3 week test

Question 0

What Biblical examples show the importance of language?

Answer 0

Jesus is the Word
The Tower of Babel
Pentecost
God is the great communicator

Question 1

Why should one study English grammar and literature?

Answer 1

To communicate effectively

Question 2

What were the two main images in Psalm 23?

Answer 2

The Lord is my shepherd and cares for you

God is a host/provider

Question 3

What was Wesley’s version of Psalm 23?

Answer 3

Rhymes and rhythms

Question 4

What was David’s version of Psalm 23?

Answer 4

Prose

Question 5

What was the purpose of Hepburn’s version of Psalm 23?

Answer 5

To connect with black urban youth

Question 6

What are the five parts of a letter?

Answer 6

Heading, greeting, body, closing, signature

Question 7

Who wrote “The Time Machine?”

Answer 7

H. G. Wells

Question 8

Why is learning the eight parts of speech important?

Answer 8

Put words in categories to determine what they mean

Question 9

What is a noun?

Answer 9

A word that describes a person, place, thing, idea, or concept

Question 10

What is a verb?

Answer 10

A word that expresses action or state of being

Question 11

What are adjectives?

Answer 11

Words used to modify a noun or pronoun

Question 12

What is an adverb?

Answer 12

A word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb

Question 13

What two questions do an adverb answer?

Answer 13

How?

To what extent?

Question 14

What is a pronoun?

Answer 14

A word used in place of a noun or pronoun

Question 15

What is a preposition?

Answer 15

Words that show the relationship of a noun or preposition to another word

Question 16

What are conjunctions?

Answer 16

Connect words or group of words

Question 17

What are interjections?

Answer 17

Words that express strong feeling or emotion

Question 18

What are the Morlocks?

Answer 18

Degenerate humans that live underground
Very furry and have pinkish grey eyes
Steal the time machine
Eat the Eloi

Question 19

What are the Eloi?

Answer 19

Cupidic humans that are small and indifferent to knowledge and kindness etc.
Look like victims of tuberculosis
Afraid of the dark
Eat fruit

Question 20

Who is Weena?

Answer 20

A female Eloi that the Time Traveller saved from drowning
She follows him around and puts flowers in his pocket
She dies when the Time Traveller is fighting off the Eloi

Question 21

Explain the Narrator.

Answer 21

He is one of the men to come to the dinner party. He believes the Time Traveller after seeing the machine disappear.

Question 22

What is the white sphinx?

Answer 22

It is a big hollow statute in which the Morlocks hide the Time Machine, and from where the Time Traveller leaves that time

Question 23

Who is the Time Traveller?

Answer 23

A scientist who invents a time machine and goes far into the future with it,

Question 24

What is the palace of green porcelain?

Answer 24

An old museum made out of green porcelain in which the time traveler gets camphor, matches, and a lever.

Question 25

How did this novel end?

Answer 25

The time traveller went into time again, and disappeared. The narrator thinks that goodness and kindness will continue forever.

Question 26

Who are the main characters in the short stories we’ve read?

Answer 26

Rainsford - Most Dangerous Game - big game hunter, but will do what is right
General Zaroff – hunts people for the fun of it
Ivan - Gen. Zaroff’s assistant
The semi barbaric king - makes the arena
The semi barbaric princess - in love with a peasant, but might be willing to kill out of jealousy
Walter Mitty - daydreamer
Montresor - vengeful
Fortunato - stupid partier
Luchesi - wine tasting rival
Jess - kind man, but hates geese
Eliza - smart strong willed woman, Jess’s wife
Enoch - hired hand

Question 27

What is an internal conflict?

Answer 27

A struggle that takes place within an individual

Question 28

What is the name of the judge in The Pacing Goose?

Answer 28

Judge Pomeroy

Question 29

How do you know that Walter Mitty is going from dreamland to real life?

Answer 29

Ellipses and conversation

Question 30

What is an external conflict?

Answer 30

Individuals struggle against something outside themselves

Question 31

What is suspense?

Answer 31

A quality that makes readers eager to know what happens next

Question 32

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 32

Clues early in the story that hint at what will come later

Question 33

What is climax?

Answer 33

The point of highest intensity in the story

The point that determines the outcome of the action

Question 34

What is the resolution?

Answer 34

The final part of the story that settles the conflict

Question 35

What is plot?

Answer 35

The sequence of events or actions in a story

Question 36

What is dialogue?

Answer 36

Conversation

Question 37

What is verbal irony?

Answer 37

A way of saying or writing one thing and meaning the direct opposite

Question 38

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 38

The contrast between what a character believes and what readers know is true

Question 39

What is characterization?

Answer 39

Revealing a character

Question 40

What is first person point of view?

Answer 40

Using I, me, or my

Question 41

What is the limited third person point of view?

Answer 41

Using he or she, but only from one character’s perspective

Question 42

What the omniscient point of view?

Answer 42

It is third person, but can get into all the characters’ heads, along with things none of the characters know