assessment

What do you call the hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words?

• Context Clues

• Clear Clues

• Clues & Context

What is the subject or topic the poem” Dreams Deferred” implies?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Unfulfilled dreams

What figure of speech is used in the line “That kitchen knife will take a bite out of your hand if you don't handle it safely”?

•  Simile

• Metaphor 

• Personification

What refers to the voice that the poet creates to communicate his or her message?

• Tone

•  Speaker   

• Mood

What figure of speech is used in the line “Does it stink like rotten meat?”, from the poem “Dreams Deferred”.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What image is used in the lines below?

Shall it be neon lights that spell success,

or flickering lamplight for happiness?

• Sight

• Smell

• Taste

Who wrote the poem “Dreams Deferred”?

• William Shakespeare 

• Langston Hughes      

• Edwin Markham

What does the underlined word in the sentence mean?

She rubbed a sore spot in her lower back. It was very painful.

• Suffering from decay

• Extremely unpleasant smell

• Suffering pain from a part of one's body

Which of the following sentences is TRUE about tone and mood?

• Mood is the author’s attitude toward a subject.

• Tone and mood are similar in some ways that it can used interchangeably.

• Tone and mood both deal with the emotions centered around a piece of writing.

What sensory image is use in the line “.  “And our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave.”?

• Sight

• Hearing

• Taste