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Is Survival Selfish?

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

to praise or glorify

(a)  

2.

the securing of a rope to a cleat or another object

(a)  

3.

criticized very severely

(a)  

4.

made motionless by completely focused attention

(a)  

5.

harshly cutting someone down with words;

to scold vehemently

(a)  

6.

an official rule or proclamation

(a)  

7.

to record an event as it happens

a)

chronicle

b)

berate

c)

savage

d)

transfix

8.

the author's word choice is called

a)

tone

b)

mood

c)

diction

d)

excerpt

9.

a passage selected from a larger work

a)

chapter

b)

excerpt

c)

passage

d)

novel

10.

a person's memory of his or her life that is written with a creative view of the past

a)

biography

b)

excerpt

c)

memoir

d)

essay

11.

using language to have a desired effect on the audience

a)

absolute

b)

memoir

c)

diction

d)

rhetorical device

12.

questions that do not call for an answer

a)

dumb questions

b)

no such thing as dumb questions

c)

rhetorical questions

d)

literary questions

13.

a type of writing that presents a claim or an opinion on an issue

a)

rhetorical

b)

argument

c)

informational

d)

narrative

14.

false statements that are errors in reasoning

a)

rhetorical questions

b)

rhetorical devices

c)

fallacious reasoning

d)

alliteration

15.

the author's position on the topic or issue;

the central idea of the argument

a)

essay

b)

claim

c)

reasons

d)

evidence