English 1st 9 Weeks Test Study Guide

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• English 1st 9 Weeks Test Study Guide

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Conflicts

• Individual v self
• Individual v technology
• Individual v individual
• Individual v nature

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fiction

• imaginative work not based on actual people,
  places, things, or events

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nonfiction

• work based on actual people, places, things, or
  events-history-science text book

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rising action

• characters appearance/feelings before the climax
  (going up the roller coaster)

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resolution

• end of the story-where the loose ends are tied
  up-conflict resolved

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setting

• where the story takes place

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Biography

• story about a person (Not written by that person)
  ex Abraham Lincoln-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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fact

• can be proved

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opinion

• what the author believes-thinks

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summarize

• short version of events-plot of the story

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purpose

• persuade-inform-entertain
• why you should or should not do
  something-details-information-funny

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prefix

• added to the beginning of words
• un-NOT-unconscious-not conscious-dont know
  whats going on-unstoppable-cannot be
  stopped-unpaid-did not pay

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suffix

• added to the end of words-
• able to- inaudible-visible
• one who colonists-biologist
• full of- miraculous-marvelous

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trepidation

• fear
• She entered the haunted house with great
  trepidation.

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rankled

• to cause irritation or resentment annoy
• She was rankled because the teacher made her do
  her homework even though she knew she had put it
  in the homework bin.

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dragging her heals-

• to show she doesnt want to do something or
  participate

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debt

• money owed
• He has a debt of 500.00 to the bank.

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reluctantly

• hesitatingly
• She reluctantly went to the movie even though she
  knew she should stay home and study for her
  English test.