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Mastering Language Arts: Test Review Strategies

Learn key writing techniques like show vs. tell, sensory details, and sentence fluency. Explore voice, figurative language, grammar rules, and literary elements. Prepare to ace your language arts test!

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Mastering Language Arts: Test Review Strategies

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  1. Language Arts 1st Semester Test Review

  2. IDEAS: “Show vs. Tell” • Be able to use this in your writing and also be able to determine if an author does this effectively. • “Jimmy was scared.” ---------------------------------------------------------------- Other Terms: • Using “sensory detail”: (5 senses, Kiss writing) • “Imagery” Showing what a seen looks like, vivid description

  3. Organization Types: • Chronological (Order of Sequence/Time) • Order of Importance (1st reasonmost important reason) • Spatial (Appearance such as top to bottom) • Compare/Contrast (Similarities & Differences)

  4. Voice • Figurative Language • Personification: The wind whistled in my ear. • Onomatopoeia: Crash! Boom! • Exaggeration: We waited a year in line. • Metaphor: The ride was a raging beast. • Simile:I turned as red as a tomato. He was like a bull in a china shop.

  5. Voice • I ADD • Writer’s will use these devices to add more feeling: • Inner Thoughts “Will I make it?” • Action “I flew out of my seat and ….” • Dialogue “Don’t leave me!” he screamed. • Description Gleaming in the blinding light, the wrinkled foil wrapper…

  6. Voice: Strong Leads Interest Grabbing Openings • Question • Bold Statement • Description • Dialogue • Onomatopoeia

  7. Sentence Fluency“The puppy went to his food.” • Participial Phrase (ing) Scrambling through the kitchen, the puppy darted towards his bowl. • Adverb (ly) Excitedly, the puppy bounded towards his food bowl. • Adjective Eager and frantic, the puppy raced towards his food.

  8. Sentence Fluency • Appositive • The puppy, a furry rocket, raced towards his food bowl. • Prepositional Phrase With delight the puppy… Through the kitchen… • AAAWWUBIS As Mom placed the dish on the floor, the puppy… When he spotted his red food bowl, he..

  9. Punctuation • Commas after introductory phrases: ing, AAAWWUBIS Opening the door slowly, I peered into the room. Grinning happily, the toddler colored on the wallpaper. If you had showered, I might have gone out with you. When you pick your nose, I feel nauseous. As we approached the haunted house, our teeth began to chatter.

  10. Punctuation • Use a comma and a conjunction to join sentences, so they aren’t run-ons. • I would love to come to your birthday party, but I have to wash my hair. • I am getting another cat, and I’m going to name him Stanley.

  11. Punctuation“Dialogue” • “Go to your room.” demanded Mom. (no) • “Go to your room!” demanded Mom. (ok) • “Go to your room,” demanded Mom. (ok) • “I wonder,” thought Sam, “if I should ask her to dance?” • Nick asked, “When is lunch?”

  12. Grammar: NOUNS • People, Place, Thing, Idea • Frank sells frisbees in Fiji with frenzy. • Jane sells jams in Juneau with joy. • Used in appositives: • The kindergarteners, a herd of monkeys, scampered to the playground. • The substitute, an evil villain, scribbled furiously on detention forms.

  13. Pronouns • Take the place of nouns for fluency. • Personal: I, me, my, you, he, she, they • Demonstrative: this, that, these, those • Interrogative: What, which, who, whose, whom, • Indefinite: Some, any, no one, all, everyone, somebody, many, few

  14. Adjectives • Describe nouns. • (Wanted writings, Kiss paper) • What kind? Blue, furry mold… • How many? A thousand pencils • Dog: shaggy, furry, cute, old, sleepy

  15. Conjunctions • Join words, phrases, sentences. • For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so • I have to go to cheerleading tonight, and I have to study for a math test. • I have to babysit, but I would rather go to the movies with my friends.

  16. Interjections • Show excitement or emotion • Punctuated with a , when the feeling is not as strong and a ! when it is. • Wow! • Yes, I will go with you. • Ouch! • Please, give me a hand.

  17. Reading:Literary Terms • Setting • Characterization • Plot: rising action, climax, falling action, resolution • Conflict • Theme

  18. Pre-Reading Strategies • Look at the title • Look at the pictures • Read about the author • Check out the vocabulary • Read any summaries included • Read the questions first

  19. Genre: Type of Literature • Personal Narrative: A personal story • Science Fiction: Involves space, technology, time travel, scientific discovery. • Fantasy:Animals having human qualities, characters with special powers, imaginary beings, good vs. evil conflict. • Drama: Literature brought to life by characters on stage using dialogue, speaking parts, props, etc. Often 2 acts.

  20. Author’s Purpose • Persuade • Inform • Entertain • Describe

  21. Using Context Clues • If that insubordinate student mouths off one more time, I will give him a detention! • After taking cooking classes, I became a proficient chef. • The vigilant guards paced back in forth in front of the fort.

  22. Making Inferences • Use what the character says, does, and thinks to draw inferences about him/her. • Scrooge: “They owe me money and I will collect!” • Scrooge in his counting house on Christmas Eve. • What can you infer?

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