English Final Exam Study Guide

Mr. Davenport HACC Room C02

Use this study guide to refresh your memory of the important concepts learned this year. To be most effective, this guide should be completed and reviewed with the help of a partner prior to taking the final exam. Remember that the final is equivalent to 25% of your overall grade for the course; it can make the difference between passing and failing, so take this opportunity to study and review.

Grammar and Mechanics

  1. Three spaced periods indicating a long pause or the omission of words are called an ______.
  2. There, their, and they’re are all words that sound alike but have different meanings, which are called ______. Which one of these is a possessive pronoun? ______
  3. While the titles of novels are typically written in italics or underlined, the titles of poems, short stories, songs, articles, and movies are written ______.
  4. The difference between a dash and a hyphen is ______
  5. Words such as “bang,” “slam,” “crunch,” “boom,” or “pop” are called ______, or words that look like they sound.
  6. Particular words that are used in a specific trade or profession are known as ______or vernacular.
  7. ______is when a character pronounces words differently and/or uses strange words that are particular to a specific culture, group, or geographic community.
  8. Two or more characters having a conversation in print is referred to as ______.
  9. One character speaking lines (as on stage) to himself, herself, or the audience is known as a ______.
  10. The speaker of a poem or fictional story should not be assumed as the author of the poem or story because ______.
  1. First-person narration is recognized by the use of personal pronouns such as ______, ______, ______, and ______.
  2. The difference between an acronym and an initialism, which use the first letters of the titles they represent, is ______.
  3. Who and whom are not the same thing; the word who is ______and should be used as the subject of a sentence, while whom is ______and can only be used as the direct or indirect object in a sentence.
  4. It is easier to avoid confusing the words lose and loose if you can remember that lose is a(n) ______, while loose is a(n) ______.
  5. The eight rules for correct comma use are:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

  1. To fix a comma splice or a fused sentence, the choices are: (1) ______, (2)______, or (3) ______.
  2. The three reasons to use an apostrophe are:

(1)

(2)

(3)

  1. The order of words in a sentence is referred to as ______.

Literature

  1. The parts of the standard story arc are:

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

  1. The primary sources of conflict in a plot, according to the Greeks, are:

a. ______vs.______

b. ______vs.______

c. ______vs.______

d. ______vs.______

e. ______vs.______

  1. ______is when the opposite of an expected outcome occurs in a story (180 degrees).
  2. A description used by an author to appeal to any of the five senses of the reader is called ______.
  3. One event bringing about the occurrence of another is called ______and ______.
  4. Third-person narration is recognized by the use of pronouns such as ______, ______, ______, and ______.
  5. What is the term for the author’s attitude toward the reader or toward the subject of written work? ______.
  6. The major difference between a novel and a short story is ______.

Poetry

  1. A stanza in poetry is equivalent to a ______in prose.
  2. The repetition of the initial sound in two or more words in a line of literature or poetry (“My sister sells sea shells at the sea shore”) is called ______.
  3. What is the main purpose of a narrative poem? ______.
  4. A fourteen-line poem using three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet, using iambic pentameter and a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg is called a ______.
  5. What is the difference between rhythm and meter? ______
  6. In poetry and literature, what is an allusion? ______.
  7. A poem that suggests a single image from a single speaker is called a ______.
  8. A stanza in poetry containing four lines: ______Three lines: ______

Two lines: ______

  1. What does it mean to read a poem fluently? ______.
  2. If the word at the end of the first line of a poem rhymes with the word at the end of the second line, while the word at the end of the third line rhymes with the word at the end of the fourth line, the rhyme scheme is designated ______.
  3. When a poet capitalizes common nouns, such as Fate or Love, he or she is using figurative language called ______.
  4. Since simile and metaphor are both comparisons of unlike things, what is the difference between them? ______.
  5. What must a reader do to determine the theme of a poem? ______.

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English Final Exam Study Guide