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What is rhetoric? - ✔✔ - Language intended to influence people.
What is euphemism? - ✔✔ - Saying something so it's less hurtful.
Verbs are words _ - ✔✔ - for actions or states of being.
The graveyard poets were a group of poets in _ - ✔✔ - the 18th century.
Who was the writer of the 1st American play to be professionally performed? - ✔✔ -
Royal Tyler
Portfolios are an effective way to evaluate the _ - ✔✔ - development of language skills.
Anaphora is _ - ✔✔ - repeating the word or phrase at the beginning of verses or
clauses.
Analytical is _ - ✔✔ - analyzing.
What is iambic pentameter? - ✔✔ - Five feet per line, one light syllable followed by a
stressed syllable.
What is couplet? - ✔✔ - 2 lines rhyming.
Who wrote "The Children's Hour"? - ✔✔ - Lillan Hellman
Who wrote "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? - ✔✔ - Tennesse Willams
What does peer review offer? - ✔✔ - Different perspectives and provides valuable
feedback.
In "To The Brooklyn Bridge", the author conveys a sense of: - ✔✔ - stability, regularity,
and connection.
Evaluation is _ - ✔✔ - judging the quality of work.
Who wrote "The Skin of Our Teeth"? - ✔✔ - Thornton Wilder
,What are the benefits of peer review? - ✔✔ - Students: -get feedback, -recognize
strengths and weaknesses, -develop a sense of audience, -learn new information from
peer's papers.
Who wrote "Desire Under the Elms"? - ✔✔ - Eugene O'Neil
Which of the following instructional strategies is most effective for enhancing a student's
reading comprehension of an academic text? - ✔✔ - ask student's knowledge about
topic before text is read.
What is a haiku? - ✔✔ - A poem that doesn't rhyme in the "5,7,5" format.
What are the English renaissance dates? - ✔✔ - Late 15th century - Early 17th century.
Formative assessment in writing is when _ - ✔✔ - a teacher responds to non-graded
writing.
Who wrote "The Contrast"? - ✔✔ - Royal Tyler
Who wrote "Love! Valour! Compassion!"? - ✔✔ - Terrence McNally
What is the primary purpose for using IRIs? - ✔✔ - To diagnose difficulties and provide
instruction toward the skills lacked.
What is transformational grammar? - ✔✔ - Different ways to say the same thing.
Deep structure is _ - ✔✔ - the level of language; containing all info needed to make any
sentence.
The best resource to confirm the multiple meanings of a word is _ - ✔✔ - a dictionary.
Summative assessment in writing is when _ - ✔✔ - teachers are responding and
evaluating graded writing.
When addressing different groups, students need to be aware of _ - ✔✔ - the language.
A complex sentences contains: - ✔✔ - independent and dependent clause.
Oral language always _ written language. - ✔✔ - comes before
Who wrote "The Ritz"? - ✔✔ - Terrence McNally
Who wrote "The Piano Lesson"? - ✔✔ - August Wilson
, Concrete poems, also known as _ - ✔✔ - pattern poems.
Persuasive writing is _ - ✔✔ - facts and opinions arranged to direct the actions of the
reader.
Who wrote "The Odd Couple"? - ✔✔ - Neil Simon
Is teaching grammar in isolation a good strategy? - ✔✔ - No, not enough.
In holistic scoring, scoring is based on _ - ✔✔ - an overall impression of student
performance.
Hyperbole is _ - ✔✔ - exaggeration.
Limerick is what type of poem? - ✔✔ - Humorous.
How many lines are in a limerick? - ✔✔ - 5
Which type of literature assessment involves small, student led book discussion in
groups that the teacher evaluates on collaboration, participation, progress in reading
skills, and products? - ✔✔ - Literature Circles.
Equivocation, ad hominem, false analogy are examples of _ - ✔✔ - logical fallacies.
Who wrote "The Glass Menagerie"? - ✔✔ - Tennesse Williams
The mood of the story is the _ - ✔✔ - emotional atmosphere (ex: mystery)
What is metonymy? - ✔✔ - The use of an idea closely identified with another idea. (hit
the books - go study)
What does journalistic writing do? - ✔✔ - Relay information.
Who wrote "Sweet Charity"? - ✔✔ - Neil Simon
Which work of young adult literature would best be used to explore the topic of racial
prejudice? - ✔✔ - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Words gothic, vandal, turret represent which influence on language? - ✔✔ - Historic
What are the 3 rhetorical appeals? - ✔✔ - Ethos, pathos, and logos.