Final Exam Study Guide

Why is sentence clarity and conciseness important?

• It helps pick the clearest, most concise phrasing.

• It makes sentences longer and more complex.

• It confuses the reader with unnecessary details.

• It reduces the effectiveness of communication.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Punctuation and apostrophe use is especially important for distinguishing between which two things?

• Possessives and plurals.

• Nouns and verbs.

• Adjectives and adverbs.

• Subjects and objects.

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CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.2.2C

CCSS.L.3.2D

Pronoun-antecedent agreement involves clarity with which words?

• its/their/they're

• run/jump/skip

• blue/red/green

• quickly/slowly/softly

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Combining sentences correctly involves using what?

• Punctuation and conjunctions properly.

• Capital letters only.

• Numbers and symbols.

• Random words and phrases.

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CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

List one rule for parallelism in lists.

• Lists in a sentence should follow the same grammatical pattern.

• Lists should always be written in alphabetical order.

• Lists must contain at least five items.

• Lists should use only singular nouns.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

What is the proper use of semicolons, colons, and commas important for?

• Proper sentence structure and clarity.

• Decorating sentences with symbols.

• Making sentences longer.

• Replacing all periods in writing.

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What does subject-verb agreement mean?

• The subject and verb in a sentence must agree.

• The subject and verb must always be singular.

• The subject and verb must always be plural.

• The subject and verb can be any form regardless of number.

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CCSS.L.3.1F

What should you focus on when analyzing the poem 'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden?

• Tone and theme, figurative language and imagery, and narrator’s perspective.

• Rhyme scheme, historical context, and author’s biography.

• Only the literal meaning of the words.

• The poem’s publication date and publisher.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How does the narrator’s perspective shift throughout 'Those Winter Sundays'?

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is diction and what is its emotional impact in lines like “No one ever thanked him”?

• Diction refers to the choice of words and their emotional impact in a text.

• Diction is the use of rhyme and meter in poetry.

• Diction refers to the length of sentences in a passage.

• Diction is the use of figurative language such as similes and metaphors.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9