Tone
What words are negative tone words?
a)paranoid, suspicious
b) objective, comic
c) nostalgic, effusive
d) passionate, sentimental
What is a) paranoid, suspicious
What word means a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
a. lancet
b. whittle
c. diffidence
d. idiosyncrasy
What is d. idiosyncrasy
What change should be made in sentence 10?
The sides below the balcony railing was enclosed in plexiglass to make the area safer for pets and young children.
a)Change was enclosed to were enclosed
b)Change to make to this was supposed to make
c)Change safer to more safer
d)No change should be made.
What is a)Change was enclosed to were enclosed
Dear Marsha,
Do you want to visit the museum with me?
Your best friend, Elizabeth
What is there are no mistakes?
“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.
Which word means : To lessen; to reduce in severity
a. abate
b. consequence
c.triviality
d.prosperity
a. abate
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.
What is to persuade
All of those long hours of practise finally paid off!
What change should be made?
Fix the spelling - Practice
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 a. belligerent
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
What is to inform
Even though she works long hours. She keeps working hard after she gets home.
What change if any, should be made?
What is change the period to a comma after the word--hours and lowercase the s in --she?
Even though she works long hours, she keeps working hard after she gets home.
Joey and Shawn 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.
What word means: shower with love; show excessive affection for
a. dote
b. cajole
c. belie
a. dote
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
How does the author achieve his purpose?
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.
Its their job to let us know if the games have been rained out.
What change should be made, if any?
What is change --Its to It's?
It's their job to let us know if the games have been rained out.
“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
In another half second her father’s hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.
The tone of the concluding paragraph can best be described as —
a)serious
b)joyous
c)sentimental
d)condescending
What is b)joyous
(1) My Literature teacher explained that a fable is a story that teaches a lesson or moral and often uses animals as characters.
What change needs to be made in sentence 1?
a) Change Literature to literature
b) Insert a comma after story
c)Change uses to use
d)Change animals to animal’s
What is a) Change Literature to literature
My sister needed help with her social study's project this week.
What is remove the apostrophe in --study's-- and change the word to --studies?
My sister needed help with her social studies project this week.