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Common Core Standard RI.11-12.4 Questions

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

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Grade 12 Root Words CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RI.11-12.4

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FDR says, "That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."

Even if you cannot determine the meaning of antithesis, you know the kind of world referenced is not related to the new order of tyranny because
  1. anti means against.
  2. thesis means introduction.
  3. the passage gives a synonym of antithesis.
  4. bombs do not relate to the new kind of world.
Grade 11 Rhetoric and Propaganda CCSS: CCRA.R.4, CCRA.L.5, RI.11-12.4, L.11-12.5a
Less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
  1. polysyndeton
  2. diacope
  3. epanalepsis
  4. synchesis
  5. euphemism
Grade 11 Context Clues CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RI.11-12.4

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"Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."

The word PETITIONS most likely means
  1. applications for judicial action.
  2. documents with multiple signatures.
  3. formal appeals or requests.
  4. protests.
Grade 11 Context Clues CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RI.11-12.4

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"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Which choice best demonstrates the meaning of the word USURPATIONS as used in this passage?
  1. A group of students locking their teacher out of the classroom
  2. A principal denying students the freedom to leave campus for lunch
  3. A farmer keeping his workers from leaving the farm and restricting their access to their belongings
  4. A CEO continuing to run a company despite being voted out by the shareholders and making decisions to hurt those shareholders
Grade 11 Context Clues CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RI.11-12.4

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"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms..."

The word REDRESS most likely means
  1. change clothes.
  2. a remedy.
  3. compensation.
  4. address an envelope.
Grade 12 Context Clues CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RI.11-12.4

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Near the beginning of the speech, Clinton says that in an earlier speech he was not contrite enough.

CONTRITE means...
  1. Emotional
  2. Affected by guilt
  3. Confident
  4. Humble

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