English II Review #2

Read the paragraph below and choose the writer’s tone.

Obesity continues to grow in the United States despite our national interest in being thin and fit. More than 60% of adults in the U. S. are now estimated to be overweight or obese. More than 300,000 people die from health problems related to excessive weight each year.

• hostile

• objective

• pessimistic

• optimistic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

Read the paragraph below. What figure of speech is being used?

From All Things Considered(GK Chesterton)

"So I do not think that it is altogether fanciful or incredible to suppose that even the floods in London may be accepted and enjoyed poetically. Nothing beyond inconvenience seems really to have been caused by them; and inconvenience, as I have said, is only one aspect, and that the most unimaginative and accidental aspect of a really romantic situation. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. The water that girdled the houses and shops of London must, if anything, have only increased their previous witchery and wonder."

• hyperbole

• paradox

• euphemism

• synecdoche

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which literary element is shown below?
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb;

• parable
• paradox
• parody
• satire

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What would be an appropriate meaning for the phrase "clasping remembered beauty"?

• Imagining future events

• Recalling past events

• Creating current events

• Forgetting past events

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which detail supports the idea that a clock is considered a novelty during a specific time period?

• “From the start, I did not like the idea of getting out in the cold and observing the stars in winter time, so as to see when to get up.”

• “We went together to the watchmaker in Tarnobrzeg and bought a clock for four ducats, with the understanding that he was to bring it over in the evening and hang it for us.”

• “They would listen for the ticking under the window; and in time their elders began to come, too, to look at the clock.”

• “Later on, the nearer neighbors, who had some date to keep, would come to the window day or night and ask what time it was.”

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is the impact of the metaphors “the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side” in paragraph 2?

• They remind consumers that lies have led to economic ruin.

• They provide a bleak depiction of the nation’s financial state.

• They create an image of a once prosperous country after war.

• They establish how disappointing the nation’s harvests have been.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which line from the selection shows that the author wishes to persuade readers?

• “It is, however, a challenge that such societies must meet if they are to enjoy the material benefits that a market economy can provide.”

• “It is an increase in the average price level of the goods and services produced and sold in an economy.”

• “Inflation has sometimes been described as an increasing amount of money chasing a shrinking number of goods.”

• “Entrepreneurs and investors respond to the new economic freedom by starting new businesses and competing to provide goods and services.”

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

"As he rode, the fog receded slowly. He left the chaparral and rode by green marshes cut with sloughs and stained with vivid patches of orange."

What is the synonym for “receded slowly”?

• emerged sluggishly

• appeared carefully

• regressed without hurrying

• transformed at a weak pace

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In which mode is this passage written?
I watched my grandfather lying helpless and realized that only I had the power to help him. I reached into my backpack and found the stone that seemed to be glowing like precious rubies. 

• persuasive
• explanatory
• informative
• narrative

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CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3A

Rules are very important. They help keep things running smoothly. Rules let you know what you can and cannot do whether you are playing a game or explaining how to act in class. You should follow rules; they help people get along.
What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain with a story about people who follow the rules
• to inform about the rules of games
• to persuade people to follow the rules
• to explain the rules of chess

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6