Midterm Review

What is a personification?

• 
  when you give human characteristics to something non-human

• sarcasm

• an exaggeration

• 
  comparing something using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of a personification?

• the lamp was as bright as the sun

• the alarm clock jumps to life at 6:00am

• she was so hungry she could eat a hippo

• the umbrella was as colourful as a rainbow

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is being personified?

“The plate jumped from his hand.”

• hands

• a plate

• jumping

• a kitchen

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is diction?

• The words an author chooses to use

• Dictionary, but that word is hard to spell

• The dictionary definition of a word

• The meaning of a word in other languages

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

What is connotation?

• The feeling the word gives.

• The literal meaning of a word.

• What is life?

• Sentence structure.

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Of the 4 words below, which has the MOST POSITIVE connotation?

• 
  attractive

• good-looking

• 
  gorgeous

• pretty

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is syntax?

• Translation of a foreign language

• Arrangements of word in a sentence

• Tax on sin

• Dictionary definition of a word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

An author's purpose is...

• the reason an author writes

• the way the author sees and interprets the world

• author's way of life

• author's sense of humor

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which is NOT an author's purpose for writing?

• Entertain

• Illustrate

• Inform

• Persuade/Convince

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Last summer I learned to play tennis, to swim, and __________.

• riding a horse

• to ride a horse

• rides a horse

• ride a horse

Tags

CCSS.L.8.1A