English 7
Final Exam / May 2014
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GRAMMAR:
Verbs – linking & auxiliary
Adjectives & Adjective Clauses (importance of comma)
Prepositions, Objects of the Prepositions
Nouns: ALL the different types
Commonly Confused Words (you were given a small handout)
Pronouns: different types and their functions + ANTECEDENTS
Conjunctions: different types and their functions
Independent and Dependent Clauses/Sentences
the Articles and their functions
Identify each part of a sentence when asked!
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE / ELEMENTS:
Simile / Metaphor
Personification
Sensory Imagery
Hyperbole
Tone
Mood
Point of View
Pronouns Used with Specific Point of Views
Setting
Plot  Skeleton Plot Diagram (know parts and purpose)
Protagonist
Antagonist
Dialogue (quotation marks)
Screenplay
Conflict
Four types of Conflict & real life example for each
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
LITERATURE:
The Pearl & author John Steinbeck
The Contender & author Robert Lipsyte
Fiction & Nonfiction – definitions
Autobiography & Biography
Define personification.
Define tone in a complete sentence.
Give one example of personification.
Define mood in a complete sentence.
Define verb.
List four different linking verbs.
What is the difference between an action & a linking
verb? Supply examples for each in complete sentences
also.
Compose a complete sentence that correctly uses a
linking verb.
Define conjunction.
Give four types of conjunctions.
List five different prepositions.
What is plot?
What is setting?
Tell the difference between non-fiction and fiction.
Generate and label correctly a skeleton plot diagram.
Define alliteration.
Give one example of alliteration in a complete sentence.
Compose a complete sentence that correctly uses an
action verb.
List four different action verbs in four different complete
sentences.
What are four different types of nouns?
Define dialogue.
Which type of conjunctions are FANBOYS?
What does each letter stand for in FANBOYS?
Define noun.
Define conflict.
Define hyperbole.
What are the four different types of conflicts PLUS an
example for each?
Give one example of a hyperbole in a complete
sentence.
Define dependent clause. Give one example.
Define onomatopoeia.
Give three unique examples of an onomatopoeia.
When and why are quotation marks used in a novel?
Define independent clause. Give one example.
Define simile in a complete sentence.
Define metaphor in a complete sentence.
Give one example of a simile.
Give one example of a metaphor.
True/False: “to + a verb” is not a prepositional phrase?
What is needed to have a compete sentence?
True/False: “to + a preposition and a noun/pronoun” is
a prepositional phrase?
Define adjective.
Can articles be adjectives?
What are the three articles?
Do prepositional phrases have objects?
Objects in prepositional phrases are which two parts of
basic speech? Create an example sentence that
contains a prepositional phrase.
What is an adjective clause?
Which types of pronouns can start an adjective clause?
What is the genre historical fiction?
What is the genre of science fiction?
What is an interrogative pronoun?
What is a relative pronoun?
State the difference between singular and plural.
Provide one singular noun and one plural noun, both in
their own complete sentence.
What is a possessive noun? Supply an example.
What is a possessive pronoun? Supply an example.
A prepositional phrase contains an object; which part or
parts of speech would that object be?
Detail the difference between you’re and your.
Detail the difference between there, their, they’re.
Detail the difference between where and were.
Define the genre of autobiography.
Define the genre of biography.
“Joe eats soft apples.” In this sentence, which word is
the adjective and what is it modifying?
“In the garden, Kim smelled daisies.” In this sentence,
what is the prepositional phrase plus its object?
What is an antecedent? (think pronouns and nouns.)
Create a complete sentence that showcases correctly a
pronoun and its antecedent. Identify each.