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Name: 8th Midterm Exam Study Guide

Students should be prepared to define, identify, and apply the following literary terms:

Foreshadowing Hyperbole Simile

Conflict Theme Point of View

Characterization Metaphor Allusion

1.The main message or the lesson in a story is called a _____________________________

2. Comparing two unlike things without using the word like or as is a ______________________

3. Referencing another text such as a novel, poem, or person is called an ___________________

4. These are internal or external struggles that characters or people face ____________________

5. The actions, thoughts, looks, words spoken by a character all reveal _____________________

6. Comparing two unlike things using the word like or as ___________________________

7. An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally is a ____________________________

8. The perspective a story is told in (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person) ____________________

9. When an author hints or gives clues to what might happen later ________________________

Read the following examples below and use the literary terms above to answer them.

10. Teresa was struggling with what she should eat for lunch __________________

11. My dad is so cheap and he rarely buys anything that we all call him Ebenezer Scrooge ______

12. I had a million chores to do! _______________________________

13. In Devil’s Arithmetic, Hannah says, “We are all monsters because we’re letting it happen. The underlined words are an example of this literary term ______________________

14. Learning not to judge others before understanding them is a _____________in The Outsiders.

Verb Moods: Fill in the correct verb mood by reading the definition. Remember to know the differences since the definitions will not be provided for you on the mid-term

Subjunctive Imperative Interrogative Conditional Indicative

15. ___________________- states a fact or something happening in reality. The dog ate his bone.

16._________________________ is a command or direct command. Ex. Be quiet

17.________________________- asks a question. Ex. will you please leave me alone?

18.__________________________- depends on something else to happen under certain conditions. ** If this... then that. Ex. If you don’t study for your exams, you might fail.

19._______________- a wish or hypothetical that is contrary to reality. Ex. I wish that I could fly.

Directions: Identify the verb mood in each sentence as: indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, subjunctive

20. _______________________ You need to study for your exams.

21. _______________________ Will you feed the cat?

22. _______________________If I study for my exam, I might get an A.

23. _______________________ Stop flicking that water bottle on the desk.

24. _______________________ I wish I would have met Shakespeare.

25. _______________________The sweater was on the chair.

Types of sentences: Fill each the correct type of sentence by reading the definition. Remember to know the differences since the definitions will not be provided for you on the mid-term.

26. _____________________contains only one subject (main noun) and one predicate (verb)

27. _____________________ 2 independent clauses connected with a conjunction. (Think **fan boys (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) as an acronym to remember the conjunctions

28.______________________ contains one independent and one dependent clause

29. ______________________ contains 2 independent clauses & 1 or more dependent clauses

Identify the types of sentences below as: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

30. ______________________Jack and Jill went up a hill.

31. _______________________After the game, the team celebrated its victory.

32. _______________________ It is cold today, but the weather will be nicer tomorrow.

33. _______________________ Will you come over after you do your homework?

34. _______________________The meeting was running late, so he checked his e-mail.

Traits of genres (Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, fantasy)

35. ________________________ include narratives that take place in the past based off of historical events.

36. ______________________ stories that resemble real life and include stories that could have actually happened to people.

37. ________________________fictional stories based off of technological or scientific advances.

Reading Comprehension: On the next two pages, read an excerpt from the memoir Night by Ellie Wiesel and answer the questions on the sides.

|38. Which of the following could be | Night by Ellie Wiesel |42. Identify the suffix in the |

|considered the theme of this passage? |Paragraph 1 |bolded word foreigner on line 2.|

|A. “One day, as I was about to enter the|AND THEN, one day all foreign Jews were expelled from Signet.[1] And Moishe the Beadle[2] was |A.for |

|synagogue, I saw Moishe the Beadle…” |a foreigner. |B.foreign |

|B. “A few days after they left, it was |Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station|C.ner |

|rumored that they were in Galicia…” |platform, we too were crying. The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was |D.er |

|C. “I wanted to return to Signet to |thick, dirty smoke. | |

|describe to you my death so you might |Behind me, someone said, sighing, “What do you expect? That’s war…” |43. Identify the suffix in the |

|ready yourselves while there is still |The deportees[3] were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they |bolded word sighing on line 7. |

|time.” |were in Galicia, working, and even that they were content with their fate. |A.sigh |

|D. “Days went by.” |Days went by. Then weeks and months. Life was normal again. A calm, reassuring wind blew |B.ing |

| |through our homes. The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their |C.gh |

|39. All of the following are synonyms of|books, and the children played in the streets. |D.si |

|the bolded word “expelled as it is used |One day, as I was about to enter the synagogue, I saw Moishe the Beadle sitting on a bench | |

|in line 1 EXCEPT: |near the entrance. |44. Which of the following best |

|A.remove |Paragraph 2: |defines the use of the prefix |

|B.deported |He told me what had happened to him and his companions. The train with the deportees had |“re”in the bolded word |

|C.included |crossed the Hungarian border and, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the |reassuring? |

|D.exiled |Gestapo.[4] The train had stopped. The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. |A.not |

| |The trucks headed toward a forest. There everybody was ordered to get out. They were forced to|B.before |

|40. What sentence from the passage |dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. |C. against |

|supports the idea that Moishe felt |Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench |D.again |

|misunderstood? |one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed in the air and used as targets for the | |

|A. “He closed his eyes.” |machine guns. This took place in the Galician forest. How had he, Moishe the Beadle, been able| |

|B. “They think I’m mad” |to escape? By a miracle. He was wounded in the leg and left for dead… |45. The underlined sentence in |

|C. “He told me what had happened to |Paragraph 3: |paragraph 2 demonstrates what |

|him…” |Day after day, night after night, he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story|type of conflict? |

|D. “I saw Moishe the Beadle sitting on |and that of Malka, a young girl who lay dying for three days, and that of Tobie, the tailor |A.man vs. man |

|the bench…” |who begged to die before his sons were killed…. |B. man vs. nature |

| |Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer |C. man vs. self |

|41. Which of the following lines best |mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only | |

|demonstrates Moishe’s determined spirit?|refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted| |

|A. “You cannot understand.” |their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad. As for |46. The word they is italicized |

|B. “No one is listening to me…” |Moishe, he wept and pleaded: |in the sentence “Without passion|

|C. “Jews listen to me. That’s all I ask |Paragraph 4: |or haste, they shot their |

|of you.” |“Jews listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!” he kept |prisoners to show: |

|47. All the following show examples of |shouting in the synagogue, between prayer at dusk and the evening prayer. |A. a title |

|man vs. self EXCEPT: | |B. exaggeration |

|A. “I no longer care to live.” |Even I did not believe him. I often sat with him after services, and listening to his tales, |C. emphasis |

|B. “I am alone.” |trying to understand his grief. But all I felt was pity. |D. dialogue |

|C. “They refused to listen.” |“They think I’m mad,” he whispered and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes. | |

|D. “all of the above |Once I asked him a question: “Why do you want people to believe you so much? In your place I | |

| |would not care whether they believed me or not…” | |

| |He closed his eyes, as if to escape time. |52. What words show that this |

|48. The bolded word insinuated means: |“You don’t understand,” he said in despair. “You cannot understand. I was saved miraculously. |passage was written in 1st |

|A. suggested |I succeeded in coming back. Where did I get my strength? I wanted to return to Signet to |person pt. of view? |

|B. trapped |describe to you my death so you might ready yourselves while there is still time. Life? I no |A.they, them |

|C. looked |longer care to live. I am alone. But I wanted to come back to you. Only no one is listening to|B.He, Moishe |

|D. visited |me…” |C. I, me |

| |This was toward the end of 1942. |D. none of the above |

| |Paragraph 5: | |

|49. One can infer that the author chose |Thereafter life seemed normal once again. London radio, which we listened to every evening, |53. Paragraph 3 shows how Moishe|

|the word tales in the underlined |announced encouraging news: the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, the preparation of |has changed since his escape. |

|sentence of paragraph 3 to show: |the Second Front. And so we, the Jews of Sighet, waited for better days that surely were soon |The line, “The joy in his eyes |

| |to come. |was gone” shows characterization|

|A.Moishe was telling lies | |through: |

|B.Many people questioned whether or not | | |

|Moishe was telling the truth |……………………………………………………………………………. |A.his actions |

|C. Moishe was good at joking |Revising and Editing: Directions: Read the passage below and answer the questions that answer |B.his looks/appearance |

|D.That this passage is realistic |the questions or completes the statement. |C. his speech |

|fiction. | |D. his desire |

| |(1)Think about a time when you saw someone doing something bad. (2)What did you do about it? | |

| |(3) Did you speak up or walk the other way and pretend it did not happen? (4) In Ellie | |

|50. The underlined sentence in paragraph|Wiesel’s novel night, characters like Moishe and Madame Schachter find themselves speaking |54. The line “He no longer sang”|

|4 shows what literary device? |about the atrocities they witness during the Holocaust. (5) Through these characters, the |shows characterizaton through: |

|A.Foreshadowing |author reveals the importance of speaking against evils and listening in order to diminish |A.actions |

|B.Personification |incidences like the Holocaust from happening again. |B.appearance |

|C.Metaphor |(6)The character Moishe is viewed as a madman when he comes back to Signet and tells the Jews |C. hopes |

|D. Simile |what he witnessed. (7) Many people think he is telling lies, looking for pity, or seems to |D. all of the above |

| |imagine things.(8) Madame Schachter is also viewed as a madwoman when she begins screaming in | |

| |the cattle car. (9) Madame Schachter says, “Look, look at this terrible fire. Have mercy on | |

|51. What is the author’s purpose in |me.” (10)At first, the other passengers ignore her and when she continues to scream, they pull|55. What detail in paragraph 5 |

|witing this piece? |her down forcibly quieting her. (11)Everyone thinks she has gone crazy because of the crammed|shows Ellie Wiesel’s hope for an|

|A. To inform people of the events of the|quarters and lack of food. (12) However, it is not until the train arrives in the crematoria |end to World War II? |

|Holocaust |of Auschwitz, that the passengers realize she has spoken the truth. | |

|B. To persuade people to speak against |(13) The various characters in Wiesel’s book reveal the importance of not remaining silent |A.”Thereafter life seemed normal|

|evils and not be silent |even when others do not listen. (14) Moishe the Beadle and Madame Schachter are important |once again.” |

|C. To entertain |characters who witness horrific events, but try to warn others before it’s too late. (15)The |B. “London radio…announced |

|D. Both A & B are correct |author’s message is that if people do not speak against evils, and if we do not listen to |encouraging news.” |

| |those who have beared witnessed to hatred, we fall into the possibility of terrible things |C. “We, the Jews of Sighet, |

| |such as the Holocaust occurring again. |waited for better days that |

|………………………….. | |surely were soon to come.” |

| | |D. all of the above |

|56. Which sentence identifies the title | | |

|and author of the novel? | | |

|A. sentence 1 | |……………………….. |

|B. sentence 2 | | |

|C. sentence 3 | |61. Which of the following does |

|D. sentence 4 | |the author use in sentence 9 to |

| | |support why Madame Schachter is |

|57. Which sentence contains the thesis | |screaming? |

|statement? | | |

|A. sentence 1 | |A. conclusion |

|B. sentence 2 | |B. metaphor |

|C. sentence 4 | |C. transition |

|D. sentence 5 | |D. quotation |

| | | |

|58. What is wrong with the title in | |62. Sentence 1 uses this type of|

|sentence 4? | |attention getter |

|A. The title should be capitalized | | |

|B. The title should be capitalized and | |A.quote |

|either italicized or underlined | |B. question |

|C. The title should be underlined only | |C.statistic |

|D. It is correct as is | |D. none of the above |

| | | |

|59. What transition should be added at | |63. In the conclusion, which |

|the beginning of sentence 6? | |sentence contains a restatment |

|A. In the novel, | |of the writer’s thesis? |

|B. All in all, | | |

|C. In conclusion, | |A.sentence 10 |

|D. correct as is | |B.sentence 15 |

| | |C. sentence 14 |

|60. What is the best correction of | |D. sentence 12 |

|sentence 7 in terms of parallelism? | | |

|A. Many people think he is telling lies,| | |

|looks for pity, and is imagining things.| | |

| | | |

|B. Many people think he tells lies, is | | |

|looking for pity, and imagines things. | | |

|C. Many people think he is telling lies,| | |

|looking for pity, or is imagining | | |

|things. | | |

|D. correct as is | | |

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[1] Signet: a town in Romania

[2] Beadle: a minor church official, a caretaker of a synagogue

[3] Deportees: people forced to leave their homes by an authority

[4] Gestapo: the secret police in Nazi Germany

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