English 11 CECA

Question 1

What was your favorite short story?

Accepted Answer

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A Rose For Emily, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Masque of the Red Death

Question 2

What is theme?

Accepted Answer

A unifying or dominant idea in a piece of writing.

Question 3

Mike, stop touching my stuff!

Accepted Answer

Imperative

Question 4

What was your favorite part of this class?

Accepted Answer

Huck Finn, Literary Time Periods, Grammar, That we got Mrs. McGuire as our student teacher

Question 5

What is making an inference?

Accepted Answer

making an educated guess

Question 6

Which answers have correct parallelism?

Accepted Answer

Like father, like son

Question 7

What is an allegory?

Accepted Answer

A story that has two meanings: literal and figurative

Question 8

Which of the following is a hyperbole?

Accepted Answer

My tears could fill up this room right now., This math test will be the death of me, It feels like the heat of a thousand suns in here!

Question 9

What's Mrs. McGuire's maiden name?

Accepted Answer

Carter

Question 10

Maggie's favorite subjects in school are karate, underwater basket weaving, and candy making.

Accepted Answer

Simple

Question 11

What is a foil character?

Accepted Answer

Character that has characteristics that the others do not

Question 12

I can't believe you said that!

Accepted Answer

Exclamatory

Question 13

What is a characteristic of naturalism?

Accepted Answer

Man is vulnerable

Question 14

Which is an example of alliteration?

Accepted Answer

Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August

Question 15

Which of the following is a interrogative sentence?

Accepted Answer

Will you help me?

Question 16

What is mood?

Accepted Answer

The emotions readers feel while reading

Question 17

Which is a short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident or person?

Accepted Answer

Anecdote

Question 18

Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay and they can consume 75 pounds of food a day. Paraphrase

Accepted Answer

Team 2, Team 3, Team 4, Team 1

Question 19

Which is an example of verbal irony?

Accepted Answer

“She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me”.

Question 20

The dolphins were born in captivity. Adverbial?

Accepted Answer

in captivity

Question 21

What is satire?

Accepted Answer

The use of humor to change society

Question 22

This was the last fish we saw Paul catch. However, we only saw the artistry of the fisherman

Accepted Answer

Reflective

Question 23

Although I enjoy chocolate, I am on a diet, and I cannot eat chocolate right now.

Accepted Answer

Compound-Complex

Question 24

What is parallelism?

Accepted Answer

Sentence has same grammatical structure

Question 25

What is an example of situational irony?

Accepted Answer

We were supposed to go swimming, but then it snowed.

Question 26

What is imagery?

Accepted Answer

wording that appeals to your senses

Question 27

The little brick house between the skyscrapers was built in the 1800s. Where adjectival phrase?

Accepted Answer

between the skyscrapers

Question 28

Who is the protagonist/ antagonist of A Rose for Emily

Accepted Answer

Emily/Emily

Question 29

Which of the following is a complex sentence?

Accepted Answer

Weeds are easy to grow, but hard to kill.

Question 30

Which is an example of personification?

Accepted Answer

Her heart melted when she saw him

Question 31

Which is an example of imagery?

Accepted Answer

The brittle branches broke in the harsh wind

Question 32

Where was the winter olympics?

Accepted Answer

Pyeongchang

Question 33

Mood: The terrified young boy, raced up the steps, heart beating rapidly in his chest, to find.

Accepted Answer

Scared/Anxious

Question 34

What are context clues?

Accepted Answer

hints that help readers understand a difficult word

Question 35

What is an example of dramatic irony?

Accepted Answer

I know the killer is behind the door. The character doesn't

Question 36

Which of the following is an adverb clause?

Accepted Answer

because he loved her

Question 37

Add a prepositional phrase to add detail. I like to walk.

Accepted Answer

Team 4, Team 1, Team 2, Team 3

Question 38

What is the main idea of a passage?

Accepted Answer

the central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text

Question 39

What is tone?

Accepted Answer

the general character or attitude of a piece of writing

Question 40

Because it is a hot day, Harry and Paige decided to get ice cream.

Accepted Answer

Complex

Question 41

The players on each team gathered in their locker rooms. Where is the Adverbial phrase?

Accepted Answer

in their locker rooms

Question 42

Which of the following is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

You are an angel

Question 43

What is a characteristic of Transcendentalism?

Accepted Answer

Living a simple life

Question 44

Charity loves to go surfing, but Andrew loves to go snow boarding.

Accepted Answer

Compound

Question 45

What punctuation mark comes as the end of a declarative sentence?

Accepted Answer

.

Question 46

The man with the mustache raises horses on his farm. Where is the Adjective phrase?

Accepted Answer

with the mustache

Question 47

Which of the following is a prepositional phrase?

Accepted Answer

around the block

English 11 CECA

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English 11 CECA

Questions 47