Midterm Exam Study Guide

By: Emma Estapa

Question #1

Is this sentence active or passive? What is the subject? Verb?

Is Lisa sick today?

Answer

• Type: Passive

• Subject: Lisa

• Verb: Is

Question #2

True or False?

Your thesis statement should include three main points?

Answer

- TRUE

Question #3

What part of an essay is the thesis statement in?

Answer

- Introduction

Question #4

What part of an essay is the broadening sentences in?

Answer

• Conclusion

Question #5

What trait is auditory?

Answer

• Sentence Fluency

Question #6

What trait is spatial, time, content, and perspective orders?

Answer

• Organization

Question #7

What trait is sequencing?

Answer

• Organization

Question #8

What trait does transitions fall under?

Answer

• Organization

Question #9

Worrying about this when editing is what trait?

Answer

• Conventions

Question #10

What trait can you not use slang?

Answer

• Word Choice

Question #11

What organizational method is this sentence?

The Saint Scholastica Academy campus boast a variety of school building from LaSalle to

Jahncke, and the Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel.

Answer

• By Space

Question #12

What organizational method is this sentence?

The sharks mostly likely to attack swimmers are hammerheads, great whites, and tiger sharks.

Answer

• By content

Question #13

What organizational method is this sentence?

Despite what cigarette companies want people to believe, smoking causes death to the

smoker, illness to the nonsmokers around the smoker, and detrimental effects to the

environment.

Answer

• By Perspective

Question #14

What 6+1 Writing Trait goes with Descriptive Writing?

Answer

• Word Choice

Question #15

Is this sentence Active or Passive?

The walls of the house were almost covered with ivy.

Answer

• Passive

Question #16

Is this sentence Active or Passive?

My teacher often wears a raincoat when it rains.

Answer

• Active

Question #17

Can you name the eight to be linking verbs?

Answer

1) Am 2) Is

3) Are 4) Was

5) Were6) Be

7) Been 8) Being

Question #18

What is the MLA heading?

Answer

First Last NameTeachers NameClass : Block E-HDate (ex. 2 February 2011)

Question #19

What part of the Writing Process involves brainstorming?

Answer

• Pre-writing

Question #20

What links each main body paragraph to the next one?

Answer

• Transition Sentences

Question #21

The projecting sentence appears in which paragraph?

Answer

• Conclusion

Question #22

What is the first sentence in the introduction?

Answer

• Attention Getter

Question #23

Which is NOT an example of formal writing?

a)Term paperb)In-class essayc) A personal journald)A resume

Answer

C) a personal journal