12 Week Flashcards
The importance of language is seen in the Bible at creation, Babel, Jesus ( word made flesh ) and Pentecost
True
We study English grammar and literature to communicate more effectively.
True
The five parts of the letter are the heading, the greeting, the body, the closing, and the signature
True
The time machine was written by Mark twain
False
The eloi ate the morlocks, hid the time machine, and did battle with the time traveller
False
The time traveller was very pleased with the progress that future civilizations had made.
False
What was going on in the Victorian age?
Industrial revolution
When did queen Victoria come to the throne?
1837
What were the social classes in England?
Rich
Middle
Lower
Very poor
What was dating like?
Courtship done at parties and church activities
Ladies and gentlemen . . .
Had certain rules to follow
What was rampant in this time?
Child labor working the kids to death
When was dickens born?
1812
What happened in Dickens’s childhood?
Worked in a shoe factory labeling bottles at 12
Bad experience
How many novels did dickens write?
14
How were his novels written?
Installments for monthly papers
Was dickens popular or unnoticed
Very popular
Title for dickens
One of the greatest storytellers who has ever lived
Planned or performed in cooperation with others
Concerted
To fight, struggle. To compete, to argue
Contend
Unbearable
Intolerable
Disrespectful
Irreverent
Intended to undermine or overthrow
One who advocates or attempts to undermine a political system
Subversive
Mild
Moderate
Temperate
To divide and give out in shares
Apportion
To admit as true
To yield
Submit
Concede
Stale
Spoiled
rancid
Country like Simple Plain Awkward One who lives in the country
Rustic
To lose size, strength, or power
Wane
In a friendly manner
Hearty
Cheery
A liqueur
Cordial
An overwhelming defeat
Rout
A complete collapse or failure
Debacle
To rouse
Stir up
Urge on
Incite
Very abundant
Given or flowing freely
Profuse
To restore to friendship
To settle
To resign oneself
Reconcile
The time machine was hidden in the palace of green porcelain
False
The name of the person who dies in the time machine was weena
True
After regaining his machine, the time traveler goes into the future and finds a dismal world.
True
The time traveler does make it back to the present and tells his adventures to others.
True
At the end of none book, the time traveler leaves again and did not return
True
The narrator ends the book by saying that humanity will grow worse and become extinct
False
Eliza story
Pacing goose
Jim
Gift of the magi
Fortunato
Cask of amontillado
Cyclops
The odyssey
Young scout
War
Lotus eaters
Odyssey
Semi barbaric king
Lady or the tiger
Character daydreamed he did heroic deeds
Secret life of Walter Mitty
Madame forestier
The necklace
Sanger rainsford
The most dangerous game
Enoch
The pacing goose
Sirens
Odyssey
Reference to older literature, history, or art that the writer expects the reader to know
Allusion
Gives hints as to what will come next in the story
Foreshadowing
A character struggles in his or her mind about what to do
Internal conflict
The story is told revealing all the characters thoughts and actions
Omniscient point of view
A characters actions in a setting bring about unexpected results
Irony of situation
Deals with a words origin and history
Etymology
Why does the author name the story the gift of the magi?
Della and Jim sacrifice valuable things for each other
Magi sacrificed valuable things for Jesus
Irony of situation in the necklace
Madame loisel loses her youth to replace a necklace that was only paste
How does wars ending show London’s view of war?q
Innocent young man killed because he spared a life
Thoroughly skilled
An expert
Adept
To absorb fully or to make ones own, to adapt fully
Assimilate
Lacking in seriousness
Disrespectful
Saucy
Flippant
Angry and bad tempered
Rude
Surly
Disbelieving
Skeptical
Incredulous
Noisy
Unruly
Disorderly
Obstreperous
An introduction to a speech or a piece of writing
Preamble
Drooping
Without energy
Sluggish
Languid
To make young again
To make like new
Rejuvenate
To pretend
Feign
I like pineapples; bill likes apples.
Punctuation
Although I like pineapples, bill prefers apples.
Subordination
I like pineapples, but bill likes apples
Coordination
I, a lover of pineapples, I bonded how bill likes apples.
Apposition
Sharing my pineapple with bill, I felt good.
Reduction
Research usually starts with a persons curiosity about a topic.
True
After gaining information and understanding, the next step of a research paper is outlining.
True
Keeping track of your source is optional, so notecards are not very helpful.
False
On one side of a card should be the source, and on the other side should be the idea from the source.
True
On one side of the card should be: a key word or phase, the source number, the page number if printed, and the information from the source.
True
You can write n. pag. if a source has no page number like a website.
True
You use a direct quote when you want to give a source’s information in your own words.
False
You use a paraphrase when you want to show the author’s exact words.
False
When you quote an authors exact words, you should put quotation marks around them.
True
You use a summary on a notecard when you want to give a source’s main idea.
True
Clearly distinguish in a research paper what are your ideas and what are others ideas.
True
Copying someone word for word without quotation marks is plagiarism.
T
In MLA style, you put your last name and a page number at the top right of the page
T
In MLA style, you single space your name, your teachers name, the course name, and the date on the first pages left side
False
In MLA style, the title is always centered
True
In MLA style, all sources are placed at the bottom of the page under a line.
F
In MLA style, a quotation of four lines or more is indented.
T
In MLA style, on the works cited page, all lines are double spaced
T
In MLA style, on the works cited page, all second and third lines of a source are indented.
True
It is bro. Robisons preference that you put the link or URL to a website when giving sources.
True
Odysseus chose to face Charybdis rather than Scylla.
False
Odysseus was not very moved when Scylla ate some of his men.
False
When Odysseus’s men sacrificed the sun gods cattle, Zeus decided to take action against them.
T
Zeus threw a thunderbolt that was a direct hit on Odysseus’s ship.
True
The goddess Athena makes Odysseus look like a beggar when he gets back to Ithaca .
T
Telemachus reveals to Odysseus that they will have to fight many suitors.
True
Antinous was a very sympathetic suitor and threw Odysseus some meat.
False
Penelope’s trick to stall her suitors from marriage was to Unweave what she had woven
T
Penelope’s challenge for marriage is for one to string Odysseus’s bow and shoot an row through twelve targets
True
When Odysseus performed the challenge, Penelope’s suitors did not take much notice
False
Antinous dies when Odysseus shoots an arrow through his neck
True
With Athena’s help, Odysseus and Telemachus kill off all of Penelope’s suitors
True
The secret that convinces Penelope of Odysseus’s identity is his description of a boat that he had built
False
Our textbook ends the odyssey with Penelope’s white arms pressed around Odysseus.
True
5 things about main character of all quiet on the western front
Name was Paul Baumer 19 at the beginning of the book Best friend was Kat He was German He was unmarried Died October 1918
What is the seed of the sentence?
Subject and verb
What do verbs do besides action and state of being?
Give clues about time - past, present, future
What is a present participle?
An ing word that is not a verb
To verb - part of speech
Not a verb
Completed
How can you find compound verbs?
And but yet or nor
What part of speech is not?
Adverb
What is “ who or what (verb)?”
Subject
Where are subjects typically found
Preceding the verb
What do subjects do in questions?
Split the verb
What question does completers answer?
Subject and verb who or what
What are two types of completers?
Nouns and pronouns
What is a modifier
Adjective or adverb
Two forms of modifiers
Single word or prepositional phrase
How can sentences be combined?
Compounding completers and modifiers
