Final Reading SOL Review

Sara sold her smooth suede shoes is an example of which of the following terms?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

"SNAP, CRACKLE, POP" are examples of which of the following terms?

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Paradox

Which word from the selection contains a prefix that means "under"?

• regarding

• prospective

• submitting

• forebears

Which of the following are synonyms for the word panacea in the excerpt below?

Education - while neither a panacea for all that plagues the body politic nor a magic want that sets everything aright - still stands at its full height above all else as the one ingredient without which a democracy will not long survive.

• cure-all, solution, remedy

• problem, disease, dilemma

• statement, rational, thought

• justice, democracy, freedom

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The east was pink with the dawn and long streaks of light climbed into the sky where a few stars still shone.

This sentence contains an example of -

• personification

• paradox

• overstatement

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Be a sharp one," Tom Willard had said. "Keep your eyes on your money. Be awake. That's the ticket. Don't let anyone think you're a greenhorn.

The best interpretation for the idiom "that's the ticket" is -

• you should keep your eyes open

• that is how much it will cost

• you cannot trust strangers

• that is what is needed

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Be a sharp one," Tom Willard had said. "Keep your eyes on your money. Be awake. That's the ticket. Don't let anyone think you're a greenhorn.

The best synonym for "greenhorn" is -

• novice

• expert

• musician

• pauper

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The purpose of paragraph 1 is to -

• describe Albert Einsteins's personality

• list people who won the Nobel Prize

• explain the biology behind creativity

• introduce the qualities of a genius

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

"In the end, while a person's natural intelligence may be a determining factor in cultivating genius abilities, it's not the only one. Learning to think like a genius can also have a tremendous influence."

In these sentences, the word "cultivating" means -

• neglecting

• developing

• proving

• calming

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which information would be best to include in a report about the connection between a person's intelligence and the brain?

• Teenagers of genius ability do have more active nerve connections between the different parts of their brains

• Learning to think like a genius can also have a tremendous influence

• While most people try to avoid failure at any cost, geniuses are not afraid to take a risk, to do something differently, and to fail

• Einstein's brain, which was preserved after his death, was closely studied in 1999

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.2