Review for 2nd 9 weeks Benchmark

VERBALS:

1. Gerund: ends in -ing; looks like a verb, acts like a Noun (S, DO, PN, OP)

EX: Dancing is fun.

I love dancing.

My favorite hobby is dancing.

My love for dancing grows each day.

2. Participle:ends in -ing or -ed; looks like a verb, acts like ADJ.

EX: I am a dancing queen.

3. Infinitive: looks like a verb, acts like a Noun; to + verb

EX: I love to dance.

Review The Tell-Tale Heart vocab.

1.acute: sharp; sensitive
2. vexed: disturbed; annoyed
3. sagacity: intelligence and good judgment
4. refrained: held back
5. wary: cautious
6. suavity: smoothness; politeness
7. audacity: boldness
8.vehemently: forcefully; passionately
9. gesticulations: energetic gestures; waving hands around
10. derision: contempt; ridicule; mock; make fun of

Review tone & mood (in your prewrite for Raven paper):

1. Tone—

2. Mood—

Conflict:

Man vs. nature—

Man vs. society—

Man vs. himself—

Foreshadowing—

Theme—overall lesson or moral to be learned from story

Review Active & Passive Voice

1. Active—the subject is acting (subject is doing the verb)

EX: She danced the night away.

2. Passive—the subject is being acted upon; usually includes a helping verb and the preposition “by”.

EX: The dog was hit by the car.

Interrogative Mood Verb—a sentence that asks a question

EX: Who dumped the trash on the floor?

Appositives—

Subordinating conjunctions:

Although

After

Before

Since

If

While

When

Whenever

Poetic Devices:

Alliteration

Assonance

Internal Rhyme

Types of sentences:

Declarative

Interrogative

Imperative

Exclamatory

Point of View:

First person—writing that uses I, me, my, mine, we, us

Second person—writing that uses you, your, your

Third person—writing that uses he, she, them, they, her, him

Third person omniscient—same as 3rd person, but narrator knows the thoughts & actions of all characters

Review Raven vocab.

  1. dreary: dull, tiresome
  2. pondered: mulled over
  3. quaint: odd, singular, old fashioned
  4. lore: traditional knowledge
  5. ember: smoldering fragment of wood
  6. wrought: caused to happen
  7. surcease: pause, delay
  8. entreating: seeking
  9. implore: ask for
  10. lattice: framing, windowpanes
  11. obeisance: bowing as a sign of reverence
  12. mien: manner or attitude
  13. Pallas: Athena- Greek goddess of wisdom
  14. ebony: dark colored
  15. beguiling: charming, bewitching
  16. fancy: imagination
  17. decorum: formality
  18. countenance: face
  19. shorn: cut
  20. craven: coward
  21. ghastly: horrible
  22. Plutonian: pertaining to the classical underworld
  23. ungainly: awkward, clumsy
  24. fowl: bird
  25. discourse: conversation
  26. relevancy: significance
  27. placid: calm
  28. aptly: competently
  29. dirges: funeral songs
  30. melancholy: sad, gloomy
  31. diving: speculation, conjecturing
  32. gloating: exulting, celebrating
  33. censer: a container in which incense is burned
  34. Seraphim: angels
  35. tufted: decorated with feathery threads
  36. wretch: scoundrel, miscreant
  37. respite: repose, rest
  38. nepenthe: a drink which makes one forget sorrow
  39. quaff: drink
  40. tempest: storm
  41. Is there any balm in Gilead?: a biblical allusion, something like: “Is there anything to ease my sadness?”
  42. Aidenn: the Garden of Eden
  43. radiant: bright
  44. fiend: demon, villain
  45. plume: feather tuft
  46. pallid: pale