English III -- Unit 4 Skills Test REVIEW

What is the purpose of Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address?

to reflect on the causes and effects of the war

If "insurgent" is used to describe a person who is willing to fight for a cause they believe in, what is it's meaning?

rebellious

Why did Abraham Lincoln most likely include the phrase "but let us judge not, that we be not judged" in his 2nd Inaugural Address?

convince his audience to consider the humanity of the other side

When Abraham Lincoln uses the repetition of sentences beginning with the words Neither, Each, and Both function as a way of doing what...

He is showing the similarities between the two sides fighting in the war

"With malice toward none; with charity for all: with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

How does this paragraph contribute to the author's message?

it calls on the audience to work toward a peaceful conclusion to the war

What was the author's purpose in "Declaration of Sentiments?"

persuade her readers that women deserve equal rights

How does Elizabeth Cady Stanton support her claim in the "Declaration of Sentiments" that men have worked to destroy women's confidence and self-respect?

By listing examples of how the law deprives women of their civil rights

Why does Cady Elizabeth Stanton provide a list of grievances in her argument?

to present ways in which men have prevented women from achieving a more equal status in society

Which sentence from "Speech to the American Equal Rights Association" best supports Sojourner Truth's purpose for writing it?

I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Read this sentence:

"There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before."

Why is this sentence effective in Sojourner Truth's speech?

it appeals to the audience's sense of logic regarding the issue of slavery

"I want it root and branch destroyed"

What does the author suggest when she says this about slavery?

the author's desire for all aspects of slavery to be destroyed

"So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again."

Based on this sentence, what can the reader infer about the author's intentions?

The author wants to capitalize on the momentum of the abolition of slavery to give equal rights to women

What is the meaning of the word projectile?

An object that thrust or thrown forward

How do you spell "filanthropic" correctly?

change "F"ilanthropic to PHilanthropic

Add "descriptive language" to this sentence:

"National Energy Corporation will host a private reception, and the ____________________________________________flower display will officially open to the public on Saturday morning."

"... , and the SWEET-SMELLING flower display will officially open to the public on Saturday morning."

How can you make the following sentence a BALANCED sentence?

"Entries in the artificial category should be delivered to the tent Saturday afternoon, and contestants should drop off entries in the fresh category on Sunday morning."

Entries in the artificial category should be delivered to the tent Saturday afternoon; entries in the fresh category should be delivered Sunday morning.

How do you spell the word "grafic" correctly?

change the gra"F"ic to graPHic

How can you use "parallel structure" in this sentence?

"After Dizzy's sold-out concert in Brighton Square is played on Sunday evening, the festival will wrap up."

"After Dizzy's sold-out concert in Brighton Square is played on Sunday evening, after an entire weekend of amazing flowers and entertainment, the festival will wrap up."

What is the author foreshadowing by giving us this description:

"At the roadside a brigade was making coffee and buzzing with talk like a girls' boarding-school. Several officers came out to him and inquired concerning things of which he knew nothing. One, seeing his arm, began to scold. "Why, man, that's no way to do. You want to fix that thing."...His tone allowed one to think that he was in the habit of being wounded every day. The lieutenant hung his head, feeling, in this presence, that he did not know how to be correctly wounded."

The lieutenant meeting the man results in--his wound worsening (because no one he met at the roadside brigade knew anything or was willing to really help him)

How do the lieutenant's thoughts described here foreshadow what happens next?

"The lieutenant hung his head, feeling, in this presence, that he did not know how to be correctly wounded."

His thoughts describe that he is depressed and will feel powerless