7th ELA 1st Semester Review

Who are the real monsters on Maple Street in "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"?

POV: Jilly laughed as she pulled the door opened. She knew this was going to be a great school year. Ben agreed!

A passage about the landmarks in Florida is...

At the end of, "Dark They Were..." what does the lieutenant from Earth encounter in the hills?

What event signals the beginning of the town's troubles in "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"?

POV: You should chose a school in a location you like. If you do not like the city, then you might not like the school.

Define: Foretaste

What does Marley mean when he says that his chain was made "link by link" in "A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley."

The alarm yelled at me to get up.

She is as graceful as a swan.

A character that changes a lot in a story is...

The new irrigation system will turn this __________ desert into productive farmland.

You make an accurate inference, you need...

I think it is a miracle that all the passengers survived the accident totally ___________________

A Fiction story is true.

In a story, when a reader is given a lot of information about a character, that character is...

The plot of the story centers on a conflict

Riders screamed as the roller coaster ______________ down the track at breakneck speed.

Are we going to allow minor disagreements to __________ the club that we have worked so hard to organize?

Define: Germinate

Define: Humdrum

An inference is directly stated in the passage.

I feel as limp as a dish cloth.

Cratchit child that dies in the story...

Which of the following is true for rising action?

In a story, when a reader is NOT given a lot of information about a character, that character is...

Define: Disrupt

How long has Jacob Marley been dead?

The rising action is where the conflict is resolved.

The conflict is usually introduced near the end of the story.

When the police discovered evidence of foul play, the man's death was ruled a _____________________.

What we want to do is ________________ the old house without harming its charm or beauty.

In, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," who discussed aliens, causing people to be suspicious?

POV: I stared at the sad puppy and felt an instant connection. I picked up the injured dog and took it home to mom.

In, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed," what is Mr. Bittering's first sign his world is changing?

In, "Two Kinds," why does the daughter play badly?

What Christmas ghost visited Scrooge 1st?

Define: Interrogate

In, "Two Kinds," what does the mother hope for her daughter?

Which of the following is true for climax?

A story with a mermaid is fiction.

He is a bull in a china shop and breaks all of the dishes.

Your excuse for missing practice was so _________________ that even a child would have seen right through it.

A character that doesn't change in a story is...

I am so tired, I can sleep for one whole year.

Which of the following is true for resolution?

Unfortunately, nothing any of us said could ________________ Ned from his plan to quit his job.

What does humbug mean?