Grammar Poetry and Drama Drama Poetry Simple Compound

Grammar, Poetry and Drama!

Drama Poetry Simple, Compound, Complex Phrases Clauses 10 10 10 20 20 20 30 30 30 40 40 40 50 50 50

Drama– 10 Points QUESTION: • Put the words (Scene, Act, and Play) in order of largest part of the play to smallest ANSWER: • Play, Act, and Scene

Drama– 20 Points QUESTION: • Define monologue ANSWER: • A longish speech spoken by a single character to other characters on stage.

Drama– 30 Points QUESTION: • Define soliloquy ANSWER: • A long speech by one character spoken while alone on stage that shows the character’s thoughts and emotions.

Drama– 40 Points QUESTION: Macbeth (Scene 5, Lines 58 -60) Macbeth: My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight. Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence? Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes. Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see. This excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare is an example of: 1. aside 2. monologue 3. soliloquy 4. dialogue 5. stage directions ANSWER: • Dialogue

Drama– 50 Points QUESTION: • Why would a playwright decided to use a monologue rather than a soliloquy? ANSWER: • A monologue is a long speech by one character to another, which would allow the characters to better understand each other or to allow their personality to show. A soliloquy is written to show those things to the audience, but not to other characters on stage.

Poetry– 10 Points QUESTION: • This is an example of what type of poetry? • Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O how shall summer's honey breath hold out, Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays? O fearful meditation, where alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back, Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? O none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright. ANSWER: • Sonnet

Poetry– 20 Points QUESTION: • What structure of poetry is this? A summer river being crossed how pleasing with sandals in my hands! ANSWER: • Haiku

Poetry– 30 Points QUESTION: • What type of poetry is this? “There was an old man from Peru Who dreamt he was eating his shoe. He awoke in a fright In the middle of the night And found it was perfectly true. ” ANSWER: • Limerick

Poetry– 40 Points QUESTION: • What is the rhyme scheme of this verse? My penmanship is pretty bad. My printing’s plainly awful. In truth, my writing looks so sad it ought to be unlawful. ANSWER: • A, B, A, B

Poetry– 50 Points QUESTION: • How does the last line of a limerick add to its meaning? ANSWER: • The last line of the limerick is its punchline and gives the reader a laugh.

Simple, Compound, Complex– 10 Points QUESTION: • Have you seen Mr. Marks’ garden at the back of his house? ANSWER: • Simple

Simple, Compound, Complex – 20 Points QUESTION: • Wandering aimlessly up the path, Ms. Fry approached the house. ANSWER: • Simple

Simple, Compound, Complex– 30 Points QUESTION: • I worked all morning, and then I relaxed in the afternoon. ANSWER: • Compound

Simple, Compound, Complex– 40 Points QUESTION: • I must stay home until the man comes to repair the refrigerator. ANSWER: • Complex

Simple, Compound, Complex – 50 Points QUESTION: • Dave began to feel better before the doctor arrived. ANSWER: • Complex

Phrases– 10 Points QUESTION: Which word is NOT a preposition? 1. between 2. against 3. for 4. better ANSWER: • Better

Phrases– 20 Points QUESTION: • Identify all prepositional phrases in the sentence: • The book on the table in the English classroom is Barbara's book. ANSWER: • On the table, in the English classroom

Phrases – 30 Points QUESTION: • Identify the adverbial prepositional phrase in the sentence: • Will you come to the party at my house? ANSWER: • To the party

Phrases – 40 Points QUESTION: • Identify the type of phrase underlined in the sentence: • Rising out of the sea in front of us, the sun started to warm our faces. ANSWER: • Participial phrase

Phrases– 50 Points QUESTION: • Rewrite this sentence so that there is no dangling modifier: • Disappointed almost to the point of tears, an empty test tube was the worst outcome possible. ANSWER: • Disappointed almost to the point of tears, I knew that an empty test tube was the worst outcome possible.

Clauses – 10 Points QUESTION: • Is the underline clause dependent or independent? • It is hot today; please water the garden. ANSWER: • Independent (implied subject of ‘you’)

Clauses– 20 Points QUESTION: • Add an independent clause to the following clause to make a complete sentence. • After the game on Wednesday, __________ ANSWER: • Can vary

Clauses– 30 Points QUESTION: • Identify the independent clause in the following sentence: • While taking his homework out of his car, Mr. Morton heard a strange laugh coming from the park. ANSWER: Mr. Morton heard a strange laugh coming from the park.

Clauses – 40 Points QUESTION: • Combine these clauses into a grammatically correct sentence: And tugged on the leash The black dog ran ahead of her master Who was named Penny ANSWER: • The black dog, who was named Penny, ran ahead of her master and pulled on the leash.

Clauses – 50 Points QUESTION: • Combine the following clauses into a compound sentence • I want to go to New York in June. We won’t get out until mid -June. The snow made us missing several days of school. ANSWER: • Answers vary