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adj. something highly caustic or severe in effect, as critism

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Vitriolic

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adj. acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings

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Palatable

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adj. large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful

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Copious

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adj. enraged; furiously; angry

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Livid

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v. to give, feel, etc. in return

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Reciprocate

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putting up a false front

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Facade(Remember to include the curl under the C)

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with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval

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Askance

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disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornful; arrogant; supercillious

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Haughty

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a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like

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Genre

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pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the philosophy of aesthetics(beauty)

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Aesthetic

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n. a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity. (simple designs)

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Minimalism

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n. actor

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Thespian

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adj. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant

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Egregious

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n. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience

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Agnostic

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n. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class

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Epitome

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n. a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguist

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Angst

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v. to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate

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Discombobulated

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n. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange

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Xenophobia

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adj. stealthily treacherous or decetiful

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Insidious

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adj. thought of apart from concrete realities, specified objects, or actual instances

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Abstract

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something of little importance, or a small detail

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Minutiae

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everywhere at once, well-known

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Ubiquitous

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something very small or thin, almost invisable

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Tenuous

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something or someone that is boring or uninspiring

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Pedestrian

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to use something or someone for one’s advantage; such as monetary or profit

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Exploit

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the dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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something that is not specifically said, what is between the lines

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Connotation

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an account of an event(a tale)

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Anecdote

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something that shows irony or sarcastic, something caustic in effect

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Sardonic

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Something that will remain forever that is from deep inside someone

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Indelible

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n. a bum; someone who depends on others

adj. neglect; not giving enough required care

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Derelict

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adj. immature

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Sophomoric

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v. to deny something, or become defensive over, to be wrong

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Refute

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adj. something hidden, or that needs to be hid like a secret, something difficult to find or understand

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Abstruse

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adj. picky or hard to please, something or someone that is particular about something

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Persnickety

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showing care for, comforting or reassuring

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Condolence

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to show pride in something or one’s self, boastful, excessive

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Vanity

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unknowing or unknowable, unable to understand or having many mixed facts on, can have many different, or mixed meanings

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Ambiguous

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to bring together or put side by side

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Juxtapose

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a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual’s unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices

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Existentialism

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a bikini with a tank-top

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Tankini

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the nature of things, their ethics

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Ethos

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showing sympathy for something; sadness

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Pathos

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a conversation with one’s self

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Soliloquy

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something hated or something that is against something

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Anathema

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showing sympathy for others, caring about others

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Empathy

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tight-fisted with money; requiring little

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Frugal

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something fake, not real, arrogant, something that is cast as important, by is not

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Pretentious

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something too soon, immature

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Precocious

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someone who tries to influence someone, usually politically

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Lobbyist

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adj. to a point, precise, cut to the needed information

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Pithy

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adj. to be sorry of something or to complain about something; quick tempered

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Petulant

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a care-free; free living person; loose morals

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Dissolute

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adj. to forget or be neglate

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Remiss

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adj. adjacent, the placement of objects close to one another

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Contiguous

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adj. promising, favorable, encouraging, supportive (success)

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Auspicious

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adj. neither hot nor cold; indifferent

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Perfunctory

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adj. poor

n. the common man

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Proletarian

Proletariat

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to trick or dupe

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Beguile

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adj. praiseworthy

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Laudable

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court-order; warrant

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Injunction

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a result, consequence, one thing leads to another, sequence

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Corollary

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to admit sparks, stimulating or witty, brilliantly, lively

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Scintillates

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inflammatory, inciting a riot, provoke, stirring things up

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Incendiary

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harmless, uninjurious, undamaging

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Benign

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constant; unbroken; unchangeable; regular; routine

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Systemic

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unyielding; ungiving; rock-like; unaffected

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Immutable

68
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discontinuity, disconnect, irregularity, empty words

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Non Sequitur

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to go crazy over something; highly emotional; high-spirted

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Gonzo

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deep-thinking; wise

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Profundity

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cocky, uncalled for, meddling, nosey, defiant, irrelvant

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Impertinent

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bitter, sour, pungent, irritating, caustic, resentful

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Acerbic

73
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learning; scholarship; wisdom

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Erudition

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attacking an opponent’s character rather than answering his argument

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Ad Hominem

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one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust

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Mephistopheles

76
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an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or derogatory nature

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Innuendo

77
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Who is the author of “The Pasture”?

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Robert Frost

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Who is the author of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?

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Robert Frost

79
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Who is the author of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

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T.S. Eliot

80
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Who is the author of “Tommy”?

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Rudyard Kipling

81
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Who is the author of “Waiting for Godot”?

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Samuel Beckett

82
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Who is the author of “When Shall We Three Meet Again(The Witches Part in Macbeth)”?

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William Shakespeare

83
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Who is the author of MacBeth?

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William Shakespeare

84
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Who is the author of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?

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William Butler Yeates

85
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Who is the author of “Jenny Kiss’d Me”?

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Leigh Hunt

86
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Who is the author of “Dust of Snow”?

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Robert Frost

87
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Who is the author of “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

88
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Who is the author of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?

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William Shakespeare

89
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What are the 8 parts of speech?

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  1. ) Nouns
  2. ) Pronouns
  3. ) Adjectives
  4. ) Verbs
  5. ) Adverbs
  6. ) Prepositions
  7. ) Conjunctions
  8. ) Interjections
90
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What are the 4 sentence functions?

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  1. ) Declarative
  2. ) Interrogative
  3. ) Imperative
  4. ) Exclamatory
91
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Boxer represent?

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The Russian Worker.

92
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When did the Russian Revolution occur?

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1917

93
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Clover represent?

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A Female Version of the Russian Worker.

94
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Mollie represent?

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The Bourgoise

95
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Benjamin represent?

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The Russian Intellectuals.

96
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Mr. and Mrs. Jones represent?

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The Tsars of Russia, Nicholas II, and Capitalism.

97
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Old Major represent?

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Leon Trotsky

98
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Snowball represent?

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Leon Trotsky

99
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Napoleon represent?

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Joseph Stalin

100
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Squealer represent?

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Propaganda

101
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Moses represent?

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The Church

102
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Mr. Pilkington represent? Which farm was he from?

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England/ Foxwood Farm

103
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In “Animal Farm”, who did Mr. Frederick represent? Which farm was he from?

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Germany(Hitler)/Pitchfield Farm

104
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How are languages capitalized?

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Any language is capitalize.

105
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How are north, south, east, and west capitalized?

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Directions, such as the South, are capitalized. Directions aren’t.

106
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A lot

Alott

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A lot needs to be two words.
Alott needs to be one.
Alot does not exist.

107
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Alright

All Right

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Alright is not Standard English, instead use all right.

108
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There
Their
They’re

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There is an adverb telling location (where?).
Their is a possessive pronoun.
They’re is a contraction (They are).

109
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What are linking verbs?

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Linking verbs are “to be” verbs.

110
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What are the two types of action verbs?

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Transitve and Intransitive

111
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What are the two subject compliments?

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Predicate Adjective

Predicate noun or predicate nominative

112
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What is a phrase?

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Two or more words acting as one of the eight parts of speech.

113
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What is a clause?

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A group of words having both a subject and a verb.

114
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What are the two types of clauses?

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  1. ) Independent-(main) It contains a subject and verb. It is a complete thought.
  2. ) Dependent-(subordinate) It contains a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete thought.
115
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What do adjectives modify?

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Nouns and pronouns

116
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What are the pronoun cases?

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Nominative-she, he, they
Objective- her, it, them
Possessive-her

117
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What three questions do adjective answer?

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  1. ) Which one?
  2. ) What kind of?
  3. ) How Many?
118
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What do adverbs modify?

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Verbs, adjective, and other adverbs

119
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What questions do adverbs answer?

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How?
When?
Where?
Why?
How much?
Under what circumstance?
How often?
To what extant? (Quite, Very, Extremely, Rather)
120
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Give some examples of Helping Verbs

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has, had, if

121
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List the four steps to the writing process.

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1.) Prewriting
   A.)Listing
   B.)Clustering
   C.)Brain Storming
   D.) Freewriting
2.) Writing
   A.)Rough Draft
3.) Revising
   A.)New Words
   B.)Better Syntax
4.) Editing
   A.)Grammar
   B.)Spelling
   C.)Punctuation
122
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What are the two types of clause?

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Independent and Dependent clauses

123
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What are the three types of conjunctions?

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  1. ) Coordination
  2. ) Correlative
  3. ) Subordinating
124
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What is a verbal?

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A verb form acting as one of the eight parts of speech.

125
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What are the three types of verbals?

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  1. ) Participles- used as adjectives
  2. ) Gerunds- noun
  3. ) Infinitives- nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
126
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What can gerunds act as? What do they end with?

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Subject
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Object of a Preposition
Predicate Nominative
They end in -ing.
127
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What are participles used as?

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Adjeectives

128
Q

What are the four types of sentences?

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  1. ) Simple
  2. ) Compound
  3. ) Complex
  4. ) Compound/Complex
129
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Conjugate Be

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I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
You are
They are

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