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What is parallelism?
repeating a metaphor for emphasis
repeating a simile for emphasis
repeated grammatical structure for emphasis
repeating the same word or phrase for emphasis
2
This photo is of what SAT list 9, vocabulary word?
Glacial
Congeal
Effusive
3
What are transitional words?
first, next, then, last
because
the, is
4
Abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events
Metaphor
Rhyme
Allegory
Fantasy
5
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions -
Punctuation
B. entrepreneur:
D. entrepreneur,
C. entrepreneur; he
A. NO CHANGE
6
The fat cat sat on a mat and wore a hat.
alliteration
simile
rhyme
idiom
7
The lesson taught in the work
Memoir
Moral
Fantasy
Drama
8
The time and place of action of a story
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Speech
Voice
9
Participles are verb forms ending
"ING"
- They however, describe a noun.
True
False
10
Find a Synonym for: -
Senseless, Absurd, Unreasonable
Waylay
Begrudge
Irrational
Effusive
11
A conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of the story
Flashback
Imagery
Hyperbole
Fantasy
12
True/False: You Should place a comma before an apositive?
false
true
13
What is a preposistion?
examples are: words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to." Prepositions in
describes a noun
person, place of thing
a word that shows a particular relationship, such a dirction or location
14
Define: Taciturn
Someone who is reserved and not talkative
very talkative
Power obsessed
15
What is the first thing you should have before writing?
A purpose
A answer
An Idea
A light bulb moment
16
After the conflict of the story
Diction
Fiction
Falling Action
Rhyme
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A special kind of contrast between appearance and reality. Situational, Dramatic, and Verbal
Irony
Paradox
Refrian
Structure
18
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions -
Punctuation
D. Box, an associate professor of geology, at Ohio State
A. NO CHANGE
B. Box an associate professor of geology at Ohio State
C. Box, an associate professor of geology at Ohio State,
19
Define: Miserly
tight
polite
mean
Grinch Like/Scrooge
20
SAT Vocab: Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas is the definition of what word?
Copy Cat
Plagiarism
Cut and Paste
Piracy
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What is an example of an appositive?
Aarron Judge, a baseball player for the Yankees
Michael Myers, a fictional serieal killer from Haddenfield, IL.
James Bond, a secret agent for the British Secret Service
Jeff, a student at Maloney High Scchool in Meriden.
22
Which is the shortest form of fictional writing?
Flash Fiction
Short Story
Novellette
Novella
23
After observing territorial fights, Goodall had to revise her earlier opinion that these apes were always_____ animals
Peaceful
ignorant
Cruel
24
What does "revise" mean in the Writing Process?
Making changes to make your story better.
Retelling your story.
Conferencing with Teacher Courtney.
Writing a first draft of your story.
25
Both______ and____, the man seldom spoke and never spent money.
garrulous and stingy
vociferous and generous
effusive and frugal
taciturn and miserly
26
Which uses the vocab word "disciplined" best/correctly?
The gymnast was disciplined and practiced for 3 hours a day.
The train was disciplined on time.
Wash all the disciplines.
27
A judgement made before all the facts are known must be called___
harsh
sensible
premature
fair
28
Creative writing will help me improve my overall writing skills.
True
False
29
An abstract noun is something you can touch with your hands.
True
False
30
Bob sat still unable to ___ what he was witnessing.
stifle
fathom
obscure
31
Hoping to ____ the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be ____ to both labor and management
enforce...... useful
end..... divisive
extend.......satisfactory
resolve.....acceptable
32
The people who take part in the action of a story, a novel or drama
Poem
Rhyme
Characters
Allusion
33
What is this? (HINT: Think VOCAB words)
A man's purse
Luggage
valise
A bowl
34
T/F Think about the meaning of the sentence before you look at the choices
True
False
35
How do you start writing creatively?
Experiment with all different types till you find one that you enjoy
Revise and Proofread
Have fun with it!
If you get stuck, work on a mini project,a small poem, a 100 word story
36
MLK Jr.’s speech had a positive _________ on my outlook on life.
uhhhh
affect
idk
effect
37
The attitude a writer takes toward a subject
Tone
Tragedy
Diction
38
When the reader's interest and emotional intensity reach the highest point
Comic Relief
Narrator
Metaphor
Climax
39
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Punctuation
D. task, digital artist Eldar Zakirov,
B. task, digital artist, Eldar Zakirov,
C. task digital artist Eldar Zakirov,
A. NO CHANGE
40
What is parallelism?
A comparison made between two things.
Repetition of words/phrases that have the same structure.
Two contrasting ideas next to each other.
41
An autobiography is a piece of writing about a person, but written by that person.
True
False
42
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions -
Punctuation
C. could have polluted waterways,
B. can pollute waterway's,
D. has polluted waterway's
A. NO CHANGE
43
A writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later
Foreshadowing
Satire
Speech
Dialect
44
What is the purpose of transitional words?
To connect one idea to the next idea that makes sense.
To make you do more work.
Make the paper more difficult to read.
45
Our ancestors left mysterious and creative art pieces that were unearthed.
saga
ancestral
recreational
artistry
46
How can I share/publish my writing with the world?
Registering for Pen/Faulkner's creative writing workshop series
Through Kidblog or EDU blog
By posting comments in response to something I read on a news site
By registering for 826 Digital's video writing prompt youtube channel
47
The research is so_________ that it leaves no part of the issue unexamined.
economical
Comprehensive
rewarding
probematic
48
You can describe your summer plans in writing?
False
True
49
Events in a story that move the plot along by adding complications or expanding the conflict
Analogy
Character
Rising Action
Scene
50
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Usage
A. NO CHANGE
C. who uses
D. who use
B. whom uses
51
Gerunds are specialized verbs ending in "ing".
True
False
52
What are subject pronouns?
I,you,he,she,it,we,they.
We,you,they,her,us,him.
I,you,he,she,it,we,them.
53
What are the object pronouns?
my,me,mine,her,his.
Me,you,him,her,it,us,you,them.
their are none.
Me,you,him,her,it,us,you,they.
54
What is an adverb?
Describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb.
A short word that takes the place of a noun.
Tells what the noun does or is…
55
Why is creative writing written?
only for entertaining purposes
education
for fun
written to entertain and educate
56
Which tense below represents an infinity?
walk
To run
he walked very slowly
the mouse was in the house
57
What is a
preposistion
word preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another
Shows relation to another conjunction
Shows relation to another adjective
Shows relation to another verb
58
Ravens appear to behave____, actively helping one another to fine food
combative
cooperatively
mysteriously
warily
59
An infinitive form of a verb is always preceded by the word
'to'.
False
True
60
The method of narrating a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of fiction
Stanza
Aside
Point of View (POV)
Refrain
61
What can you expect from an SAT passage:
A set of questions follows each passage or pair of related passages
passages are about 100-850 words
Sometimes you get 2 separate opinions on the issue.
The passages very in style and tone/narrative, persuasive, expository..
62
What is the correct
preposistion
in the sentence: The Rooms
in
my house.
rooms
Rooms
my
in
63
What is Parallelism?
similarity in structure in a series of words or phrases
a math problem
64
Which vocab word doesn't belong?
poo
feces
excrement
urine
65
Which vocab word can describe a serious student?
swoon
trigonometry
cynic
scholar
66
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Punctuation
B. scientists: and
D. scientists, and,
C. scientists, and
A. NO CHANGE
67
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Punctuation
B. ethic:
A. NO CHANGE
C. ethic, and
D. ethic,
68
Although its publicity has been____, the film itself is intelligent, well acted, handsomely produced, and altogether___
tasteles......respectable
risque'......crude
extensive......moderate
perfect......spectacular
69
What do transitional words do for the passage?
Give a logical pathway to the next passage
Explain how parts of the sentence should relate to other parts
Key to figure out the sentnce
Help with contextual clues to identify sentence meanings
70
What are the five categories of transitional words?
Time, Location, Compare, Comtrast, Additions
Time, Location, logic relations, Compare/Contrast, Additions
Time, Location, Logical Comparisions, Additions, Place
71
What is Critical Reading?
a section of short reading passaged by long comprehension questions
Making fun of somebody reading a book
Sentence Completion-Incomplete sentences with multiple-choice answers
A long (400-900 words) reading passage testing the same
72
What is the sequence of events in a story?
Speech
Plot
Theme
Antagonist
73
A narrator who is a character in the story and uses the pronouns I, me, and my.
Comedy
Imagery
First Person
Hyperbole
74
Parallelism is...
Attribution of a lifelike quality to inanimate object/idea
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases/words
Similarity of structure in a pair/series of words/phrases
75
T/F-Watch for key introductory and transitional words that determine how the part of the sentence relate.
True
False
76
Which uses the vocab word: Marrow best/correctly?
He decided to marrow himself.
The dog chewed the bone in order to get to get to the marrow.
The marrow went from here to there.
77
If I sat on the bus
complacently
, I could be described as all of the following
except:
content
pleasant
ecstatic
calm
78
A person, a place, an activity or an object that stands for something beyond itself
Drama
Symbol
Ballad
79
Which are possessive pronouns?
Theirs, his, ours
That, which, who
Myself, himself, ourself
Each other, one another
80
Also called Climax. The reader's interest and emotional intensity reach the highest point
Biography
Turning Point
Black Verse
Nonfiction
81
The SAT test has 2 major sections (English and Math)
False
True
82
The Supreme Court's reversal of its previous ruling on the issue of states' rights__ its reputation for ___
dispelled/vacillaton
compromised/consistency
bolstered/doggedness
83
Carl has written a creative writing piece. But he has written every sentence in a different font
. Which trait is this?
Presentation
Moderation
Collaboration
Organisation
84
This question could __________ you if you haven't studied your vocab list!
fawn
slough
bemuse
85
The SAT Has 2 types of Sentence completion questions: _____________ and__________
vocabulary in context and logic based
Open ended and closed ended.
Conjucntions and illogical based query
86
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Punctuation
A. NO CHANGE
B. bodies' biological clocks',
D. body's biological clock's,
C. body's biological clocks,
87
External: A character pitted against an outside force Internal: Occurs within the character
Conflict
Idiom
Narrator
88
SAT Writing - Standard English Conventions - Usage
C. its
D. it's
B. there
A. NO CHANGE
89
Ideas or customs are
ridiculed
for the purpose of improving society
Satire
Dialogue
Act
90
What do transitional words do?
Both are correct
Shows relationship between sentences
Shows relationship between things
91
T/F
Know your vocabulary.
Think carefully about the meanings of the words in the answer choices
True
False
92
The main idea in a work of literature
Plot Twist
Theme
Plot
93
The narrator is third person but knows the feelings and thoughts of every character
Personification
Rhyme
Style
Omniscient
94
Why is creative writing written?
written to entertain and educate
education
only for entertaining purposes
for fun
95
What can sentence fragmenets express in creative writing?
daddy
Emotion
Coolness
Happiness
96
The narrator is someone outside of the action, not a character writing the story. He, She, They
Third Person
Poem
Memoir
Foil
