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Common Core Standard L.8.5a Questions

Interpret figures of speech (e.g. verbal irony, puns) in context.

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Grade 8 Idiom CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Read the sentences below.

That stupid laugh of hers can absolutely drive everyone up the wall. We can't stand it!

What does the idiom DRIVE UP THE WALL mean?

Make crazy
Make happy
Make sad
Make a car drive vertically up a wall

Grade 8 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.7, CCRA.L.5, RL.8.7, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

A mother expects her children to do well in school and they make the honor roll.
A man meets his long-lost son and the reader knows it, but he doesn't.
A little girl can see the future and predicts a storm is going to come.
A teacher tells her students they did well on a test, but actually they all failed.

Grade 8 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Irony is the contrast between what is expected to happen or what appears to be and what is.

Grade 8 Romiette and Julio CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Determine whether the following passage is an example of situational, dramatic, or verbal irony:
"We're on for tonight," Julio said with a tightness in his voice."
"And I haven't got a thing to wear!" Ben cried..."

Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony

Grade 8 Romeo and Juliet CCSS: CCRA.R.7, CCRA.L.5, RL.8.7, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Romeo arrives at the Capulet family tomb to find his love, Juliet supposedly dead. However, we the audience know that Juliet is not really dead, she merely took a potion to make it look like she was dead for her own motives. When the audience of a story knows more than the characters involved, what type of irony is employed?

situational irony
dramatic irony
verbal irony
imagery

Grade 8 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.8.5, L.8.5a

Identify the type of irony used in the passage.

In real life, an ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully to save her life. On the way to the hospital the ambulance is hit by a semi truck and everyone on board the ambulance is killed.

situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony

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