ABE Final

During a poetry reading, Abdul recites a poem where the same sound starts several consecutive words. What is this technique called?

• Alliteration

• Understatement

• Simile

• Personification

During a geography class, Tiffany is asked to describe the layout of New York City in her project report. What text structure is she using to show a descriptive interpretation of the city?

• Text Structure: Spatial

• Text Structure: Sequence

• Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

• Text Structure: Chronological

During a math class, Abdul and Tiffany were solving equations. Tiffany rearranged the numbers in one equation and noticed the answer remained the same. Which property explains this?

• Distributive Property

• Commutative Property

• Identity Property

• Alliteration

What term describes the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

What term is defined as "extreme exaggeration"?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

During a math competition, Abdul was asked to solve an expression using the correct order of operations. What does the acronym PEMDAS, which Abdul used to solve the expression, stand for?

• Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

• Product

• Idioms

• FOIL

Which option lists the correct order of operations in mathematics?

• Exponents, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction, Division, Parentheses

• Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction, Exponents, Parentheses

• Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Exponents, Parentheses

What is the term for the raised symbol when a number is written as a power?

• Text structure: sequence

• Text structure: spatial

• Index/exponent

• Understatement

When an author like Christina is trying to convince her readers of something, this is known as?

• Author's Purpose: Inform

• Author's Purpose: Persuade

• Author's Purpose: Entertain

• Simile

Which text structure is defined by the author presenting a problem and explaining a solution?

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast