CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

In the following quote, what does "shinny" most likely mean?
Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake with so much shinny it made me tight.

• Alcohol
• Coconut
• Love
• Food coloring

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

What is  the writer's choice of setting, details, and images that contribute to a certain feeling?

• mood
• tone

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

When a person says something that is the opposite of what he/she means, the person is using

• ironic speech
• verbal irony
• trickery
• verbal disagreement

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

Ponyboy tells Randy that Johnny isn't ______.

• Sorry.
• Poor.
• Dead.
• Alive.

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

"I would hasten to admit, however, that there was a considerable hiatus between the first stolen book and the second." Which of the following words could replace hiatus in the sentence above and keep the same meaning?

• travel
• break
• discussion
• punishment

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

 Read the excerpt below. What can you infer the meaning of the word vexed is? "And this I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye."

• troubled
• hated
• difficult
• surprised

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

Children and dogs and houses bloom
like crowded flowers,
This is an example of: 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

What did Johnny mean when he told Ponyboy to "stay gold."

• Be green like the springtime, and don't get used to things like adults and take things for granted.
• Go for first place, like gold, when running track or participating in other extra-curricular activities.
• Stay focused on your schoolwork, so you can go to college and make something with your life.
• Be gold like autumn leaves, because they are a warning that a cold winter will be here soon.

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

I got flowers, ___ was nice.

• which
• who
• that
• that's

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

An author/narrator's attitude toward what they are talking about is called the ______________.

• mood
• tone
• voice

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4