7^th & 8^th Study Guide for Language Arts Final

1. Writing and Grammar
   1. Writing well constructed paragraphs, to narrate a story, to persuade, to compare and contrast
   2. Integrating quotations from sources, acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism
2. Speaking
   1. Organize an outline & know the elements of an extemporaneous speech
3. Grammar
   1. Punctuation based on sentence structure including:
      1. Semi-colons, commas with phrases and clauses
   2. Review other punctuation including:
      1. Quotations, dialogue
      2. Parentheses, Hyphens & Dashes, Colons, Italics, Apostrophes
   3. Parallelism
      1. Parallelism is expressing ideas of equal importance using the same grammatical constructions
         1. Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, yet)
         2. compare and contrast
         3. correlative (both…and, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also)
   4. Parts of speech (verb, noun, subject & complete subject, predicate and complete predicate, object, pronoun, preposition, article, gerund)
   5. Sentence structure and variety
   6. The 6 Verb Tenses and participles
4. Spelling and vocabulary
5. Poems
   1. Because I could not stop for Death
   2. The Charge of the Light Brigade
   3. Dulce et Decorum Est
6. Short stories
   1. The Bet
   2. The Open Boat
   3. Shooting An Elephant
7. Novels, Plays & autobiography
   1. Elements of fiction
   2. The Good Earth or To Kill a Mockingbird
   3. Why the Caged Bird Sings
   4. Twelfth Night
   5. Animal Farm
   6. The House on Mango Street
8. Essays and Speeches: Ask not What your Country can do for you", "I have a dream"
9. Drama – Twelfth Night
   1. Elements of Drama: Tragedy, comedy, conflict, suspense, rising and falling action, climax, soliloquies and asides
10. Literary Terms:
    1. Irony, Flashbacks and foreshadowing, hyperbole, oxymoron, parody
11. Foreign Phrases commonly used in English