STINKY FEET FSA REVIEW EDITION the game thats

STINKY FEET FSA REVIEW EDITION the game that’s ½ Skill, ½ Strategy, and ½ Luck

THE RULES • There are four teams of 3 -6 players each. Teams sit together in a group. • Teams take turns answering the questions or following the prompts that appear on the slides. • Only one person may answer for the team. A new person must answer each time. • The first answer given is what will be assessed as correct or incorrect; teams may not amend (change) their answers after they have responded. • IF TEAMS ANSWER CORRECTLY: They must collect both a CHIP (which has a number between -12 and 12 on it) and a LETTER (A-Z). Chips cannot be looked at until the end of the game. Letters may be looked at after they have been chosen, but must be selected at random. • IF TEAMS ANSWER INCORRECTLY: The other teams will have an opportunity to STEAL. • STEALING: Teams will have fifteen seconds to determine the correct answer. When a team believes they have the correct answer, they must raise their hand. The first team to raise a hand will be allowed to answer first and so on. If the team is correct, they may steal one CHIP and one LETTER from the team who initially answered the question. • Teams alternate turns until time or the question set runs out.

WINNING THE GAME • At the end of the question portion of gameplay, teams will have one minute and thirty seconds to use their LETTERS to spell the longest word possible. • The team who spells the longest word will be allowed to look at their chips and calculate their total score. • The team who spells the longest word will also choose either “LOW” or “HIGH. ” • If the team chooses LOW, the team with the lowest score wins the game. • If the team chooses HIGH, the team with the highest score wins the game. • After LOW or HIGH has been chosen, all teams will tally their totals (based on the numbers on their CHIPS) to determine the winning team.

When Toni Morrison names her characters after figures from the Bible, what is that called? a) Diction b) Connotation c) Personification d) Allusion e) Alliteration

When you analyze something, you are… a) combining different ideas together. b) using close reading strategies to break it down. c) looking for figurative language. d) making notes in the margins of your paper.

Which of the following is not a major genre of literature? a) Folktale b) Podcasts c) Nonfiction d) Poetry e) Drama

Choose the sentence that uses alliteration: a) She sells seashells down by the sea shore. b) Boom! Goes the dynamite. c) You’re counting your chickens before they hatch. d) The ocean swayed back and forth like a cradle. e) After she borrowed my dress I wanted to kill her!

What error has the writer made in the following sentence construction? “Ran all the way to the store. ” a) It is a run-on sentence. b) It includes a comma splice. c) It is passive voice. d) It is parallelism. e) It is a sentence fragment.

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Read the following sentence. “My cousin mowed the lawn, washed the family cars, cleaned the upstairs bathroom, and ______ on the sofa afterwards to watch the basketball game. ” Choose the correct word or phrase that provides parallel structure to the sentence. a) he collapsed b) he was able to collapse c) collapsed d) was collapsing

How is an analogy different from a metaphor? a) Metaphors use like or as, while analogies do not. b) Analogies are when a sound is repeated at the beginning of subsequent words, while metaphors are comparisons not using like or as. c) Analogies are brief, indirect references to a person, place, or thing outside the text, while metaphors are used to show things that happened in the past. d) Analogies and metaphors are both types of comparison, but an analogy is used to clarify a situation, process, or event, while a metaphor is used to add depth to an image.

Which of the following is the closest synonym for argument? a)Main idea b)Thesis c) Topic d)Claim

Which evidence best supports the argument that students should not be required to wear school uniforms? a) “Many schools require uniforms to prevent bullying. ” b) “A student at Miami Arts Charter, Anonymous, claimed that her Grade Point Average (GPA) rose two full points after the uniform policy was dismissed. ” c) “Studies, such as the one conducted by researchers at Stanford University in the Fall of 2006, have shown an inverse relationship between uniform requirements and student confidence on exams. ” d) “Students can be more comfortable in their own clothes, and parents do not have to spend time or money buying uniforms that will not be worn outside of school. ”

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An informative text should not demonstrate any examples of… a) Textual Evidence b) A Thesis Statement c) Problems and Solutions d) Bias

Arrange the following events from Sula into causal order. Leave out any events that are not causally related. a) Chicken Little drowns. b) Sula swings Chicken Little around. c) Sula hears her mother say she doesn’t love her. d) Sula goes to Shadrack’s house. e) Shadrack sells fish. ____

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Figurative language falls at what level of close reading?

Diverted most closely means… a) Destroyed Read the following. “Fortunately, the explosion diverted the asteroid from a course that would have sent it hurtling into our planet. ” b) Altered c) Identified d) Arranged

Chronological means time order while causal means… a) who causes the events. b) what type of conflict is present. c) how events are related through cause and effect. d) how long an event takes.

Which of the three levels of close reading requires you to make connections from the text to things beyond the text? a) Level 1 Close Reading b) Level 2 Close Reading c) Level 3 Close Reading

Ubiquitous most closely means… Read the following. “No matter where you go, the internet is present. Almost every portable device is being made with an internet connection. Most new TVs and appliances have internet connection as well. The internet is truly ubiquitous. ” a) Creepy b) Everywhere c) Affordable d) Innovative

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Read the following paragraph. “Food was always important to my family, although no one could ever agree about what good food really meant. To my mother, good food meant fresh ingredients; to my father, good food meant that there was a lot of it; ____________ good food meant that you had taken the time to do all of the little details yourself. I never argued with my parents about it, but secretly I thought that my grandmother was right, and that’s why I always enjoyed Should semi-colons be used to separate the items on this list? If so, why? If not, why not and what would you replace them with?

A story’s climax… a) b) c) is the first event in the story. is the last event in the story. provides background information about the characters. d) is the moment of highest impact or drama in the story. e) usually involves flashback.

What does it mean to P. E. E. ?

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Which statement best summarizes the information presented in the graph? a) Far more people around the world own computers and cell phones today than in 2005. b) The number of people sharing digital information has more than tripled since 2005. c) The volume of digital information created and shared has increased tremendously in recent years. d) The amount of digital information created and shared is likely to be almost 8 zettabytes in 2015.

Their / They’re / There I went over to ________ house.

Apostrophes are NOT used for (select all that apply) a) Possessives b) Possessive Pronouns c) Contractions d) Plurals

Anything you say in response to a level 3 close reading question can be correct as long as you… a) read the text carefully. b) use connotation to determine the meanings of unknown words. c) back up your ideas with textual evidence. d) explain the meanings of key terms, such as theme, motif, or symbol

True or false: The answers to Level 1 Close Reading questions can be found directly in the text.

What event directly precedes and directly follows the climax of a story? a) The resolution comes directly before the climax, while rising action comes directly after. b) Exposition comes directly before the climax, while the resolution comes directly after. c) The pre-climax comes directly before the climax, while the postclimax comes directly after. d) Syntax comes directly before the climax, while the apex comes directly after. e) Rising action comes directly before the climax, while falling action comes directly after.

Read the following quote from Martin What is the purpose of King’s Luther King Jr. ’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail, ” in which he discusses analogy? the importance of nonviolent civil disobedience to social change: a) To show disgusting the opposition’s behavior is. “Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface b) To share an important memory of his the hidden tension that is already alive. time in jail. We bring it out into the open, where it can c) To better explain that nonviolent be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is direct action is a necessary step to covered up but must be opened with all solve the problem of racism, despite its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, criticisms of it. with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the d) To directly criticize nonviolent direct air of national opinion before it can be action as ‘ugly. ’ cured. ”

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If you don’t know a word’s denotation, you can use __________ to figure out the meaning of the unknown word.

Read the following passage to answer the question: What can be inferred from this passage? a) The men do not want to go to work in “The men walked down the streets to the mine with their heads bent close to their chests. In groups of five or six b) The weather is cold. they scurried on. It was impossible to recognize individuals from the small c) The men have been imprisoned. gaps between their caps, pulled down over their eyes, and the tightly bound d) The men cannot be identified by the scarves tied over the bottom halves of narrator because of what they are their faces. ” wearing.

A motif _______.

_______ is the act of identifying the similarities between two or more things.

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informative article about hibernation: “Nearly everything about the way an animal’s body works changes when it hibernates, and preparations start weeks or months in advance. The first order of business is to fatten up. “Fat is where it’s at for a hibernator, ” says Matthew Andrews, a molecular biologist at the University of Minnesota Duluth who studies 13 -lined ground squirrels. “You bring your own lunch with you. ” Packing lunch is necessary because the animals go on the world’s strictest diet during the winter, surviving entirely off their white fat. “They have their last supper in October; they don’t eat again until March, ” Andrews says. Bigger fat stores mean a greater chance of surviving until spring. “If they go in really chunky, nice and roly-poly, that’s going to be a good hibernator, ” he What main effect do the quotations by Andrews have on the tone of the passage? a) They create a bleak tone, focusing on the difficulties hibernators face during the winter. b) They create a conversational tone, relating scientific information in everyday language. c) They create an ominous tone, foreshadowing the dire results of Andrews’s research. d) They create an absurd tone, using images of animals acting as if they were human.

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the imagery in Lemonade and Sula? a) Beyonce’s Lemonade uses references to Yoruba culture, while Toni Morrison’s Sula borrows imagery primarily from the Bible. b) Both Toni Morrison and Beyonce draw heavily on fire and water imagery in their work. c) While Toni Morrison and Beyonce both use tunnels in their work, Morrison’s tunnel represents the final journey to death, while Beyonce’s tunnel shows how past emotions can be used as a pathway to the future. d) Both Lemonade and Sula are autobiographical.

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Give an example of a medium in which a text might be published.

Which of the following is not one of the things readers look for in complex characters? a) The characters grow or change. b) The characters have relationships with other characters. c) The characters have conflicting thoughts, emotions, and feelings. d) The characters are easily identified as good or evil. e) The characters make choices and take actions that affect themselves and others.

“We were waiting for the women to watch us, ” is an example of what type of figurative language? a) Onomatopoeia b) Metaphor c) Idiom d) Syntax e) Alliteration

Clandestine most closely means… a) Precise Read the following. “No one must ever know of this military action. It must be clandestine if we are to succeed. ” b) Affordable c) Secret d) Practiced

A word that shares the same meaning as another word is known as its __________.

Read the following excerpt from Andrew Carnegie’s "Wealth, " originally published in 1889. Arriving penniless in Pennsylvania from Scotland in 1848, Carnegie became one of the richest people in the United States through the manufacture of steel. “The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized, within the past few hundred years. In former days there was little difference between the dwelling, dress, food, and environment of the chief and those of his retainers. . The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us to-day measures the change which has come with civilization. This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so. Much better this great irregularity than universal squalor. Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. * The “good old times” were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated then as to-day. A relapse to old conditions would be disastrous to both— not the least so to him who serves—and would sweep away civilization with it. But whether the change be for good or ill, it is upon us, beyond our power to alter, and, therefore, to be accepted and made the best of. It is a Which choice best describes the structure of the first paragraph? a) A personal history is narrated, historical examples are given, and a method is recommended. b) A position is stated, historical context is given, and earnest advice is given. c) Certain principles are stated, opposing principles are stated, and a consensus is reached. d) A historical period is described, and its attributes are reviewed.

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Name the four major types of conflict in literature.

Read the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr. ’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail. ” “I hope you see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. ” What word best matches the connotation of the word rabid as it is used in the quote? a) Evil b) Uncontrollable c) Undisciplined d) Fanatical

Explain the differences between Verbal, Dramatic, and Situational Irony.

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How is connotation different than denotation?

The photograph is an example of a) Bias b) Verbal Irony c) Dramatic Irony d) Situational Irony e) Paradox

Read the following quote from President Richard Nixon, given during a speech on the U. S. Energy Crisis: How does President Nixon’s allusion to World War II reflect the purpose of his speech? “The burden of energy conservation, of cutbacks and inconvenience, of occasional discomfort, continued concern is not, I can assure you, an artificial one. It is real. During the Second World War, Winston Churchill was once asked why England was fighting Hitler. He answered, ‘If we stop, you will find out. ’” a) It highlights the historical causes of the crisis. b) It emphasizes the importance of dealing with the crisis. c) It reassures people that the crisis is coming to an end. d) It shows that problems are best solved through strong leadership.

If asked to compare and contrast, what type of graphic organizer is best? a) A Venn Diagram b) A T-Chart c) A Web d) A Timeline e) A Map

Which of the following text features (choose all that apply) is commonly used to emphasize information in a text? a) Bold b) Italics c) Underline d) Bullet Points e) Hyperlinks

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A word’s _______ is the dictionary definition, while the connotation is the implied meaning or associations of the word.

“Mistakes were made, ” is an example of what type of sentence construction error? a) Misplaced modifier b) Run-on sentence c) Comma Splice d) Passive Voice e) Unrestricted Clause

What is context? Give an example related to something we studied this year.

Read the following sentences. “My grandmother was of French _____ her bread reflected that heritage. It was neither the light, fluffy, supermarket sandwich bread, nor the puffed rolls so common at dinner, nor the thin, crusty baguettes that people call French Bread. ” Which of the following is the grammatically correct choice to fill in the blank space in the paragraph? a) Ancestry; therefore b) Ancestry therefore c) Ancestry; therefore, d) Ancestry therefore,

Give one example from any of our reading selections this year in which a writer creates curiosity in the reader. Using appropriate terminology, explain how the effect is achieved.

If the tone of a piece is colloquial, what kind of language might you expect to find? a) Jargon and technical terms b) Formal language c) Slang d) Figurative language

When a character speaks to one or more other characters in a text, it is called a) drama b) gossip c) dialect d) dialogue e) monologue

Define and give an example of personification.

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Name at least two types of context clues that you can look for in a passage to help you identify the meanings of unknown words. (i. e. synonyms)

A monologue is a) a regional way of speaking b) a speech given by a parent to a child c) an old type of poetry d) when one character speaks for an extended period of time to an audience e) when one character speaks to him or herself without an audience

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Name the four elements of literature.

Read the following sentence. “My grandmother would make a sticky, shaggy mess out of the most basic mix of _________ water, salt, flour, and starter. ” Which of the following is the grammatically correct choice to fill in the blank space in the paragraph? a) ingredients b) ingredients: ; c) ingredients, d) ingredients:

Choose the example of dialect: a) Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! b) Go jump in a lake. c) We be pullin in direclin’. d) I love you so much.

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Identify the point of view. a) First Person Read the following. b) Second Person c) Third Person “You’re not my real friend, ” Sarah said. Susan looked at Sarah and burst into tears. d) Fourth Person e) Omnicient Third

A writer’s tone is often established through a) diction and syntax b) imagery c) text structure d) all of the above

If I were to describe Toni Morrison’s work as syntactically complex, what would I be saying about her writing? a) Her writing contains many complex plot twists. b) Her writing includes a number of complex characters. c) Her word choice is very elaborate. d) Her sentences are complex in structure.

What type of figurative language is used in the video clip?

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“I told Paul that I would excerpt only the critical passages so that he wouldn’t have to read all four-hundred pages of the court transcripts. ” The word excerpt most closely means a) Someone who is a professional in their field. b) To remove parts from a larger whole. c) To make a legal decision under the guidance of an attorney. d) To identify the most important evidence.

What does P. I. E. stand for? What does it help you determine?

Identify the point of view. a) First Person b) Second Person Read the following. “They went to the store together and left me at home. ” c) Third Person d) Fourth Person e) Omnicient Third

Inference, which falls under level 2 close reading, requires you to: a) read between the lines b) connect the text to events in the world c) compare and contrast d) make predictions e) identify figurative language

Assuming you are not a murderer, when you tell your sibling, “I’m literally going to murder you!” it is an example of what two types of figurative language? a) Hyperbole and Euphemism b) Onomatopoeia and Anaphora c) Simile and Metaphor d) Oxymoron and Hyperbole e) Euphemism and Anaphora

What is the term used to describe the pacing technique in which a writer suspends the present action in order to relay events that happened previously? a) Chronology b) Flashback c) In Media Res d) Suspense e) Surprise

Choose the example(s) of imagery. a) She smelled the rich cinnamon of her grandmother’s fresh-baked pie. b) Her toes stung as she marched across the icy landscape in last year’s boots. c) Bears hibernate during winter. d) He saw a long trail of smoke over the tops of the trees. e) Nobody understood him. He was special.

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An inference is a) Explicit b) Abstract c) Concrete d) Implicit

Read the following quote from Martin Luther King Jr. ’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail, ” in which he discusses postponing a planned protest. “When we discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety had piled up enough votes to be in the runoff, we decided again to postpone action until the day after the runoff so that the demonstration could not be used to cloud the issues. ” How does the use of the word cloud add figurative meaning to the quote? What type of figurative language is it? How might a boycott or protest cloud the issues during an election?

Imagery is … a) a description that engages any of the five senses. b) a visual description of a landscape, person, or thing. c) a type of figurative language. d) when a metaphor or simile is used to describe something visually. e) only literal; imagery cannot be metaphoric.

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What type of figurative language is used in the video clip?

How is mood different than tone? What is the relationship between mood and tone?

Rash most closely means… a) Foolish Read the following. “Speaking rudely to the judge was rash behavior. You really hurt your chances of winning your case!” b) Splotchy c) Quick d) Unfriendly

In fiction and nonfiction, the person telling the story is the a) Speaker b) Writer c) Author d) Narrator e) Character

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What does a semi-colon do?

In poetry, the ______ is the person or voice addressing the reader. a) Speaker b) Writer c) Author d) Narrator e) Character

Longform journalism, cookbooks, newspaper articles, academic studies, and biographies are all examples of: a) Fiction b) Nonfiction c) Poetry d) Drama e) Folktale

Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language? a) Alliteration b) Personification c) Metaphor d) Symbolism e) Onomatopoeia

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Static most closely means… a) Electric Read the following. “We used to believe that intelligence was static. Now, because of new studies, we know that teens and fully mature adults can grow more brain cells when needed. ” b) Unchanging c) Fuzzy d) Diminishing

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When summarizing a text, it is important that you a) offer your opinion of the writer’s work. b) explain every aspect of the plot and characters. c) identify the key details in order, from beginning through the middle and to the end. d) use evidence to show the writer’s bias.

Which of the following is not a part of speech? a) Noun b) Verb c) Adjective d) Preposition e) Present tense

Theme, motif, and symbol can all be found at what level of close reading? a) The explicit level. b) The implicit level. c) The abstract level.

Which method of rhetorical appeal draws on the speaker’s credibility? a) Logos b) Ethos c) Pathos d) Kairos e) Kleos

Which method of rhetorical appeal draws on the audience’s emotions? a) Logos b) Ethos c) Pathos d) Kairos e) Kleos

Where can you typically look for the writer’s key ideas? a) Inside the quotation marks. b) At the beginnings and ends of paragraphs, where the topic sentences and thesis statements are. c) In the hook. d) In the works cited page.

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The main idea of a text is a) One word stating what the text is about. b) An abstract idea, expressed in a phrase. c) A list of key details. d) A one sentence summary of the text. e) The lesson the text teaches you.

Read the following paragraph. “Food was always important to my family, although no one could ever agree about what good food really meant. To my mother, good food meant fresh ingredients; to my father, good food meant that there was a lot of it; ____________ good food meant that you had taken the time to do all of the little details yourself. I never argued with my parents about it, but secretly I thought that my grandmother was right, and that’s why I always enjoyed Which of the following is the grammatically correct choice to fill in the blank space in the paragraph? a) To my grandmother b) My grandmother always said c) But for my grandmother d) And my grandmother thought

If you join two independent clauses with a comma, you have committed a terrible error known as… a) Alliteration b) A comma splice c) A run-on sentence d) An infinitive e) An appositive

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“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, ” is an example of a a) Theme b) Moral c) Topic d) Main Idea e) Motif

Which method of rhetorical appeal draws on the logic and reasoning? a) Logos b) Ethos c) Pathos d) Kairos e) Kleos

What is annotation?

Which of the following could be a theme of Sula? a) Don’t trust anyone. b) Friendship c) Good vs. Evil d) Unconventional women are seldom respected.

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What is a cliché?

“The trees stood tall and proud, ” is an example of what type of figurative language?

What is a thesis sentence?

A dictionary is used for _______ while a thesaurus is used for ________.

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What does the use of an allusion add to a text (in general)?

“Faithful Penelope” is an example of an ____________.