Final Exam Practice - Honors Grade 9

Directions: Select the definition that best pairs with the word or the word that best pairs with the definition. 1. Analyze

• Breakdown or separate into parts to examine or study

• Separate into parts to organize

• Write down explicitly

• Discuss implicit meaning

Directions: Select the definition that best pairs with the word or the word that best pairs with the definition. 2. Anecdote

• A true story

• A funny story

• A short narrative to support or illustrate a point

• A short narrative used as a joke

Directions: Select the definition that best pairs with the word or the word that best pairs with the definition. 3. Claim

• An opinion

• A debatable point that can be supported

• Something you believe in your heart

• A superstition

Directions: Select the definition that best pairs with the word or the word that best pairs with the definition. 4. “The dictionary meaning of a word (literal).”

• Connotation

• Notation

• Rotation

• Denotation

When the reader or character’s expectations do not meet reality; in other words, there is a contradiction between what one expects and what happens in a text.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Irony

Directions: Select the definition that best pairs with the word or the word that best pairs with the definition. 6. Parallel Structure

• When sentences or phrases are in the same grammatical structure

• When sentences or phrases are in dissimilar grammatical structure

• When two sentences are next to one another

• When two sentences make sense together

Rhetoric

• An imaginary character from the planet Rhetor

• To have influence

• How a word feels—either positively or negatively

• Using persuasion effectively

During the Nazi Occupation of Europe, existentialism played a significant role in invigorating and uplifting the spirits of French citizens. Often dubbed ‘the philosophy of freedom’, existentialists rebelled against the Occupation intellectually and subtly in physical ways, e.g., giving Nazi soldiers incorrect directions. Notable existentialists from the time include figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Levinas. Together, these figures have had a lasting impact on thinking through questions of freedom, being, and geopolitical conflict because of the Nazi Occupation in Europe and specifically for the aforementioned thinkers France.

• To persuade readers that the Nazi Occupation was bad

• To inform readers of the origins of existentialism

• To create a narrative about the life and times of French philosophers

• To persuade readers that the existentialists were correct

The word “existentialism” contains the suffix “-ism”. What does the suffix “-ism” mean?

• Thought, concept, or notion

• Belief, doctrine, or philosophy

• Against, difference, contrast

• Similarity, comparison, likeness

Select the base word of “existentialism” from the list of words below.

• Exit

• Examine

• Existence

• Exalt