english

Choose the best answer.________ is less personal writing for professional or academic purposes.

formal writing

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.Watching my little sister sing ____ been the funniest thing.

has

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answer.The author makes commentary based on _______.

his reading experience

The power that drives the human spirit is _______.

hope

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.My mother wanting to know where I am ____ the main reason she calls me.

is

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.That Max ____ turning 17 next month seems to be the reason for the trip.

is

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.My grandmother's special pie recipes always ____ first place at the fair.

win

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.What is the author implying to the reader?

- Not all immigrants are allowed into the United States. - Illegal immigrants are coming in to the United States. - Immigration laws are already unfair and are going to get worse

A person makes _______ to ideas in a text by using _______, which is information from prior learning that helps a person to understand new ideas. When a person relates a text to her own ideas, this is comparing the _________ and the differences of the ideas. Also, this kind of knowledge is important when making a(n) _________ or a conclusion based on evidence. It is not usual for people from different 3.05) ________ to make different inferences. ________ is similar to making an inference, but the best inference is based on facts. These skills are also much needed in writing _______ and for other subject areas.

- connections - background knowledge - similarities - inference - cultures - guessing - essays

Match the definitions with the terms. - suggestive meaning of a word - a language form that varies from the dominant regional language - the primary meaning of a word - underlying theme and intent - information from prior learning that helps a person understand new ideas

- connotation - dialect - denotation - subtext - background knowledge

Match the definitions with the terms. - a category of art defined by a particular kind of content, form, or style - a book-length work of fictiondrama a play that has a script for actors to perform - a feeling achieved when someone views art and releases emotions to become renewed - a story that tells a moral or a truth - a fiction narrative shorter than book-length fiction - a statement that appears to contradict itself - when the opposite of what is expected happens

- genre - novel - catharsis - fable - short story - paradox - situational irony

Match the definitions with the terms. - includes the dates and the events that occurred on those dates from which a narrative or story is told - the ideas, the art, and traditions of a society at any given time or place - less personal writing for professional or academic purposes - a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural tradition - when words are not used for what they actually mean - slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound

- historical context - culture - formal writing - ethnicity - verbal irony - nuance

Choose if each verb form in the sentence is correct or incorrect. - The causes of the high school dropout rate remains the same in the report.check - My neighbor and her German shepherd walk to the park every day.check incorrect - My teacher who won three awards were written about in the newspaper.

- incorrect - correct -incorrect

Which of these is an example of situational irony?

A farmer's children have nothing to eat.

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.What evidence does the author use to support claims about many of the Italian banks?

He gives facts from interviews.

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.Which is an inference supported by the text?

Italian banks are doing something the Italian government is trying to do, and the Italian banks are unfair to immigrants.

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.Which is the best summary of the excerpt?

Many Italian banks are being illegally run. They offer many different services to immigrants and unfairly use them, similar to the Italian government. In offering contract labor, they take over half of their pay.

Choose the best answer._______ is the feeling achieved in the reader through the use of words. It is also the emotional setting of a text.

Mood

What must be corrected in this sentence? There was no reason to think so-none whatever.

The hyphen should be replaced with a dash.

context

circumstances or environment of an event or word meaning

A(n) _________ is formal notes detailing where information comes from.

citation

_____ is formal notes detailing where information comes from.

citation

Choose the best answer.________ should not be included in paraphrases and summaries.

commentary

The writer may provide a(n) ___ at the end of the story that reflects on the theme.

conclusion

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.How is ultra-parasitical being used?

connotatively and judgmentally

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Pierce in the phrase of paragraph 1 is used ______.

connotatively and with a violent nuance

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.Pernicious means _______. checkCorrect

corrupt

Choose the best answer.________ includes the ideas, the art, and traditions of a society at any given time or place.

culture

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Peril means ________.

danger

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.The use of the word "bureauize" is the author's own ________.

dialect

Choose the best answer._______ is the choice and use of words and phrases.

diction

_______ is the choice and use of words and phrases.

diction

Choose the best answer.________ is the creative use of words or phrases, usually not the literal use of language.

figurative language

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answer.The author's tone is _______.

formal and academic

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.Which is the best evidence for the idea that immigrants help the United States economy?

jobs need to be filled and ship companies profit from them

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.Derek, although the youngest of my brothers, ____ the most money.

makes

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Idle means ________.

not busy

When two _______ ideas are put together, they can unexpectedly express a truth because life is complicated.

opposite

________ is a rewording of what someone has spoken or written.

paraphrase

_______ is when writers use someone else's writing as their own.

plagiarism

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.My friends who are going to the game ____ to come over at 7:00 p.m.

plan

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answer.The best example of imagery is _______.

sentence 3

When the police officer accidentally handcuffs herself, _______ occurs.

situational irony

nuance

slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound

Choose the best answer._______ is similar to craft, which is the author's writing choices that work together to create an author's voice.

style

_____ is similar to craft, which is the writing choices that work together to create an author's voice.

style

_________ is similar to craft, which is the writing choices that work together to create an author's voice.

style

_____ is underlying theme and intent.

subtext

connotation

suggestive meaning of a word

A(n) ________ is a brief explanation of the main points of a text.

summary

Choose the best answer.A ________ is a brief explanation of the main points of a text.

summary

_________ is the grammatical arrangement of words and phrases that create sentences in a language.

syntax

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.The author is suggesting _______.

that the current rush of immigrants is because of new immigration laws about to go into effect and moving to a new country is very stressful

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.The phrase cattle had been harassed means ________.

the cows were taken for food

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answer.The author writes about ______.

the culture of the ancient Greeks and the social context of the men and women

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.In the phrase, the iron of war had entered into their souls, the author is suggesting _______.

the effects of war were coming upon them

theme

the main idea or underlying meaning of a creative work

denotation

the primary meaning of a word

annotate

to take notes alongside a text

________ is the unique and individual writing style of an author.

voice

verbal irony

when words are not used for what they actually mean theme

Which of these sentences is correctly punctuated?

"Nothing," she said, "could keep me from attending this year's fashion show."

Which of the following is an allusion?

"See how this cream puff drools with delight!"

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.The author's tone is _______.

disapproving

Words that are omitted in a quotation are indicated by a(n) ___.

ellipsis

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Fugitives means _______

escapees

The conflict in the following sentence is ___. Katrina wants to go to college but will have to work full-time while taking classes.

external

Choose the best answer.________ includes the dates and the events that occurred on those dates from which a narrative or story is told.

historical context

The _______ is the life force that animates the body.

human spirit

Choose the best answer._______ is words that appeal to the senses or create pictures in the mind.

imagery

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.In context, mutilated means _______

in pieces

_________ is a conclusion based on evidence.

inference

The conflict in the following sentence is ___.Joel wants to compete in the talent contest, but he is afraid of performing in front of a crowd.

internal

Choose the correct verb form.There is going to be a swim competition at the high school.

is

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.The figurative meaning of the word, poverty-pinched _______.

is imagery that suggests pain

_________ is the feeling achieved in the reader through the use of words. It is also the emotional setting of a text.

mood

Which of these endings will complete the statement to create a paradox?The best rule to follow is to _______.

never follows rules

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Impalpable means ________.

not noticeable

In the sentence, what needs to be corrected? "Grandpa, when you were a young man, did you want . . . to join the army?" asked Kevin.

nothing

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.Fate means ________.

outcome

A statement like "I must be cruel to be kind" is called a _______.

paradox

Choose the best answer.A ________ is a rewording of what someone has spoken or written.

paraphrase

When Cyrano hears that his friend is in danger, he goes to his aid despite the threat of having to fight a large number of men. The foreshadowing of this builds ___ in the story.

suspense

Choose the best answer.________ is the grammatical arrangement of words and phrases that create sentences in a language.

syntax

subtext

underlying theme and intent

Choose the best answer.________ is the unique and individual writing style of an author.

voice

Match the definitions with the terms. - using the same consonant in a sentence for a sound effect - the quality of being honest and maintaining consistent moral principles - the creative use of words; verbal wit - referring to a well-known idea in art or literature - a scheme intended to deceive someone

- alliteration - integrity - word play - allusion - ruse

Match the definitions with the terms. - the highest point of suspense in a story - the main character - who or what opposes the protagonist - when and how the characters are able to overcome the conflict - the act of creating a personality in a story - begins after the climax and resolves the problems in the story - to give a hint or indication of a future event in a story - the series of events that build up to the climax - the tension and excitement caused by the delay of the climax

- climax - protagonist - antagonist - resolution - characterization - falling action - foreshadow - rising action - suspense

Match the definitions with the terms. - a joke that employs the multiple meanings or similar sounds of words - the peasants, similar to slaves, who worked the land and were taken care of by the noblemen - one who supports a talented worker - consists of money and material goods given to a future husband from the future wife's family - a government ruled by a king or queen who has absolute power

- pun - serfs - patron - dowry - monarchy

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answer.Choose the best summary.

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What must be corrected in this sentence? Jennifer wore a lace trimmed dress to her cousin's birthday party.

A hyphen is needed between lace and trimmed.

Much about Cyrano as a character is revealed through ___.

dialogue

The mood at the end of Act One is foreboding because ___.

Cyrano is warned that he has made too many enemies

Choose the best answer.________ is when writers use someone else's writing as their own.

Plagiarism

excerpt

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answers.Chapter IILife in a New York Italian Tenement 1 Very soon after we had taken up our residence in the quarter I found out the true reason for the prospect of an enormously increased immigration for 1903. The ponderous articles and profoundly wise comments on the question had attributed it to a number of things. Among these were: an increasing demand for labor that made a market for the immigrants' muscles, advertising efforts on the part of competing steamship lines, oppression of the Jews, deflection of German emigration from South America to North America, increased taxes and failure of crops in southern Europe. Balderdash and folly! 2 The truth was that every man who had any relatives to bring over to the United States had read of the new strictures in immigration laws that impended and was straining every nerve to bring them and get them passed before the new laws could be passed and put into effect. Thousands and thousands of people whom the laws would not have affected in the least came this last year when if there had been no change of legislation in prospect, they would have waited a year or two more. I know personally of a score of families whose plans were affected by this very thing and by no other consideration. 3 It should be remarked at this stage that one of the first things I learned among the Italians (and I knew later that it extended to all races) was that the alien considers the United States code of immigration laws a very complex, fearsome and inexplicable thing, to be thoroughly respected but if possible, evaded. 4 More than once I have been asked the following question which bears its own token: "If a man and his family are good enough to live in Italy, why are they not good enough to live in the United States?" 5 The records of immigrants who have gone insane either on shipboard or in Ellis Island, or have broken down as soon as ever they were safely landed in the United States, are striking proof of how persons entirely within the bounds of the laws worry over the chance of exclusion.

excerpt

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answers. A Leaf in the Storm by Marie Louise de la Ramée 1 And all this while the war went on, but seemed far from them, so seldom did any tidings of it pierce the seclusion in which they dwelt. By and by, as the autumn went on, they learned a little more. Fugitives coming to the smithy for a horse's shoe; women fleeing to their old village homes from their light, happy life in the city; mandates from the government of defense sent to every hamlet in the country; stray news-sheets brought in by carriers or hawkers and hucksters,—all these by degrees told them of the peril of their country,—vaguely, indeed, and seldom truthfully, but so that by mutilated rumors they came at last to know the awful facts of the fate of Sedan, the fall of the Empire, the siege of Paris.2 It did not alter their daily lives: it was still too far off and too impalpable. But a foreboding, a dread, an unspeakable woe settled down on them. Already their lands and cattle had been harassed to yield provision for the army and large towns; already their best horses had been taken for the siege-trains and the forage-wagons; already their ploughshares were perforce idle, and their children cried because of the scarcity of nourishment; already the iron of war had entered into their souls.

excerpt

Read the excerpt. Then, choose the best answers. "Grecian Women" by Theodore Abbot 1 Woman, in ancient Greece, seems to have been regarded merely in the light ofan instrument for raising up members of the state. 2 And surely it may be said ofthem that they nobly fulfilled this duty. 3 The catalogue of heroes and sages whichshine in Grecian history bright and numerous as stars in the firmament, are somany testimonials to the faithfulness of Grecian women in this respect.4 The sexes were but little society for each other. 5 Even husbands were, in Sparta,limited as to the time and duration of the visits made to their wives. 6 That women in ancient Greece did not enjoy that delicate consideration whichother refined nations accord to their sex, may be inferred from the inferiority of theapartments allotted to them. 7 The famous Helen is said to have had her chamberin the attic; and Penelope, the queen of Ulysses, descended from hers by a ladder.

Which of these is an example of a paradox?

The silence was deafening.

Choose the best answer.________ is formal notes detailing where information comes from.

a citation

Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context. Then, choose the best answer.This text is describing ________.

a country at war and a realistic expression

dialect

a language form that varies from the dominant regional language

Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Then, choose the best answer.What kind of evidence supports that Italians think the immigration laws are unfair?

a question the author said he received from several unnamed Italian immigrants

ethnicity

a shared cultural heritage originating from a common ancestry, a nation, or a cultural

To ________ is to take notes alongside a text.

annotate

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.There ____ too many people in line for me to wait.

are

Choose the correct word to fill in each sentence.The friends that Darrel invited to play basketball also ____ his school.

attend

Which of these endings will complete the statement to create situational irony? An anti-technology group gets its message across by _______.

building a website