English 11 Final Review

Corroborative writing is best defined as writing that can be__________.

• revised

• copied

• proved

• debated

Concise expository writing is best described as writing that is______________.

• presented sequentially

• compact and unified

• incoherent or illogical

• devoid of technical language

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CCSS.W.11-12.2

CCSS.W.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.5

The original meaning of the word "essay' is which of these?

• thought

• dialogue

• attempt

• treatise

Someone interested in reading a personal account of life under Nazi dominance would choose which of these?

• The Diary of Anne Frank

• "A Progress to the Mines"

• A True Relation

• The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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Read the descriptive sentence:

When he comes home, I'm going to shower him with a million kisses.

Which types of figurative language are illustrated in this sentence? Select all that apply.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

If you are reading an opinion about whether parents should monitor the music their teens are listening to, you are probably reading which of these?

• news article

• expose

• feature article

• editorial

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CCSS.RI.11-12.6

Which of these methods of exposition is best to use when you need to write about two subjects?

• compare/contrast

• argumentation

• definition

• classification

The tradition of drama in the Western world can be traced back to _______________.

• Egypt

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

• Babylonia

Abstract made concrete

• symbolism

• expressionism

• realism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

Life as it is

• symbolism

• realism

• expressionism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2