Study Guide for the MP1 test
Literary elements (look back at your notes!)
1. What are the four ways an author develops a character?
2. What are the three types of irony?
3. What is a protagonist?
4. What is an antagonist?
5. What is the difference between a dynamic and a static character?
6. What is a round character?
7. List the types of internal conflict.
8. List the types of external conflict.
9. What is mood?
10. What is tone?
11. What is the climax of a story?
12. What is the exposition?
13. What is the last part of the plot diagram called?
14. How can you tell first person point of view from third person point of view?
15. What is flashback?
16. What is conflict?
Vocabulary – study words from lessons 1-3.
Grammar – will be sentence correction
1. Study your capitalization notes
2. There will be at least one appositive and one parallel structure example.
3. Use quia to review!!
Grammar practice:
For each question, find the sentence that has a mistake in capitalization or punctuation.
1.
a. My favorite season is Spring.
b. Last Monday, Aunt Ruth took me shopping.
c. We elected Ben as treasurer of the freshman class.
2.
a. My best friend is moving to another city.
b. “What time does the movie begin?” he asked.
c. The boys’ wore identical sweaters.
3.
a. She asked me, to show her how to make an apple pie.
b. He shouted from the window, but we couldn’t hear him.
c. Occasionally, someone will stop and ask for directions.
4.
a. Science and math are my two best subjects.
b. We met senator Moynihan at a conference last June.
c. Her favorite song of all time was U2’s “With or Without You.”
5.
a. When you come to the end of Newton Road, turn left onto Wilson Blvd.
b. A small river runs alongside the highway.
c. We learned that cape Cod was formed 20,000 years ago.
The following paragraph contains fragments. Correct the fragments so that the
paragraph is grammatically correct.
Sometimes new approaches to politics emerge for very specific purposes. An example of
this. The Green Party, a political organization that was begun in Germany by a group of mostly
young people. They realized that more needs to be done by governments to protect the
environment. The Greens consider themselves. The only political party that really makes children
and the future welfare of the planet. A top priority! The members of the group have worked hard.
As a result. Many important changes have already occurred. Because of a growing awareness of
the ways humans are damaging the environment. The Green Party has become a worldwide
movement. Even in the United States a growing number of citizen support “green” politics.
Correct the following sentence.
Cynthia loves to eat sushi she dislikes other Japanese foods.
The following paragraph contains some run-on sentences. Correct each run-on sentence
so that the paragraph is grammatically correct.
When European settlers came to the Americas, they discovered that the native inhabitants
had a rich knowledge of medicine. Natives used the leaves of certain plants, or the bark of
particular trees to cure ailments common to their region some plants contain chemicals that will
poison people or animals and these chemicals are part of the plants’ defense systems. However, if
someone is sick, those plant defenses can help the person back to health for example, if someone
has a heart condition in which his or her heart beats too fast, doctors might use a chemical from a
plant to slow the heart down; much of modern medicine is based on these botanical principles