Grammar
What is a comma splice?
When a comma separates two independent clauses with no FANBOY conjunction
A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, and set in Chicago sometime between 1945-1959, is named after poem by which famous poet?
Langston Hughes, who wrote "A Dream Deferred" (Harlem)
Name one device that is used in the line below:
The squelch and slap of soggy peat
Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Define: Filch
How many prongs should a thesis for a four paragraph essay have?
Two
What are the two punctuation marks you may use before a quotation?
A comma (if it is a partial set up) or a colon (if you have written a complete thought to set up the quotation fully)
Name two themes (big ideas-- more than one word) from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The complexity of friendship/romance/relationship/family
The magical/whimsical/mysterious nature of love.
The tension between men and women. etc etc.
Name a device used below:
The Day poured her cloudy light on us
Personification or oxymoron
Define: Clamorous
Noisy
The thesis should end with a "____ ________" (a focus on the deeper meaning, significance, lesson, or analysis of your points.
"So What"
Each of the students at the assembly was/were having fun.
Was
Each (one) was having fun
Name two characters from ABC who end up being the same character.
Jin and Danny
Monkey King and Chinkee
Name two devices in the line below:
The flamingo dancer was dancing like her feet were on fire!
Malapropism, simile, alliteration, and hyperbole
Define: Mirth
Amusement and gaiety
Although both body paragraphs will have a topic sentence, where will the transition/topic sentence be located in a four paragraph essay?
At the beginning of the second body paragraph (third paragraph)
The owners of the dog who won best in show were...
He and me
Him and I
He and I
Me and Him
He and I
= He and I were the owners
The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, is a short novel called a _________ that is made up of many scenes called ___________.
Novella = short novel
Vignettes= scenes/episodes
Name two devices in the following lines:
Keep word, Lysander; we must starve our sight
From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.
Iambic Pentameter
Couplet
Synesthesia
Metaphor
Alliteration
Use "lament" correctly in a sentence
Lament- to mourn or express sorrow
Name two main goals of the introduction?
To introduce the general topic of the essay that grabs reader's attention, give brief context, lead in to thesis, and end with a thesis
Many of them (WHO/WHOM) danced on stage were very talented.
Who
=Who danced on stage
Name the climactic moment from your choice of two books/plays from this semester...
Mango- E's movement from innocence to experience (in Monkey Garden and/or Red Clowns)
Raisin- When Walter refuses Lindner's check
ABC- When Jin fights with the Monkey Kind and realizes it is Danny (strong case made for when we find out Jin is Danny)
AMND- several possible answers
Name one specific example of irony from one of the texts we have read this year.
Too many to name!
Use "perforce" correctly in a sentence!
Definition: by necessity; by force of circumstance; inevitably
Must be used as an adverb
Name the five steps of the Quotation Integration Process