American Voices Unit Test Review

What should you include in the conclusion of a nonfiction narrative? (more than one answer possible)

• write in first person (I)

• vivid verbs and adjectives

• reflection/thoughts on the events

• write in third person

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CCSS.W.9-10.2F

CCSS.W.9-10.3E

An informal expression in which the literal meanings of the words do not add up to the actual meaning is called a what?

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• charged language

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which is NOT an idiom?

• I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea.

• Grilling hot dogs and hamburgers is not rocket science.

• When it comes to understanding what indigenous means, they completely missed the boat.

• They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

First they told him he wasn't born here; then to add insult to injury, they told him he wasn't really a robin. This is an example of what literary term?

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It's raining cats and dogs. Which literary device?

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

How can you identify an end-stopped line of poetry?

• it has no punctuation

• it is a run-on idea

• It ends with a comma or other punctuation mark

• the idea continues to the next line of poetry

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CCSS.L.9-10.2

Find an end-stopped line of poetry:

• That's not the point I begin telling them,

• It's the Fourth of July, the flags

• I've got a hat shaped

• She gives me a quizzical look as though

Find the end-stopped line:

• One day I knew

• Will the flowers ever bloom

• A rose by any other name

• A seat of needles, how lovely!

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What kind of writing focuses on one period or aspect of a writer's life?

• memoir

• autobiography

• essay

Select the characteristics of a MEMOIR:

• written in 3rd person

• expresses the writer's attitudes and insights

• written in story form

• written in first person

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CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3A