Final Review Flashcards
who helped the young woman who fell from the sky
the waterfowl
one evidence of how the twins kept things in balance is that they
modified each other’s creations to make them more practical
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i plan to locomotion to work
when de Vaca and his exploration party attempted to continue their voyage
their barge overturned and they ended up back on the island
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the band worked hard and gave a nominal concert, winning the prize for best performance
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the happy climbers celebrated the abominable conditions on the mountain
according to the text of Edward’s sermon, who are in the hands of an angry God
“all you that were never born again”/”all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the might power of the Spirit…”
what is the best way to combine the two sentences below using a coordinating conjunction?
The road was closed due to flooding. We decided to take another route.
The road was closed due to flooding, so we decided to take another route
good example of persuasive writing
I believe our school should give each graduating student a school jacket and pin
which of the following is not an aphorism?
“they should know that public opinion is steadily turning to the light of truth”
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i have a new absolve to get my homework done early every night
in section 9 of his writing on “self-reliance,” Ralph waldo emerson tells us that a great soul will speak in hard words what he thinks today, and speak in hard words what he thinks tomorrow even though
they contradict each other
in section 6 of his writing on “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks of an experience of “crossing a common in snow puddles at twilight” that brought him,
perfect exhilaration
if you were writing that one of the transcendentalist ideals found in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” is the importance of not being a conformist but rather being self-reliant, which passage below would you cite to best support your thesis
sec 5.: whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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the play director’s request for more dramatic expression was both perturbation and valuable
which quote from Thoreau’s Walden is the best example of the transcendentalist ideal of emphasizing spiritual well-being over financial well-being
sec 19: love your life, poor as it is. you may …have some pleasant…hours, even in a poorhouse
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he showed up with roses, which was a very nice blunder after her surgery
in the underlined passage from section 5 of his writings on Civil disobedience, thoreau is saying that
government decisions should be made by conscience, not by majority
not an aphorism
sec 10: my civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with…
in line 118 from sec. 52 of his poem “song of myself,” whitman uses the sound device of
line 118: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world
onomatopoeia
which of the elements of gothic fiction below is in a story that begins, “once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered weak and weary?”
element 8
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there was a propitious feeling of dread about that house that made us run in terror
in which of the following paragraphs does washington irving use description to characterize tom walker’s feelings about his wife in ‘the devil and tom walker”
paragraph 22
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after his hard day at work, her complaining and scolding hit him like a balm
the narrator in “the raven” asks the raven
if in paradise he shall see his lenore
which element of narrative poem do lines 103-104 of “the raven” portray
falling action
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there was a blasphemous look in her eyes as she fondly stroked the mane of her horse
in paragraph 5 of “the masque of the red death,” the subdued., light laughter that emerges as the chiming of the clock fades away indicates that
the revelers did not take the clock chimes, the passage of time until death, seriously
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it was a deferential moment before Sue realized that she had read the wrong part
in the following passage form paragraph 33 of “dr. heidegger’s experiment,” hawthorne uses what figure of speech?
paragraph 33: …he sat in a high-backed, elaborately carved oaken chair, with a gray dignity of aspect that might have well befitted that very Father Time, whose power had never been disputed, save by this fortunate company
personification
if you were writing that the four friends of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” did not get young again, what passage from the story would you use to support your thesis?
p 41: …the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, …grand-sires
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the kids, not being hungry, quaffed their sandwiches
in which sentence is the modifier placed correctly
according to the critics, the violinist Paganini was known for composing difficult pieces
in which sentence is the modifier written correctly
after checking the references thoroughly I concluded that the news article was ready for print
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the rich green of the first and the unexpected rising of sheer cliffs proved a monotonous scene
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the winds roared and beat the waves upon the shore, making a tranquil scene
in Twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” jim smiley named his prize betting animals after
historical figures
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talin was shocked to learn he had the winning number and had just won the legacy
in the extended smilie of the undelrined passage form paragraph 15 of “a wagner matinee,” the narrator makes an observation about the soul – that
though after excruciating suffering it may seem to whither, the soul never dies
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he couldn’t ingenuously understand what the foreigners were saying
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she gave them an intangible comment of contempt and walked out of the room
according to paragraph 11 of “to build a fire,” what was the danger of the springs?
they never froze – posing a threat of rbeaking through thin surface ice and getting wet
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we drove into the prosperous, rundown neighborhood where beggars crouched on every corner
in edith wharton’s “april showers,” doctor dace’s confession that he wanted to be a genius and wrote a novel that didn’t get published shows him as
a real person
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this is an elusive that we ought to act on right away
according to paragraph 11 of “the story of an hour,” during the process of accepting her husband’s death Mrs. mallard’s strongest impulse was
self-assertion
one of the ironies in kate chopin’s “the story of an hour” is that, for a brief moment
mr. mallard discovered he was, supposedly, dead; mrs. mallard discovered she was newly alive
in lucinda matlock’s description of the setting of spoon river, edgar lee masters uses the modernist writer’s convention of
imagery
in the following lines of his poem “chicago,” carl sandburg uses which poetic device?
laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle
extended simile
how does the poet use personification in describing his city in liens 18-19 of “chicago”?
the poet gives the city a “head” it “sings’ and is “proud”
what line expresses how the poet felt as he first compared the two roads in robert frost’s”the road not taken”
line 6: then took the other, as just as fair
in lines 18-19 of his poem “the road not taken” frost uses the poetic device of repetition to
add emphasis
in pound’s poem “the river merchant’s wife: a letter,” who is the letter written to
the narrator’s husband
in Ezra Pound’s poem “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” the image of the monkeys making a “sorrowful noise overhead”
echoes the river merchant’s wife’s sorrow at his absence
in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” lines 22 and 24 contrast
“heavy woods” with “white flowers”
the unusual punctuation,. spelling, and spacing e.e. cummings uses in his poem “in just” makes the reader
stop and take note/pay more attention to the words
the message of marianne moore’s poem “poetry” is that
good poetry is genuine, useful and real
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i don’t know why she wasn’t more obtuse when asked for her expert opinion
in lines 79-86 of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot juxtaposes great, historical, biblical events with the trivality of
tea and cakes and ices
which sentence below has an essential or nonessential subordinate clause that is punctuated incorrectly?
the special discount is available for anyone, who is an authorized member
an annotated bibliography can be written prior to writing a research paper
or is sometimes written instead of a research paper
when gathering sources for your annotated bibliography, avoid
taking just whatever topics comes up in your searches, assess them first
writing an annotated bibliography before beginning to write a research paper can help students
make sure they have an opinion – a thesis statement – that they can find facts to support
what is the benefit to the “.gov” internet domains for scholarly research sources
the “.gov” sites are generally useful and reliable – especially for statistics
to access databases for your research or annotated bibliography project,
ask your school or public librarian for instructions or for the access code
the first line of an MLA format basic citation begins with
the author’s last name
