Authorial Choices Practice #2

What is the author's attitude toward the subject?

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"We have some important news for you, Mr. President.  We have discovered a terrorist plot against the United States," said the CIA agent.  The President closed the book, set it on the desk, and leaned forward, his eyes fixed straight ahead.  "Tell me everything you know." 
What is the tone of the dialogue?

• Informal

• Happy

• Serious

• Optimistic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the term for the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is a reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside the story?

• Abstraction

• Allegory

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself ?

• symbol

• style

• paradox

• allusion

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity” (Adichie 6).

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way, when we were in Swat, the north of Pakistan, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns” (Yousafzai 3).

• Juxtaposition

• Anecdote

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Stranger Danger

Dumb Luck

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Litote

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary device in the following passage:

“It flipped and flopped and flapped, gasping, inflating, deflating, dying in front of us. We gathered around to watch it, mortified, afraid, confused, until finally two young ladies shuffled into the circle, scooped Confucius up like a live grenade, and tossed the fish back into the tank” (Reynolds 3).

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the mood of the following sentence:
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

• fanciful
• suspenseful
• melancholy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4