Cloze vocabulary test

Rhyming words, initial word sounds, musical melodies, landmarks and other images can all be used as ______________ devices.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

“So we may know our broken hearts are not alone . . .” is an example of a writer’s use of ______________, while “Burt’s Bees lip balm” shows a marketing strategy that uses ______________ to attract consumers.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Her sense of activism was forged within the _____________ of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The pages are thick with ___________, in which Conrad describes dark and  impenetrable jungle, dangerous animals and bothersome insects, and intolerable heat and humidity.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

___________ is the art of saying something while suggesting something else.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

He was expert at changing his ____________ on a dime, cheerful and witty in one instant, dark and pensive in the next.

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Having nothing but ____________ for the entire system, she would openly  ___________ her political adversaries in her many published writings.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The acceptability of using a ____________ or two when we speak doesn’t mean that the practice is equally acceptable when we write, especially when we are engaged in academic writing.

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CCSS.SL.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.1D

CCSS.W.11-12.2E

CCSS.W.9-10.1D

Abigail was much given to _____________, and one never knew where one stood with her, or whether her smiles were genuine or her anger was real.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Nevertheless, she appeared to be quite ______________ over the misplacement of her umbrella by the servant.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4