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What can you infer about the speakers attitude in "Speech to the Young"?

• The speaker expresses an attitude of optimism.  
• The speaker expresses an attitude of negativism.
• The speaker expresses an attitude of pessimism.
• The speaker doesn't care about anything or anyone.

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Read the sentence and identify the verb mood.
If you are going to the game, you might want to buy your ticket early.

• Subjunctive
• Imperative
• Interrogative
• Conditional

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Which phrase has a negative connotation? 

• Squandered his time 
• Invested his time 

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Which phrase has a negative connotation? 

• Spoke with arrogance
• Spoke with confidence 

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What is the mood as the story begins

• Cheerful, bright and colorful
• Dreary and ominous; there is a sense of fear and foreboding
• Dry and factual like a newspaper article
• Boring and nondescript; it is just an average day with an overcast sky

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A "shift" in a poem  is a change in the speakers

• theme
• tone
• mood 
• tone and mood 

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

• mood
• tone
• voice

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Which of the following traits makes a reader-writer connection? It also makes the reader feel, respond, and want more.

• Ideas

• Sentence Fluency

• Conventions

• Voice

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The climate of feeling in a literary work; a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers revealed through diction, setting, and character actions.

• Mood

• Conflict

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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What phrase best describes the mood the author tries to create in the story?

• dread and surprise

• excitement and happiness

• peace and anticipation

• sadness and boredom

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