SBAC/Evaluate Vocabulary Test Prep

What is the persuasive device "Bandwagon"?

• Telling one side of the story as though there is no opposing view.

• Trying to show that a person or product is good for "ordinary" people because a person is "just lik you".

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea.

• A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct or desireable.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is the figurative language device "Personification"?

• Telling one side of the story as though there is no opposing view.

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea.

• A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the persuasive device "Card Stacking"?

• Telling one side of the story as though there is no opposing view.

• Trying to show that a person or product is good for "ordinary" people because a person is "just lik you".

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea.

• A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct or desireable.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is the persuasive device "Plain Folks Appeal"?

• Telling one side of the story as though there is no opposing view.

• Trying to show that a person or product is good for "ordinary" people because a person is "just lik you".

• The giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea.

• A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct or desireable.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which is the definition of the plot of a story's "climax"?

• the main problem in a story

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of something, a culmination or apex

• the part of a story following the climax, in which the story's main conflict is resolved

• the series of struggles that builds a story or play toward a climax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which is the definition of the plot of a story's "resolution"?

• the main problem in a story

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of something, a culmination or apex

• the part of a story following the climax, in which the story's main conflict is resolved

• the series of struggles that builds a story or play toward a climax

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which is the definition of the plot of a story's "conflict"?

• the main problem in a story

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of something, a culmination or apex

• the part of a story following the climax, in which the story's main conflict is resolved

• the series of struggles that builds a story or play toward a climax

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which is the definition of the plot of a story's "rising action"?

• the main problem in a story

• the most intense, exciting, or important point of something, a culmination or apex

• the part of a story following the climax, in which the story's main conflict is resolved

• the series of struggles that builds a story or play toward a climax

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which of these is the story element of "symbolism"?

• when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story

• the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which of these is the story element of "situational irony"?

• when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story

• the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• the opposite of what is expected or intended to happen, happens

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A