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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following sentences about coal mining is an example of verbal irony?
If you are tall, getting through the tunnel is particularly difficult because you have to bend down.
The elevator can reach speeds of 60 mph, but most people don't notice until it starts to slow down.
After a backbreaking day of work, the miners are rewarded with a 90-minute crawl back to the elevator.
Travelling through the tunnel to the worksite is not considered work, so the miners are not paid for "travelling" time.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following sentences uses verbal irony?
Not many people realize how difficult a miner's job really is.
Working in extreme heat and pitch-black darkness underground sounds like fun.
On the ride down, as many as ten miners are squeezed together in the tiny elevator.
Most miners have built up the right muscles to deal with difficult "travelling."
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which sentence contains an example of verbal irony?
I can't wait until this weekend when I get to clean the basement.
I'm really looking forward to going to the baseball game Thursday night.
After we finish writing the scene, we should practice it for our performance.
I don't expect to have much fun this weekend because I have so many chores to do.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Use your knowledge of the suffix –able to choose the most likely definition for the root word lament, as used in the following sentence from the Diary of Samuel Pepys:
So I down to the water-side, and there got a boat and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire.
an expression of grief
an expression of curiosity
an expression of happiness
an expression of amusement
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following words uses the Latin suffix –ible in the same way as the word edible?
crucible
eligible
flexible
terrible
- 6. Multiple Choice
Read the following sentence from paragraph 9 of Kindertransport.
EVELYN. . . . A storybook filled with dreadful pictures: a terrifying man with razor eyes, long, long fingernails; hair like rats' tails who could see wherever you were, whatever you did . . .
What is the denotation of the word razor in this sentence?
a sharp cutting-instrument
full of spirit and energy
having a piercing or harsh quality
acting precisely or keenly
- 7. Multiple Choice
Read the following sentence from paragraph 70 of Kindertransport.
HELGA. Who is here for us? No one. The remains of our family is in America.
In this sentence, the connotation of the word remains suggests that
most of the family is dead.
the family in America is small but loving.
the family in America is large and interesting.
much of the family has been displaced around the world.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Read the following sentence from paragraph 3 of The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off . . .
Which of the following words has a connotation that is less desperate than flinging?
hurling
casting
tossing
slinging
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