Final Exam Study Guide

Seventh Grade English

Final Exam Study Guide

A.   Literary Devices: Be able to identify them (matching definition format) and identify them in context with passages from literature.

1.     simile

2.     metaphor

3.     irony

4.     dramatic irony

5.     personification

6.     foreshadowing

7.     hyperbole

8.     symbol

9.     motif

10.  pun

11.  paradox

12.  allusion (literary or biblical)

13.  juxtaposition

14.  anachronism

B). Grammar:

Identify all 8 parts of speech in one or two sentences:

1.     noun

2.     pronoun

3.     verb (action, linking, helping in a verb phrase i.e. “was running” or have worked)

4.     adjective (including articles)

5.     adverb

6.     preposition

7.     conjunction

8.     interjection

Usage: Identify

·      run-on sentences,

·      fragment sentences,

·      complete sentences,

·      compound sentences with comma and conjunction,

·      and compound sentences with semicolons,

·      comma rules (be able to add commas correctly in a sentence)

o   with appositives,

o   introductory phrases/ clauses

o   dialogue. 

Macbeth

·      Review Study Sheet with Quiz Questions

·      Analysis of “Out, Out brief candle” (See your annotated study sheet. You MAY bring these notes to class!)

·      Analysis of 1 of the following passages:

1.     Act I, Scene v, lines 36–52

Lady Macbeth:

The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it…

2.     Act II, Scene ii, lines 55–61

Macbeth

Whence is that knocking?—
How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red. 

Act V, scene i, lines 30–34,

Lady Macbeth

Out, damned spot; out, I say.

 One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky.

 Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard?

What need we fear who knows it

when none can call our power to account?

Yet who would have thought

 the old man to have had so much blood in him?