P2 Senior English Quiz

How do you annotate an article?

• Highlight, connect with the text, ask questions, respond

• Highlight, and write a long response for every paragraph

• Write short, condensed responses leaving out too much detail

• Highlight only

What are three steps you MUST do when answering a writing prompt?

• Resate, highlight, find the title

• Answer, justify, connotate

• Restate, answer, justify

• Only answer the question

What are three steps you should avoid in a job interview?

• Dressing inappropriately, poor body language, not asking questions.

• Ask about your needs, hair in your face, engaged listening.

• Wear a good outfit, ask about the company’s history, plan your interview the night before.

• Maintain eye contact, correct posture, and firm handshake

How do you determine the connotation of a word?

• By looking at how it’s spelled and how long it is

• By how people use it, tone of the word, and emotion

• Only by someone’s tone when using the word

• Only by reading the word’s definition

What is a way to have a better conversation?

• Mention personal experiences

• Repeat yourself

• Be interested

• Go into depth

What is the BEST reason an author might use 3rd person point of view instead of 1st person?

• Because 1st person isn’t as detailed as 3rd person

• Because 3rd person can be more reliable than 1st person

• Because 1st person is extremely boring

• Because 3rd person is the proper way stories should be written

What was the form of storytelling used in “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

• An interview

• A story told through generations

• A police report

• A journal

What is a simile?

• A reference to something in traditional literature

• A complicated plot line that is  written for a story

• A comparison using “like” or “as”

• A synonym for the word “smile”

What is a transitive verb?

• A verb that requires an adjective to make sense

• When the action passes from the subject to the direct object

• When the action passes from the verb to the objective complement

• A verb with the word transitive in it

What is the correct sequence of a story?

• Falling action, climax, rising action, exposition

• Rising action, climax, falling action, exposition, resolution

• Whatever the author chooses it to be

• Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution