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I have a head and a tail. People often say I am #1. I am made of copper. I am lucky if you pick me up. What am I?

• four leaf clover

• leaf

• penny

• dime

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Which tone is represented in the following passage? Ugh! Do I really have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again.

• enthusiastic
• nostalgic
• optimistic
• peeved

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the emotional influence of a word

• connotation
• structure
• simile

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When Lucentio says “Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl,” who is he “burning” for?  

• The widow
• Bianca
• Tranio
• Katharine

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a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes; God disposes." 

• assonance
• antithesis
• conceit
• imagery

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I didn’t want to bother Carl. He was in his office and it looked like he was lost in ______ thought. 

• deep
• great
• heavy
• serious

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What does Lincoln mean when he says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here” (lines 13–15 G.A.)? 

• Actions are more important than words. 
• It is more important to talk about beliefs than to take action about those beliefs. 
• The consequences of commemoration will last far longer than the consequences of their heroism.
• The soldiers dedication to the Union should be honored with our words and the commemoration of the cemetery.

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 I was exhausted, so I drank a double espresso. Now I’m _____ awake.

• highly 
• wide 
• thoroughly 
• entirely

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"Montag felt himself back away and away out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail" is an example of

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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You've been travelling all day. You ____ be tired!

• must

• mustn't

• can't

• can

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