Study Guide for English 9 Standards Exam

Study Guide

for the English 9 Standards Exam

Exam Format:

Part I:  Literary Terms matching (12 marks)

Part II:  Poetry multiple choice (6 marks)

The last 4 sections refer to a short story that you will read.

Part III:  Reading Comprehension (6 marks)

Part IV:  Grammar (12 marks)

Part V:  Vocabulary in Context (6 marks)

Part VI:  Multi-Paragraph response to short story (12 marks)

What to Study:

Literary Terms

• Be able to match terms and definitions
• Be able to identify examples

Alliteration

Antagonist

Aside

Assonance

Blank verse

Chorus

Consonance

Dramatic irony

Free verse

Hyperbole

Iambic pentameter

Metaphor

Meter

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Paradox

Personification

Petrarchan lover

Simile

Situational irony

Soliloquy

Tragedy

Verbal irony

Poetry

• Be able to read and understand the meaning of a poem. 
• Be able to identify examples of poetic devices. 
• Be able to distinguish between blank verse, free verse, and iambic pentameter.

Grammar

• Be able to identify all parts of speech in a sentence.
• Be able to identify parts of a sentence:  subject, main verb, indirect object, direct object.

Reading

• Be able to read a story and answer questions about meaning, conflict, and plot.

Vocabulary

• Be able to identify the meaning of a word based on its context in a sentence.

Multi-Paragraph Answer

• Be able to write a multi-paragraph essay in response to a story you read.