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DUE BEFORE TEST (MUST BE COMPLETE!)
on your own paper please
READING COMPREHENTION
Use your understanding of reading to define and explain how to find the following
information:
Author’s Purpose
Drawing Conclusions
Making an Inference
Figurative Language
Flashback
Chronological
Synthesize (Combine Ideas)
Point of View (1st and 3rd)
Summary
Main Idea
Detail
Edit
Revise
STORY PLOT
Define the following words as related to story plot. Give an example of each from one of the
stories that we have read this semester. Label and include the exampled on the plot diagram.
Point of View (each kind)
Conflict (External /Internal)
Setting
Falling Action
Character Traits (Physical/Mental)
Chronological order
Resolution
Climax
Theme
Dénouement
Rising Action
GRAMMAR
Define the following grammar terms and write an example demonstrating each:
Simple Sentence
FANBOYS (compound sentence)
Transition Words
Colon :
Semicolon ;
Hyphen -
Review Questions-answer on your own paper
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1. What should a proper summary contain?
2. What should a proper summary NOT contain?
3. How can you determine that something is a detail
rather than a main idea?
4. Write a proper summary of Rikki Tikki Tavi.
5. Find 3 examples of figurative language in Rikki Tikki Tavi. Label each
(simile, metaphor, personification, etc...)
6. Translate each of your examples into plain, literal language.
7. When Rikki-Tikki first comes to the garden, a conflict is introduced.
Whom is the conflict between?
8. After Rikki-Tikki kills Karait, how does he feel?
9. Why do Nag and Nagaina want to do away with the entire English
family?
10. The climax of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” occurs when
11. What events occur after the resolution of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”?
12. What is an example of an internal conflict within the story?
13. What is an example of external conflict in the story?
14. What is the authors purpose for not describing what happens in the
cobra’s hole?
15. Consider the five basic plot elements: exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action, and resolution. In an essay, describe an event in “RikkiTikki-Tavi” that illustrates each element. Then, explain why you think
the plot elements do or do not create a satisfying story.
Answer on your own paper.