Language Arts 1 Flashcards
This allusion from “A Creed for the Third Millennium” alludes to a poem by whom?
“Oh why can they not be made to see that all
they have found is another man? A fellow man.
A yellow man. A Jell-O man. A hollow man.”
T.S. Eliot
What metrical foot is exemplified by these words? Awry Untrue Benign Depose
Iamb (iambic)
A small donkey named Dapple and the bony old nag named Rosinante are in what novel?
Don Quixote
Who wrote these lines?
“An’ little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze
is blue,
An’ the lampwick sputters, an’ the wind goes
woo-oo.”
James Whitcomb Riley
This is in what poem by Carl Sandburg? "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking Planning,...
Chicago
Lemuel Gulliver had been in what profession in London prior to his becoming the captain of several ships?
Surgery (medicine)
Name the English author who wrote these works. An Appeal to Honour and Justice History of the Plague History of Colonel Jack Captain Singleton
Daniel Defoe
These belong to what general form of literature?
Masque
Farce
Drama
Which of the four sentence types is illustrated in this example?
“Mr. Hess was either a patriot or an incredible
villain but nobody really knew his motives
because he kept his personal thoughts to
himself.”
Compound-complex
Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra” is set in what country?
United States
In a text, name the additional, supplementary explanatory notes to a text by the author or editor.
Annotations
What American author began his career with “Innocents Abroad”?
Mark Twain
What verb that rhymes with “carriage” means to “belittle”?
Disparage
It has wings at the top and serpents twined around the staff. Name this symbol from Greek mythology associated with the field of medicine.
Caduceus
What coastal U.S. city is the setting for Philip K. Dick’s futuristic story, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”?
San Francisco
