spring final exam 2021 study guide

How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

Which of the following is true about allusions?

• allusions are written in quotation marks

• allusions are always started as a comparison, as in 'He was as strong as Hercules.'

• allusions are indicated references that may sometimes be obvious and sometimes obscure

• all of the above

Which of the following is not an example of an allusion?

• his wife was his Achille's heel

• he lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's

• she transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden.

• we'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever.

What type of allusion is this?

• Mythological

• Biblical

• Literary

• Historical

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which of these lines contains an allusion?

• And therefore have I little talked of love

• Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death

• For Venus smiles not in a house of tears

• All of the above

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:
High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200.
• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."
• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.
• School uniforms can be ordered online .

A strong claim must have ____________. 

• support
• a counterargument
• opinions

The claim: video games are helpful. 
An example of a counterargument would be: 

• video games improve coordination
• video games might also help improve visual skills
• video games can be used to simulate trainings for soldiers
• violent video games increase your heart rate in a negative way

What sentence from the passage best supports the author's claim that we cannot take water for granted?

• Water is the single most important natural resource on Earth.
• After all, washing your hands takes only ten seconds or so.
• In general, saving water involves changing only a few wasteful habits.
• Most people find that these habits are actually pretty easy to change.

Football is so much better than baseball. People always say that baseball is America's pastime. Those people are stupid! I don't know anyone who likes baseball. It is really boring to watch on TV, and you have to wear those funny looking pants. All the people on TV who play baseball are too fat and slow. They could never play football.
 Football is a real sport. It's really hard to throw that big ball all the way down the field, and really hard to catch it, when you know that you're about to get hit by some really big and fast person. BOOM! You're on the ground! Ouch! Any second, there is the danger of being tackled. That's a sport! Running around jumping on stupid squares and swinging a stick at a tiny white ball is not my idea of a sport. Football is America's pastime, if you ask me. Or maybe wrestling is America's pastime.
 I love watching wrestling, too. Those men and women are strong! They can pick each other up and throw them right out of the ring into the audience! HA! Take that! That's my idea of a sport. Baseball is for weaklings who are too weak for football and wrestling and too scared to get hit all the time. Wrestling is without a doubt a better sport than baseball.The writer of this passage is biased toward football and wrestling. How does this bias affect the argument made in the text?

• It makes the writer's opinion of wrestling look like facts.
• It changes the tone of the writing from silly to serious.
• It keeps the reader from taking the argument too seriously.
• It causes the reader to agree with the writer's opinion.