ELA Semester 1 Final Exam

What does external conflict mean? Give textual example from the Medicine Bag or Sea Devil text.

• A struggle when a character is at war with himself.

• A struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force.

• A struggle when a character is in battle with nature only.

• A struggle that a character has internally.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

What is CEC writing?

Which of the following is an example of allusion?

• a. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

• b. Five score years ago, a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

What does commentary mean when writing?

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What figurative language is this an example of in the I Have a Dream Text " “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred?”

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which of the following passages from I Have a Dream is an example of personification?

• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

• We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

• We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

• We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: 'For Whites Only'.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What does this excerpt mean "the way the net came alive when the cast was true"? Does "true" mean

• the cast was like a living thing

• the cast was close to being right

• the cast was perfect

• the cast was blowing due to high winds

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an Informative Essay?

• to persuade the readers about the topic.

• to inform the readers about an object, person, event, topic, or situation.

• to inform readers by agreeing with the points made by the author.

• to inform and argue on any topic.

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Writing

What does external conflict mean? Give textual example of one we have seen this semester from the Sea Devil or Medicine Bag.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Why Jobe Alexander's story an example of irony in comparison to African-Americans?

• Trail of Tears and Slavery

• Trail of Tears, Slavery and Civil Rights

• Slavery, Salem Witch Trials, and WWII

• Trail of Tears, Civil Rights and WWI

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7