2022 English III Semester 2 Exam

Which hook technique did the writer use?

"I can still remember my first night in Harris County jail."

• Humor

• Anecdote

• Personal Story

• Vivid Description

Which hook technique did the writer use?

"The giant prison, grey and made only of brick and concrete, seemed cold in comparison to the warm environment of the school classroom that the convicts once belonged to."

• Humor

• Vivid description

• Personal story

• Anecdote

Which hook technique did the writer use?

Blacks and Hispanics make up almost 32% of the US population, but they made up 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015."

• Statistic

• Personal Story

• Anecdote

• Metaphor

Find the mistake in the quote:

"I can't believe I made the Hall of Fame!" exclaimed the coach.

• It shouldn't have an exclamation point

• Quotation marks should go around the word coach

• No mistakes

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

"I caught a fish as big as a house," is an example of what literary device?

• Personification

• A simile

• A hyperbole

"My teeth chattered as the temperature dropped." What senses being used in this sentence?

• hear

• hear and touch

• see and smell

• taste

What types of imagery/sensory comes to mind when you look at this photograph?

• Touch and taste

• Sight and sound

• Sight and smell

Which is an example of personification?

• A rose by any other name is just as sweet

• The white clouds swiftly across the sky

• That is the ugliest car that I ever saw.

Choose the word which would convey the greatest emotional intensity.

I was _________ when my best friend came back to visit after moving away.

• ecstatic

• happy

• pleased