Final Review

Question 1

who helped the young woman who fell from the sky

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the waterfowl

Question 2

one evidence of how the twins kept things in balance is that they

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modified each other’s creations to make them more practical

Question 3

incorrect vocab

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i plan to locomotion to work

Question 4

when de Vaca and his exploration party attempted to continue their voyage

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their barge overturned and they ended up back on the island

Question 5

incorrect vocab

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the band worked hard and gave a nominal concert, winning the prize for best performance

Question 6

incorrect vocab

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the happy climbers celebrated the abominable conditions on the mountain

Question 7

according to the text of Edward’s sermon, who are in the hands of an angry God

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“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…”

Question 8

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.

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The road was closed due to flooding, so we decided to take another route

Question 9

good example of persuasive writing

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I believe our school should give each graduating student a school jacket and pin

Question 10

which of the following is not an aphorism?

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“they should know that public opinion is steadily turning to the light of truth”

Question 11

incorrect vocab

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i have a new absolve to get my homework done early every night

Question 12

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

Answer 12

they contradict each other

Question 13

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,

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perfect exhilaration

Question 14

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

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sec 5.: whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

Question 15

incorrect vocab

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the play director’s request for more dramatic expression was both perturbation and valuable

Question 16

which quote from Thoreau’s Walden is the best example of the transcendentalist ideal of emphasizing spiritual well-being over financial well-being

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sec 19: love your life, poor as it is. you may …have some pleasant…hours, even in a poorhouse

Question 17

incorrect vocab

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he showed up with roses, which was a very nice blunder after her surgery

Question 18

in the underlined passage from section 5 of his writings on Civil disobedience, thoreau is saying that

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government decisions should be made by conscience, not by majority

Question 19

not an aphorism

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sec 10: my civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with…

Question 20

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

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onomatopoeia

Question 21

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?”

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element 8

Question 22

incorrect vocab

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there was a propitious feeling of dread about that house that made us run in terror

Question 23

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”

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paragraph 22

Question 24

incorrect vocab

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after his hard day at work, her complaining and scolding hit him like a balm

Question 25

the narrator in “the raven” asks the raven

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if in paradise he shall see his lenore

Question 26

which element of narrative poem do lines 103-104 of “the raven” portray

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falling action

Question 27

incorrect vocab

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there was a blasphemous look in her eyes as she fondly stroked the mane of her horse

Question 28

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

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the revelers did not take the clock chimes, the passage of time until death, seriously

Question 29

incorrect vocab

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it was a deferential moment before Sue realized that she had read the wrong part

Question 30

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

Answer 30

personification

Question 31

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?

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p 41: …the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, …grand-sires

Question 32

incorrect vocab

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the kids, not being hungry, quaffed their sandwiches

Question 33

in which sentence is the modifier placed correctly

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according to the critics, the violinist Paganini was known for composing difficult pieces

Question 34

in which sentence is the modifier written correctly

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after checking the references thoroughly I concluded that the news article was ready for print

Question 35

incorrect vocab

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the rich green of the first and the unexpected rising of sheer cliffs proved a monotonous scene

Question 36

incorrect vocab

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the winds roared and beat the waves upon the shore, making a tranquil scene

Question 37

in Twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” jim smiley named his prize betting animals after

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historical figures

Question 38

incorrect vocab

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talin was shocked to learn he had the winning number and had just won the legacy

Question 39

in the extended smilie of the undelrined passage form paragraph 15 of “a wagner matinee,” the narrator makes an observation about the soul – that

Answer 39

though after excruciating suffering it may seem to whither, the soul never dies

Question 40

incorrect vocab

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he couldn’t ingenuously understand what the foreigners were saying

Question 41

incorrect vocab

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she gave them an intangible comment of contempt and walked out of the room

Question 42

according to paragraph 11 of “to build a fire,” what was the danger of the springs?

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they never froze – posing a threat of rbeaking through thin surface ice and getting wet

Question 43

incorrect vocab

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we drove into the prosperous, rundown neighborhood where beggars crouched on every corner

Question 44

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

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a real person

Question 45

incorrect vocab

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this is an elusive that we ought to act on right away

Question 46

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

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self-assertion

Question 47

one of the ironies in kate chopin’s “the story of an hour” is that, for a brief moment

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mr. mallard discovered he was, supposedly, dead; mrs. mallard discovered she was newly alive

Question 48

in lucinda matlock’s description of the setting of spoon river, edgar lee masters uses the modernist writer’s convention of

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imagery

Question 49

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

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extended simile

Question 50

how does the poet use personification in describing his city in liens 18-19 of “chicago”?

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the poet gives the city a “head” it “sings’ and is “proud”

Question 51

what line expresses how the poet felt as he first compared the two roads in robert frost’s”the road not taken”

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line 6: then took the other, as just as fair

Question 52

in lines 18-19 of his poem “the road not taken” frost uses the poetic device of repetition to

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add emphasis

Question 53

in pound’s poem “the river merchant’s wife: a letter,” who is the letter written to

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the narrator’s husband

Question 54

in Ezra Pound’s poem “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” the image of the monkeys making a “sorrowful noise overhead”

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echoes the river merchant’s wife’s sorrow at his absence

Question 55

in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” lines 22 and 24 contrast

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“heavy woods” with “white flowers”

Question 56

the unusual punctuation,. spelling, and spacing e.e. cummings uses in his poem “in just” makes the reader

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stop and take note/pay more attention to the words

Question 57

the message of marianne moore’s poem “poetry” is that

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good poetry is genuine, useful and real

Question 58

incorrect vocab

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i don’t know why she wasn’t more obtuse when asked for her expert opinion

Question 59

in lines 79-86 of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot juxtaposes great, historical, biblical events with the trivality of

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tea and cakes and ices

Question 60

which sentence below has an essential or nonessential subordinate clause that is punctuated incorrectly?

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the special discount is available for anyone, who is an authorized member

Question 61

an annotated bibliography can be written prior to writing a research paper

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or is sometimes written instead of a research paper

Question 62

when gathering sources for your annotated bibliography, avoid

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taking just whatever topics comes up in your searches, assess them first

Question 63

writing an annotated bibliography before beginning to write a research paper can help students

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make sure they have an opinion – a thesis statement – that they can find facts to support

Question 64

what is the benefit to the “.gov” internet domains for scholarly research sources

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the “.gov” sites are generally useful and reliable – especially for statistics

Question 65

to access databases for your research or annotated bibliography project,

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ask your school or public librarian for instructions or for the access code

Question 66

the first line of an MLA format basic citation begins with

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the author’s last name