Grammar
What SENTENCE STRUCTURE uses FANBOYS and has at least two independent clauses?
Compound Sentences
What part of speech are the following words?
Renegade, Aficionado, Flotilla
Noun
What are the two main categories of poems?
T________ and O_________
TRADITIONAL AND ORGANIC
What is the longest form of poetry?
Epic
Complete the verb forms:
Present - Sleep
Present participle - Sleeping
Past participle - ______
Slept
Which of the following is the meaning for VEHEMENT?
a) clear and sharp in analysis or expression
b) not discouraged by danger or difficulty
c) showing intense emotion or passion; forceful
d) frank and unreserved in speech
C) showing intense emotion or passion; forceful
a) clear and sharp in analysis or expression INCISIVE
b) not discouraged by danger or difficulty UNDAUNTED
d) frank and unreserved in speech OUTSPOKEN
Mention 3 of the 6 forms of traditional poetry that we covered in class.
Limerick, Sonnet, Ballad, Epic, Haiku, Ode
There are 12 categories of basic tenses in English.
Apart from Past, Present and Future, what are the other "divisions"?
Simple, Perfect, Continuous (Progressive), Perfect-Continuous (Progressive)
What is the third function of the present participle?
1. As an adjective (the falling leaves)
2. As part of the continuous verb (the leaves are falling)
3. _____________ (Falling was an accident)
Gerund (a noun)
Which of the following are synonyms for haphazard?
Careless, Random, Orderly, Accidental, Methodical, Systematic
Careless, Random, Accidental
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:
Beneath the sky so vast and wide,
The stars begin their quiet glow,
A peaceful world, where dreams can glide.
The moonlight whispers soft and slow,
As night wraps all in its embrace,
A gentle breeze begins to blow.
A
B
A
B
C
B
Mention a famous poet (except William Shakespeare)
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe
Mention two functions of the Simple Present
-To describe habits
-To describe general truths
-To describe facts
-Used in instructions
-Used to express feelings or opinions
-To describe routines
Verb that means: To multiply, increase or spread rapidly?
P _ _ L _ _ _ _ _ _ E
PROLIFERATE
Mention the 4 sound devices in poetry
Repetition, Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
Mention 3 characteristics of a HAIKU
Shortest form of poetry
3 lines
About nature
17 syllables
5-7-5 sequence
Focused on the present
Its origin is Japanese
What is the tense of the following sentence:
She is going to travel next week.
_____________ (adj) means: lacking awareness or conscious knowledge of something.
OBLIVIOUS
Mention the 4 figures of speech
Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole
Verb that means: To hold someone's attention completely / to captivate or fascinate completely
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ENTHRALL
Rewrite the sentence into Past Perfect Continuous:
My friend visits her mom
My friend had been visiting her mom
Based on reason or logic, not emotions.
Write a haiku
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Rewrite the sentence into Future Continuous:
Do you work on Friday?
Will you be working on Friday?