ELA Benchmark

Question 1

Which of these topics would have the most suitable scope-neither too broad nor too narrow?

Accepted Answer

the development of musical instruments in the Middle Ages

Question 2

Refers to the intentional downplaying of a situation's significance, often for ironic or humor.

Accepted Answer

understatement

Question 3

a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elemenets.

Accepted Answer

paradox

Question 4

The analysis of a poem's meter is

Accepted Answer

scansion

Question 5

Which word would best complete the sentence? If the gov collapses, the nation will descend into

Accepted Answer

anarchy

Question 6

Someone who studies the science of fossils (dinosaurs)

Accepted Answer

Paleontologist

Question 7

What do you call a work of literature that idealizes rural life?

Accepted Answer

a pastoral

Question 8

Inadvertently means....

Accepted Answer

unintentionally

Question 9

Disparity means

Accepted Answer

inequality

Question 10

What type of writing would be most appropriate for an essay relating an experience in your life

Accepted Answer

narration

Question 11

Difference between a diary entry about a historical event and coverage of a nonfiction history

Accepted Answer

entry would be more informal

Question 12

Explain the meaning of the statement. There is currently a monopoly in the widget industry.

Accepted Answer

Only one company now controls production of widgets

Question 13

What is the etymology of the word "patron"?

Accepted Answer

it comes from pater, Latin for "father"

Question 14

Which word best completes this analogy? conductor: orchestra:: sovereign

Accepted Answer

realm

Question 15

Draws reader into poetic experiences from mages and senses which the reader already knows

Accepted Answer

imagery

Question 16

Which source is best in determining the meaning of words?

Accepted Answer

a dictionary

Question 17

a line of poetry that has five metrical feet.

Accepted Answer

pentameter

Question 18

Anti means....

Accepted Answer

against

Question 19

The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.

Accepted Answer

rhythm

Question 20

Scrutinize means....

Accepted Answer

to examine closely

Question 21

Pivotal means...

Accepted Answer

important

Question 22

Is it ever ok to use Wikipedia for research purposes?

Accepted Answer

It's sometimes ok as long as it is for pre-research

Question 23

a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general.

Accepted Answer

verse

Question 24

To infer the meaning of the word "conjecture", what does it mean to make conjectures?

Accepted Answer

to make guesses by throwing together facts and details

Question 25

What statement most accurately defines an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet?,

Accepted Answer

a poem of 14 lines divided into an octave and a sestet

Question 26

Which parr of the word chronological contains a Greek root meaning "time"?

Accepted Answer

the first syllable

Question 27

Fastidious means

Accepted Answer

neat

Question 28

Which statement most accurately states a focus of literature of the Romantic Age?

Accepted Answer

it focuses on personal experience and expression

Question 29

If you traced the etmology of these words, which would you go back to the Latin word for earth

Accepted Answer

terrestrial

Question 30

"The song of the swan/ Might serve for pleasure" This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 31

Which of these is always true of an allegory?

Accepted Answer

its elements always have a deeper symbolic meaning

Question 32

Exemplary means...

Accepted Answer

outstanding

Question 33

What is a mneomic device?

Accepted Answer

a memory stick

Question 34

Which sentence contains no errors in captialization?

Accepted Answer

Where in London is Buckingham Palace located?

Question 35

Two or more lines of poetry that together from one of the divisions of a poem.

Accepted Answer

stanza

Question 36

Refers to word order and sentence structure

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syntax

Question 37

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

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synecdoche

Question 38

Absequious means...

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overly attentive

Question 39

Which statement is true about the English language?

Accepted Answer

It changed greatly as a result of the Norman Invasion

Question 40

Anna is holding her shopping bag with one hand and turning the door handle with

Accepted Answer

the other

Question 41

Vacillate means...

Accepted Answer

to be undecided

Question 42

Using knowledge of Anglo-Saxon suffix-some to infer the meaning of the word wholesome foods

Accepted Answer

foods that tend to make you healthy

Question 43

Refers to the accent or emphasis, either strong or week, given to each sysllable in writing

Accepted Answer

stress

Question 44

Lethargic means......

Accepted Answer

tired

Question 45

A metrical foot of two syllables, one long (or stressed) and one short (or unstressed)

Accepted Answer

trochee

Question 46

What type of news medium is the most up-to-the-minute?

Accepted Answer

an all-news cable channel

ELA Benchmark

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ELA Benchmark

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