Writing Semester Benchmark Review

The mode of writing that tells a story.

Choose the correct verb. The violinists who performed the duet ___ together quite often.

What is the noun in the sentence? The data has been helpful.

While driving through town, we saw kids building snowmen and dogs running through the snow.

A short piece of nonfiction writing on a single topic.

The mode of writing that introduces a claim, organizes reasons and evidence, and uses credible sources.

Creating and describing characters in literature.

Select the sentence fragment.

A type of language that appeals to the readers 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch)

The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work.

A sentence that contains one independent clause.

Sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, drama, or narrative poem.

Choose the correct verb. We ____ new shoes.

Time and place in which events in a short story, novel, drama, or narrative poem take place.

Fill in the blank with the correct verb. Mr. Smith ______ my sister's math class.

Using another person or source’s words or ideas without giving credit or obtaining permission

A source that is unbiased and is backed up with evidence.

The mode of writing containing essays and reports about topics, maintains an organized structure and formal style.

Which sentence is the word rich used as a predicate adjective?

Contains 2 or more independent clauses.

When writers put their ideas down on paper in sentences and paragraphs

In research, to directly copy down the words from a source, set off in quotation marks

A literary device an author uses to show conversation between characters.

After dinner, he took a nap.

Contains independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

Scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.

Events following the climax; conflict moves towards a resolution.

An assertion of the truth.

Contains 2 or more independent clauses and 1 or more dependent clauses.

Struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.

Which sentence has correct capitalization?

What is the complete subject of the sentence? Adult lions hunt other mammals.

What is the verb in the sentence? Tom planted tomatoes in his garden.

Tells the reader what the paragraph is going to be about and is usually the first sentence.

We went sledding, and they went skiing.

The snow is cold.