Quizzes on Tone Words

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Quizzes on Tone Words Parallelism
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Positive, Negative, Humor/Irony Words Faulty
Parallelism

• DEFINE THE WORDS BELOW
• jubilant
• coarse
• facetious
• taunting
• wry
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6.The company announced a bonus for all five-year
  employees and that deserving new employees would
  be given additional benefits.

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• DEFINE THE WORDS BELOW
• elated
• choleric
• pompous
• quarrelsome
• irreverent
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6.The principal insisted that all of us return by
  10 oclock and the teachers must check us in.

4

• DEFINE THE WORDS BELOW
• apprehensive
• staid
• melancholy
• grave
• poignant
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6.This was a much harder quiz for me than
  Maurice.

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• DEFINE THE NEUTRAL WORDS BELOW
• admonitory
• histrionic
• resigned
• grave
• vexed
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6. Attention has been centered on the need for
  more teachers, adequate classrooms, and there
  isnt enough equipment.

6

• DEFINE THE NEUTRAL WORDS BELOW
• matter-of-fact
• clinical
• didactic
• fervent
• forthright
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6.How do your grades in English compare with
  science?

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• DEFINE THE TONE WORDS BELOW add ELEGIAC TO YOUR
  TONE WORDS LIST!!!
• wistful
• histrionic
• didactic
• flippant
• wry
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6.People have been more interested in reading the
  book than the movie version.

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• DEFINE THE TONE WORDS BELOW
• elegiac
• consoling
• poignant
• baffled
• callous
• CORRECT FAULTY PARALLELISM
• 6. Some birds like to eat fruit as much as
  insects.