Midterm Prep

Which of the following is adjectives shifted out of order?

a) The tall, green-eyed model stomped her way down the catwalk.

b) The cat, orange and happy, jumped on the rat.

c) Her dad, a truck driver, liked to race classic cars.

d) The long, tiring semester was almost over!

Which of the following is correct?

What 3 components does a basic thesis statement need?

a) Your going to the movies this Saturday?

b) Where are you're cookies?

c) You're going to France!

d) Your the winner!

Which of the following is an appositive?

A) a hook, background information, and stance

B) a narrowed topic, hook, and justifying cause

C) a narrowed topic, judgment, and reason

a) The president, a tall man, walked to the podium.

b) Smiling and laughing, she ran to the stage.

c) The car, dented and rusty, raced into the parking lot.

d) The cat, happy and alive, played in the grass.

Which of the following has two correctly combined sentences?

A) Although I like pizza; I ordered the calzone.

B) I like bird watching, but my sister doesn't.

C) John likes to hike, Mike runs marathons.

D) A & B

Success.

True (A) or False (B)

Which of the following is correct?

Mood deals with the author's feelings towards a subject while tone deals with how the audience receives the information.

a) There refers to place, and their is a contraction.

b) You're is the possessive, and your is a contraction.

c) Their refers to place, and they're refers to the possessive of they.

d) Their is the possessive form of they, and there refers to place.

SIDE B

Grammar

Choose one of the fragments below and repair it.

Which of the following sentence does not have a subject/verb agreement problem?

Which of the following is the best definition of denotation?

A) The box of cookies are on the table.

B) The crowd of students are taking an exam.

C) The captain, as well as the players, is anxious.

D) The United States is a great place to visit.

A) When you annotate with an eye for diction.

B) The secondary meaning of a word; its emotional baggage.

C) The definition of a word you'd find in a dictionary.

D) The images and ideas associated with a word.

A) While I was driving.

B) After eating lunch.

C) While I was watching TV

Which of the following best defines allegory?

Which of the following is a correctly combined sentence?

A) when you contrast two things side by side

B) when you reference a commonly known cultural fact

C)when a story works on two levels

D) when a story is primarily abstract and postmodern

A) I like running and my sister likes jogging.

B) She likes swimming, I prefer tennis.

C) While watching the movie; I ate popcorn.

D) My mother's name is Ann, and John's father's name is Chaz.

What does the E in T.E.X.A.S stand for?

Hydr means which of the following

Graph means which of the following

a) explain

b) example

c) expound

d) expand

a) measure

b) beast

c) water

d) circle

a) visual

b) written

c) one

d) study

Which of the following are synonyms for "thesis statement?"

A) Claim

B) Stance

C) Argument

D) All of the above

E) None of the above

Which of the following is a thesis statement?

A) Greenhouse gas emission are on the rise. Many countries are worried about it.

B) People with college degrees typically earn more money than those with only high school diplomas.

C) Organic food is more expensive than industrially produced food, which makes it primarily a resource for the wealthy.

D) All of the above

E) None of the above

Why do we use the Quote Sandwich?

Midterm Prep

a) to avoid "hit and run" quotes

b) to cite our sources properly

c) to integrate evidence smoothly

d) all of the above

Study for the Final!