The Hobbit

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Bilbo Baggins

• Definitions for the following vocabulary words: flummoxed, audacious, inquisitive, desolate, stratagems, ominous, recompense, and eminent.

Lesson 2: Trolls

• J.R.R. Tolkien is a British writer whose most well-known titles are The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Lesson 3: The Elves

• Foreshadowing is a technique used by writers to drop hints or give clues about what will happen later in the text.
• An independent clause is a complete thought that can stand by itself as a sentence.
• A compound sentence is formed when you join two independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
• A flashback is a literary technique that allows a writer to mention events from the past during current events. Flashbacks provide the reader with insights into characters' motivations and backgrounds.

Lesson 4: Gollum

• A thesaurus is a reference book used to find synonyms and antonyms of words.
• Runes are letters used to write some ancient Germanic languages.
• The runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets made up of runes.

Lesson 5: Wolves, Goblins, and Eagles

• A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together incorrectly.

Lesson 6: Skin-Changer

• One of the elements of a fantasy novel is that the creatures behave like people but often have special powers or gifts.

Lesson 7: Spiders

• A dependent clause contains a subject and verb but is not a complete thought.
• A complex sentence contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

Lesson 8: Elvenking

• There are different processes that can be used to solve a problem.

Lesson 9: Men of the Lake

• A sentence fragment is a sentence that does not express a complete thought. It may be a dependent clause or it may be missing a subject, verb, or both.

Lesson 10: The Dragon

• Consumerism is the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods.

Lesson 11: Bard

• A semicolon (;) is like a period and is used to combine two closely related independent clauses.

Lesson 12: The Arkenstone

• The six elements of a quest story include a precious object, a heroic seeker, a long journey, fierce guardians, tests that screen out the unfit, and supernatural helpers.

Lesson 13: The Battle

• A response to literature reveals the writer's understanding or interpretation of the literature and can examine the story elements found in a piece of writing.

Final Project: Responding to Literature

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