September ELA Assessment

Question 1

What is Mood in literature?

Answer 1

How does the author want the reader to feel?

Question 2

What is Tone in literature?

Answer 2

What is the author’s opinion?

Whose “side” are they on? What is their attitude?

Question 3

In what genre of literature can Tone mostly be found or felt?

Answer 3

Non-fiction.

Question 4

In what genre of literature can Mood mostly be found or felt?

Answer 4

Fiction.

Question 5

How is Tone or Mood shown in literature?

Answer 5

Punctuation,
Word choice (positive or negative?),
Figurative language,
Imagery/setting,
Dialogue.

Question 6

What is the theme in literature?

Answer 6

The message in a literary work.

Question 7

What makes something qualify as a theme? (Rules for theme)

Answer 7

Expressed as a general statement (one sentence),
About life, the world and humanity,
It can be applied to multiple works,
It is implied.

Question 8

What do prepositions do in a sentence, what are the exceptions?

Answer 8

Shows position.
Exceptions:
About,
During,
For (sometimes a conjunction)
To (sometimes an adverb)
Of
Except

Question 9

What makes up a prepositional phrase?

Answer 9

Preposition + (optional) modifiers + noun/pronoun.

Question 10

What can the adverb “To” be used as?

Answer 10

To represent an infinitive.

e.g. “To cry”

Question 11

Why should we annotate text?

Answer 11

To summarise,
Understand better,
Focus,
Prepare for discussion,
Prepare for writing,

Question 12

How should we annotate text? What should we annotate?

Answer 12

Write definitions of unknown words,
Tone and mood,
Literary elements (setting, conflict, characterisation)
Figurative language,
Sound devices (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, onomatopoeia, etc.)
Rhetorical devices (Ethos, pathos, logos)
Questions,
Connections between other literature and itself.

Question 13

When are italics and quotation marks in titles of literature?

Answer 13

Longer works should be italicised (books, plays, newspapers, movies, websites, long poems[epics], etc.)

Shorter works should be in quotation marks
(songs, articles, chapters, episodes, short poems.

Question 14

What do adverbs show in a sentence? What do they affect?

Answer 14

Where (places)
When (time)
How (manner)
How much (condition)
How often
Adverbs affect verbs, other adverbs and adjectives.

Question 15

How do you do parenthetical citations?

Answer 15

“Quote” (Author Page).

Only put punctuation at the end of a quote if it’s not a period.

Question 16

What do adjectives do in a sentence?

Answer 16

Adjectives describe pronouns or nouns, telling which one, what kind and how many.

Question 17

What are interjections?

Answer 17

A group of words which express emotions. Interjections are stand-alone but aren’t considered sentence fragments.

Question 18

What is a noun?

Answer 18

A person, place, thing or idea.

e.g. Bus driver, school, vegetable, time. (respective)

Question 19

What is a pronoun?

Answer 19

A word that takes the place of a noun or renames it.

e.g. I, me, you, they, etc.

Question 20

What is a conjunction?

Answer 20

A conjunction is a word that joins words, phrases or clauses.

Question 21

What is a dependent clause?

Answer 21

A group of words that contain a subject and a verb but don’t make sense on their own because it starts with a conjunction.

e.g. “After he finished school.”

Question 22

What is an independent clause?

Answer 22

A group of words that contain a subject and a verb that make sense on their own.

e.g. “Iane ate pasta.”

Question 23

What is a subordinating conjunction?

Answer 23

A coordinating conjunction is a word which joins a dependent clause and an independent clause together.

Use A WHITE BUS or AWUBIS

Question 24

Where can different subordinating conjunctions be in a sentence?

Answer 24

IC + Conj. + DC
Conj. + DC + IC

Question 25

What is a coordinating conjunction?

Answer 25

A word which joins together words, phrases or clauses that are EQUAL in value.

Use FANBOYS

A comma always comes before a coordinating conjunction.

Question 26

What is a verb?

Answer 26

A word which shows action or state-of-being.

Question 27

What is a verb phrase?

Answer 27

Multiple verbs in a
sentence.

e.g. “Our team WILL BE PLAYING the Lakers”

Question 28

What is a helping verb?

Answer 28

A word that “helps” the main verb in a sentence, there may be multiple.

They usually change the tense.

The helping verbs are:
Am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be
have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, could

Question 29

What is a linking verb?

Answer 29

A word that joins (or links) a noun or pronoun to a word that identifies or describes that noun or pronoun.

Common linking verbs:
am, is, are, was, were, taste, look, smell, sound, feel, remain, appear, grow, seem, become

Question 30

What are some ways to decide if a verb is linking or action?

Answer 30

Ask yourself,

Is there an object?
Is it linking something after itself back to the subject?
Can you replace it with a more common linking verb (is, are, was, were)

Question 31

What are some ways to decide if a verb is linking or helping?

Answer 31

Ask yourself,

Is there an action verb that follows it?
Is it alone in the clause?

Question 32

What is a passive voice in verbs?

Answer 32

A passive voice is when the subject is acted on by the verb. You always use a form of “to be” + the verb’s past participle.

e.g. “Bananas ARE ADORED by monkeys.”
“The money WAS COUNTED by the cashier.”

Question 33

What is an active voice in verbs?

Answer 33

An active voice is when the subject performs the action.

e.g. “Monkeys ADORE bananas”
“The cashier COUNTED the money”