Unit 2 Review

Read the argument, then select the claim:

Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences. However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure. Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills. Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences.

• However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure.

• Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills.

Read the argument, then select the counterclaim:

Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences. However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure. Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills. Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences.

• Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills.

• However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure.

Read the argument, then select the call to action:

Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences. However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure. Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills. Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Everyone should play games in some capacity to take advantage of the benefits offered by playing video games.

• Despite the vitriol of these anti-gamers, scientists have found no correlation between violent tendencies and gaming habits, with some studies concluding the opposite; video games can potentially offer benefits such as improved hand-eye coordination and better problem-solving skills.

• However, many detractors attribute acts of violence to excessive amounts of video game exposure.

• Video games are the primary entertainment medium for millions of Americans and offer many positive experiences.

How would allusion be defined?

• An indirect reference to a person, place, or thing, such as the bible.

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

The best definition of theme is...

• The lesson the author is teaching. 

• An idea that teaches a lesson about the world through the text.

• A word that summarizes the story.

• The character's main problem.

Select the BEST description of the diction in the following sentences:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

• Elevated and Formal

• Colloquial and informal.

• Technical and scientific.

• Plain and straightfoward.

Select the best example of colloquial (informal) diction.

• And if I do my duty, and do right, you will sustain me, will you not?

• Students, I have convened this assembly to thank you.

• Hence, I am an abolitionist.

• It don't matter to me, I'm outta here.

Chronological structure is ...

• The presentation of events in the order they occurred.

• events being randomly placed no matter when they happened.

• When events are listed in reverse.

Select the example of refrain that Sojourner Truth incorporated in here speech "Ain't I a Woman?"

• "Ain't I a Woman?"

• "That little man over there ... "

• " ... there must be something out of kilter"

• "Obliged to you for hearing me."

Select the example of situational irony:

• Someone posts on Twitter proclaiming that "social media is a waste of time."

• Someone exclaims "just what I needed!" after spilling coffee on themselves.

• A passenger on the titanic saying, "the ocean is so beautiful, I could die," before the ship collided with the iceberg.