Name and Date: ______

English 2R: Unit One Vocabulary Review

Part One: Practice with difficult vocabulary words

Directions:

  • Use the words in the box to complete the following passages.
  • Each passage will be completed with forms of the same word (it may repeat the word more than once, or appear in the sentence in different tenses or parts of speech).

automatons
cultural norms
reminisce / reminisced
assimilate / assimilating / assimilation
futile / futility
negate / negation
resonate / resonant
facilitated
  1. When Song moved to the United States, he initially had trouble ______into American culture. Part of the problem was that he wasn’t even sure he wanted to ______. The process of ______was much more challenging than he had envisioned.

Definition:

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  1. First off, he had to adjust to the ______of his new country, and they were very strange and bewildering to him. Now, he had studied ______, and he knew that these were the types of unwritten rules that are standards for acceptable behavior in a particular culture. He knew that in America it was impolite to wear yellow to a funeral, to sit down at a stranger’s table in a restaurant (even when there were empty seats), to wait behind someone at a urinal in a public restroom, or to stare at an attractive girl when on public transit. Yet, there were many ______that surprised him. For example, in his home country it was considered impolite to look an authority figure in the eye, but in America teachers became angry if you looked down when they were speaking to you. This was very confusing to him!

Definition:

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  1. Her assimilation into the new society was ______by her friends, who helped her to understand the cultural norms of her new home. Taking English classes in the evening also ______her integration into the new culture. Soon she began to feel comfortable as a resident of the United States.

Definition:

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  1. Jennifer’s efforts to learn Chinese were ______. She studied every day for hours, yet every time she tried to speak in Chinese, people looked at her blankly. They couldn’t understand anything she was saying. Eventually, she acknowledged the ______of continuing and decided to study Spanish instead.

Definition:

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  1. Maribel attended the speech. The speaker was so eloquent that her words ______in Maribel’s mind for weeks afterward. Maribel truly felt that all the words in the speech were ______with meaning.

Definition:

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  1. Carl had lived in India as a young man, and he often ______about his time there. He especially liked to ______with his friend William about some of their experiences traveling in the Kerala region of the country.

Definition:

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  1. The fact that she broke the law ______her job contract, and she was deported. Of course it was only a speeding ticket, so it seemed to many people like a ______of justice.

Definition:

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  1. It is more important for schools to teach children how to think. Education should inspire young people, not turn them into robotic ______that memorize without any thought.

Definition:

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Part Two: Practice with Literary Terms

simile metaphor closed form free verse
repetition alliteration anaphora onomatopoeia
denotation connotation diction mood
imagery situational irony verbal irony sarcasm
syntax prose
  1. The teacher told the class to examine the writer’s ______, and to determine which sentences were compound, and which sentences were complex.

Definition: ______

  1. The following is an example of a ______used by the speaker: “I flunk biology and attract fights like mosquitoes on a summer night.”

Definition:

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  1. The speaker’s ______was quite informal. He used a lot of slang informal language.

Definition:

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  1. The ______of the word ‘scrawny’ is negative, while ‘svelte’ is positive. Likewise, the ______(same word) of ‘child’ is neutral, while ‘brat’ is negative and ‘little one’ is positive.

Definition:

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  1. Although the story was written in ______, not poetry, it still contained a lot of ______, such as: “When the wind wailed through the willows, the sound was mournful.”

Definition 1:

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Definition 2:

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Part Three: Practice with Punctuation

Directions: Punctuate the following sentences correctly.

  1. She was late to class every day therefore she failed.
  1. Although she read the book she failed the quiz.
  1. Susan and Jonathan went out to dinner and they went to see a movie.
  1. She read the book because she found it interesting but she did the project because she had to do it in order to pass.
  1. Until she admits the truth she will never feel happy with herself.
  1. He ate candy every day and he never brushed his teeth consequently he got cavities.

Remember to study vocabulary (definitions and sentences), literary terms, punctuation rules and sentence types (simple, compound, complex) and the first 21 “No Excuse” spelling words for your test on Wednesday!!!!!!!!