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1. Reading Comprehension Grammar Grammar Literary Terms Literary Terms 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. The difference between Synonyms and Antonyms.

3. Synonyms are words that mean the same. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite. 100

4. The difference between Connotation and Denotation.

5. The connotation is an implied meaning. The denotation is the exact meaning

6. The difference between prefix and suffix.

7. The prefix comes at the beginning of the word and the suffix comes at the end.

8. The central idea of a work of literature.

9. Theme

10. The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

11. Tone

12. Capitalization Rules: Charles Dickens wrote great expectations in 1861.

13. Capitalize titles: Great Expectations must be capitalized

14. Capitalization Rules: While in washington d.c., we met congressman Delay.

15. Capitalize cities and proper titles: Washington D.C. must be capitalized. C in congressman must be capitalized

16. Comma Rules: I went to the store for milk bread and candy.

17. Listed items must be separated by a comma. I went to the store for milk, bread, and candy.

18. Comma Rules I went to the store but I did not get the milk.

19. A compound sentence must be separated by a comma. I went to the store, but I did not get the milk.

20. Types of Sentences: Since it is time to go, I will have to tell you the rest of the story later.

21. complex

22. Subject/Verb Agreement: A vase of flowers makes a room attractive.

23. Correct: The subject “vase” agrees with “makes.”

24. Subject/Verb Agreement: Drinking and driving remain a major cause of highway fatalities.

25. Incorrect: Drinking and driving remains a major cause of highway fatalities. Drinking and driving is considered a single activity.

26. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement The audience fixed their attention on center stage.

27. Incorrect: The audience fixed its attention on center stage. “audience” is considered a single unit.

28. Parallelism: The children ran down the hill, skipped over the lawn, and into the pool.

29. Incorrect: The children ran down the hill, skipped over the lawn, and jumped into the pool. Each phrase must begin with a verb to be parallel.

30. Parallelism: The duties include baby-sitting, house-cleaning, and preparation of meals.

31. Incorrect: The duties include baby-sitting, house-cleaning, and preparing meals. To be parallel, the listed verbs must all end in –ing.

32. Series of related events that make up a story or drama.

33. Plot

34. Contrast between expectation and reality.

35. Irony (situational, dramatic, verbal)

36. Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.

37. Conflict (Internal/External)

38. Makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one things becomes another thing without using like, as, than or resembles.

39. Metaphor

40. A non human thing is or quality is talked about as if it were human.

41. Personification

42. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.

43. Point-of-view: 1st person 3rd person limited 3rd person omniscient

44. Makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word as, like, resembles, or than.

45. Simile

46. Sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, a situation or thing.

47. Sarcasm

48. When a person, place, thing, or event stands for itself and for something beyond itself.

49. Symbolism

50. To explain or inform; to create a mood or stir an emotion; to tell about a series of events; to persuade the reader to believe something or do something.