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