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Achieving Success on the Final

 

1. Review literary and rhetorical terms:

           

            alliteration

            allusion

            analogy

            anaphora

            antithesis

            assonance

            asyndeton

            consonance

            diction

            foreshadowing

            irony

            juxtaposition

            metaphor

            metonymy

            mood

            onomatopoeia

            paradox

            personification

            polysyndeton

            simile

            symbol

            syntax

            theme

            tone

2. Review sentence types:

                       

            compound

            compound-complex

            declarative

            imperative

            interrogative

            loose

            periodic

simple

 

3. Review grammar and mechanics:

 

• parallel construction/syntax
• parts of speech
• pronoun-antecedent agreement
• punctuation: commas, semicolons, colons, apostrophes, and capitalization
• sentence fragments and run-ons
• subject-verb agreement
• subordination

 4.  Review vocabulary:

 

• connotation and denotation
• determining meanings from contextual clues
• review vocabulary in logs

 5.  Review general skills:

 

• determining implicit meanings
• determining theme and main ideas
• rhetorical strategies: use of diction and manipulation of syntax