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Midyear Common Assessment Study Guide for English 7
Completing this packet will help you review for your midyear common assessment. Please note
that this packet is worth _________________ points and is due on ______________. The
midyear common assessment will be given in class on ________________________.
Use your Big Green (Holt reading text book) to define the following.
Reading
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Main idea or the main purpose of a piece of writing (730)
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Authors Purpose can be (732)
o To inform
o To appeal to the emotions
o To persuade
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Author's Position (argument) (721)
o Author’s support
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Facts (725)
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Opinions (725)
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Statistics (605)
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Expert opinions (604)
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Examples (604)
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Inferences (729)
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Speaker/Narrator (547)
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Define the following literary terms:
o Conflict (738)
o Characterization (738)
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o Resolution (743)
o Foreshadowing (741)
o Analogy (721)
o Theme (747)
o Metaphor (742)
o Idiom (197)
o Simile (746)
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Define Point-of-View (744, 547)
o First person
o Third person limited
o Third person omniscient
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What is tone? (747)
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How is tone different than mood? (742)
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Outlining. Show how you would write a formal outline of a piece of writing (731).
Word Parts (520 – 525)
Greek and Latin roots: While it may be difficult to memorize each and every Latin and Greek
root, what can you do to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word, but one that has a
recognizable root/affix—something you’ve heard somewhere else?
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Writing
 List the purpose for each writing feature (683-690):
o Introductory paragraph
o Body paragraphs
o Concluding paragraph
o Hook/Lead in
o Thesis
o Topic sentence
o Details/facts
o Commentary
o What is a main idea? How is that different than a thesis statement?
MLA Style
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When writing an MLA-format paper with a Works Cited (or any paper with a
bibliography), you must ________________________ by the last name of the authors.
Use your Small Green (Holt grammar text book) to help with the following.
Commonly Confused Words
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Correctly use each homophone in a sentence (Chapter 16)
o It’s
o Its
o Your
o You’re
o There
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o Their
o They’re
Punctuation (Chapter 14)
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Insert quotation marks in the following sentence. Also include necessary commas and end
punctuation.
o Jennifer asked What time did you arrive
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Take the following run-on sentence and fix it three ways: new sentence, semicolon, and
comma + conjunction.
o Lisa runs I walk.
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List the patterns for when commas are needed, as they relate to independent clauses (IC)
and dependent clauses (DC):
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While the title of a short story or poem is surrounded by __________________ , a novel,
book title, or full-length film is always ___________________ or _________________.
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What do dashes do? _______________________________________________________
Give two examples from the Holt Handbook of sentences with dashes:
Parts of Speech
 Define each of the following parts of speech and give an example:
o Noun (chapter 2)
Proper Noun
Common Noun
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Concrete Noun
Abstract Noun
o Pronoun
o Adjective
o Article
o Verb (chapter 3)
Action Verb
Linking Verb
Helping/Main Verb
Transitive Verb
Intransitive Verb
o Adverb
o Preposition
o Conjunction
Coordinating Conjunction
Subordinating Conjunction
o Interjection
Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement (165)
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For each sentence, circle the pronoun matches the antecedent. (Rely on matching the
number—singular or plural, not your ear! Also, watch out for prepositional phrases that
mislead the ear!)
o One of the students must give (his or her, their) oral report tomorrow.
o That package of clothes is heavy, so don't lift (it, them).
o If any one of the sisters needs a ride to church, (she, they) can call me.
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Clauses (chapter 6)
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Define independent clause and give an example.
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Define subordinate clause and give an example.
Parts of a Sentence (chapter 1)
Using the following sentence, identify sentence parts:
The tiny mouse scurried along the fencepost.
Complete subject: ______________________________
Simple subject:_________________________________
Complete predicate: _____________________________
Simple predicate: _______________________________
Placing Modifiers Correctly
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Rewrite each sentence so that it is clearer (consider word order – see page 233).
o Flying across the country, the lake came into view. (Lakes can’t fly!)
o Cycling down the road, the dog knocked me over. (That dog should be in the circus!)
o They said it was going to rain on the radio. (Uh oh! Better cover it with a tarp!)
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