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FALL 2013 FINAL Study Guide

Directions: Your goal is to study for the upcoming test. Your responses should be evident of thought and neatly written. In exchange for a job well done, I will drop your lowest quiz score. If your work is mediocre, you will risk losing this opportunity. Working through these assignments will only benefit you, your average, and your score on the test. Many of the responses on this activity are individualized. Do not share your responses with anyone. That would be an automatic loss of this opportunity.

Learning Challenge: Work through the sample questions from each segment. Look at the answers and explanations as you work. Also, read all parts. There is helpful information throughout this packet. I have only created questions for some parts.

1. Define and give an example of a work of fiction

2. Define and give an example of a work of nonfiction.

3. Define and give an example of a work of drama.

4. Define and give an example of a work of poetry

5. (a.) What is figurative language? (b.) Why is the statement, “He runs like a gazelle,” considered figurative language?

6. Give an example of a person vs. self conflict from “The Most Dangerous Game.”

7. Give an example of a person vs. society conflict from Harrison Burgeron.

8. Give an example of a person vs. person conflict from The Odyssey.

9. What kind of conflict would you expect to find in a story about a woman’s survival of a massive hurricane? Support your response.

10. (a.) What is the complete setting of Harrison Burgeron? (b.) Would the story change if the location or time period was changed?

11. What is the difference between third-person omniscient and third-person limited? Make sure that your response is in language that a third grader could understand.

12. If theme is the meaning you take away from a literary work, what is the theme of The Flowers?

13. Alliteration is the repeated initial sound in more than one word. Example: The wacky waiter whispered, ”Finish your flaky fish first. “ Give another example sentence including two uses of alliteration.

14. Finish this sentence with examples of onomatopoeia.

You are in your room late at night. The house is almost quiet except for…__________________, _________________, and __________________.

15. Melissa, a new student at Central Gwinnett, moved to Lawrenceville from a small town in South Georgia called Rincon. Melissa had trouble getting through traffic, finding parking spaces, and navigating around the large school between classes. After being late for the eighth time and getting detention as a result, Melissa admitted to her parents that she was “a fish out of water.” (a.) Should Melissa’s parents get her a new fishbowl? (b.) What does Melissa mean?

16. Denotation is ______________________________________________________________.

Connotation is ____________________________________________________________________.

17. Replace the underlined word with a word that has a similar denotation, but a different connotation.

a. The cashier was forgetful, often adding the sales tax twice. (negative connotation:_______________)

b. The radio on the windowsill played endlessly. (negative connotation:__________________)

c. Robert had trouble making friends because he was anti-social. (positive connotation:______________)

18. What is the best way to avoid plagiarism?

19. Fix the subject-verb agreement problem in the following sentences:

a. Michelle, Mandy, and Moose buys snacks for the class.

b. Morgan do no like to oversleep.

20. Insert the correct punctuation marks and capitalization in the following sentences:

a. Although mother offered danny mark and neal went to the store to get the necessary groceries milk bread cheese and bananas

b. The howards store was closed when the group arrived the owner arrived with a muffled I m sorry as he opened the store late

21. Correct this sentence for parallelism.

Margaret measured, cut, and was sewing the dress she intended to wear to the prom.

Underline the subject in each of the following sentences and then circle the verb in parentheses that correctly completes the sentence.

22. Each of the math problems (take, takes) twenty minutes to solve.

23. Some of the spectators (are, is) already leaving the stadium.

24. Neither of your arguments (are, is) very convincing.

25. All of the time-outs (has, have) been used.

26. No one on the highways (is, are) exempt from the traffic rules.

27. Several of the group (have, has) taken the trip before.

28. Anyone with glasses (need, needs) to wear them for the driving exam.

29. None of the car breakdowns (were, was) reported in the newspaper.

30. The shears (were, was) left outside in the rain.

31. Ms. Burns, as well as Dr. Carroll, (teach, teaches) home economics.

32. Neither of the girls (has, have) seen the movie.

33. Any one of the three car routes (is, are) better than the one that goes through town.

34. Both of the boys in the family (has, have) red hair.

35. Either of those answers (is, are) correct.

36. The family (plan, plans) to go swimming.

37. Some fans in the grandstand (were, was) shouting at the umpire.

38. Three dollars (is, are) a lot of money for that magazine.

39. All of the trouble between the settlers and the natives who lived there (were, was) the result of a misunderstanding.

40. Few of the airlines (offer, offers) direct service between those cities.

Underline the correct form of the pronoun. Do not be misled by nouns or pronouns intervening between the pronoun and its antecedent.

41. Jim and John declared that (he, they) were too tired to play.

42. Neither Mary nor Patricia was willing to admit that (she, they) was defeated.

43. Every man knows that (his, their) sex is credited with the first murder.

44. The organization functioned until (its, their) charter expired.

45. Is a man basically violent in (their, his) dealings with other men?

46. Is a woman basically dangerous in (her, their) ability to seduce a man to sin?

47. When woman defines man as necessarily violent, (she, they) defines herself.

48. A characteristic of many women in mythology is (her, their) inability to communicate (her, their) understanding of the needs of men.

49. Unfortunately, men also seldom understand the needs of (his, their) womenfolk.

50. Each man knows that (his, their) species has responsibilities to other forms of life on earth.

TIME TO REVIEW YOUR ANSWERS……..

You should be more than familiar with these terms and be able to apply each to a specific piece of literature or example.

analogy

anecdote

audience

author’s purpose

bias

connotation and denotation

diction

fallacies (loaded language)

Imagery

jargon

parallelism

persuasive techniques

rhetorical questions

the rule of “three”

context clues

Diction

Paraphrase

POV

parallel structure

phrases, clauses

sentence types

Topic statement

Thesis

Supporting evidence

MLA/quotes

Central idea/theme

Rhetoric

Propoganda

Fallacy

Sequencing/chronological

Context clues

My suggestions to you:

• Learn basic literary terms, not just memorize them for tests. Strive to store the information in a permanent location in your memory banks.

• As you read extended passages on tests, stop after each paragraph and ask yourself what the paragraph was about before moving on to the next one.

• Try to answer questions logically before you look at the list of choices. This makes picking out the correct answer easier.

• Look at word parts to try to figure out the meaning of unknown words

• Preview tests questions before reading long passages to help you focus on the important information.

• Look for context clues to unfamiliar words in the sentences preceding the unfamiliar word and directly after the unfamiliar word .

• When struggling with finding errors in sentences, don’t be afraid to trust your “ears.” If it sounds wrong, it may well be wrong

YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO YOURSELF:

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