English 12 Final Study Sheet

English 12 Final Study Sheet

OReilly

All SAT words colossus to figurative

(all the words are on the blog)

Identify and know how to punctuate sentences with the following:

compound sentence: I eat cheese, and I drink milk

complex sentence: When I eat cheese, I am happy.

compound complex sentence: When I eat cheese, I am happy, and I feel that the world is alive with the grandeur of God.

participial phrase: Eating cheese, I feel bliss.

prepositional Phrase: In the morning, I eat cheese.

simple sentence:

I eat cheese.

Eating cheese, I feel bliss.

In the morning, I eat cheese.

Know all the literary devices we previously studied:

alliteration

assonance

consonance

homoeoteleuton

allusion

analogy or extended metaphor:

caesura

enjambement

hyperbole

metaphor

metonymy

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

personification:

symbol

internal rhyme

Practice:

What, if anything, is wrong with the following sentences:

1) I eat cheese because I love cheese.

2) Once upon a time I was happy, now my life is in a shambles.

3) On the lovely ranch are happy munching cows and I will go there to drink their ambrosial milk.

4) Contemplating cheese, it occurs to me that cheese—albeit a cultured food— is often misunderstood.

5) I love cheese but sometimes I tire of it but that does not mean I eat soy.

6) She eats too much cheese and feels it makes her more buxom.

7) Although I often contemplate herons flying I cannot fathom their mystique.

8) Now that I know the truth I wonder if he has heard the knows and I hope he hasn't.

Identify the parts of speech above. Look for the following: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, subordinate clause, independent clause, complex/compound sentence