Quarter 1 Review

Question 0

What does it mean to annotate? What do you annotate?

Answer 0

Highlight, circle, write on post-it notes, pose questions, etc.

Draw attention to specific words, repetitive words, use of colors, descriptions, sentence structure, and details.

Question 1

What is analysis?

Answer 1

refers to the careful and close examination of the parts or elements from which something is made and how those parts affect or function within the whole to create meaning

Question 2

What is diction?

Answer 2

Word choice

Question 3

What is connotation?

Answer 3

The feeling associated with a word (i.e., the difference between “house” and “home”)

Question 4

What does it mean if something is explicit or implicit?

Answer 4

Explicit- clearly stated

Implicit- implied statement

Question 5

What is textual support?

Answer 5

Any specific support from the literature (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or longer passage)

Question 6

How must textual support be cited?

Answer 6

Must be placed in quotation marks and written verbatim from the text

Question 7

You knew this one was coming…what is an allusion‽

Answer 7

A reference to something in literature, music, pop culture, et al., that helps one to understand the situation

Question 8

What is a shift?

Answer 8

A change

Question 9

What is personification?

Answer 9

Giving an inanimate object human-like traits or characteristics

Question 10

What is irony? Name the three types.

Answer 10

When what is expected turns out to be quite different from what actually happens, or what is said is different than what is expected

Situational irony- contradicts expectations of reader

Verbal irony- speaker/narrator says one thing while meaning another

Dramatic irony- when the reader knows more than the main characters do

Question 11

What is a complex sentence?

Answer 11

A sentence consisting of an independent clause and a dependent clause

Question 12

What is a compound sentence? How may we punctuate them?

Answer 12

Two independent clauses linked together by either:

• a comma followed by a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)
• a semicolon
• a semicolon followed by a conjunctive adverb (glue word) followed by a comma

Question 13

Name the principle parts of the infinitive “to be.”

Answer 13

Am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been

Question 14

What do dependent clauses begin with?

Answer 14

Subordinate conjunctions

Question 15

Study vocabulary from “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” and “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Answer 15

Only put a 5 on this card when you have mastered ALL the vocabulary! That is all.

Question 16

Do you know how to punctuate sentences?

Answer 16

HECK YEAH, I DO! (‽)

Question 17

What is a possessive noun?

Answer 17

A noun that shows ownership

Question 18

How do you show that a singular noun is possessive?

Answer 18

Add an apostrophe and “s”

For example:

• Karen’s boots
• The tornado’s path

Question 19

How do you show that a singular noun ending in “s” is possessive?

Answer 19

Add an apostrophe and “s,” or just add an apostrophe

For example:

• Chris’s skis
• Mr. Ross’s plight

Question 20

How do you show that a plural noun ending in “s” is possessive?

Answer 20

Make it plural, and then add an apostrophe

For example:

• The Rosses’ home
• The victims’ losses

Question 21

How do you show that a plural noun NOT ending in “s” is possessive?

Answer 21

First pluralize, then add an apostrophe and “s”

For example:

• The children’s fears
• The women’s boots

Question 22

What do you do when possession is shared by more than one noun?

Answer 22

Add an apostrophe and “s” to the last noun in the series

For example:

• VanClumpin, VanDiken, and VanTulip’s air band (all three are members of a band)
• VanClumpin’s, VanDiken’s, and VanTulip’s air guitars (each has an air guitar)

Question 23

How is the possessive of a compound verb formed?

Answer 23

By placing the possessive ending after the last word (look at the green sheet if you need examples)

Question 24

How do you form the possessive of an indefinite pronoun?

Answer 24

By placing the apostrophe and “s” on the last word

Question 25

What is a preposition?

Answer 25

A word used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence

Question 26

What are the parts of a prepositional phrase?

Answer 26

A preposition (duh), its object, and any words describing/modifying the object

Question 27

The object of the preposition will always be what?

Answer 27

A noun, a pronoun, or a group of words functioning as a noun