English 2 – Track 2 Midterm Exam Study Guide



English 2 – Track 2 Midterm Exam Study Guide

• Vocabulary

o Study Units 1-6 focusing on definitions; review synonyms also as they can be definitions. There will be 25 vocabulary questions on the exam.

o Visit and take the Definitions and Reverse Definitions test for each unit. Also take the Synonym tests.

o Review the work in your textbook and all of the work in your notebook.

• Literature Terms: Know the definitions for the following terms:

o Archetype Rationalists Inversion Plain Style Sonnet

o Deism Petrarchan Sonnet Puritans Allusion

• Literary Devices: Know the definitions for the following Literary Devices:

o Style mood metrical unit simile symbol

o Alliteration irony theme imagery personification

• Reading Comprehension: You will be given a reading selection that was orally narrated by Melba Pattillo Beals, who was one of nine African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1950s. You will be given the article to read ahead of time, and it will also appear on the exam. The questions that follow will test how well you comprehended the article. Focus on the following when you read the selection:

o Figures of speech Details and supporting sentences

o Author’s Purpose Predicting Outcomes

o Theme of Passage Cause and Effect

• Literature:

o The Crucible

▪ Know the main characters and their part in the play.

• Make up a matching test of characters, then take the test and grade it as a way to study.

▪ Use your study guide questions to help you study.

▪ Use your vocabulary worksheets to study the vocabulary for Act I and Act II.

o To Kill a Mockingbird

▪ Know the main characters and their parts in the plot of the story.

▪ Use your study guide questions to help you study.

▪ Refer to your returned test as a study aid.

• Grammar in Writing: You will be tested on the following:

o Subject/Verb agreement

▪ Correct: The owner of the cats is my uncle. (owner is)

▪ Incorrect: The owner of the cats are my uncle.

o Simple, Compound, Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences (know how to punctuate properly).

▪ Simple: I go to school at Little Flower High School.

▪ Compound:

• I go to school at Little Flower High School, and I am

tenth grade. (Notice the comma before the conjunction “and”). Both are needed in a compound sentence.

▪ Complex:

• Even though I attend Little Flower High School, I still see my friends from grade school. (Notice the comma after the introductory subordinate clause which begins with the subordinate conjunction Even though).

o Correcting Run-On sentences, Comma Splices, and Fragments

▪ Fragment:

• After we take our test. (Incomplete thought – What are you going to do after you take the test?)

o Correction: After we take our test, we will read our library book.

• Swimming at night. (Missing a subject and verb- Who is swimming at night?)

o Correction: My brother and I like to go swimming at night.

o Correct use of their, there, and they’re

▪ Their – ( possessive pronoun) refers to people – their books

▪ There – adverb of place – Put your test over there.

▪ They’re – contraction – means they are – The apostrophe takes the place of the missing “a” in the verb are. This is used only as a subject/verb combination.

o Correct use of effect/affect

▪ Effect: Usually used as a noun and preceded by the article an, a, or the

• The death of my cat had an effect on me.

• The effect of the snowstorm was immense.

o Sometimes (though rarely) effect is used as a verb.

▪ The School board effected substantial changes in the School Policy.

▪ Affect: Used only as a verb.

• Studying for my exams affected my final English grade in a good way.

o Correct way to write titles of books and novels, short stories, poems, chapters, essay titles.

▪ Book/Novel: Must be italicized or underlined with the first, last, and all important words beginning with a capital letter.

• To Kill a Mockingbird or To Kill a Mockingbird

o Short Stories and Poems: Must be surrounded in quotation marks

• “Huswifery”

• “The Most Dangerous Game”

o Chapter and Essay Titles: No underlining, quotation marks, or italicizing

• Bradstreet’s and de la Cruz’s Views on Vanity

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