JV - Language Arts Flashcards
(American Literature): Name the American poet and educator known for his poems The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” and was the first author to translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
(World Literature): Who is known as the father of English literature, is considered the greatest poet of the Middle Ages, created the rhyme royal, a rhyming stanza form, and wrote The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Canterbury Tales?
(Geoffrey) Chaucer
(Grammar/Spelling): The term “organized chaos” is an example of what figure of speech?
Oxymoron
(American Literature): Name the American novelist, short story writer, and journalist who wrote for The Kansas City Star, later was an ambulance driver in World War I, and is known for A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
(World Literature): Name the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria’s reign, whose verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as “Ulysses,” and also wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and Idylls of the King.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
(Grammar/Spelling): What word is the intensive pronoun in the following sentence: I, myself, made that sandwich!
Myself
(American Literature): Name the American poet who is a central figure of Romanticism, known for his mystery tales, and wrote works such as “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Raven.”
Edgar Allen Poe
(World Literature): Name the French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic Movement whose most famous works are The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
(Grammar/Spelling): What is the direct object in this sentence: I hit the table with a bat.
Table
(American Literature): Name the American poet and social activist who is credited with starting the Harlem Renaissance, was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
Langston Hughes
(World Literature): Name the Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages who, in his most famous work published in 1320, wrote about Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in The Divine Comedy.
Dante Alighieri
(Grammar/Spelling): Name 4 of the 7 coordinating conjunctions.
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
(American Literature): Name the American novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his book “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” and two for his plays The Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town.
Thornton Wilder
(World Literature): Name the German authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the 19th century. Many of their stories are now used by Disney, such works include “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel,” “Snow White,” and “Cinderella.”
Brothers Grimm
(Grammar/Spelling): Identify the part of speech that expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently of a sentence.
Interjection
(American Literature): Name the American novelist who wrote mostly in the setting of Southern and Central California, and is commonly known for his epic East of Eden, his novella Of Mice and Men, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”
John Steinbeck
(World Literature): Name the ancient Greek tragedian whose plays are some of few to survive from his time. He wrote 120 plays, but only seven have survived in their entirety, including Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.
Sophocles
(Grammar/Spelling): Name the literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem.
Irony
(American Literature): Name the American poet who was elected by John F. Kennedy to write and present a speech at his inauguration, is one of the most popular writers of the 20th century, and is known for “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Fire and Ice,” and “The Road Not Taken.”
Robert Frost
(World Literature): Name the English writer and Baptist preacher who spent 12 years in prison for not conforming to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and is best known for his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and his allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress.
John Bunyan
(Grammar/Spelling): Identify the gerund in the following sentence: Dunking a basketball is not as easy as it looks.
Dunking
(American Literature): Name the American novelist and journalist who was part of the Naturalism movement, wrote with a common setting of California and Alaska, and is known for his works Sea Wolf, White Fang, and The Call of the Wild.
Jack London
(World Literature): Name the 20th century English playwright, essayist, and poet, who moved to England from the United States in 1914. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his most famous poems include Ash Wednesday, “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and The Wasteland.
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
(Grammar/Spelling): Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence: “The sweet potatoes in the vegetable bin are green with mold.”
In the vegetable bin
(American Literature): Which American poet, a Puritan housewife, is known as “The Tenth Muse,” her most famous poem being “To My Dear and Loving Husband”?
Anne Bradstreet
(World Literature): Name the India-born writer who moved to London, who coined the phrase “white man’s burden” and is known for books such as “The Jungle Book.”
(Rudyard) Kipling
(Grammar/Spelling): Identify the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence: Ronald the Ostrich hated Larry the Lemur, but he bided his time before hatching his evil plot.
“but”
(American Literature): Name the Nobel Prize winning American novelist who wrote about the problems of African American women in works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon.
Toni Morrison
(World Literature): Who wrote the Holocaust account called Night?
Wiesel
(Grammar/Spelling): What type of statement is the following sentence? “Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded.”
Paradox
(American Literature): Name the Nobel Prize winning American writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, is one of the most celebrated authors in Southern literature, and wrote the novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
(World Literature): Who is the narrator in the Markus Zusak novel, The Book Thief?
Death (The Grim Reaper)
(Grammar/Spelling): Identify the grammatical error that occurs when a comma separates two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
Comma Splice
(American Literature): Name the 20th Century American playwright who potrayed violent passions in ordinary people—as found in his plays A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Tennessee Williams
(World Literature): Name the young Holocaust victim who died in 1944 and whose diary has been translated into more than 60 languages.
Anne Frank
(Grammar/Spelling): What is the antecedent for the word “he” in the following sentence: The badger was not very happy when he was viciously attacked by Ronald the Ostrich.
Badger
(American Literature): Name the American short story writer, who’s pseudonym was O. Henry, and is most known for his play “The Gift of the Magi.”
William Sydney Porter
(World Literature): In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, what type of barnyard animal was Napoleon?
Pig
(Grammar/Spelling): “In,” “around,” and “with” are examples of what part of speech that grammarians advise not using at the end of sentences?
Preposition
(American Literature): Name the transcendentalist American writer who wrote “Beat! Beat! Drums!” while caught up in pro-war excitement, and is also known for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass.
Walt Whitman
