Vocabulary
The meaning of ambiguous
A. Uncertain
B. Ambitious
C. Large
What is uncertain?
The message or meaning behind a poem or text.
What is a theme?
What is compare/contrast, problem/solution, chronological, cause/effect, and description?
The fly buzzed around the room.
What is onomatopoeia?
They were dealt two cards; because it was their first time playing the game.
A. dealt two cards because it
B. dealt two cards. Because it
C. dealt two cards, because it
A
The meaning of blithe.
A. Freezing
B. Cheerful
C. Damaging
What is cheerful?
Feelings that are evoked in the reader
What is the mood?
Typically larger than the other text, bolded, and comes at the top of a paragraph.
What is a heading?
Death whispered in his ear as he rode his horse through the foggy graveyard.
What is personification?
Their shopping for there retirement party and came across some fun-shaped balloons.
(find the error)
Meaning of nonchalant.
A. Casual; Unconcerned
B. Princely; Royal
C. Challenging; Vocal
What is casual; unconcerned?
The author's attitude portrayed in the writing.
What is tone?
A speaker claims that the use of AI has increased in classrooms by 42% in the last three years.
(rhetorical appeal)
What is the rhetorical appeal, logos?
What is alliteration?
There are to many people in the ice cream store.
(find the error)
What is too?
The meaning of fortitude.
A. Weak
B. Courage
C. Forthcoming
What is courage?
The three different types of author's purposes.
What is to persuade, to inform, and to argue?
The cereal commercial shows an elderly man pouring a bowl of Cheerios and then running a 5k marathon because the cereal keeps a strong heart for him to live long.
(rhetorical appeal)
I let my younger brother drive us through the mountains but started to scream when he drove faster than a rocket ship and almost rolled us down a cliff.
What is hyperbole?
My dad asked me to get a few things from the grocery store. A bag of ice chips and avocados.
(add a colon and commas)
What is my dad asked me to get a few things from the grocery store: a bag of ice, chips, and avocados?
The meaning of suppress.
A. To Reveal
B. To Rehearse
C. To Restrain
What is to restrain?
A universal theme for Romeo and Juliet.
Examples: Fate is in the stars
Death is inevitable
Love taken to extremes can be dangerous
Love has the power to alter a person
A brief, overall summary of what the story was about.
What is central idea?
The little girl kept ding-dong-ditching the neighbor's houses. She is a firecracker.
What is a metaphor?
The woman which works at that restaurant is from France.
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What is the woman who works at the restaurant is from France?