ELA Basics Quiz (Q1, Week 3)

Fables and Morals

• The Tortoise won the race against the Hare due to his perseverance and steady efforts, despite being slow.

Reading Strategies

• Close reading is a purposeful and repetitive reading of a text to gain a deeper understanding of the author's message and literary devices used.

Poetry Analysis

• The poem 'A Dream Deferred' by Langston Hughes explores the consequences of postponing or neglecting one's aspirations and desires.

Writing Techniques

• Imitating sentences of great authors helps to develop one's writing style and skills, by learning from the masters.

Sentence Structure

• To combine sentences and imitate the model sentence 'Twisting and punching and kicking, the two boys rolled across the floor', use participial phrases to create a vivid description of the scene.

Parts of Speech

• The function of an adjective in a sentence is to modify or describe a noun or pronoun, providing more information about its qualities.

Sentence Components

• A sentence is missing a subject if it lacks a noun or pronoun performing the action described by the verb.
• The main difference between a subject and a predicate is that the subject is the doer of the action, while the predicate is the action itself.

Test your knowledge of ELA basics in this quiz covering literary terms, close-reading and annotation, introduction to poetry, sentence construction, and punctuation. Prepare for the test on Wednesday and quiz on Friday by practicing with IXL Sentence Construction and reviewing Chapter 1 of "Seven Habits". Don't forget the MUG Shot, Imitation, Opening Adjective, and the saying "IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY".