4th Periodic Test (Un/Offical) Flashcards

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are hints that a writer includes in his/her work to help readers understand a difficult, unknown or unusual word.

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Context Clues

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Types of Context Clues

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Inference, Definition, Explanation, Antonym, Synonym

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Shows how a past completed action affects another action

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Perfect Tenses

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What is the format of Perfect Tenses

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Helping verb + past participle form

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Give examples of Helping Verbs

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Is, Are, Was, Were, Will be

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Formula for Past Perfect Tense

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Had + Past Participle

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Formula for Present Perfect Tense

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Has(singular) / Have(plural) + Past Participle

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After Sofie had finished her work, she went to lunch.

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Past Perfect Tense

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Expresses an action that was completed in the past but is still true in the present

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Present Perfect Tense

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I have written articles on different topics.

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Present Perfect Tense

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Expresses actions that will be complete before a specified point in the future

Includes a deadline

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Future Perfect Tense

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By the time you read this I will have left.

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Future Perfect Tense

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10
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The link that connects ancient literature to modern literature

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Arabian Literature

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When ancient civilizations came to an end, the Western world plunged into the ___________

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Dark Ages

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Arabs revived and continued the ______, ___, and _____ of the ancient world

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literature, arts, and sciences

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brought about the beginning of the

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Renaissance

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Rulers and Patrons of Literature

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Caliphs

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made Baghdad a true center for learning and art

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Haroun al Raschid

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Poetry was

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Emotional and sweet

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Poetry was about

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Love, Morals, Religion

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Their Poetry Had

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figures of speech, exaggerated statements, passionate emotion

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fairies, female spirits who do good on earth

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peris

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can be good or bad, can make themself invisible

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Genii

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feed on human flesh

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ghouls

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collection of famous arabian stories

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Arabian Nights

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Arabian nights inspired

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the works of many western writers

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another name for arabian nights

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One Thousand and One Nights

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Arabian Nights were folktales from

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Arabia, Egypt, and India

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greatest book of the Arabs

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Koran/ Quran

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revelations of Allah

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Koran/ Quran

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The Koran/Quran Explains ???

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civil, military, political systems

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designed to satisfy fundamental desires in man

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Mohammedan Paradise

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when someone dies he will be restored manly vigor and eternal health

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Mohammedan Paradise

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full of terror

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Mohammedan Hell

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wicked suffer eternally from extreme cold to extreme heat

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Mohammedan Hell

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Prepositional phrases that don’t express time or a place but describe something

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Adjective and Adverb Phrases

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A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun

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Prepositional phrases

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Describes a Noun

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Adjective Phrases

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Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb

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Adverb Phrases

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Name of a person, place, or thing. ( London, table, hope, Jade, school)

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Noun

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An action word (eat, walk, are, is)

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Verb

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DESCRIBES a noun or pronoun. (cold, happy, sad, two, young)

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Adjective

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MODIFIES a verb, and adjective, or another adverb (slowly, very, always, well, too)

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Adverb

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Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.(at, on, in from, with, about)

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Preposition

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Most common prepositions

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of, in, to, for, with, on, at, from, by, etc….

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One rock sample from the moon is 4,720 million years old.

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Adjective Phrase

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The rock was collected by the Apollo space mission.

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Adverb Phrase

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Some characters from Arabian Nights

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Ali Baba, Aladdin, Sinibad the Sailor