Unit 2 Assessment

As the weather becomes warmer and people travel outside more often, daring pests creep indoors to explore kitchens and pantries.

What is the impact of the use of the word “daring” on the tone of the sentence?

• It emphasizes the slow moving nature of some pests.

• Its emphasizes the energy and movement of the pests.

• 
  It emphasizes the deep misery of the pests.

• It emphasizes the happiness of the pests.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.

Which definition of the word 'entertain' BEST fits the meaning of this sentence?

Responses

• to amuse or thrill

• to bore or make tired

• to go into

• to have in one's mind

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A major subdivision in a poem. A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; a stanza of three lines is called a tercet; a stanza of four lines is called a quatrain.

• stanza

• quatrain

• couplet

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

Which word would be a synonym for the word exile as it is used in the third paragraph?

• comic

• rescuer

• cast out

• host

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

My words are little jars

• personification

• metaphor

• assonance

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The word weigh sounds like the word way.

These words are responses:

• homophones.

• compounds.

• synonyms.

• antonyms.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

A rhyme that occurs within one line such as “He’s King of the Swing.”

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• couplet

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5