Literary, Informational, & Argumentative Text Practice

Literary, Informational, & Argumentative Text Practice

English 3

Read the Informational text and then answer the questions on the slides that follow.

Text is located in Google Classroom

Multiple Choice

The following excerpt from paragraph 9 can best be identified as—

Imagine moving to Texas, buying a plot of land in the middle of nowhere, and unexpectedly hitting the jackpot the first time you drilled into the ground! Then imagine one of your jealous neighbors trying to steal your land by framing you for a crime you didn’t commit. Think about what it felt like when a summer drought worsened and left you without water . . . your horses withering in the late July heat. Consider the stress of your husband or wife leaving you for another oil prospector with a bigger well and more land than you could ever afford.

• commentary

• summary

• a thesis

• the conclusion

Multiple Choice

How does the following sentence from paragraph 11 use characteristics and structural elements of informational texts?

There is an individual grit and sense of self-determination common to almost all Texas music and literature, in part, because that frontier spirit first lived by Native Americans and continued by settlers, oil-boom roughnecks, and 20th-century Texans has stayed with us in the 21st-century.

• It uses commentary to describe the broad range of ideas and cultures that shaped Texas literature over time.

• It explicitly restates the thesis in the conclusion.

• It states the thesis in the introduction.

• It uses summaries and gives examples from an epic historical novel about of Texas to support the thesis.

Read the Argumentative text and then answer the questions on the slides that follow

Text is located in Google Classroom

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the structural element evident in paragraph 6 of the speech?

• counter argument

• thesis

• conclusion

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes an appeal that Marshall uses in paragraph 6 to persuade his audience?

• He uses logos to persuade his audience that the economy of the United States will suffer from its attempt to restore the European economy.

• He uses logos to show that the United States can offer Europe only temporary relief to its war-torn economy but cannot help to restore full economic stability.

• He uses pathos to persuade his audience that the United States is not trying to impose its will on Europe but rather is working to bring humanitarian aid to people of the war-torn countries.

• He uses pathos to explain that, even though the help of the United States will be a mere palliative, it is better than nothing.

Multiple Choice

Which statement from the text best supports the correct answer in Question 2 above?

• “The manufacturer and the farmer throughout wide areas must be able and willing to exchange their products for currencies the continuing value of which is not open to question.”

• “Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piece-meal basis as various crises develop.”

• “Any government which maneuvers to block the recovery of other countries cannot expect help from us.”

• “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.”

Read the Literary text and then answer the questions on the slides that follow

Text is located in Google Classroom

Multiple Choice

The first portion of this excerpt from The Bluest Eye (paragraph 1) is written in the _______ tense, from a _______point of view.

• present; first-person

• present; third-person

• past; first-person

• past; third person

Multiple Choice

The narrator of the first part of the excerpt (paragraph 1) is _______.

• Cholly

• Pauline

• Pauline’s employer

• Pauline’s employer’s husband

Multiple Choice

Pauline’s opinion of the woman she works for (paragraph 1) is mainly that the woman is _______ .

• simple-minded

• rich

• just as bad as she is

• the source of a great deal of wisdom

Multiple Choice

What is most closely the meaning of succumbed as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 2)?

When the winter sun hit the peeling green paint of the kitchen chairs, when the smoked hocks were boiling in the pot, when all she could hear was the truck delivering furniture downstairs, she thought about back home, about how she had been all alone most of the time then too, but that this lonesomeness was different. Then she stopped staring at the green chairs, at the delivery truck; she went to the movies instead. There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams.

• died from a disease or wounding

• gave in to a feeling or urge

• Both A and B

• Neither A nor B

Multiple Choice

Paragraphs 2-4 add to the development of the excerpt mainly by _______ .

• allowing the reader to hear the distinct voice of Pauline

• presenting an objective point of view closer to that of the reader

• explaining why Pauline’s employer is unable to understand her

• contrasting Pauline’s version of events with the truth

The End

We will have our final District Assessment the week of May 24th