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40 Questions to EOC Mastery. What is the difference between 3rd person omniscient and 3rd person limited narration?. Omniscient knows all Limited knows only one. What is context, and how do we use it to determine the meaning of an unknown word?.
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What is the difference between 3rd person omniscient and 3rd person limited narration? • Omniscient knows all • Limited knows only one
What is context, and how do we use it to determine the meaning of an unknown word? • Context includes prior knowledge based on words around the unknown word. • You use those words to guess at the new one.
What is another term for mood? What is the mood of a work? • Atmosphere • The way a reader is made to feel by the story
Give five synonyms for sad. What is the difference between sad and ….? • Depressed, blue, gloomy, melancholy, upset, down, etc
What is the difference between an implication and a fact? • Implication based on assumption • Fact can be proven
What does it mean when a question asks you to improve clarity and conciseness? • Make it more clear and shorter
What is an analogy? Give an example and explain. • Comparison between relationships • Man : boy :: woman : girl - age relationship
Give an example of informative writing. Give an example of persuasive writing. • Informative – newspaper, encyclopedia • Persuasive – magazine ad, commercial
Give an example of writing that is done to entertain. • Play script, novel, short story
What is the difference between structured poetry and blank verse? • The structure of blank verse is iambic pentameter. • FREE verse, on the other hand, has no set structure
What types of internet sites are not suitable for research? • Blogs, wikipedia, social networking sites, etc
What is wrong with this sentence?I bought the car even though it was on sale. • I bought the car BECAUSE it was on sale.
What is a simile? Give an example. • Comparison using like or as • Stewart will never be as cool as Ms. Purvis. (Oh, snap!)
What is a metaphor? Give an example. • Comparison between two unlike things • Nick is the Paris Hilton of seventh period (because he talks too much.)
Give an example of alliteration. • Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Give an example of repetition. • I think I can; I think I can; I think I can.
Give three examples of onomatopoeia. • Slap, pow, boom
Give an example of personification. • The trees danced in the wind.
What is foreshadowing or foreboding? • Hints about what will happen later in the story
What is irony? Give an example and explain why it is ironic. • Difference between expectation and actuality • “rain on your wedding day”? (NO, that’s coincidental!)
What is imagery? • Language appealing to the five senses
What is Venn diagram used for? • Similarities and differences
What is a T chart used for? • Pros/cons, side by side details
In an advertisement for a bicycle, what type of graphic would be helpful? • Picture of the bike
Who would most likely sponsor an article about deer hunting in North Carolina? • Hunters (or PETA)
Give three examples of common pronouns. What is an antecedent? Give an example. • He, it, they, you • The noun that the pronoun replaces • Josh (antecedent) sits on the side, and he (pronoun) talks a lot of jive.
When are apostrophes used? How are they used? When are they never used? • Possession and contraction • Behind -s if word needs –s for plural, in front if it doesn’t • Its, yours, whose, etc
For what is a colon used? For what is a semicolon used? • Time, lists with “the following” • Separate two related independent clauses; separate items in a complicated list
What are three situations in which comma usage is required? • Separate independent clauses (with a conjunction) • Separate beginning/introductory clauses • Separate nonessential information
What words get capitalized? • I, beginning of sentences, proper nouns
Is a lot ever one word? • NO! (hint: is it one word in the question? NO!)
Use affect in a sentence. Use effect in a sentence. • The EOC will affect my grade. • Talaisha’s snoring after the EOC will have an effect on the other test takers.
Which titles get underlined or italicized? • Things that are published by themselves • i.e. book, newspaper, magazine, CD
Which titles are placed in quotes? • Things that are published within something else • i.e. short story, poem, song, article
Do periods and commas go inside or outside of quotation marks? • inside
Do question marks and exclamation points go inside or outside of quotation marks? • If the quotation is a question/exclamation – inside! • If the sentence is a question/exclamation but the quotation is not – outside!
Introduce a quote with a comma. Introduce the same quote with a colon. • Katie said, “I love staplers.” • Katie said the following: “I love staplers.”
What is a run-on sentence? In what situation does a semicolon fix a run-on sentence? • Two sentences without punctuation to separate them. • Put the semicolon between the two thoughts.
What is a tense shift? How can a tense shift be identified? • Shifting from past to present, future to present, etc. • Verb endings