Unit 2
which excerpt from "Everyday Survival" uses hyperbole for effect?
Be careful who you go into the backcountry with. Some people just have it stamped on their foreheads: "I am going to die in a wilderness accident."
what errors in this passage?
The dog rounded the corner of the house, he was running so fast he knocked me over. Toward his food bowl.
a sentence fragment and a comma splice
Which word is a synonym of the word candor
honesty
Which option is the information resented correctly?
1) Jenny had to wash the car, buy groceries, and go the bank before returning home.
2) Jenny had to wash the car. And buy groceries, and go to the bank before returning home?
Assume you are writing a summary of the article "Video Games in the Age of Cell Phones. Which excerpt from the text includes key details about Playdots and Dots that you would want to include?
Among the things Playdots learned from Dots are that a mobile game can be wildly popluar without actually being wildly profitable, and that the business side of the mobile-games game is a lot more complicated than it looks.
Which word are you most likely to find listed in a thesaurus as a synonym of the word emulate?
Imitate
what does bio mean the word biodegradable
life
In which sentence is the word usurp used correctyly?
1) After a fight broke out in the lunchroom, the principal called an assembly and began to usurp the students for their poor behavior.
2) After the mayor ordered a tax increase, the council members accused him of trying to usrup their power.
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Which option explains why the use of a hyphen in the sentence is incorrect?
Before accepting any scholarship offers, Sonia researched each town's options for off-campus-apartments that weren't to far away
Hyphens should not be used between a modifier and a noun.
Synonyms of Arduous
hard, difficult, rigorous
which statement about the roots of word counterintuitive is correct
One of the roots int eh word counterintuittive is counter, which means "contrary"
Give an example of a definition for incumbent
currently holding a specified office
Which rhetorical feature does Lincoln used in the excerpt? Yet if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fity years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, sot still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether"
Irony
Give one example why" The National Organization for Womens 1966 Statement of Purpose" is considered a work of public advocacy?
It was published to inform the general public.
What will writing a research paper will allow you to practice valuable skills such as
Locating and putting together information
What is Hyperbole
extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or to make a humorous point.
what type of graph would most effectively clarify this trend of rising temperatures for readers
line graph
Who attached our country in 2000
Al Qaeda
What is a synonym of the word anarchy
disorder
What excerpt from Bush's address to joint session of congress following 9/11 attaches. As long as the USA is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terrr; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world.
antithesis, parallelism,
Continuous - occurring without interruption in the time or sequence. Which sentence demostrates the best use of a form of continuos?
The warning siren blew continuously for three long mintues
What word is not a synonym for the word retaliation?
reproof
What speech is this from?
What we need are laws to protect working people, to guarantee them fair pay, safe working conditions, protection against sickness and layoffs and provision for dignified, comfortable retirement?
"Equal Rights for Women."
Pick the sentence is passive voice used appropriately? 1) the task was accomplished in three weeks by the team members?
2) Surfing was done in the early morning
3) The bank was robbed at midnight
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