) to call forth; to bring out; to elicit; to produce (a reaction).
a.) scrutinize
b.) accentuate
c.) provoke
d.) evoke
d.) evoke
Fix the Fragment:
Because you watered the plants on Friday.
Because you watered the plants on Friday, they probably won't die over the weekend.
When the speaker in "Blackberry Picking" compares the blackberry to being "hard as a knot," which literary device is used?
a.) metaphor
b.) personification
c.) allusion
d.) simile
d.) simile
(n.) an opinion without proof; guesswork; (v.) to speculate; to guess.
a.) conjecture
b.) allegory
c.) foreshadow
d.) infer
a.) conjecture
Fix the Run-On with a comma and a FANBOYS.
Toni Morrison, a famous writer who recently died, wrote many novels she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Toni Morrison, a famous writer who recently died, wrote many novels, and she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(adj.) praiseworthy; commendable.
a.) incongruous
b.) lucid
c.) evasive
d.) laudable
d.) laudable
Mrs. Ivers, my favorite English teacher, is now retired.
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In "New Colossus," when the speaker says "not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land," she's using which literary term?
a.) metaphor
b.) allusion
c.) hyperbole
d.) onomatopoeia
(adj.) not suitable or appropriate; not consistent; not conforming to a pattern.
a.) despicable
b.) evasive
c.) incongruous
d.) lucid
c.) incongruous
Fix the Run-On with a Subordinating Conjunction
I told my roommate I would be late, she still locked me out.
Although I told my roommate I would be late, she still locked me out.
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(adj.) easily understood; clear; rational and sane.
a.) despicable
b.) terse
c.) incongruous
d.) lucid
d.) lucid
Loves to lie around in the sun all day.
The lizard loves to lie around in the sun all day.
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In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," when the speaker says, "the only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake," this imagery creates a mood that can best be described with which adjective?
a.) timid
b.) peaceful
c.) ferocious
d.) joyous
b.) peaceful