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english midterm

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

Today your hair was a river down your back. Today your eyes were the still point of the turning world. Today you can see the resemblance to your ancestors— can tell you are a direct descendant of stars. 

How is Resemblance used in the sentences?

a)

The state of being equal

b)

Lack of variety; uniformity or monotony

c)

A portrait or representation

d)

The state of resembling or being alike.

2.

Today your hair was a river down your back. Today your eyes were the still point of the turning world. Today you can see the resemblance to your ancestors— can tell you are a direct descendant of stars.

How is ancestors used in the sentences?

a)

A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.

b)

A thing that has been followed or replaced by another.

c)

A member of the past generations of one's family or people.

d)

A person's ancestors or family and social background.

3.

Today your hair was a river down your back. Today your eyes were the still point of the turning world. Today you can see the resemblance to your ancestors— can tell you are a direct descendant of stars. 

How is descendant used in the sentence?

a)

A person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor.

b)

A person or thing that succeeds another.

c)

A person is legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death.

d)

A person who inherits and continues the work of a predecessor.

4.

Today there was a lipstick named after your pout. Today you loved the gap in your teeth. Today your freckles were sprinkles on ice cream. Today you had #nomakeup

How is freckles used in the sentence?

a)

A small patch of light brown color on the skin, often becoming more pronounced through exposure to the sun.

b)

The flat area of color changes in the skin that is 1 cm or more wide.wider.

c)

A small area or amount of something in the face.

5.

Today you control the lens, the light, the angle, the pose, the gaze, the face, the filter, the feeling, the caption. 

How is Caption used in the sentence?

a)

A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.

b)

A caption or credit in a film or broadcast.

c)

The heading of a legal document.

d)

A title or brief explanation accompanying an illustration, cartoon, or poster.

6.

Today millions of girls loved themselves in the face of a world who tells them not to. And isn’t that small revolution enough?

How is Revolution used in the sentences?

a)

An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader

b)

The action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention.

c)

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.

d)

The class struggle which is expected to lead to political change and the triumph of communism.

7.

Today you took a selfie from above because maybe that’s how God sees you. Today you chose the ‘Rise’ filter because that’s what you’re gonna do. Today the iPhone is the Louvre.

How is Louvre used in the sentence?

a)

An art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris and Abu Dhabi

b)

A structure in a roof incorporating openings for the passage of smoke

c)

Each of a set of angled slats fixed or hung at regular intervals in a door, shutter, or screen to allow air or light to pass through

8.

Today your winged eyeliner nearly flew off your face it was so fly.

How is Winged used in the sentence?

a)

Ready to face and endure danger or pain.

b)

Having wings for flight.

c)

Having one or more lateral parts, appendages, or projections.

d)

Showing courage..

9.

In the poem ODE TO JOY,  According to the speaker, how does the girl spoken to feels today? (Check lines 1–5)

a)

She feels very beautiful today.

b)

She feels very great today.

c)

She feels very wonderful today.

d)

She feels very excited today.

10.

How does the speaker connect the poem to social media? (Check lines 15–18:)

a)

The person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.

b)

The speaker express her feeling using things.

c)

The speaker used the media to express her feelings.

d)

The speaker uses popular hashtags often used to caption selfies that are posted on social media.)

11.

Why does the speaker compare the iPhone to the Louvre? (Check line 22:)

a)

The iPhone is the precious gadget that we used always to express our feelings.

b)

The iPhone is like a museum because a selfie is like a precious work of art displayed there.

c)

The iphone is where our pictures are stored.

12.

What does the speaker say the girl controls? (Check lines 31–33:

a)

The speakers says that every person have their own point of view.

b)

The speaker says she controls her body and how it is viewed.

c)

The speakers says that our point of view may be different from the angle we're looking at speaker

13.

A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph is called _______.

a)

lyrics

b)

a refrain

c)

a verse

d)

a stanza

14.

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

a)

ABCB

b)

ABAB

c)

AABB

15.

What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from

“If”?

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; 

If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

a)

AABB

b)

ABAB

c)

ABCB

d)

ABBA

16.

Which of the following lines from “Dreams” contains an example of alliteration?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

a)

"Hold fast to dreams”

b)

“For if dreams die”

c)

For when dreams go”

d)

“Life is a barren fie

17.

Which of the following lines from contains onomatopoeia?

a)

He ran to the kitchen

b)

She slept through dinner

c)

Her heels clacked on the floor

d)

He dropped the napkin

18.

The lines of “Dreams” are short,  have alliteration and the poem uses a specific rhyming pattern. What effect does this have on the poem?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

a)

The poem reads quickly, which helps show  how easy it is to hold onto your dreams if you really try.

b)

The poems reads quickly, which helps  show how easily dreams can get away from you if you don’t hold onto them

c)

The poem reads slowly, which shows how life drags by without dreams

d)

The poem reads slowly, which shows how life without dreams is not worthwhile.

19.

what is Rhyme Scheme?

a)

A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line

b)

a type of lizard 

c)

usually written in an elevated style and often expresses deep feeling.

d)

images of the natural world.

20.

What is an example of Rhyme Scheme ?

a)

Roses are red violates are blue

b)

 i went to the mall and got new covers 

c)

I love pie and so does my friend 

d)

I saw a little frog, he was cuter than can be, he was sitting on a log and I', sure he croaked at me 

21.

true or false

which is an example of a rhyme scheme  

a)

I do not like them in a houseI do not like them with a mouse

b)

But we will always be connectedBy the three years of middle school

22.

Identify the rhyme scheme .

I do not like green eggs and ham.

I do not like them Sam I am.

I do not like them in a boat.

I do not like them with a goat.

I do not like them in a house.

I do not like them with a mouse.

a)

ABCABC

b)

ABABCC

c)

AABBCC

d)

ABABAB

23.

Identify the rhyme scheme.

"Beware the dangershine of Moon,

Do not disturb the bugs of June!"

The elder mouncelors whisperoon

A tune that tells Jam what to fear:

a)

AABB

b)

AAAB

c)

ABCA

d)

ABAB

24.

"Today your eyes were the still point of the turning world" is an example of

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

conflict

c)

plot

d)

metaphor

25.

What is meant by" Today magazines are glossy haters."

a)

you should be in a magazine

b)

you are too beautiful for fashion magazines

c)

you need to buy a magazine

d)

magazines are fun to read

26.

What does the last line " Today millions of girls loved themselves in the face of a world who tells them not to" mean?

a)

Social media is helpful

b)

The world is a dangerous place

c)

beauty is skin deep

d)

Selfies can make a girls feel beautiful even when the rest of the world can make them insecure

27.

descendant means

a)

to go up stairs

b)

to go down stairs

c)

stranger

d)

related to

28.

The theme (message )of Ode to Selfie is

a)

selfies are bad

b)

empowering females to feel beautiful

c)

everyone takes selfies

d)

selfies are fake

29.

"Today your hair was a river down your back" is an example of

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

metaphor

d)

dialogue