Advanced Language Exam

Question 1

What is a preposition?

Answer 1

It is a word used with a noun or pronoun to show place, position, time, or means.

Question 2

What are the 2 kinds of verbs? What do they show? What do they tell us?

Answer 2

Action and Linking. Action shows a state of action and tells what the subject does. Linking shows a state of being and tells what the subject is.

Question 3

What are helping verbs? What are some examples?

Answer 3

The verbs in front of the main verb.

Ex.) am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, might, must, may, can, could, would, should, shall, will

Question 4

What are the adverb questions?

Answer 4

How? When? Where?

Question 5

What are the adjective questions?

Answer 5

What kind? Which one? How many?

Question 6

Name the 8 parts of speech in a sentence.

Answer 6

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Pronoun, Preposition, Interjection, Conjunction

Question 7

Amy and her brothers (is, are) at the park.

Answer 7

Are

Question 8

Nobody (know, knows) the trouble I’ve seen.

Answer 8

Knows

Question 9

The players all (want, wants) to win

Answer 9

Want

Question 10

The movie (take, takes) about two hours to watch.

Answer 10

Takes

Question 11

Name themes in A Wrinkle In Time.

Answer 11

Love can do incredible things; Life is a constant battle between good and evil; It is important to learn to take responsibility for what one does and clean one’s messes by oneself, not depend on others to do so; Individuality is important or our society will become like Camazotz’s, mindless and dull.

Question 12

Name some thematic statements for A Wrinkle In Time.

Answer 12

Love is always stronger than any force of darkness; The universe in A Wrinkle In Time is a battle between good and evil; Meg learns that you must take responsibility and not expect others to solve your problems; Meg learns individuality is important.

Question 13

What’s an example that supports Good V.S. Evil?

Answer 13

Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Who, Meg, etc. V.S. IT

Question 14

What’s an example that will support the theme of love?

Answer 14

Mrs.Whatsit says, “I give you my love, Meg. Never forget that. My love always.” ; Meg and Charles risks their life traveling the universe in search for their father out of

Question 15

What’s an example for the theme for responsibility?

Answer 15

At first, she thinks when they find their father, everything will fall in place. She eventually realizes that she needs to take responsibility and go save Charles Wallace herself.

Question 16

What is an example for theme for individuality?

Answer 16

At the beginning, she is upset that she doesn’t fit in. When she goes to Camazotz, she sees that individual differences are important and she is finally comfortable in her own skin.

Question 17

Provide examples of diction that creates darkness.

Answer 17

“Night” and “garments black”

Question 18

Provide examples of diction that creates fear.

Answer 18

“Fearsome” ; “doom” ; “evil” ; “piercing” ; “grim”

Question 19

Provide examples of diction that creates horrid body.

Answer 19

“Brittle bones” ; “desiccated limbs” ; “evil eyes with warts and sties” ; “dangling nose, ten twisted toes” ; “shriveled skin” ; “cracked and chipped and crackled lips” ; “toothless grin”

Question 20

Provide examples of diction that creates fearful movements.

Answer 20

“Hurtles by…sweeps the sky” ; “hurls a piercing screech” ; “swoops past” ; “spell is cast” ; “wild witch rides” ; “shriek her evil spell”

Question 21

Name some examples of internal rhyme from “The Witch”.

Answer 21

Night, flight ; doom, broom ; crone, bones ; eyes, sties ; nose, toes ; by, sky ; past, cast ; hide, rides ; do, two

Question 22

Name some examples of external rhyme in “The Witch”.

Answer 22

Pitch and witch; limbs and rims; skin and grin; screech and reach; spell and tell

Question 23

What is the rhyme scheme for “The Witch”?

Answer 23

ABCB

Question 24

Name the simile(s) in the “The Witch”.

Answer 24

“Black as pitch”

Question 25

Name the metaphor(s) in “The Witch”.

Answer 25

“Queen of doom”, “sweeps the sky”

Question 26

Name the personification(s) in “The Witch”.

Answer 26

Two evil eyes

Question 27

Name the alliteration(s) in “The Witch”.

Answer 27

“Fearsome flight”; “wild and wicked witch”; “cackling crone”; “brittle bones”; “ten twisted toes”; “cracked, chipped, crackled”; “she sweeps the sky”; “she swoops…spell”; “when…wild witch”; “shriek…spell”; “what, with, word”

Question 28

Create a thesis statement for “The Witch”.

Answer 28

“The Witch” is the story of a scary witch that the author is describing and warning the reader about.

Question 29

What is the first part out of three in the structure of an essay?

Answer 29

Introduction

Question 30

What is the second part out of three in an essay?

Answer 30

Body

Question 31

What is part three out of three in an essay?

Answer 31

Conclusion

Question 32

What is the introduction in an essay? What does it do?

Answer 32

It introduces the topic. It states the argument and outlines the main points.

Question 33

What is the body of an essay? What does it do?

Answer 33

It’s a series of paragraphs that develop the argument. It contains one main idea in the topic sentence and each topic sentence links directly to the argument.

Question 34

What is the conclusion in an essay? What does it do?

Answer 34

It is the ending of an essay. It restates the argument, sums up, and relates to broader text.

Question 35

Find an example of verbal irony in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 35

“There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it.” ; “She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends-a mammoth task.”

Question 36

Name an example of situational irony in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 36

Jim comes home with purchased combs for Della’s hair but she has sold it and it’s too short now to wear combs in it. ; Jim got a chain for the watch that he sold for Della. ; Instead of getting upset, they just put up their gifts and got ready to eat dinner.

Question 37

Name an example of dramatic irony in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 37

Della opens the gift from Jim (the combs) and briefly forgets her hair isn’t long enough to use them. ; Can occur if readers predicted that Jim sold the watch to buy the combs.

Question 38

What kind of point of view is used in “The Gift of The Magi”?

Answer 38

Third Person (omniscient/limited omniscient)

Question 39

What are the allusions in “The Gift of The Magi”? What kind of allusions are they?

Answer 39

Historical- Coney Island chorus girls, Madam Sofronie’s shop

Biblical- King Solomon, The Magi

Question 40

Name example(s) of the use of simile in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 40

“Rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters” ; “as inmovable as a setter at the scent of a quail”

Question 41

Name example(s) of the use of personification in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 41

“Letters of ‘Dillingham’ looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D”

Question 42

Name example(s) of alliteration in “The Gift of The Magi”.

Answer 42

“Sobs,sniffles, and smile, with sniffles predominating” ; “a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard”