Grammar, Poetry and Drama!

1. Grammar, Poetry and Drama!

2. Drama Poetry Simple, Compound, Complex Phrases Clauses 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

3. Drama– 10 Points • QUESTION: • Put the words (Scene, Act, and Play) in order of largest part of the play to smallest • ANSWER: • Play, Act, and Scene

4. Drama– 20 Points • QUESTION: • Define monologue • ANSWER: • A longish speech spoken by a single character to other characters on stage.

5. Drama– 30 Points • QUESTION: • Define soliloquy • ANSWER: • A long speech by one character spoken while alone on stage that shows the character’s thoughts and emotions.

6. Drama– 40 Points • QUESTION: • Macbeth (Scene 5, Lines 58-60) • Macbeth: My dearest love,Duncan comes here tonight. • Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? • Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. • Lady Macbeth: O, neverShall sun that morrow see. • This excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare is an example of: • aside • monologue • soliloquy • dialogue • stage directions • ANSWER: • Dialogue

7. Drama– 50 Points • QUESTION: • Why would a playwright decided to use a monologue rather than a soliloquy? • ANSWER: • A monologue is a long speech by one character to another, which would allow the characters to better understand each other or to allow their personality to show. A soliloquy is written to show those things to the audience, but not to other characters on stage.

8. Poetry– 10 Points • QUESTION: • This is an example of what type of poetry? • Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But sad mortality o'ersways their power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no stronger than a flower?O how shall summer's honey breath hold out,Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days,When rocks impregnable are not so stout,Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?O fearful meditation, where alack,Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back,Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?O none, unless this miracle have might,That in black ink my love may still shine bright. • ANSWER: • Sonnet

9. Poetry– 20 Points • QUESTION: • What structure of poetry is this? • A summer river being crossed • how pleasing • with sandals in my hands! • ANSWER: • Haiku

10. Poetry– 30 Points • QUESTION: • What type of poetry is this? • “There was an old man from Peru • Who dreamt he was eating his shoe. • He awoke in a fright • In the middle of the night • And found it was perfectly true.” • ANSWER: • Limerick

11. Poetry– 40 Points • QUESTION: • What is the rhyme scheme of this verse? • My penmanship is pretty bad.My printing’s plainly awful.In truth, my writing looks so sadit ought to be unlawful. • ANSWER: • A,B,A,B

12. Poetry– 50 Points • QUESTION: • How does the last line of a limerick add to its meaning? • ANSWER: • The last line of the limerick is its punchline and gives the reader a laugh.

13. Simple, Compound, Complex– 10 Points • QUESTION: • Have you seen Mr. Marks’ garden at the back of his house? • ANSWER: • Simple

14. Simple, Compound, Complex – 20 Points • QUESTION: • Wandering aimlessly up the path, Ms. Fry approached the house. • ANSWER: • Simple

15. Simple, Compound, Complex– 30 Points • QUESTION: • I worked all morning, and then I relaxed in the afternoon. • ANSWER: • Compound

16. Simple, Compound, Complex– 40 Points • QUESTION: • I must stay home until the man comes to repair the refrigerator. • ANSWER: • Complex

17. Simple, Compound, Complex– 50 Points • QUESTION: • Dave began to feel better before the doctor arrived. • ANSWER: • Complex

18. Phrases– 10 Points • QUESTION: • Which word is NOT a preposition? •  between • against • for • better • ANSWER: • Better

19. Phrases– 20 Points • QUESTION: • Identify all prepositional phrases in the sentence: • The book on the table in the English classroom is Barbara's book. • ANSWER: • On the table, in the English classroom

20. Phrases – 30 Points • QUESTION: • Identify the adverbial prepositional phrase in the sentence: • Will you come to the party at my house? • ANSWER: • To the party

21. Phrases – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Identify the type of phrase underlined in the sentence: • Rising out of the sea in front of us, the sun started to warm our faces. • ANSWER: • Participial phrase

22. Phrases– 50 Points • QUESTION: • Rewrite this sentence so that there is no dangling modifier: • Disappointed almost to the point of tears, an empty test tube was the worst outcome possible. • ANSWER: • Disappointed almost to the point of tears, I knew that an empty test tube was the worst outcome possible.

23. Clauses – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Is the underline clause dependent or independent? • It is hot today; please water the garden. • ANSWER: • Independent (implied subject of ‘you’)

24. Clauses– 20 Points • QUESTION: • Add an independent clause to the following clause to make a complete sentence. • After the game on Wednesday, ___________________ • ANSWER: • Can vary

25. Clauses– 30 Points • QUESTION: • Identify the independent clause in the following sentence: • While taking his homework out of his car, Mr. Morton heard a strange laugh coming from the park. • ANSWER: • Mr. Morton heard a strange laugh coming from the park.

26. Clauses – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Combine these clauses into a grammatically correct sentence: • And tugged on the leash • The black dog • ran ahead of her master • Who was named Penny • ANSWER: • The black dog, who was named Penny, ran ahead of her master and pulled on the leash.

27. Clauses – 50 Points • QUESTION: • Combine the following clauses into a compound sentence • I want to go to New York in June. We won’t get out until mid-June. The snow made us missing several days of school. • ANSWER: • Answers vary