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ENGLISH IV

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Decks in this class (79)

Nouns And Pronouns
What are concrete nouns,
What are abstract nouns,
What are the six categories of pr...
12  cards
Verbs And Verb Phrases
What is a verb,
What is a simple predicate,
What are regular verbs
10  cards
Other Parts Of Speech
What do adjectives modify,
What do adverbs modify,
What makes adjectives become adverbs
12  cards
The Structure Of Sentences
S v do,
S v,
S v io do
11  cards
Parts Of The Sentence
What is the subject of a sentence,
What is the difference between a ...,
What governs the number of the verb
15  cards
Methods Of Subordination: Participles
What is subordination,
How do you generally subordinate ...,
What are verbals
6  cards
Gerunds And Infinitives
What is a gerund,
What are the aspects of a gerund,
What are infinitives
5  cards
Adverb And Adverb Clauses
What is a dependent clause,
What do adverb clauses modify,
What is an introductory adverb cl...
9  cards
Noun Clauses
What is a noun clause,
What does a noun clause take plac...,
What is an appositive
5  cards
U3 L3 Finding Information In The Library
Where would a researcher find enc...,
Which cataloging system is mostly...,
Which cataloging system is mostly...
13  cards
U3 L3.1 Dewey Decimal System
000 099,
100 199,
200 299
12  cards
U3 L3.2 Library Of Congress System
A,
B,
C d
19  cards
U3 L4 Finding Information On The Internet
What are the 3 principal parts of...,
What is the internet made up of,
What are information servers
13  cards
U3 L5 Taking Effective Notes
What type of information will you...,
Is note taking in college differe...,
What is passive listening
15  cards
U4 L1 Origin Of Languages
What was the story that herodotus...,
In 1859 what was the name of the ...,
What did darwins theory of evolut...
27  cards
U4 L2 Grammar
What are the two ways the term gr...,
What is accusative,
What is dative
19  cards
U4 L3 Structural Grammar
Who were advocates of structural ...,
What are the 3 types of fallacies...,
What do structural linguists beli...
29  cards
U4 L4 Generative Grammar
When did structural grammars firs...,
What is another name for generati...,
What is generative transformation...
23  cards
U4 L5 Semantics
What greek word is the term seman...,
What is semantics,
What are the three main areas of ...
23  cards
U5 L1 Early England (PART 1)
How is the early period of englis...,
Before written history stories ab...,
What is one of the reasons americ...
24  cards
U5 L1 Early England (PART 2)
What year marks the beginnings of...,
From whom had the english learned...,
Which language is anglo saxon clo...
31  cards
U5 L2 Old English
What happened to the manuscripts ...,
What do the surviving anglo saxon...,
Before alfreds reign what was the...
14  cards
U5 L3 The Epic And Beowulf
Who is a scop,
In oral tradition did each tellin...,
What were the frameworks that sco...
51  cards
U5 L4 Elegies, Riddles, And Gnomes
What is an elegy,
What is wdisith,
What is most likely the oldest po...
22  cards
U5 L5 English Literature 1066-1400
What is the period between the no...,
After the conquest what was anglo...,
What is norman french
22  cards
U5 L5 English Literature 1066-1400 (PART 2)
What do folk ballads come from,
What is the content of folk ballads,
Folk ballads were not written dow...
11  cards
U5 L5 English Literature 1066-1400 (PART 3)
Attitudes towards what had influe...,
Chivalry was an outgrowth of what,
What were 4 mandates of the chiva...
22  cards
U5 L6 Fourteenth-Century writers: Chaucer
What kind of parallels exist betw...,
Where does the name chaucer come ...,
Who may have been chaucers immedi...
42  cards
U5 L7 Chaucer's Language
What is the dialect from which ou...,
Is southeast midland dialect a mi...,
How does middle english differ fr...
7  cards
U5 L8 Canterbury Tales (Chaucer's Works, Characters, Structure)
What age was chaucer when he beca...,
What was the book of duchesse wri...,
What was chaucers work influenced...
25  cards
U5 L8 Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Knight)
What month does the pilgrimage ta...,
How many pilgrims are mentioned i...,
At what inn did the pilgrims meet
5  cards
U5 L8 Canterbury Tales (Chivalric, Regular Clergy, Humble Christians)
What are the characteristics of t...,
Who is the highest of all charact...,
What are the characteristics of t...
14  cards
U5 L8 Canterbury Tales (Middle Class, Rascals)
What are the characteristics of t...,
What are the characteristics of t...,
What do the guildsmen consist of
20  cards
U6 L1 Elizabethan Songs
From which period did the tudor f...,
How many members of the tudor fam...,
How many years did elizabeth i rule
38  cards
U6 L2 Elizabethan Sonnet: Sidney
What is a sonnet,
Where did sonnets originate from,
What does the word sonnet mean
27  cards
U6 L3 Sonnets: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
Who was the successor to chaucer ...,
Where did edmund spenser graduate...,
What did edmund spenser do after ...
28  cards
U6 L4 Translation and Prose
During the elizabethan and jacobe...,
What is contrition,
What is petition
28  cards
U6 L5 Elizabethan Drama
Where did english drama originate...,
What was the purpose of church plays,
What is liturgy
45  cards
U6 L6 William Shakespeare
Who was john dryden,
How much is known about shakespeare,
When and where was shakespeare born
52  cards
U6 L7 Hamlet
What is the complete title of hamlet,
What does catharsis mean,
What does purgation mean
30  cards
U6 L8 Hamlet PART 2
What are the reasons claudius giv...,
What does providence mean,
What does retrospect mean
19  cards
U6 L13 The Critical Essay
What does the greek root of the w...,
What is criticism the process of,
A common approach to criticism is...
15  cards
U7 L1 The Historical Background Of The Literature
What were the problems faced as e...,
What is john milton noted for wri...,
What is puritan john bunyan noted...
26  cards
U7 L2 John Milton
When was john milton born,
Who were john miltons parents,
From 1615 to 1625 milton was priv...
39  cards
U7 L3 On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity
What is an ode,
What is the main idea of on the m...,
What is a muse
15  cards
U7 L4 Paradise Lost: Book I
What was the state milton was in ...,
What kind of poem is paradise lost,
What are the settings of paradise...
29  cards
U7 L5 Paradise Lost: Book VII, Book XII
How does christ create the circum...,
What did the holy spirit do,
What happened when light was created
5  cards
U7 L6 John Bunyan
What occupations did john bunyan ...,
What does episode mean,
What is a pilgrim
35  cards
U7 L7 Alexander Pope
Writers from the glorious revolut...,
Who were 2 prominent writers who ...,
What is satire
29  cards
U7 L8 Jonathan Swift
What occupations did jonathan swi...,
What did jonathan swift call himself,
What is a misanthrope
29  cards
U7 L9 Samuel Johnson
What occupations did samuel johns...,
What did james boswell write,
When was johnson born
28  cards
U7 L10 Oliver Goldsmith
What were the reasons oliver gold...,
What did goldsmith and johnson ha...,
When and where was goldsmith born
28  cards
U8 L1 Romantic Revolution
Between which years did the roman...,
Romanticism was a reaction revolu...,
Is romanticism difficult to defin...
34  cards
U8 L2 Poetic Revolution
What were the revolutions that we...,
When was the first edition of lyr...,
What is lyrical ballads who wrote it
33  cards
U8 L3 Romantic Poets: Wordsworth
What is the first generation of r...,
What is the second generation of ...,
What is the difference between fi...
33  cards
U8 L4 William Wordsworth: Other Poems
London 1802 is addressed to who,
What poetic technique foes london...,
What is apostrophe
8  cards
U8 L5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To whom was coleridge the son of,
Was coleridge the youngest or eld...,
What college coleridge attend
28  cards
U8 L6 George Gordon, Lord Byron
How did byron s life begin,
What were byron s father and moth...,
Life for byron improved when at 1...
29  cards
U8 L7 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Byron was while shelley was more,
What does staccato mean,
What does tempestuous mean
21  cards
U8 L8 John Keats
How did keats s mother and father...,
In school keats was not intereste...,
Keats s guardian apprenticed him ...
25  cards
U8 L9 Victorian Variety
When did the great exhibition of ...,
Where did the great exhibition ta...,
Why did the great exhibition take...
49  cards
U8 L10 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Did tennyson read and write poetr...,
What college did tennyson go to i...,
What was tennyson s primary concern
30  cards
U8 L11 Robert And Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How does browning s poetry differ...,
What is the difference between wh...,
Who did browning marry
26  cards
U8 L12 Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkin s poetry was not published...,
What does rejuvenate mean,
Were all of hopkin s siblings inv...
16  cards
U9 L2 Poetry
What is tone,
What is dominant foot,
What is aural
10  cards
U10 L2 Narration And Style
What is narration,
What is the limited omniscient view,
What is the omniscient view
10  cards
U11 L1 Origin And Form Of Words
Who was the incan god who is beli...,
The scandinavians only believed t...,
Is man s brain larger than the br...
6  cards
U11 L2 Grammar And Semantics
What are the 3 types of grammar,
What is semantics,
Why was structural grammar created
6  cards
U11 L3 Reading And Literature
What is the turning point,
Does poetry need action or dialogue,
What are the 2 syllable feet in e...
7  cards
U11 L4 Expository Writing
On a library catalog how can book...,
What does the topic state,
What does it mean when unity shou...
5  cards
U11 L5 Sentence Structure
What is the simple subject,
What is the simple predicate,
What are the 4 types of statement...
8  cards
U11 L6 Creative Writing
What does style include,
A poem is a series of images that...,
Meter and rhyme should be suited ...
7  cards
U11 L8 Medieval English Literature
American literature and history h...,
What was the stonehenge,
When the romans left britain who ...
17  cards
U11 L9 Beowulf And Medieval English History
Beowulf began as tradition,
Beowulf begins with a description...,
Beowulf becomes king and reigns f...
9  cards
U11 L11 The Canterbury Tales
How many tales are in the canterb...,
Each pilgrim would tell how many ...,
What was the destination of the p...
14  cards
U11 L10 Middle English Literature
What was norman language a blend of,
Medieval french closely resembled...,
Words from what language were bor...
14  cards
U11 L12 Elizabethan Literature
Elizabethan poetry consists prima...,
What is the form of a sonnet,
What are the two common categorie...
13  cards
U11 L13 Elizabethan Drama
What was the purpose of church plays,
What was displayed in mystery plays,
Mystery plays were performs on what
22  cards
U11 L14 Hamlet
What is a tragedy,
Is the ending of a tragedy inevit...,
What is catharsis
15  cards

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