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Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Close reading, Personal response, Poetry, Visual texts. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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Circle the best answer for each question. Use the space to note the evidence or reasoning that decided it.

  1. A subject photographed from a low angle, looking up, usually appears

    1. a) powerful or dominant
    2. b) comic
    3. c) distant and unimportant
    4. d) vulnerable

  2. An advertisement features a doctor in a white coat recommending a product. The main appeal is to

    1. a) ethos, borrowing the authority of expertise
    2. b) logos, through clinical evidence
    3. c) none of these
    4. d) pathos, through fear of illness

  3. Enjambment occurs when

    1. a) a sentence runs past the end of a line without pause
    2. b) a line ends with a full stop
    3. c) two lines rhyme
    4. d) a stanza is repeated

  4. When asked for the best interpretation of a poem, a strong answer will

    1. a) restate the poem in simpler words
    2. b) rely on what the poet's life was like
    3. c) focus only on the first stanza
    4. d) account for the whole poem, including any part that complicates it

  5. Read: “She set the letter on the table, unopened, and went back to washing dishes that were already clean.” The detail about the dishes suggests that she is

    1. a) angry with the sender
    2. b) proud of her housekeeping
    3. c) expecting a visitor
    4. d) avoiding the letter

  6. An effective personal response usually develops one or two experiences in depth rather than listing several because

    1. a) more examples take too long to write
    2. b) depth shows reflection, while a list only shows examples
    3. c) markers dislike long responses
    4. d) only one example is permitted

  7. An editorial cartoon shows a politician as a tightrope walker. This device is

    1. a) hyperbole about the politician's height
    2. b) a visual metaphor suggesting a precarious position
    3. c) irony created by the caption
    4. d) an allusion to a famous circus

  8. An appeal to pathos persuades by

    1. a) citing statistics and logic
    2. b) repeating a slogan
    3. c) engaging the audience's emotions
    4. d) establishing the speaker's credibility

  9. A text whose purpose is to persuade will most likely

    1. a) tell a story in chronological order
    2. b) describe a scene in sensory detail
    3. c) present a position and support it with appeals to the reader
    4. d) explain a process in neutral steps

  10. An inference is

    1. a) a conclusion the reader draws from evidence in the text plus reasoning
    2. b) a summary of what happened
    3. c) the writer's opinion about the subject
    4. d) a fact stated directly in the text

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English 30-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. a) powerful or dominant — Low angles make a subject loom, which reads as power; high angles looking down tend to diminish. The camera's position is an argument about the subject.
  2. a) ethos, borrowing the authority of expertise — The coat is the argument: it signals expertise the ad has not actually demonstrated. Naming the appeal is step one; noticing that the credibility is implied rather than proven is the analysis.
  3. a) a sentence runs past the end of a line without pause — The line ends but the sense does not, so the reader is pulled forward and the words either side of the break get extra weight. A line that does stop at its end is end-stopped.
  4. d) account for the whole poem, including any part that complicates it — An interpretation that only works if you ignore the last stanza is not the best one. Examiners build the distractors from partial readings, which is why the awkward part of a poem is usually where the answer is decided.
  5. d) avoiding the letter — The dishes are already clean, so the washing is not about dishes — it is something to do instead of opening the letter. The unopened letter and the pointless task together imply avoidance.
  6. b) depth shows reflection, while a list only shows examples — Three thin anecdotes rarely say as much as one examined closely. The marks come from what you make of the material, not how much of it you can name.
  7. b) a visual metaphor suggesting a precarious position — Cartoons argue in images: the walker stands for risk and balance. Reading one means naming what each element represents and then stating the claim the whole cartoon makes.
  8. c) engaging the audience's emotions — Pathos works on feeling, logos on reasoning and evidence, ethos on the speaker's authority and character. Most real persuasion uses all three.
  9. c) present a position and support it with appeals to the reader — Purpose shows up in choices: a persuasive text argues and appeals, an expository text explains, a narrative tells. Identifying purpose first makes every other question about the text easier.
  10. a) a conclusion the reader draws from evidence in the text plus reasoning — Inferring means reading what the text implies rather than states. A good inference can always be traced back to specific words on the page — that is what separates it from a guess.