Oil+Spill+Article+and+Questions

Read the article found on the website [] then answer the following questions. Email your answers to Mrs. Blalock.


 * 1) Choose the best meaning of the word apocalypse as it is used in the first paragraph.
 * 2) Great change
 * 3) Great disaster
 * 4) Weather problems
 * 5) Massive fish kills
 * 6) What is the author’s main purpose in using quotes from experts and the President?
 * 7) To persuade the reader to believe their points
 * 8) To show off that they know experts
 * 9) To provide interesting points throughout the article
 * 10) To indicate the strong opinions of the experts
 * 11) Which literary term best describes the name of the oil rig in question (//Deepwater Horizon)//?
 * 12) Alliteration
 * 13) Personification
 * 14) Oxymoron
 * 15) Consonance
 * 16) Which literary term best describes the use of the phrase “this is the first inning of a nine-inning game?”
 * 17) Hyperbole
 * 18) Metaphor
 * 19) Assonance
 * 20) Onomatopoeia
 * 21) What is the purpose of the authors providing statistics about previous oil spills in the Gulf?
 * 22) To scare readers into action
 * 23) To encourage people to volunteer
 * 24) To show how bad the Deepwater Horizon spill was
 * 25) To provide evidence that the Deepwater Horizon spill was not the worst
 * 26) “The sky is not falling” is an example of which literary term?
 * 27) Euphemism
 * 28) Simile
 * 29) Rhyme
 * 30) Meter
 * 31) The “tip of the iceberg” is an example of which literary term?
 * 32) Metaphor
 * 33) Paradox
 * 34) Oxymoron
 * 35) Allegory
 * 36) Which phrase best describes the long-term effects of the Ixtoc oil spill?
 * 37) Devastating – there is no life in the area today
 * 38) The Gulf bounced back
 * 39) There are more hurricanes in the area
 * 40) Migration and maturation patterns changed
 * 41) What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?
 * 42) To describe the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
 * 43) To conjecture the long term results of the oil spill in the Gulf region
 * 44) To discuss the impact of the oil spill on the Gulf region fishing industry
 * 45) To provide the reader with perspective using facts and quotes
 * 46) Which word best describes the tone of the article?
 * 47) Angry
 * 48) Educated
 * 49) Pro-oil
 * 50) Nonchalant