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Study Tools:

Use QUIZLET for pre-made flashcards on the literary elements, reading skills, and writing skills using the following web address:

Use your grammar practice HANDOUTS and the following WEBSITE for grammar practice quizzes:

Exam Components:

Literary Elements: Be prepared to define, identify, and apply the following literary terms:

• Allusion

• Characterization:

o Direct characterization

o Indirect characterization

• Conflict:

o External conflict

o Internal conflict

• Exaggeration

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Irony:

o Dramatic irony

o Situational irony

o Verbal irony

• Metaphor

• Mood

• Personification

• Plot Development:

o Exposition

o Inciting incident

o Rising action

o Climax

o Falling action

o Resolution

• Point of View:

o First person

o Third person limited

o Third person omniscient

• Setting

• Simile

• Suspense

• Symbolism

• Theme

• Tone

Reading Skills: Be prepared to understand the following terms when reading test questions:

• Compare

• Conclude

• Connect

• Context Clues

• Inference

• Main Idea

• Paraphrase

• Summarize

• Synthesize

• Visualize

Writing Terms: Writing analysis including editing, revising, and proofreading.

• Audience

• Author’s Purpose:

o To inform

o To persuade

o To entertain

o To express thoughts and feelings

• Claim / Thesis

• Counterclaim

• Evidence

• MLA Parenthetical Citations

• Position / Opinion

Grammar Usage and Revision:

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases

• Verbs

• Pronouns:

o Pronoun Cases

o Who and Whom

o Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

o Indefinite Pronouns as Antecedents

o Pronoun Reference Problems

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