Cumulative Exam Review (Midterm)

How might someone use ethos as a rhetorical appeal?

• By describing a location

• By establishing authority

• By explaining steps in a process

• By offering a prayer

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following words have positive connotations?

• consequently, estimated, degree

• perfection, happiness, virtue

• individual, direct, flow

• viewed, undeniable, laws

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the two sentences below:

I have endeavoured to help you succeed in this course.

My dog endeavoured to dig a hole under the fence.

In both sentences, the word endeavoured means to:

• probe, investigate, examine

• judge harshly or criticize

• make an effort or attempt, to try

• overlook, ignore, or neglect

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What did Mary Wollenscraft mean by the following statement:

"In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground."

• Nothing should change in regard to women's rights.

• It's important to challenge accepted principles.

• She supports the American and French Revolutions.

• She supports the truths of the time.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sentences correctly use quotations from "A Modest Proposal"?

• “It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars," states Swift.

• Swift asserts that whoever finds “a fair, cheap and easy method” for solving the overwhelming issue of poverty in England would deserve to have “his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.”

• Swift claims that his proposal would be profitable because "no wealthy gentleman would think twice about paying ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child."

• Swift explains that his proposal would bring relief to impoverished parents because they would “be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.

• “This would be a great inducement to marriage, which all wise nations have either encouraged by rewards, or enforced by laws and penalties,” writes Swift about his proposal.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following words is NOT objective?

• absurd

• society

• endeavor

• proof

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

In "A Modest Proposal," when Swift says that he is being sincere in his proposal, he was being

• honest

• fearful

• ironic

• depressing

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

In an argumentative essay, what would be the point of citing someone who has opposite beliefs?

• to applaud their theory

• to agree with their theory

• to disprove their theory

• to elaborate on their theory

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CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A

CCSS.W.11-12.1B

CCSS.W.11-12.1C

How many syllables does one line of iambic pentameter have?

• two

• five

• ten

• seventeen

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is an example of Enlightenment thinking?

• arguing that prejudice has some advantages

• explaining the origin of prejudice

• illustrating how prejudice contains some truth

• valuing reason over prejudice

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1