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The teacher was mildly intimated by Seth's bossy behavior. If you change the word bossy to assertive, the word now has a ____ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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What does the following line mean?
He jests at scars that never felt a wound

• Mercutio jokes about love becasue he has never been in love.
• Romeo jokes about love because he has never been in love.
• Tybalt jokes about fighting because he has never been injured.
• Benvolio jokes about fighting because he has never been injured.

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No sooner had she said it than there he was, "Mister Irresistible" himself.  Throwing big, cheesy winks at everyone in the room, walking with a swagger like a cartoon baseball player.  He slithered his way over to their side of the room.
What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Enthusiastic 
• Serious
• Mocking
• Sorrowful 

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The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days. 
What does the metaphor mean above?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.
• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. 
• The baby never smiled. 
• The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. 

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The staccato popping of small arms around the field and the shells exploding overhead brought me back to my time in an Afghanistan combat zone.

• NO CHANGE 
• were exploding
• exploded
• explode

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At the start of Act 2 Scene 2, Romeo gives a long speech about Juliet as he watches her on the balcony. During this speech, what does he compare Juliet to?

• An angel
• The Sun
• A jewel
• All of these

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Krispy Kreme

• hyperpole

• personification

• alliteration

• smilie

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"Kino watched as two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out. It would be a clumsy fight. They were not game chickens" (4).

What does feinted mean?

• pecked at one another

• fell down unconscious

• appeared to box one another

• started to dance

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PERFECT (By Ed Sheeran)

When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath

But you heard it, darling, you look ............... tonight

• gourgeous

• beautiful

• perfect

• perfection

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Arrogant; snobbish; looking down one’s nose at riff-raff

• supercilious

• intimation

• deft

• conscientious

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