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English 1121 Flashcards

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1
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Four guidelines for selecting and reading literature:

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  1. Exercise discipline and control over what you allow to come into your mind
  2. Distinguish between the foolishness of this world and the wisdom of God
  3. Reject that which glorifies sin
  4. Read what is profitable for spiritual growth
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2
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A gift from God?

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Language

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3
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Rules for correct speech and writing?

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Grammar

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A collection of the writings of a group of people?

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Literature

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First period of American literature?

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Colonial Period

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First book printed in the New World?

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The Bay Psalm Book

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7
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John Smith wrote ____

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A True Relation

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William Bradford wrote ____

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Of Plymouth Plantation

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People who wanted to purify the church from within

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Puritans

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People who left the church because it was corrupt

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Separatists

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The first elementary schoolbook in the New World

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The New England Primer

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John Winthrop wrote ____ and ____

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Journal; Christian Experience

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Person who wrote “Day of Doom”

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Michael Wigglesworth

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Person who wrote “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America”

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Anne Bradstreet

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Person who wrote “Housewifery”

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Edward Taylor

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Person who wrote “Magnalia Christi Americana”

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Cotton Mathers

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Person who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

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Jonathan Edwards

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Person who translated of the Bible into the languages of the Massachusetts

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John Eliot

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Person who wrote the best American verse of the seventeenth century

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Anne Bradstreet

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Person who wrote the longest poem of the Colonial Period

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Michael Wigglesworth

21
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Best known preacher of the Colonial Period

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Jonathan Edwards

22
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“apostle to the Indians”

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John Eliot

23
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A complete sentence must have a ____, whether ____, and ____, often called the ____

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subject; stated or understood; predicate; verb

24
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What is a sentence fragment?

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A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence

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Two sentences spliced together with a comma form a ____, or ____

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comma splice; run-on sentence

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All ____ tense ____ verbs end in s or es,but all ____ nouns, unless irregular of collective, end in s or es

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present; third person singular; plural

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The personal pronouns I, he, she, and it, take ____ verbs. The personal pronouns we, you, and they take ____ verbs

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singular; plural

28
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A singular or plural ____ pronoun agrees with its verb in number, even if a prepositional phrase or a clause separates the pronoun and verb

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indefinite

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The number of an indefinite pronoun that can either be singular or plural is determined by the ____ or by the last word of the phrase that follows it

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object of the preposition

30
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A compound subject joined by “and” takes a ____ verb

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plural

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A compound subject consisting of two or more singular words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a ____ verb

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singular

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A compound subject consisting of two or more plural words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a ____ verb

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plural

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When a sentence begins with “there” or “here”, the verb must agree with the ____, which follows the verb

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subject

34
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Memory verse of english

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Deutoronomy 31:6
Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee nor forsake thee

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A compound subject consisting of both singular and plural words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a verb that agrees in number with the word ____ the verb

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nearer

36
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What is lessons in Biblical doctrine?

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catechism

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