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Midterm Review!

Midterm Review!. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. Name That Character. Grammar Rules!. Wild Card!. Literary Terms. Symbols. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 10 Point. 20 Points. 20 Points. 20 Points. 20 Points.

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Midterm Review!

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  1. Midterm Review! Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Name That Character Grammar Rules! Wild Card! Literary Terms Symbols 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Which character attempts suicide in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie?

  5. Mouth

  6. Who is the foil to Clarisse?

  7. Mildred

  8. Which character seems crazy when she screams fire on the train, but turns out to be correct?

  9. Mrs. Schachter

  10. Who is the narrator of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?

  11. Ishmael Beah

  12. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  13. Characters from Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

  14. What is the difference between their, there, and they’re?

  15. Their – PossessiveThere – LocationThey’re – Contraction for “they are”

  16. Name all of the FANBOYS.

  17. For And Nor But Or Yet So

  18. Properly use the term farther and further. You may use up to two sentences.

  19. Farther – Literal Distance Further – Figurative Distance

  20. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  21. Types of Major Works!

  22. Describe any food using a superlative adjective.

  23. Superlative – Comparing more than two nouns

  24. I did a bit of digging and found several other studies with findings that likewise suggest cognitive benefits of reading great literature.

  25. Cognitive – (adj) relating to the brain/learning

  26. Afterwards, each student completed a survey measuring their emotional need for certainty and stability.

  27. Certainty – (noun) complete confidence

  28. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  29. Prefixes (and their meanings!)

  30. Which book have we read this year that is not told in first person?

  31. Fahrenheit 451

  32. Name one fiction and one non-fiction text that we have studied this year. What is the difference between the two types of text?

  33. Fiction – Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, Fahrenheit 451 Non-Fiction – Night, A Long Way Gone

  34. What are foils?

  35. Characters who are dramatically different to show contrast.

  36. What information is revealed during the exposition?

  37. Setting, main character(s), author’s style

  38. What are the two elements of setting?

  39. Time and place

  40. What is the difference between a theme and a topic?

  41. A topic is on the surface of a story, but the theme is an argument

  42. What is the difference between a dynamic and a static character?

  43. Dynamic - changes throughout the story Static – stays the same

  44. What is the difference between figurative and literal language?

  45. Figurative – understood imaginatively Literal – no meaning beyond dictionary definition

  46. A handshake is a symbol. • What is it literally? • What is it figuratively?

  47. Literally – hand to hand contact Figuratively – a sign of trust or understanding

  48. Below is a symbol of justice. She literally is holding a scale, which figuratively represents ______.

  49. Fairness/Equality

  50. Each symbol has a literal and a figurative meaning; what are these meanings for the symbol below?

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