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9th grade Literature and Composition final exam study guide

9^th Literature and Composition

Final Exam Review

The exam is Wednesday 12/20/06 at 8:00 am

Come on time; you’ll need the full two hours.

You’ll have a choice of how much the first two sections are worth:

Quotations 35%/ Grammar 45%

Quotations 50%/ Grammar 30%

Quotation id’s– I’ll give you fairly obvious quotes, you give source, speaker (for The Pearl and Gilgamesh) and significance (at least 2 sentences on significance):

• “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
• The Pearl
• Plato/Aristotle on Art
• Anglo-Saxon poetry/ “The Wanderer”
• Gilgamesh – Only the excerpt in the purple book
• John Donne’s “Meditation XVII”

Grammar covered [here's a good grammar resource] (short answer questions where you fix sentences with errors/ explain errors):

1) Independent/ dependant clauses

2) Comma splices and run-ons

3) Fragments

4) Pronoun agreement

5) The Five Comma Rules – use commas:

a) Between items in a series, including coordinate adjectives

b) Between independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction

c) Before and after nonrestrictive phrases and clauses

d) After introductory phrases and clauses

e) For clarity (use this sparingly)

Vocabulary covered (crossword and short answer):

From “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”:

Cowered Gait Cunningly Kerosene Rubbish Impotent

Cantonment Fledglings Masonry Valiant Fibres Kerosene

Consolation Kerosene Immensely Verandah

From Anglo-Saxon poetry:

Thanes Ringgiver Peaceweaver Alliteration Kenning

posted by Jenny Caudle Crisp @ 3:42 PM