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"Giant pandas spend 10-16 hours a day eating,"
Opinion
Fact
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"Giant pandas are endangered, and deserve more protections in place to keep their populations safe and thriving,"
Opinion
Fact
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Which one is written correctly?
The passage has a tone of academic.
The tone academic.
The passage has an academic tone.
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The rhetorical appeal that uses credibility and might use a celebrity or professional is called...
ethos
pathos
notthisoneos
logos
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Each paragraph of your essay should have...
A clear topic sentence, evidence from the text, and a transition sentence
Two sentences. That's enough.
A new main point that you are trying to argue.
That special something
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Choose the best transition: "There are many reasons why a cruise is a bad idea for a vacation. None of us can swim,"
Furthermore
First of all
However
Therefore
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"Crawling creatures create creative courses,"
Allusion
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
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Which is correct?
dear school board
Hey man,
Dear School Board,
Dear, School Board
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No one knew what was going on.
Complete sentence
Fragment
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"High schools across America should implement a mandatory recess," could be the thesis statmenet of an...
Argumentative essay
Literary analysis
Informational essay
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Mood is...
The feeling a reader gets from the passage
The author's attitude about the topic
Imagery that helps to create meaning
The particular words that the author uses
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Fill in the blank: "This is my ______ scarf,"
sister's
sisters'
sisters
sisters's
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Which of the following is an example of a theme?
Love is more important than material things.
In WWII, many atrocities were commited from all sides of the war.
Snow white should not have trusted a stranger when she took the apple.
The main character of the story went learned to trust in their friends.
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Boom! Crash!
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
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The rhetorical appeal that focuses on using emotion to appeal to your senses is called...
Boringos
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
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Tone is...
The order in which words are written in a sentence
How the reader feels when reading a piece of writing
The particular words that an author uses
The author's opinion on the subject matter
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Hinting at what will happen next in a story
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Imagery
Central conflict
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Verbal Irony
When someone says the opposite of what they mean
When someone makes a dark joke
When someone tells a lie for the sake of the plot.
When the opposite of what you expect to happen ends up happening.
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"It is better for teenagers to be enrolled in extracurricular activities during their time in high school,"
Fact
Opinion
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Dialogue is...
The particular words the author is using
Sensory language
When characters in the story are talking
When an author makes a comparison between two unlike things
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Because she had been late so often.
Complete sentence
Fragment
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The rhetorical appeal that focuses on logical arguments and facts, statistics, and numbers is...
Nostos
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
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"I'm literally starving,"
Parallelism
Paradox
Hyperbole
Imagery
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Dramatic Irony
Dry humor
Sarcasm
When the reader knows something that the characters don't.
When you say the opposite of what you mean.
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I grew despite it all, a rose blossoming in the poisoned earth.
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
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Fill in the blank: "That is ______ hat,"
there
their
they're
thar
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Choose the best transition: "The plan had many problems. The company established a committee to come up with a new one,"
Furthermore
Therefore
First of all
However
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"Like Samson, my power had been taken from me,"
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
Allusion
Alliteration
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The conclusion of your essay should...
Restate your claim, summarize, close
Restate the claim, provide an additional reason you are correct, close
Thank your reading for being a good audience
Write the same thesis from the intro, and provide an inspirational quote
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If I don't know the definition of a word on my STAAR test, I should...
Ask for a dictionary and look it up.
Guess, you're probably right.
Say a prayer for divine intervention from Zeus.
Cry. The louder the better.
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Through the fields, through the hills, through the mountains.
Fragment
Complete sentence
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"Giant pandas have special markings that help to camoflauge them in the wild," is an example of the main point of an...
Informational text
Argumentative essay
Literary analysis
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Combine the following sentences: Kelly had been studying the issue. She was an anthropoligst at NYU.
Kelly was an anthropologist at NYU and also had been studying the issue.
Kelly, an anthropologist at NYU, had been studying the issue.
Kelly had been studying the issue and she was an anthropologist at NYU.
Kelly, had been studying the issue, she was an anthropologist at NYU.
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Fill in the blank "That over _____ belongs to them,"
thare
their
they're
there
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Correspondence is...
An argumentative writing
My favorite popstar, Ms. Cora Spondance!
Literature
A letter/email
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Choose the best transition word: "Soda is a delicious drink. Drinking too much can be unhealthy,"
Therefore
First of all
However
Furthermore
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Fill in the blank: "He could barely take the ______ of the heavy barrel,"
Wait
Weight
Wate
Wayt
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The particular choice of words that the author uses...
Diction
Mood
Dialogue
Syntax
