SAT word final study sheet

All the SAT words , but the vast majority on the test will be on seminal to circumvent

affect and effect
lie and lay
who and whom
pronoun antecedent

identify and properly punctuate the following:
subordinate clause
compound sentence
participial phrase
prepositional phrase
compound sentence
complex sentence
appositive
independent clause/sentence

motif
theme
personification
symbol
metaphor
simile
tone
irony

style

thesis

audience

reliable narrator
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement
MLA formatting

affect/effect

The ___________ of her negative attitude is that everyone avoids her.

I have been ___________________ by her negative attitude.

Through self-control and practice, she managed to change her odd __________________ of batting her eyes all the time.

I can't stand it when people ________________ a superior attitude.
lie/lay

present tense: She ____________ in bed all day.

Yesterday, she ____________ in bed all day.

When I have ____________ in bed all day, I feel lazy.

I ___________ the pen on the table.

I know I have _____________ it somewhere.

Yesterday, I ___________ the pen on the table.

who/whom

I will choose______________ I marry.

I do not know _____________ is getting married.

PA? is this correct?

No one wants their parents to pick their spouse.

Is this correct in formal writing?

I do not think you can be happy if your parents choose your spouse.

Part of speech? any errors?

Before I bit his neck, he smiled at me.

In the evening I leave my coffin.

I love blood and I will suck your neck.

I want to suck your blood and get to know you that way.

Sucking blood from your neck, I am reminded of cheese.

I want to suck your neck and I will suck your blood.

true or false:literary devices

motif=an insight on life

definition theme=recurs throughout the text

the wind howls=personification

he is a dumb bunny=metaphor

he is dumb as camel dung=simile

tone=author's attitude/feeling

symbol=something people respect

style=it is the unique characteristics of the writer's craft

thesis=main idea

audience=defines your purpose/person reading what is written/who the writer is seeking to convince

reliable narrator=a storyteller who is trustworthy

Here's a pretest of sample questions. This will help you with PART of the final:

dentify the underlined part of speech in the sentence below:

1. Because you deny your love of cheese, I said a little prayer to the cheese God.
a) subordinate clause
b) prepositional phrase
c) participial phrase
d) non essential element
e) none of the above

2.By the light of the moon, the cheese glowed.
a) subordinate clause
b) prepositional phrase
c) participial phrase
d) compound sentence
e) complex sentence

3. I want you to love cheese as I do, and I will secretly pray for your cheesiness
a) subordinate clause
b) prepositional phrase
c) independent clause
d) compound sentence
e) complex sentence

4. Loving cheese as I do, I imagine that cheese consumption could lead to world peace.
a) subordinate clause
b) prepositional phrase
c) participial phrase
d) compound sentence
e) complex sentence

5.You scorn my cheese, but you will regret your contemptuous, misguided behaviour and actions.
a) subordinate clause
b) independent clause
c) participial phrase
d) compound sentence
e) complex sentence

6. In heaven I will eat cheese.
a) The sentence is missing a comma after the prepositional phrase.
b) The sentence is missing a comma after the participial phrase.
c) The sentence is missing a comma after the subordinate clause phrase.
d) This is an incomplete sentence.
e) There is nothing wrong with this sentence.

7. “Look at my gorgeous cheese,” she said.
a) The comma should be outside the quotes.
b) “she” should be capitalized
c) This is an incomplete sentence.
d) There is nothing wrong with this sentence.

8. It is not true that cheese “will make you fat and zitty.” (McCheesehate)
a) The quotation marks should be after the word McCheesehate.
b) The period should be after the word McCheesehate.
c) There is nothing wrong with this sentence.
d) The period and the quotes should be after the word McCheesehate.

9. I like to eat pizza and drink mezcal.
a) There should be a comma with the coordinating conjunction.
b) There should be a comma with the conjunctive adverb.
c) There is nothing wrong with this sentence
d) This is an incomplete sentence

10. I like to eat pizza but I do not like to drink mezcal.
a) There should be a comma with the coordinating conjunction.
b) There should be a comma with the conjunctive adverb.
c) There is nothing wrong with this sentence
d) This is an incomplete sentence

11. I don’t like mezcal; however I like cheese.
a) There should be a comma with the coordinating conjunction.
b) There should be a comma after the conjunctive adverb.
c) There is nothing wrong with this sentence
d) This is an incomplete sentence

12. T or F

The difference between a subordinate clause and an independent clause is that an independent clause lacks complete thought:


13. T or F

A sentence must have a subject, a verb, an object and a complete thought :