A Raisin in the Sun and Lit Terms Quiz

A writer's or speaker's credibility:

• pathos

• logos

• ethos

• gyros

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

When Asagai compares life to an infinite line and Beneatha says it's a circle, they are making a geometric

• alliteration

• algorithm

• analogy

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A paradox is

• the result of your sightlines crossing

• a body of sentences joined together in content

• an ox that pulls a parade float

• a statement that appears to be self-contradictory but is actually true

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Assigning humanlike features or behaviors to animals or nonliving things is

• animalism

• objectification

• infantalism

• personificaiton

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Choose the phrase containing personification:

• rain pattering quickly off your roof

• pencil refusing to be sharpened

• car engine growing hot and loud

• wind enveloping you in a whirl of snow

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following does George NOT value?

• power of education

• African history and heritage

• women's independence

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What does Walter's sudden talk of business and offices with Travis (after Mama gives him the money) imply?

• he will use it all for his business plan

• he will finally be able to afford traveling to an office job

• he can finally pay rent on an office he leases

• Travis will get to work in a business office soon

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is the key difference between George and Asagai?

• George appreciates Beneatha's physical beauty while Asagai does not

• Asagai is wealthier

• Asagai respects Beneatha as a woman and an intellectual

• George prefers chatty women

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

Based on stage directions and dialogue, we can tell that on his first visit, Lindner feels

• angry

• jolly

• queasy

• nervous

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

In George's allusion, who is Prometheus?

• God of Wisdom

• Titan who overstepped boundaries in a big way

• Horned and hooved Greek monster from Crete

• the man selling the liquor store to Walter, Willy, & Bobo