Text Analysis Quiz

What type of text is “Let Children Get Bored Again” by Pamela Paul? (Select all that apply)

• Editorial/Opinion piece

• Advertisement

• Autobiography/Biography/Memoir

• Essay

• Secondary Source

Answer explanation

Explanation: The article is an opinion/editorial essay published in a newspaper, making it a secondary source.

Based on the text type, what is the most prominent organizational pattern? (There may be more than one)

• Cause and effect

• Chronological/Sequential

• Comparison/Contrast

• Problem-Solution

Answer explanation

Explanation: Paul explains causes of boredom and its effects on creativity and life skills.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Which of the following signal words support the organizational pattern? (Select two)

• Because

• As a result

• First

• On the other hand

Answer explanation

Explanation: Signal words like “because” and “as a result” show cause-and-effect reasoning.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

What is the author’s main purpose in this text?

• To entertain readers with funny stories

• To inform readers about parenting in the past

• To argue for the benefits of boredom

• To describe a historical event

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

Which evidence best supports the author’s purpose? (Select two)

• Boredom is useful. It’s good for you.

• When not being uberparented, kids today are left to their own devices.

• They went motoring and stared at more trees.

• My hands became encrusted with glue as the sweaters blurred into a clumpy sameness.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which rhetorical device is used in this line when Paul shares a personal reflection/story: “Because there is nothing better to spur creativity than a blank page or an empty bedroom”?

• Anecdote

• Allusion

• Rhetorical Question

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

When Paul cites Lin-Manuel Miranda and Maria Semple’s novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, which device is she using?

• Anecdote

• Humor/Sarcasm

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

Explanation: She references well-known people and works to support her point.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which device is used in this passage: “Parents preparing for a long car ride or airplane trip are like Army officers plotting a complicated land maneuver”?

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical Question

• Anecdote

• Satire

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the author’s main argument regarding boredom?

• Boredom should be avoided at all costs.

• Boredom is harmful to creativity.

• Boredom should be accepted as useful for creativity and discipline.

• Boredom is only beneficial for children.

The author writes: “Perhaps we should get used to it again… Perhaps in an incessant, up-the-ante world, we could do with a little less excitement.” What technique is this?

• Rhetorical Question

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8