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FINAL CBA REVIEW GUIDE

FINAL CBA REVIEW GUIDE. FINAL ELA CBA: MAY 22, 2014 TEST WILL CONSIST OF 1 PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAY 16 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS FOR REGULAR 29 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS FOR PRE-AP. Personal narrative. Indent each new paragraph Write legibly Use the dictionary Include 5Ws

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FINAL CBA REVIEW GUIDE

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  1. FINAL CBA REVIEW GUIDE FINAL ELA CBA: MAY 22, 2014 TEST WILL CONSIST OF 1 PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAY 16 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS FOR REGULAR 29 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS FOR PRE-AP

  2. Personal narrative • Indent each new paragraph • Write legibly • Use the dictionary • Include 5Ws • Provide details and examples • Use #3 type sentences • Use SAT words • Include 1 Figurative Language sentence • Stay on-topic (no meandering) • Use MNM, PIC, STC, etc.

  3. LITERARY TERMS • MOOD: how the reader feels when reading a story, poem, or drama (think of Me for Mood) • TONE: how the author felt when writing a story, poem, or drama (think of T in auThor) • PREPOSITIONS: In a sentence, they indicate: time, location, place, position, direction, manner • CONTRAST: a comparison made to distinguish differences between two characters, two main ideas, two settings, etc. • SYMBOLISM: a word that represents a bigger meaning in a reading selection • SIMILE: a comparison using “like” or “as” • METAPHOR: a comparison without using “like” or “as” • IMAGERY: words used to create a picture in the reader’s mind • IRONY: the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny • PERSONIFICATION: words used to give nonhuman things human qualities • ALLITERATION: the repetition of sounds at the beginning of each word • ONOMATOPOEIA: words that represent the sound being created

  4. PREPOSITIONS • In a sentence, they indicate: • time, location, place, position, direction, manner • ON: when it is a flat place/you are living on top of it • IN: if you can go inside of it (it has boundaries/walls) • AT: if it is a location that you can point to in a map

  5. Simile • A comparison of two unlike things using like or as • Example: Marlene dances and spins like a top.

  6. Metaphor • A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as • Example: Fabian is a beast on the football field.

  7. IMAGERY • Words used to create a picture in the reader’s mind • Example: The muddy old dog slowly scraped across the room.

  8. IRONY • The use of words or situations that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny • Example: He worried himself sick by worrying so much about his health. • Example: An escalator in a 2 story fitness club.

  9. Hyperbole • An exaggeration used to make a point • Example: Amanda can run for a thousand miles without getting tired.

  10. Personification • Giving a non-human thing human qualities • Example: Summer was dead.

  11. alliteration • The repetition of sounds at the beginning of each word • Example: the same high standards of strength and sacrifice ONOMATOPOEIA • Words that represent the sound being created • Example: roar, tweet, meow, chirp

  12. Types of sentences/phrases • Simple Sentence: a sentence containing a subject and predicate (who and what) • This is simple sentence. • Complex Sentence: a sentence containing a subject, predicate, and subordinating clause (who, what, WABU) • This is a complex sentence because it contains more information. • Compound Sentence: two simple sentences combined using a comma and a FANBOY • This is a compound sentence, and it contains two simple sentences. • Imperative Sentence: a sentence that demands something from the subject; it ends with a period • Read every day. • Exclamatory Sentence: a sentence that expresses strong emotion; it ends with an exclamation mark • You must read every day! • Declarative Sentence: a sentence that declares something; it ends with a period • I like reading.

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