General Information
How many credits is this assessment?
4
What is a simile?
An image that compares two things using like or as.
Contrast
Indentify the personifying word in this sentence:
The car blinked at me.
Blinked
What mood is portrayed by the following sentence?
I could eat a whole horse.
Hunger
This technique helps you think about what you already know about a topic before reading.
What is activating prior knowledge?
What is a Metaphor?
An image that compares two things without using like or as.
A statement where contradictory ideas are placed together.
What is an oxymoron?
Come up with a sentence that uses Hyperbole.
Sweat trickled down her brow as the gun kissed her forehead.
Fear
This reading strategy involves looking at titles, headings, and images before reading.
What is previewing?
What is a Nelogism?
A made-up word.
What technique means starting each sentence with the same word as the one before?
Anaphora
Indentify the usage of Transferred Epithets (When the adjective is applied to the wrong noun) in the following sentence:
The tall man smoked a nervous cigarette.
Nervous Cigarette
What mood is portrayed by the following sentence?
Sitting at the emergnecy meeting, Red says "that's sus" before voting Green.
Accusatory, Suspicious
This strategy involves predicting what a text might be about based on clues.
What is making predictions?
What is a Litote?
Deliberate understatement.
What technqiue involves using two contrasting ideas within one sentence.
Antithesis.
A statement where contradictory ideas are placed together.
What is an oxymoron?
What mood is portrayed by the following sentence?
He heard foot steps coming up the stairs behind him. They were coming.
Paranoia, Tenseness.
This text structure shows similarities and differences between ideas.
What is compare and contrast?
What is a Diacope?
A repeat of a word or phrase after a brief interruption.
What technique involves the use of words that are superflous and/or unnecessary?
Pleonasm.
A reference to a well-known person, event, or text without directly explaining it.
What is an allusion?
What mood is portrayed by the following sentence?
Sam simply stared at his sister.
Annoyance or Disbelief.