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Name: Period: Date:

SEMESTER REVIEW FALL 2016

I. English terms: Define and give examples of each of the following

1. subject_________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

2. verb ___________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

3. independent clause (simple sentence)________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

4. coordinating conjunctions _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

5. compound sentence ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: ______________________________________________________________________

6. dependent clause ________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

7. subordinating conjunction _________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

8. complex sentence ________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

9. preposition _____________________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

10. prepositional phrase ______________________________________________________________ EXAMPLES: _____________________________________________________________________

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II. Types of Sentence: Write additional examples of a simple sentence, compound sentences, and complex sentences. Underline each subject yellow, and each verb orange in both the independent and the dependent clauses. Make sure all your punctuation and capitalization is PERFECT!!! Simple sentence:

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Compound sentence:

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Complex sentence:

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BONUS: Complex-Compound sentence:

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III. Clauses: Identify each group of underlined words as independent clauses(IC) or dependent clauses (DC).

____DC____ 1. Even if you read a lot, you may not know about these magazines.

__________ 2. Magazine articles in Flat Earth News insist that the Earth is flat.

__________ 3. Allergy shots are not fun, but they help people with allergies.

__________ 4. After I hear stories told on the street, I go home and write them in my notebook.

__________ 5. Although Carlos knows mostly facts about the Loch Ness monster, he always

enjoys hearing stories from experts.

__________ 6. If I read all these books, I wouldn’t have time for anything else.

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IV. Clauses and Phrases. Label the following sentences as either:

A. independent clause B. dependent clause C. neither independent or dependent (fragment or phrase)

1. _____ Joyce enjoyed geometry

2. _____ that the class began with simple shapes

3. _____ no length or width on the page

4. _____ when you mean line segment

5. _____ because it has only two equal sides

6. _____some statements about shapes

7. _____she loves math now

8. _____ since she loves math now

9. _____ loving math now at the end of the year

10. _____ math is so fun

11. _____ dogs jump

12. _____ if she says to do your work V. List all subordinating conjunctions in the box below.

SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

VI. Sentence structure. Label each sentence as simple (S), compound (CD) or complex (CX). __________1. When I get home from school, I'm going to take a nap.

__________2. I got in trouble so I can't go to the party, but it would have been fun.

__________3. Being alone can be scary unless you keep yourself busy.

__________4. Mr. Morton, the best reading teacher in the world, taught me sentence structure.

__________5. Keith, Carrie, and Kyle bought donuts and ate them down by the river.

__________6. I left early so that I could get some work done, but I'll be back soon.

__________7. Crossing the street is dangerous if you don't look both ways before you cross.

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__________8. If you don't want to study, you should stay home.

__________9. Every time I go to mall, I spend all of my money on things that I don't need.

__________10. I can go to the museum with you but I have to be home early.

__________11. Modern Warfare is a fun game, but no game is better than Ms. Pac-Man.

__________12. Todd and Nick are eating chips and salsa on a park bench before dinner. __________ 13. I have never read that book; I would like to read it this summer. __________ 14. The movie that I came to see was sold out. __________ 15. The pizza was spicy and hot, and the soda was fizzy and cold. __________ 16. The bright red car was stolen by a student who was from the high school. __________ 17. Since the teacher was absent, the students talked all day without doing their work. __________ 18. Susan and Crystal were watching the movie and talking on the telephone. __________ 19. I’ll read the book since I have a deep interest in that subject. __________ 20. The door bell that had been broken rang very late last night. VII. Sentence structure: Put your practice to work. VARY your sentences. 6 or more words per sentence.

Write 5 SIMPLE sentences. 1.

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Write 5 COMPOUND sentences. 1.

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Write 5 COMPLEX sentences. 1.

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VIII. Figurative Language: Complete the chart with the definitions and examples of the literary terms and/or phrases. Literary Term Definition Example IN A SENTENCE

Simile

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

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IX. PLOT and CONFLICT: Define the following elements of plot.

Exposition

Inciting incident

Rising action

Climax

Falling action

Resolution

Define and give an example (from a story, book or a movie) of each type of conflict.

Character VS. character

Character VS. society

Character VS. self

Character VS. nature

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X. PLOT: Read the following the following story and fill in the chart.

Brothers Grimm The Frog Prince

One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in the woods, and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now, she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favorite plaything, and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell.

After some time, she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; the ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground, until at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it. She began to cry, and said, “Oh! If I could only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world.”

While she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, “Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?”

“What can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.”

The frog said, “I do not want your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes, but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat off of your golden plate, and sleep on your bed, I will bring you your ball again.”

“What nonsense,” thought the princess, “this silly frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.”

So she said to the frog, “Well, if you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask.”

Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water, and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.

As soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up, and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as fast as she could.

The frog called after her, “Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said.” But she did not stop to hear a word.

The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - as if something was coming up the marble staircase, and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:

“Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said by the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.”

Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could came back to her seat.

The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter?

“There is a nasty frog,” she said, “at the door that lifted my ball for me out of the spring yesterday morning. I told him that he should live with me here, thinking that he could never get out of the spring; but there he is at the door, and he wants to come in.”

Then the king said to the young princess, “As you have given your word you must keep it; go and let him in.”

She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on - tap, tap - plash, plash - from the bottom of the room to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess sat.

“Please lift me upon the chair,' said he to the princess, “and let me sit next to you.”

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As soon as she had done this, the frog said, “Put your plate nearer to me that I may eat out of it.”

This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, “Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me to bed.” And the princess, though very unwilling, took him up in her hand, and put him upon the pillow of her own bed, where he slept all night long.

As soon as it was light the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.

“Now, then,” thought the princess, “at last he is gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.”

But she was mistaken, for when night came again she heard the same tapping at the door, and the frog came once more, and said:

“Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said by the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.”

And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, gazing on her with the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen and standing beside her. He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog, and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.

“You,” said the prince, “have broken this cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.”

The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying “Yes” to all this; and as they spoke a brightly colored coach drove up, with eight beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness. They then took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many years.

Setting:

When:

Where:

Characters:

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Problem(Conflict):

Events (Rising Action):

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Climax: Falling action: Resolution:

XI. Literary terms: Define the following terms.

1. Antagonist:

2. Characterization:

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3. Flashback:

4. Foreshadowing:

5. Imagery:

6. Mood:

7. Narrator:

8. Point of view:

9. Protagonist:

10. Symbolism:

11. Theme:

12: Tone:

XII. Poetry: Read the following the following poem, and answer the questions:

Enter This Deserted House by Shel Silverstein

But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too.

Ain’t no ceiling, only blue. Jays dwell here and sunbeams too.

5 Floors are flowers – take a few Ferns grow here and daisies too.

Swoosh, whoosh – too-whit, too-woo Bats dwell here and hoot owls too.

Ha-ha-ha, hee-hee, hoo-hoooo, 10 Gnomes dwell here and goblins too.

And my child, I thought you knew I dwell here… and so do you

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1. Line 5 is an example of:

A. simile B. onomatopoeia C. stanza D. metaphor

2. Line 7 is an example of:

A. personification B. onomatopoeia C. hyperbole D. exaggeration

3. Line 9 is an example of:

A. metaphor B. simile C. alliteration D. personification

XIII. Reading Comprehension: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Have you ever wondered what keeps a hot air balloon flying? The same principle that keeps food

frozen in the open chest freezers at the grocery store allows hot air balloons to fly. It's a very basic

principle: Hot air rises and cold air falls. So while the super-cooled air in the grocery store freezer settles

down around the food, the hot air in a hot air balloon pushes up, keeping the balloon floating above the

ground.

In order to understand more about how this principle works in hot air balloons, it helps to know

more about hot air balloons themselves. A hot air balloon has three major parts: the basket, the burner,

and the envelope. The basket is where passengers ride. The basket is usually made of wicker. This ensures

that it will be comfortable and add little extra weight. The burner is positioned above the passenger's heads

and produces a huge flame to heat the air inside the envelope. The envelope is the colorful fabric balloon

that holds the hot air. When the air inside the envelope is heated, the balloon rises.

The pilot can control the up-and-down movements of the hot air balloon by regulating the heat in

the envelope. To ascend, the pilot heats the air in the envelope. When the pilot is ready to land, the air in

the balloon is allowed to cool and the balloon becomes heavier than air. This makes the balloon descend.

Before the balloon is launched, the pilot knows which way the wind is blowing. This means that

he/she has a general idea about which way the balloon will go. But, sometimes the pilot can actually

control the direction that the balloon flies while in flight. This is because the air above the ground is

sectioned into layers in which the direction of the wind may be different. So even though the pilot can't

steer the balloon, he/she can fly or higher or lower into a different layer of air. Some days the difference

between the directions of the wind between layers is negligible. But other days the difference is so strong

that it can actually push the balloon in a completely different direction!

Questions:

1) According to the passage, balloon pilots control the balloon’s altitude by:

A. moving into a different layer of air

B. regulating the air temperature inside the balloon

C. adjusting the amount of air in the envelope

D. changing the amount of weight contained in the basket

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2) As used in paragraph 3, which is the best synonym for ascend?

A. move B. fly C. sink D. climb

3) As used in paragraph 3, which is the best antonym for descend?

A. fall B. float C. rise D. drop

4) According to the author, wicker is

I. comfortable

II. lightweight

III. durable

A. I only

B. I and II only

C. II and III only

D. I, II, and III

5) If the hot air balloon pilot wants to change directions during flight, what might he or she do to

accomplish this?

A. head toward a mountain peak B. wait for it to rain

C. fly into a cloud D. fly higher

6) Using the passage as a guide, it can be inferred that which of the following statements is not true?

A. Air goes up and out the top of a chimney when you light a fire.

B. Cool air collects about the ceiling when you open a refrigerator.

C. Smoke from a candle rises after you blow out the flame.

D. Cold air coming from an air conditioning vent settles about the floor.

7) Based on its use in paragraph 4, it can be understood that negligible belongs to which of the following

word families?

A. solemn, grave, serious B. substantial, considerable, large C.

exhilarating, thrilling, exciting D. insignificant, small, unnoticeable

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XIV. Revising and Editing. Kendrick is in the seventh grade. His teacher asked each student to write a report telling about the state in the United States that he would like to visit and why. This is a draft of Kendrick’s report. Read Kendrick’s report and think about what corrections and improvements he should make. Then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.

My Dream Vacation

(1)My dream vacation would be to travel to a state where I can have an exciting adventure and see

new things. (2) My family visit interesting places each year when we go on vacation. (3) We went to the

mountains in Colorado, camped in the desert in New Mexico, and body-surfed in the ocean off the Coast of

Florida. (4) The next place I hope we go is Alaska.

(5) The main reason I want to visit Alaska is to see a glacier up close. (6) A glacier is a huge mass of

ice that forms on high ground in places where more snow falls than melts. (7) There are nearly 29,000

square miles of blue-tinted glaciers in Alaska. (8) Scientists say that three-fourths of Alaska’s fresh water

freezed into glaciers.

(9) There are five different kinds of glaciers in Alaska: piedmont, valley, ice caps, ice fields and

alpine. (10) Glaciers are put into groups according to where they are located and what shape they are in.

(11) The glacier I most want to see is the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau Alaska. (12) Unlike many of the

other glaciers, the Mendenhall Glacier is axcessible by automobile. (13) You can drive to it on the Glacier

Highway. (14) You can also take a helicopter ride there or you can ride on a dog sled and I would choose the

dog sled.

(15) After seeing the glacier, my family and I could travel back to our lodge and celebrate our

adventure with bowls of akutak, or Eskimo ice cream. (16) Akutak is a mixture of snow, seal oil, sugar, and

berries that the native people of Alaska eat for desert. (17) That sounds like a fitting end to an exciting day

in Alaska.

1. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 2?

a. Add a comma after year b. Change visit to visits c. Change interesting to intresting d. Change adventure to adventures

2. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 3?

a. Change Coast to coast b. Change went to go c. Delete the comma after Colorado d. Change desert to dessert

3. Which sentence could be added after sentence 6 to support the ideas in the second paragraph (sentences 5-8)?

a. The snow falls at a rapid rate. b. More snow falls on high ground than on low ground. c. The ice is so thick that it appears blue in color. d. What doesn’t come down as snow comes down as rain.

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4. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 8?

a. Change say to says b. Change three-fourths to three-fourth c. Change freezed to is frozen d. Change into to onto

5. What is the BEST way to revise sentence 10?

a. Glaciers are put into location and shape groups. b. According to location and shape is how glaciers are put into groups. c. Glaciers are grouped according to where they are located and what shape. d. Glaciers are grouped according to their location and shape

6. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 11?

a. Add a comma after Juneau b. Change glacier to glaciers c. Add a comma after Mendenhall

d. Change Juneau to juneau

7. Which is the BEST way to rewrite the ideas in sentence 14?

a. You can also take a helicopter ride there or, what I would choose, you can ride a dog sled. b. You can also take a helicopter ride there, or you can ride a dog sled. I would choose the dog sled. c. You can also take a helicopter ride there or you can choose to ride on a dog sled. I would. d. You can also take a helicopter ride there. Choose to ride a dog sled like I would.

8. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 16?

a. Change is to are b. Change desert to dessert c. Delete the word that d. Delete the comma after snow

XV. A Christmas Carol: Answer in complete sentences.

1. How is the character of Fred different from that of Scrooge?

2. Why does Fred invite his uncle to dinner?

3. What is Scrooge’s attitude toward his nephew?

4. Where does Scrooge think the poor belong?

5. How does Cratchit react to Scrooge? What does that suggest about the character?

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6. When Jacob Marley was alive, how did he know Scrooge?

7. Explain what Marley’s chain represents.

8. Why has Marley appeared?

9. What did you learn about Scrooge as a child from what he says and how he speaks?

10. Why does the “past” show Scrooge living happier days with his first master (boss)?

11. According to Scrooge, why was Fezziwig a good master?

12. Why does Scrooge’s fiancé return the ring?

13. What does Scrooge’s failure to fight for his fiancé’s love show about his priorities?

14. What does the Ghost of Christmas Past represent?

15. Why does the ghost of Christmas present take Scrooge to the Cratchit house?

16. What do the beggar children represent? And why does the Ghost of Christmas Present show them to Scrooge?

17. What does the Cratchit family have that Scrooge doesn’t?

18. Why are the servants taking Scrooge’s possessions?

19. What happened to Tiny Tim (future)?

20. What is revealed about the changes in Scrooge’s character by his reaction to the news regarding Tiny Tim?

22. What causes Scrooge to change?

21. What is the theme of A Christmas Carol?

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XVI. Writing.

Draw a Venn diagram. Compare and contrast a personal narrative and an expository essay.

What is a thesis statement/controlling idea? Write two examples.

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