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?
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.
Question #16
Is this sentence Active or Passive?
My teacher often wears a raincoat when it rains.
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