WorksheetsEnglish 8 - Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
1. What word can describe, clarify, qualify, or limit a particular word in a sentence?
Indicators
Modifiers
Adjectives
2. What word describes a noun or pronoun?
Indicators
Modifiers
Adjectives
3. What figure of speech is an ironic understatement by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite?
Oxymoron
Litotes
Paradox
4. Which of the following is NOT a type of modifier?
Single-word modifiers
Clause modifiers
Compound modifiers
5. What is the profession of reporting and writing the news?
Journalism
Reporter
News writer
6. What line contains the name of the writer of the article?
Byline
Headline
Lead paragraph
7. What is the first line that readers see and contains the who-what angle of the news?
Byline
Headline
Lead paragraph
8. Writers are guided by the universal guideline. What is it called?
News elements
News report
Journalistic text
9. What refers to the use of ideas and information to sway an audience?
Advertisements
Commercial
Propaganda
10. What technique of persuasion appeals to emotion?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
11. What technique of persuasion appeal to the audiences’ sense of reason?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
12. What technique of persuasion is used to convey the writer’s credibility and authority?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
13. Which of the propaganda strategies occurs when an unfair comparison or omission of facts is made?
Card-stacking
Bandwagon
Testimonial
14. Which of the propaganda strategies harnesses our belief in the character and credibility of certain individuals or sources?
Card-stacking
Bandwagon
Testimonial
15. Which of the propaganda strategies appeal leverages the natural human desire to belong and feel included?
Card-stacking
Bandwagon
Testimonial
16. Which of the propaganda strategies practices stereotyping and uses sarcasm and some humor?
Glittering generalities
Name-calling
Emotional appeal
17. Which of the propaganda strategies are vague, abstract statements?
Glittering generalities
Name-calling
Emotional appeal
18. Which of the propaganda strategies employs constant reiteration of a name or idea?
Repetition
Name-calling
Emotional appeal
19. What is an article?
modifies an adjective or verb
are determiners or noun markers that function to specify if the noun is general or specific in its reference
used to describe a noun
20. What sources of news are raw, unfiltered, and unedited data?
Secondary sources
Attributing sources
Primary sources
