English 1st 9 Weeks Test Study Guide

Conflicts

• Individual v self

• Individual v technology

• Individual v individual

• Individual v nature

fiction

imaginative work not based on actual people, places, things, or events

nonfiction

work based on actual people, places, things, or events-history-science text book

rising action

characters appearance/feelings before the climax (going up the roller coaster)

resolution•end of the story-where the loose ends are tied up-conflict resolved

setting•where the story takes place

Biography

• story about a person (Not written by that person) ex: Abraham Lincoln-Martin Luther King, Jr.

fact

• can be proved

opinion

• what the author believes-thinks

summarize

•short version of events-plot of the story

purpose

• persuade-inform-entertain

• why you should or should not do something-details-information-funny

prefix

• added to the beginning of words

• un-NOT-unconscious-not conscious-don’t know what’s going on-unstoppable-cannot be stopped-unpaid-did not pay

suffix

• added to the end of words-

• “able to”- inaudible-visible

• “one who” colonists-biologist

• “full of”- miraculous-marvelous

trepidation

•fear• She entered the haunted

house with great trepidation.

rankled

• to cause irritation or resentment; annoy

• She was rankled because the teacher made her do her homework even though she knew she had put it in the homework bin.

“dragging her heals”-

• to show she doesn’t want to do something or participate

debt

•money owed• He has a debt of $500.00 to the

bank.

reluctantly

• hesitatingly

• She reluctantly went to the movie even though she knew she should stay home and study for her English test.