Overview A Modest Proposal

Overview A Modest Proposal

12th Grade

20 Qs

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Overview A Modest Proposal

Overview A Modest Proposal

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
RL.11-12.3, RI.11-12.4, RF.3.3B

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

communicates contempt for the subject at hand.

sarcasm

hyperbole

humor

paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Radically exaggerates existing situations to show innate stupidity or weakness.

contradiction

sarcasm

hyperbole

understatement

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Indirectly draw attention to flawed situations.

understatement

extended analogy

The Pamphlet

symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

...also indirectly represents current social issues. T

symbolism

humor

irony

paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

...criticizes society to stimulate thought and action

contradiction

sarcasm

verbal irony

humor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"A Modest Proposal" was published as a _______, a work that's just a few pages long. Rather than being bound with a hardcover like a book, a _____ is unbound or loosely bound. This form of publishing was very popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. People used them as part of religious and political debates. They were an inexpensive way to get a single piece of writing into circulation, and many writers wrote back and forth in a kind of war of ideas.

paradox

understatement

pamphlet

extended analogy

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Many ____ farmers who had owned their own lands now had to work as tenants on farms owned by ____ landlords.

English- Irish

Irish - English

Scottish- Irish

English - Scotish

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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