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Choose the word with the positive connotation.
immature--youthful

• immature
• youthful

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What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Eerie
• Sarcastic
• Passionate
• Humorous

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The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• true
• false

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Read the sentences and answer the question. I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most stubborn person I know.    I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most persistent person I know. How does the connotation of the word persistent in the second sentence convey the author’s purpose?

• It implies a positive characteristic.
• It implies an increasingly negative characteristic.
• It implies a careless characteristic.
• It implies a playfully irresponsible characteristic.

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Read this sentence from Chapter 8.  "I could see that even a few words were tiring him out; he was as pale as the pillow and looked awful." 
Which figurative language device is being used here?

• similie
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• flashback

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Which connotation is MORE negative?
We bought _____ souvenirs at the amusement park.

• cheap
• inexpensive

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A hyperbole:

• Is a saying that is not to be taken literally.

• Is comparing two unlike things.

• Is an extreme exaggeration.

• Is a sound word.

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The following is an example of what type of literary device: Heather is a beautiful snowflake.  

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Verbal Irony

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Which word creates a nostalgic tone?
Abshu wished that his own family could have
stayed together. There were four of them who ended up
in foster care: him, two younger sisters, and a baby
brother. He understood why his mother did what she
did, but he couldn't help wondering if there might have been a better way.

• understood
• wished
• together
• foster care

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The boy is in good hands.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

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