WorksheetsJunior SLO Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Knowing better than anyone else how the state legislature had ignored the needs of the community college system and created a crisis characterized by an uneducated workforce that had no place to go for proper training and realizing that someone had to do something about the situation or the state would begin to lose jobs to states in the American south that were more aggressive in providing and publicizing excellence in education, Representative Fuentes began to lay plans for an education bill that took into consideration the needs of the state's community colleges and the students who attended them.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
This sentence is too long; it must be a run-on.
c)
Even though this sentence is very long, it is actually a fragment.
2.
Coach Espinoza really wants this job with Notre Dame University, she is excited about returning to the college she graduated from.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Fragment: put a comma after from and finish the sentence.
c)
Run-on: change that comma to a period and start a new sentence.
3.
Right after the Christmas holidays and during those three weeks before class begins in January.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Fragment: put a comma after January and finish the sentence.
c)
Run-on: put a comma after holidays.
4.
She ran.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Fragment: the sentence is too short and needs more details to be a complete thought.
5.
Perplexed by the rising rates of inflation and alarmed by the decline in major construction projects.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Run-on: put a comma after inflation.
c)
Fragment: put a comma after projects and finish the sentence.
6.
Anabel realizes what she is doing, I think, but she doing it anyway
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Fragment: we're missing part of a verb
c)
Run-on: change the comma after doing to a semicolon.
7.
Professor Pepin spends a lot of time translating medieval texts on ancient medicine, however, he also stays informed about the latest developments in modern asthma treatments.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Fragment: although this is a long sentence, it's missing part of a verb.
c)
Run-on: remove the verb from the second independent clause.
d)
Run-on: change the comma after medicine to a semicolon.
8.
If we're ever going to get out of here in time, we're going to have to re-write all these papers, set up the desks, and clean the chalkboards; stack those books in the corner and clean up the mess around the wastebasket; notify security about the broken window, the thermostat that Raoul messed up, and the desk that was stolen before we even got here.
a)
There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.
b)
Run-on: the sentence should be broken into three smaller sentences.
c)
Fragment: although the sentence is very long, it's missing a verb string.
d)
Run-on: change those two semicolons to commas.
9.
“he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black” is an example of
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
understatement
d)
pathos
10.
“and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history” is an example of…
a)
metaphor
b)
personification
c)
understatement
d)
pathos
11.
Of what literary device is "he felt his head turn like a stone carving" an example?
a)
parallel structure
b)
onomotopoeia
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
12.
Which of the following is the correct definition of a dynamic character?
a)
one that fits stereotyped roles
b)
one that appears most often in the text
c)
one that has changed over the course of the story
d)
one that has not changed over the course of the story
13.
Who is the dynamic character of Fahrenheit 451?
a)
Montag
b)
Faber
c)
Clarisse
d)
Beatty
14.
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck used Jim Casy to convey the philosophy of _______________
a)
bees?
b)
Confucianism
c)
the oversoul
d)
nihilism
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