English 8 - Review

1. What word can describe, clarify, qualify, or limit a particular word in a sentence?

• Indicators

• Modifiers

• Adjectives

2. What word describes a noun or pronoun?

• Indicators

• Modifiers

• Adjectives

3. What figure of speech is an ironic understatement by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite?

• Oxymoron

• Litotes

• Paradox

4. Which of the following is NOT a type of modifier?

• Single-word modifiers

• Clause modifiers

• Compound modifiers

5. What is the profession of reporting and writing the news?

• Journalism

• Reporter

• News writer

6. What line contains the name of the writer of the article?

• Byline

• Headline

• Lead paragraph

7. What is the first line that readers see and contains the who-what angle of the news?

• Byline

• Headline

• Lead paragraph

8. Writers are guided by the universal guideline. What is it called?

• News elements

• News report

• Journalistic text

9. What refers to the use of ideas and information to sway an audience?

• Advertisements

• Commercial

• Propaganda

10. What technique of persuasion appeals to emotion?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos