VBA 3 review

Which two rhetorical devices are used in this paragraph?

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy; now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice; now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood; now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

• Parallelism

• Exaggeration

• Repetition

• Irony

• Allusion

Read the following sentence:

Every man, woman, and child deserves equal rights.

What is the best way to revise the sentence to include parallelism for greater impact?

• Everyone deserves equal rights.

• Every man, each woman, and all children deserve equal rights.

• Equal rights are what every man, woman, and child deserve.

• Every man, every woman, and every child deserves equal rights.

What is the effect of the imagery and personification used in the sentence: "It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes"?

• It illustrates how hard George tries to regain control of his mind.

• It emphasizes how much pain the loud sounds cause George.

• It describes George’s appearance in an objective way.

• It suggests that George is weaker than other people.

What is the meaning of the word impediment, based on the context?

It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, “Ladies and gentlemen—”

• Advantage

• Assistant

• Limitation

• Process

From The Journey, which of the following is an example of personification?

• “One day you finally knew / what you had to do” (lines 1–2)

• “though the wind pried / with its stiff fingers / at the very foundations” (lines 14–16)

• “But little by little, / as you left their voices behind” (lines 23–24)

• “as you strode deeper and deeper / into the world” (lines 31–32)

Read lines 4–5 of Book 12 from the Odessey
Square in your ship’s path are Sirens, crying
beauty to bewitch men coasting by;

The alliteration in these lines emphasizes the idea that...

• the songs of the Sirens have a magical effect on sailors

• Odysseus and his men are sailing in the wrong direction

• Odysseus and his men can avoid danger if they sail quickly

• sailors are drawn to the Sirens because they are physically attractive

Which line from the poem contains imagery, or language that appeals to the reader’s senses?

• Just keep your mouths shut, do not grouse, (line 22)

• If dignity and justice fail? (line 26)

• A rope’s as tight, a fire as hot, (line 29)

• But as for me, I’ll be a man.” (line 32)

Which line from the poem uses informal diction?

• It shows a mighty lot of cheek (line 2)

• Some men rejoice in skill of hand, (line 13)

• The right to cultivate the brain. (line 16)

• For what can property avail (line 25)

I loved the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves of the large oak, the smell of freshly cut grass brought on by neighborhood lawn mowers, the cacophony of birds that twittered as they flew by, the bumblebees that hovered by my head before moving on to more interesting things.

What is the effect of the sensory details in this excerpt?

• They distract the reader from unpleasant experiences the author describes.

• They allow the reader to imagine the setting the author is describing.

• They foreshadow future significant events in the author’s life.

• They emphasize how much time the author spends outside.

I felt sympathy for Steve when I was reading this story, especially when he writes “One way I dealt with these monsters was to become a thief, and a very good one at that.”

Choose the phrase that uses the correct punctuation to introduce a quote in the section in the sentence above.

• especially when he writes:

• especially when he writes;

• especially when he writes . . .

• correct as is