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Grade 7: End of Level Test English Language Arts (ELA) 2012-2013 / Mr. Murray

The concepts enumerated below will appear on your end-of-year assessment. Your final exam is scheduled for Thursday, June 6th. Please adequately prepare for this test as it will be included in your ELA folders. (These are eventually passed on to your high school.)

Literary Mood Common in poetry – Thanksgiving Need Frustration Blessing

Figures of Speech: Metaphor Simile (uses “like” or “as” in comparison) Alliteration (repeating consonant sound)

Noun Syntax: DO = Direct Object *transitive verbs IO = Indirect Object *need an D.O. SC = Subject Complement [PA and PN = Predicate Adjective and Predicate Noun] APP = Appositive [Ex: Patrick Kane, __Pat Bartol’s favorite hockey player__, is…
 * linking verbs

Types of Prepositional Phrases: Adverbial and Adjectival Phrases

Types of Dependent Clauses: Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses

Sentence Revisions: Combining sentences – conjunction usage Fragments – fixing them (add subject or predicate)

Types of Sentences: CD / CX sentences


 * My brother and I – as subjects (place yourself second, but still important)

Pronouns: Antecedents

Verbs: Tense – BE CONSISTENT (within sentences and paragraphs) Voice – from passive to active

Genres of Writing: Fantasy (Horror) Persuasive Personal narrative Comparison/contrast

Point-of-View: First-Person (“I”) Second-Person (“You”) Third-Person (“He, she, they, it”)
 * omniscient (knowing everything) and limited (knowing finite amount of details)

Transition words for C/C EX: On the other hand, nevertheless, on the contrary, similarly, in contrast Dialogue punctuation: “I don’t know, ” said Bob. “This is confusing.”

Noun/verb pattern in CX sentence – no coordinators / just subordinators
 * Reverse sentence (with adverb clause) and it still makes sense

Suffixes Part of Speech (general pattern) -ion, -ate, -ed, -ing -y, -tion, -ize, -or

Word Bases meanings phon = relates to hearing/listening meter = relates to a unit of measurement milli = 1,000 astro = outer space / outer limits

Prefixes meaning pro- = for / in support in- = not un- = not re- = again