Download Semester Exam Review

Semester Exam Review
The Exam will count 20% of the semester grade.
The Exam is 94 MC questions and one essay which focus on:
noun
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adverbs
ƒ adverbs modifying verbs
ƒ adverbs modifying adj.
ƒ adverbs modifying other adv.
verbs
ƒ action verb
o transitive
o intransitive
ƒ linking verb
ƒ helping/auxiliary verbs
Sentence Diagramming (~4 Sent. CP, ~10 IB)
Be able to diagram subjects and predicates. Know where to place any adjectives (and articles),
prepositional phrases, and adverbs. Also, know how to do compound subjects and predicates.
Homophones (~5 QUestions)
Know the differences between to/too/two, through/threw, there/their/they’re, than/then, etc.
Short Stories (~11 questions) - Know the main characters and significant
The First Seven Years
The Pedestrian
Literary Terms (~10 Questions)
Conflict
Climax
Foreshadowing
Point of View
Tone
Plot
Foil
Theme
Antagonist
Protagonist
Setting
Night (~19 Questions)
Study your Reading Guide and the Scholastic Magazine sheet. If you want to study copies of
the test, you can make an appointment after school
pronoun
ƒ personal
ƒ relative
ƒ interrogative
ƒ demonstrative
ƒ indefinite
ƒ reflexive
conjunctions
ƒ coordinating conjunctions
ƒ correlative conjunctions
adjective (& articles)
ƒ adjectives
articles (a, an, the)
modifying
noun or
pronoun
interjections
ƒ commonly used preps
ƒ compound prepositions
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events that occurred in each story.
Life is Sweet at Kumansenu
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant
proper vs. common
concrete vs. abstract
collective
compound
prepositions
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List 7
List 4
B. homage
D. idiosyncrasy
H. jaded
I. grandiose
J. litigation
B. meander
C. neophyte
F. palatable
I. raze
J. relinquish
A. dexterous
C. disparity
D. drivel
G. evoke
H. fathom
D. unprecedented
F. veracity
G. sporadic
H. viable
I. tawdry
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List 1
VocabUlary Lists 1-8 (~25 Questions)
C. admonish
D. defunct
H. elated
I. callous
J. catalyst
A. bemused
B. buffoonery
C. industrious
I. respite
J. voracious
A. anomaly
B. atrophy
D. colloquial
F. confound
J. despondent
C. indiscriminate
E. lavish
G. overt
H. pliable
I. profuse
Parts of Speech (~8 Questions) –
Be able to correctly Identify a Part of Speech in a sentence
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Subject-Verb Agreement (~6 Questions)
Reading Comprehension (~6 Questions + passage)
Essay (scored using Domain Scoring)
Study Techniques that may help you…
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Make flash cards of the key vocabulary (or using the flashcards on
www.quia.com/pages/galloway.html)
Read over your old vocabulary quizzes (which should be in your Vocab section of your
binder) and write down terms or questions that you missed and make a master sheet of
those.
Review worksheets on Parts of Speech as well as run through some exercises (on quia)
Design a schedule for study and stick to it
Color code major terms, concepts etc. and categorize your notes about our short stories
(and Night) in order to help you retain the information
Have someone call out the questions to you
Make up your own test or quiz using fill in the blank (then later you can take your own test
or quiz over and over