First Semester Final Exam

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Her smile was like sunshine.'

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that directly compares two different things without using 'like' or 'as'. Example: 'Time is a thief.'

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What is personification?

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A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts. Example: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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What is a run-on sentence?

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A sentence that incorrectly joins two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunctions.

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What is exposition in a story?

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The part of the plot where characters, setting, and background are introduced, ending when a significant conflict is introduced.

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What are proper nouns?

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Nouns that are capitalized and refer to specific people, places, or organizations. Example: 'New York', 'Elie Wiesel'.

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What is a fragment?

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A group of words that does not express a complete thought and is not a complete sentence.

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What is a phrase?

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A group of words that work together but do not contain a subject-verb pair. Example: 'in the morning'.

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What is a dependent clause?

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A group of words that contains a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

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What is rising action in a story?

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The series of events that lead up to the climax, building tension and developing the conflict.