Unit 4: Style
English Lang · Unit 4 · Paper 2

Style unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 20 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
1

Understatement and hyperbole

2

Imagery

3

Parallelism

4

Personification

5

Diction

6

Asyndeton and polysyndeton

7

Irony

8

Syntax

9

Active vs passive voice

10

Anaphora

11

Shift

12

Sentence variety

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Metaphor and simile

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Connotation vs denotation

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Rhetorical question

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Antithesis

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Rhetorical Analysis: In a commencement address, an author argues that failure taught her more than success, urging graduates to embrace risk. The passage uses personal anecdote, an extended metaphor comparing failure to bedrock, a shift from self-deprecating humor to earnest exhortation, and direct address. Analyze the rhetorical choices the author makes to convey her message about the value of failure.