English final MCQ

50% Final Grade

Section 1: non fiction
• same era as Declaration of Independence
• 8 paragraph long
• (really hard; read the question first, then read the passage)
• 5 questions (2 point each)

• Parallelism / parallel phrases sentence

• Appeals (logical, ethical, emotional)
• Summary structure

Section 2: Poetry
Part 1 - Whitman / Dickinson
• 10 questions (1 point each)
• voice, sound device(rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance), rhyme, alliteration,
consonance, assonance, meter, theme punctuation, connotative language

Part 2 - Whitman(Song of Myself) / Dickinson

• 10 questions (1 point each)
• voice, sound device, rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance, meter, theme
punctuation, connotative language + allusion + apostrophe ” ’ “ question (maintain
the meter) + imagery

Section 3: Vocabulary
• 10 questions (1 point each)
 Notes
Parallelism 排比: similar grammatical construction to express important ideas

Rhetorical Appeal: convincing argument

• Legos— logical (logic; reason, proof) eg: specific statistic data
• Ethos— ethical (道德 credibility trust by others, cites) eg: this expert once said…
• Pathos— emotional (feeling; value) eg: telling stories

Summary
Structure (eg: Preamble前⾔, Resolutions決案, List, Thesis, Evidence, Call to action)

Voice:
to set the mood or tone; unique style, personality or perspective
(eg: frightened, regretful, peaceful, hateful, passionate, romantic)

Sound devices
• Rhyme: words that share the same focal sound
Ted, get your head off my bed, I said!
• Alliteration: words that share the same initial sound
Properly put the paper in your pocket.
• Assonance: repetition of vowel (a, e, i, o, u, y) sounds
Please see the green tea leaves.
• Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds
Chris kicked my Kit-Kat in the lake. I’ll kill that kid.

Meter: pattern of beats in poetry

‘ -> to maintain the meter
theme

Punctuation 標點符號

Connotative language: use of words that suggest a different association than its literal
meaning; feelings and ideas that people connect with

Allusion 引⽤; 典故: hint, suggest or indirect reference (cupid-> love, grinch->hate
seeing people happy on Christmas)

Apostrophe “ ‘ ” : to maintain the meter

Imagery: vivid description; to create image in reader’s mind

Poetry devices
• Alliteration: words with same beginning
• Assonance: words repeating vowel (a, e, i, o, u)
• Consonance: words repeating consonant (aeiou exclude)
• Repetition: repeat; create rhythm or emphasize word or phrase
• Rhyme: same ending sounds
• Meter: pattern of beats; maintain by apostrophe
• Imagery: image in reader’s mind
• Personification: 轉化; 擬⼈化 give things human characteristics
• Simile: comparing things using “as”, “like”
He is brave like a lion.
• Metaphor
He is a lion.
• Allusion: 引⽤; 典故 hint, suggest or indirect reference
cupid-> love, grinch->hate seeing people happy on Christmas
 MCQ Questions
Non Fiction (2 point each)
1. Parallelism
2. Rhetorical Appeal (logical, ethical, emotional)
3. Parallelism
4. Summary
5. Structure (call to action, preamble, resolution)

Poetry (1 point each)

6. Voice (joyful, hateful, romantic)
7. Sound devices
8. Poetry Devises (eg: imagery
9. Poetry Devises
10. meaning (theme)
11. poetry devices
12. sound devices
13. poetry devices
14. poetry devices
15. poetry devices
16. meter
17. meter
18. poetry devices
19. voice
20. theme
21. voice
22. punctuation
23. theme
24. poetry devices
25. voice
 Vocabulary
10 questions/ 1 point each
• Establish (v.) 建立 to formally set up, institute
She has donated money yo establish a hospital.

• Abdicated (v.) 放棄職位 to relinquish o recede responsibility for

The king abdicate his throne.

• Invested (v.) 投入; 投資 to grant or endow

He decided to invest a now car.

• Affected (v.) 影響 to cause of influence

Your opinion will not affect my deciton.

• Tepid (adj.) 微溫的; 不熱情的 lukewarm; indifference

I start my day by drinking tepid water in the morning.

• Copious (adj.) 豐富; ⼤量的 extensive

She tool copious notes during class.

• Cardinal (adj.) 主要的 most important

Newton’s Laws are cardinal principle in physics.

• Rudiments (n.) 基礎 basic form

The rudiments of physics are Newton’s Laws of Motion.

• Facade (n.) 假象 false or misleading appearance

Behind her cheerful facade, she is a lonely person.
• Anomalous (adj.) 反常的 unusual
The anomalous heat coming underground causes a volcano eruption.

• Unalienable (adj.) 不可剝奪的 impossible to be taken away

Every human being have some unalienable rights.

• Belatedly (adv.) 來遲的 done too late to overdue

I belatedly realized how fun it was to be a silly girl.

• Elusive (adj.) 難以捉摸 difficult to obtain or define

Success will be even more elusive.

• Capacity (n.) 能⼒ the ability to hold or have something; function or role

She has a great capacity for hard work.

• Tyrannical (adj.) 殘暴的 exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way

He left home to escape the tyrannical role of his mom.

• Abhor (v.) 厭惡 regard with disgust and hatred

I arbor all forms of racism.

• Impunity (n.) 豁免; 不受懲罰 exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm

You cannot beak he law with impunity.

• Deprive (v.) 剝奪 to keep from possessing or enjoying; deny

The new law deprives us of our right.