English 9 Exam Review

Context Clues

100

There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. Many people in Arizona have made a good business of growing and selling cacti and other local plants. WHAT DOES INDIGENOUS MEAN? a. native b. necessary c. foreign d. alien

What is A.

200

There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans." -WHAT DOES BENIGN MEAN? a. tropical b. evil c. kind d. favorable

What is D - favorable.

300

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.” WHAT DOES LOQUACIOUS MEAN? a. pretentious b. grouchy c. talkative d. worried

What is C - talkative

400

A combination of fog and industrial smoke, called smog, has vitiated the air in and around many big cities. WHAT DOES VITIATE MEAN? a. concentrate b. fill up c. replace d. contaminate

What is D - contaminate

500

Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion. WHAT DOES VICISSITUDES MEAN? a. evils b. mistakes c. changes d. rules

What is C - change

Poetry

100

 A fourteen line poem.

What is a sonnet?

200

The main message of a story.

What is theme?  

300

Four lines in a stanza

What is a quatrain?

400

The pattern of rhyme a poem has.

What is rhyme scheme?

500

Personification, imagery, and allusion. 

What is figurative language?

Miscellaneous

100

Compare and contrast, chronological, cause and effect are examples.

What is text structure?

200

The main message of of nonfiction article.

What is the central idea?

300

Summary with no personal opinions.

What is an objective summary?

400

A summary that has personal opinions.

What is a subjective summary?

500

Rhetoric

What is the art of speaking or writing effectively?

Short Story

100

What a character says, acts, and what others say about him/her.

What is characterization?

200

The author's word choice?  

What is diction?

300

Where a story takes place.

What is the setting?

400

Series of events that make up a short story.

What is plot?

500

Perspective from which a story is told.

What is point of view?

Constructed Response

100

The R and A of the constructed response.

What is the restate and answer?

200

The purpose of textual evidence.

What is to support your answer?

300

Illustrates, conveys, portrays, and depicts are examples.

What are marker verbs?

400

Therefore, the poet juxtaposes the light with the dark.

What is a transition word?  

500

The average length of a constructed response.

What is 6-8 sentences?