EOC Review for English 2

Denotation indicates

• the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• the implied meaning, derived from ¨reading between the lines¨

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Connotation indicates

• the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• the implied meaning, derived from ¨reading between the lines¨

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• I must be cruel to be kind.

• My love is like a red, red rose.

• It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window… Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass,

• All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Which of the following is an example of a paradox?

• I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.

• But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!

• Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathèd enemy.

• The woods are getting ready to sleep — they are not yet asleep but they are disrobing and are having all sorts of little bed-time conferences and whisperings and good-nights.”

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

The following is an example of what type of figurative language?: ¨“I wandered lonely as a cloud

that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

The following is an example of what type of figurative language?: “Two Sunflowers

Move in the Yellow Room.

‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,’

said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which of the following words means that someone is easily tricked or naive/gullible?

• Deleterious

• Ethereal

• Credulous

• Succinct

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which of the following words means a complete collapse or failure?

• Debacle

• Deleterious

• Diabolical

• Derelict

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Which of the following is NOT true about an inference?

• It is a conclusion based on logic, reasoning, and common sense.

• It is implied by the content of a text.

• It is stated directly by the author.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The first sentence in a constructed response should do all of the following EXCEPT what?

• contain the title and author´s name

• use the terminology used in the question

• make a claim

• contain a quotation from the text

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1