Sophomore Midterm

Question 1

Could this be the first line of a haiku? I love my dog.

Accepted Answer

No

Question 2

Which rhetorical appeal attempts to persuade the audience with the speaker's credibility?

Accepted Answer

ethos

Question 3

Types of Poetry

Accepted Answer

Dramatic, Narrative, Lyric

Question 4

Physical description

Accepted Answer

He's bald and he has a big nose. He's wearing a grey t-shirt

Question 5

Which genre is an example of nonfiction narrative writing?

Accepted Answer

autobiography

Question 6

A lyric poem that laments the dead.

Accepted Answer

elegy

Question 7

Where did haikus start?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 8

Ad Hominem Argument

Accepted Answer

an argument attacking an individual's character

Question 9

What is a sonnet?

Accepted Answer

A fourteen line, lyric poem

Question 10

Which of these things has Ms. Stone done?

Accepted Answer

Played at Disneyland, Forgot to bake the cookies until 9:00 p.m. last night, Fallen off a balcony, Hid in the clothes section at Target

Question 11

Lyric poem

Accepted Answer

Expresses emotions/thoughts but does NOT tell a story

Question 12

What artist was Ms. Stone's Favorite in High School?

Accepted Answer

Owl City

Question 13

An example of peaceful protesting is

Accepted Answer

Holding a sign and walking the streets with a group.

Question 14

Define Learning Style:

Accepted Answer

Your learning preference, how you like to learn

Question 15

A peaceful way of protesting

Accepted Answer

Boycott

Question 16

What was the primary goal of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began in 1955?

Accepted Answer

To end racial segregation on public buses

Question 17

Nonfiction writing that is a biography of a person written by himself or herself.

Accepted Answer

Autobiography

Question 18

What is the main characteristic of a strawman fallacy?

Accepted Answer

It oversimplifies or exaggerates a point.

Question 19

Haikus are usually written about nature.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Why was the Montgomery Bus Boycott significant?

Accepted Answer

It became a national symbol of dignity and strength

Question 21

How is blank verse written?

Accepted Answer

unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

Question 22

what is a free verse pome?

Accepted Answer

dosent follow regular rhyme scheme but provide expression

Question 23

Which three structural elements can be seen in poems, prose, and plays.

Accepted Answer

setting, narrator, description

Question 24

What is peaceful protesting?

Accepted Answer

Nonviolent action

Question 25

limericks are supposed to be humorous

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 27

What rhetorical appeal attempts to persuade the audience by making them feel certain emotions?

Accepted Answer

pathos

Question 28

Which rhetorical appeal attempts to persuade the audience with the use of logic?

Accepted Answer

logos

Question 29

Which of the following is an example of sensory imagery?

Accepted Answer

I could hear the birds chirping.

Question 30

in a political speech that uses rhetorical appeals and devices, the author's purpose is?

Accepted Answer

persuade

Question 31

Could this be the second line of a haiku? The skater spun gracefully.

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 32

Sentimental appeal...

Accepted Answer

When emotion is used to distract the audience from the facts

Question 33

What is the mood of a poem or prose?

Accepted Answer

feeling the author is trying to convey

Question 34

Which writing genre uses sensory details?

Accepted Answer

Narrative

Question 35

Scare tactics

Accepted Answer

Using fear to sway people by exaggerating possible dangers

Question 36

A faulty casualty is

Accepted Answer

the inference that one event is the cause of another

Question 37

Peaceful protesting is...

Accepted Answer

Inside the system

Question 38

Nonfiction writing...

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 39

nonfiction writing

Accepted Answer

expository essay/text

Question 40

What is sensory imagery?

Accepted Answer

a mental picture that is connection to one of the 5 senses

Question 41

What are the three main learning styles?

Accepted Answer

Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic

Question 42

Lyric poems......

Accepted Answer

can rhyme or not.

Question 43

Which of these elements is found in nonfiction writing?

Accepted Answer

accounts of real people and real places

Question 44

What is the bandwagon affect?

Accepted Answer

when consumers buy because everyone else is doing it

Question 45

A logical fallacy is

Accepted Answer

an error in reasoning

Question 46

Either-or Fallacy

Accepted Answer

When an argument suggests that there are ONLY 2 options

Question 47

Identify the logical fallacy.

Accepted Answer

hasty generalization

Question 48

Slippery Slope (logical fallacy)

Accepted Answer

when one thing will inevitably result from another

Question 49

Give a physical description of Lennie

Accepted Answer

shapeless face, huge

Question 50

Descriptive writing rarely uses sensory details

Accepted Answer

False

Question 51

___ is nonfiction writing.

Accepted Answer

informational text

Question 52

A Haiku is divided into a pattern of 5-7-5, what is the pattern counting?

Accepted Answer

Sylalbles

Question 53

Showing personality through writing; language with personality

Accepted Answer

Voice

Question 54

Types of poetry

Accepted Answer

Haiku, free verse, limerick, acrostic

Question 55

Examples of sensory imagery are:

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 56

What's the definition of an ad hominem fallacy?

Accepted Answer

attacking the "man"

Question 57

Which phrase is not an examples of sensory imagery?

Accepted Answer

“the rain was coming”

Question 58

a nonfiction, usually informative piece of writing

Accepted Answer

article

Question 59

How many lines are in a sonnet?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 60

Social Commentary/Social Criticism

Accepted Answer

writing that offers into society, its values, and its customs

Question 61

A ballad is a lyric poem written about a serious subject.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 62

the art of persuasion

Accepted Answer

rhetoric

Question 63

physical description

Accepted Answer

He is slim. He has red hair and beard with a mustache.

Sophomore Midterm

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Sophomore Midterm

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