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Q: group of sentences organized around a central or main idea?
Answer:
Paragraph
Q: a word that expresses action or helps to make a statement?
Answer:
Verb
Q: a word or words naming person, place, thing, or idea about which something is being said?
Answer:
Subject
Q: Two or more subjects or verbs connected by and or or?
Answer:
Compound Subject/Compound Verb
Q: A noun or pronoun that answers the question whom or what after an action verb. It receives
the action of the verb.?
Answer:
Direct Object
Q: A noun or pronoun (or adjective) which follows a be or linking verb and renames or
describes the subject. (Think of a be or linking verb as an = sign)?
Answer:
Subject Complement/Predicate Nominative
Q: used as subject or subject complement (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who, whoever)?
Answer:
Nomative Pronoun
Q: used as an object of verb or of preposition (me, you, him, her, it, us, them, whom,
whomever)?
Answer:
Objective Pronoun
Q: shows ownership (my, mine, you, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs, whose,
whosoever)?
Answer:
Possessive Pronoun
Q: Anyone, everyone, someone, everybody, somebody, anybody, and nobody are singular. The
singular pronoun his is used with them?
Answer:
Pronoun Rule #1
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Q: What is a comma splice?
Answer:
Type of sentence error; two independent clauses joined by only a comma and lacking a
conjunction or semicolon.
For example: “the dog barked in the park, the cat meowed on the sidewalk.” Correction: “The
dog barked in the park, and the car meowed on the sidewalk.”
Q: What is an introductory paragraph?
Answer:
The first paragraph of a composition that generally expresses the mail thrust if the piece and sets
the tone for all that follows.
Q: What is the most important paragraph in a composition?
Answer:
The introductory paragraph.
Q: What are the three goals of the introductory paragraph?
Answer:
1.Introduce the topic while placing emphasis on its importance and outlining the particular
aspects of the topic you will discuss.
2.Explain the structure or methodology of the composition by generally indicating what
subtopics you will discuss in each body paragraph and how you will approach them and the
conclusions you will draw.
3.Clarify the thesis of the composition by explaining how you will approach the topic and what
your main argument is.
Q: What is a thesis statement?
Answer:
The thesis statement is usually a single sentence that identifies the main claim of the
composition (premise) and it’s consequences (conclusion). This must be included in the
introductory paragraph.
Q: What do transitions do in a piece of writing?
Answer:
Transitions enable the various ideas in a composition to cohere and follow one another in a clear
and logical fashion.
Q: What are the two main deciding factors in a compositions structure?
Answer:
Order and relationship.
Q: What is order as it pertains to composition structure?
Answer:
Refers to the logical succession of ideas.
Such as: Sequential order, process and order of importance.
Q: What is relationship as it pertains to composition structure?
Answer:
Refers to how one idea relates to another idea.
Such as: point/counterpoint, advantages/disadvantages and cause and effect.
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Q: Explain, interpret, and contextualize the illustrations that have been made?
Answer:
Analysis
Q: makes the subject more specific. Usually follows the thesis sentence.?
Answer:
Restatement or Restriction
Q: To influence, to change?
Answer:
Affect
When you’re talking about the act of changing — the verb — you’ll use “affect.”
Q: To accomplish (verb)
a result (noun)?
Answer:
Effect
When you’re talking about the change itself — the noun — you’ll use “effect.”
Q: Alright vs all right? which is spelled correctly?
Answer:
All right
Q: Impartial?
Answer:
Disinterested
Q: Not interested?
Answer:
Uninterested
Q: Outstanding, Distinguished?
Answer:
Eminent
Q: Each in the order given?
Answer:
Respectively
Q: An adverb when referring to how an action is performed?
Answer:
Well
Q: To guarantee; to make safe?
Answer:
Ensure
Q: To provide insurance against loss?
Answer:
Insure
Q: Describes DISTANCE?
Answer:
Farther
Q: Additionally; suggests quantity or degree?
Answer:
Further
Q: A noun which is referred to using a pronoun?
Answer:
Antecedent
Q: Literal meaning of a word?
Answer:
Denotation
Q: The implied meaning of a word (using context)?
Answer:
Connotation
Q: A word that takes place of a noun?
Answer:
Pronoun
Q: A noun which is used as an Adjective?
Answer:
Participle
Q: A letter or Symbol printed above the text line?
Answer:
Superscript
Q: Describes the way words are arranged in a sentence?
Answer:
Syntax
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Q: The faces of a fair cube are numbered 1 through 6; the probability of rolling any number
from 1 through 6 is equally likely. If the cube is rolled twice, what is the probability that an even
number will appear on the top face in the first roll or that the number 1 will appear on the top
face in the second roll?
Answer:
7/12
Q: A scientist estimated the number of bacteria in a sample every hour and recorded the
estimates in the table above. Then the scientist used the data to create the scatterplot above.
Based on the information, which of the following functions best models the number of
bacteria,f(t) , at time t, in hours?
Answer:
f(t)=100(2^t)
Q: The width of a rectangular garden is x feet. If 300 feet of fencing is needed to enclose the
garden, which of the following represents the length of the garden, in feet?
Answer:
150-x
Q: Michael wishes to give his son a savings bond that will mature in 8 years. He would like the
value of the savings bond to be $5,000 at maturity. If he can invest in a bond that has an annual
interest rate of 4% compounded monthly, which of the following is the best approximation of the
amount he should invest?
Answer:
3650
Q: The graph above shows the closing price of one share of stock of Company Y for each of the
five business days last week. Which of the following is closest to the percent change in the
closing price of one share of stock from Tuesday to Wednesday?
Answer:
67%
Q: Let A be a nonempty set and let B and C be any two subsets of A. Which of the following
statements must be true?
Answer:
B U C ( A
Q: The area of a rectangular field is the product of its length and width. If each dimension of
the rectangular field is multiplied by 3, then the area of the enlarged field is how many times the
area of the original field?
Answer:
9
Q: “If it snows, then school is closed.”
Which of the following is logically equivalent to the statement above?
Answer:
If school is not closed, then it does not snow
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Q: mutually exclusive events
Answer:
Q: inverse of a function
Answer:
exchange the x and y values and solve for x
Q: area of a circle
Answer:
A=πr²
Q: area of a rhombus (parallelogram)
Answer:
1) base x height
2) (diagonal * diagonal)/2
Q: slope
Answer:
change in y/ change in x
Q: Sum of the angles of a triangle
Answer:
180
Q: isosceles triangle
Answer:
a triangle with 2 equal sides
Q: Pythagorean theorem
Answer:
used to find the lengths of the sides of a right triangle
(c²=a²+b²)
Q: Area of a triangle
Answer:
A= (1/2)(altitude)(height)
Q: triangle median
Answer:
Q: perpendicular bisector of a triangle
Answer:
Q: triangle midline
Answer:
Q: Area of a parallelogram
Answer:
A=bh
Q: area of a rhombus (or square)
Answer:
A=(1/2)d₁d₂
Q: length of the diagonal of a square
Answer:
diagonal length=length of a side times √2
Q: median of a trapezoid
Answer:
parallel to the bases, and equals (1/2) their sum
Q: area of a trapezoid
Answer:
Q: isosceles trapezoid
Answer:
Q: similar polygons
Answer:
polygons with a 1:1 correspondence between their vertices and all angles and measures are
proportional
Q: circumference of a circle
Answer:
C=πd=2πr
Q: area of a circle
Answer:
A=πr²
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Q: “Revolutionized the American novel” with experiments in point of view, voice, and
narrative style.
Answer:
William Faulkner. Known of “stream of consciousness” style
Q: Biff Loman
Answer:
Son of protagonist, Willy Loman, in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Biff loses jobs
because he steals and lacks maturity. Willy eventually commits suicide so that Biff can have the
insurance money
Q: Naturalist influenced by Social Darwinists
Answer:
Jack London
Q: Confessional Poets
Answer:
John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich
Q: Southern Writers
Answer:
Flannery O’Conner, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers
Q: The Beat Poets
Answer:
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth
Q: Fireside Poets
Answer:
John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendall Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Q: Harlem Renaissance
Answer:
James Welson Johnson, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown,
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright
Q: Modernist Poets
Answer:
Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Carl Sanburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra
Pound, H.D., Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, ee cummings, Hart Crane, Edna St Vincent Millay
Q: Regionalists
Answer:
Mark Twain – Missouri, Kate Chopin – Louisiana, Theodore Dreiser – Chicago, Willa Cather –
Nebraska, Jack London – Alaska, Sarah Orne Jewett – Maine, Katherine Anne Porter – Texas,
John Steinbeck – California
Q: John Smith
Answer:
Colonist. Not a Puritan. Wrote “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer
Isles.” Captured by Powhatan Indians, rescued by Pocahontas
Q: John Winthrop
Answer:
Puritan. Preached Sermon: “A Modell of Christian Charity” – – “citty upon a hill” – to the
passengers on the flagship Arabella
Q: Anne Bradstreet
Answer:
Puritan. First Female American Author. Poetry collection: “The Tenth Muse.” Poems include:
“The Prologue, The Author to Her Book, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, To My Dear
and Loving Husband, To My Dear Children, Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of our
House, The Flesh and the Spirit”
Q: Mary Rowlandson
Answer:
“The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of HIs Promises
Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” Uses
“removes” – not chapters.
Q: Edward Taylor
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “Preparatory Meditations, Meditation 8 and Prologue, Huswifery” Uses
extended metaphors – conceits. Spider, spinning wheel, etc
Q: Cotton Mather
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “The Wonders of the Invisible World,” – participated in Salem witch trials.
“Magnalia Christi Americana,” – a history of the wonderful works of Christ in America
Q: Jonathan Edwards
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Freedom of Will, The Great Christian
Doctrine of Original Sin Defended.” Influenced by the Age of Enlightenment (Reason)”
Q: Benjamin Franklin
Answer:
Deist. Desire to reach “moral perfection” – temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality,
industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility
Q: “The Federalist”
Answer:
85 essays advocating a strong federal government. Signed “publius” but written by Alexander
Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
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Q: What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of
the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies
that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory
conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects
which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of the power lies among
considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement
of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or
perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined
my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the
dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the
remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly treestems, and the vacant and
eye-like windows.
- Which best expresses the effect that the House of Usher has on the narrator in the excerpt?
(A) It elicits agreeable feelings of melancholy.
(B) It inspires a surge of romantic longing.
(C) It evokes feelings of nostalgia.
(D) It induces an inexplicable sense of dread.
(E) It arouses a feeling of déjà vu.
Answer:
(D) It induces an inexplicable sense of dread.
Q: What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of
the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies
that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory
conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects
which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of the power lies among
considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement
of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or
perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined
my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the
dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the
remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly treestems, and the vacant and
eye-like windows.
- For the narrator, gazing into the “black and lurid tarn” (line 17) has what effect?
(A) It inspires a kind of self-assessment.
(B) It amplifies the house’s effect.
(C) It soothes his nerves.
(D) It diminishes his sense of fear.
(E) It reminds him of his mortality.
Answer:
(B) It amplifies the house’s effect.
Q: What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of
the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies
that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory
conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects
which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of the power lies among
considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement
of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or
perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined
my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the
dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the
remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly treestems, and the vacant and
eye-like windows. - The excerpt best exemplifies which kind of writing?
(A) Psychological realism
(B) Naturalistic realism
(C) Spiritual autobiography
(D) Historical romance
(E) Gothic romance
Answer:
(E) Gothic romance
Q: 19. At the end of the story from which the excerpt is drawn, what happens to the House of
Usher?
(A) It burns to the ground.
(B) It collapses into the tarn.
(C) It is abandoned by its occupants.
(D) It is torn down by the townspeople.
(E) It is restored by its owner.
Answer:
(B) It collapses into the tarn
Q: 20. Which of the following best describes a theme of Whitman’s poem “Out of the Cradle
Endlessly Rocking”?
(A) The desire of the poet to retreat to the protected life of the child
(B) The grief that overwhelmed America at Lincoln’s death
(C) The celebration of America as the hope of the world
(D) The anguish of a man confronted by war
(E) The awakening of the poet to his vocation
Answer:
(E) The awakening of the poet to his vocation
Q: 21. Which of the following did NOT write a slave narrative?
(A) Olaudah Equiano
(B) William Wells Brown
(C) Frederick Douglass
(D) Charles Brockden Brown
(E) Harriet Jacobs
Answer:
(D) Charles Brockden Brown
Q: Olaudah Equiano
Answer:
An antislavery activist who wrote a famous account of his enslavement.
Q: William Wells Brown
Answer:
the first african american novelist and playwright.
Q: Frederick Douglass
Answer:
Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action
Q: Charles Brockden Brown
Answer:
Wrote political pamphlets, but known for the early Amercian novel, wrote novels: Wieland,
Ormond, Edgar Huntly, Alcuin
Q: Harriet Jacobs
Answer:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Q: These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are
for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose;
it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones or remembers; he does not
live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround
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Q: A young group of poets influenced by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) and W.H. Auden (1907-
1973) that focused on conversational poetry full of self-reflection and common events was
known as “The Movement.” Which of the popular Modern-period poets below were members of
The Movement? (Choose all that apply.)
Edmond Charles Blunden (1896-1974)
Roy Broadbent Fuller (1912-1991)
John Betjeman (1906-1984) Philip
Arthur Larkin (1922-1985)
Donald Davie (1922-1995)
Answer:
roy broadband fuller
philip arthur larkin
donald davie
Q: Their works focused on experience and philosophy, as opposed to politics. The best-known
work Church Going (1955, by the best-known member of The Movement, Philip Arthur Larkin)
depicts a walk through a church by a contemplative skeptic.
Answer:
roy broadband fuller
philip arthur larkin
donald davie
Q: was a traditional poet named Poet Laureate in 1927. Collected Poems was his most popular
work.
Answer:
John Betjeman
Q: work often focused on his experiences from World War I. His famous collections include
Poems (1914) and After the Bombing (1950).
Answer:
Edmond Charles Blunden’s
Q: Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my
veracity? Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions
and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess
with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and
equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
The author of this work is Jonathan __ (1667-1745), a noted satirist of the Neoclassical
period (1660-1798).
Answer:
swift
Q: Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my
veracity? Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions
and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess
with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and
equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
Houyhnhnmland is one of the four lands that he travels to, and by calling himself a Yahoo he is
identifying with the deformed, lesser intelligent people of the land. The more intelligent
Houyhnhnm race is comprised of horse-like creatures, while the less intelligent Yahoos resemble
humans.
Answer:
gulliver’s travels by jonathan swift
Q: A type of play set in London and dealing with the common life of the middle-class
Englishman is called a _ comedy.
was popular around the turn of the 17th century. It was used by Ben Jonson for Bartholomew
Fair (1631).
Answer:
citizen
Q: A theatrical device frequently utilized by Shakespeare was pioneered in John Lyly’s
Galathea (1588). This device was:
a stage that jutted out into the audience.
casting girls to play the part of boys.
interludes.
using all-male casts to portray characters, both male and female.
secular drama, with no religious overtones.
Answer:
casting girls to play the part of boys
Q: who first pioneered casting girls to play the parts of boys
Answer:
john lyly
Q: _ was introduced by Henry Medwall’s interlude Flugens and Lucres (1495)
Answer:
secular drama
Q: (During the Elizabethan era [1558-1603] “” were instructive yet comical plays,
similar to morality plays but lighter in tone.)
Answer:
interludes
Q: Anne Brontë (1820-1848) used her real-life experiences to write Agnes Grey (1847). In her
next work, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) she drew on her personal experience with:
an abusive mother.
an abusive aunt.
an abusive uncle.
an abusive brother.
an abusive father.
Answer:
an abusive brother
Q: The Brontë’s brother, _ (1817-1848), was a childhood playmate of the sisters.
Together they created imaginary worlds to play in and that would eventually become the settings
for their early stories.
After being fired as a tutor, _ returned home and became an alcoholic. His dangerous
behavior afterwards provided the inspiration for the character of Arthur Huntingdon in Wildfell
Hall.
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Q: A woman who wrote about woman’s rights. Wrote stream of consciousness novels.
Answer:
Virginia Woolf
Q: Different cultures within the society.
Answer:
Multiculturalism
Q: Anything that isn’t tangible.
Answer:
Abstraction
Q: Uses an attribute of a thing to stand for the thing itself (Paw=cat, etc.)
Answer:
Metonym
Q: Words that sound like what they mean.
Answer:
Onomatopeoia
Q: Features that account for the sound and structure of a verse.
Answer:
Prosody of Versification
Q: Rhythmic Structure.
Answer:
Meter
Q: A repeaed pattern of lines and rhymes.
Answer:
Stanza
Q: The pattern of rhymes in a stanza.
Answer:
Rhyme Scheme
Q: The repetition of vowel sounds.
Answer:
Assonance
Q: The repetition of consonant sounds.
Answer:
Alliteration
Q: A poem with 5 beats per line.
Answer:
Iambic Pentameter
Q: A beat with non-stressed, then stressed syllables (U/)
Answer:
Iamb
Q: A beat with stressed, and then non-stressed syllables (/U).
Answer:
Trochee
Q: A beat with two non-stressed syllables, then one stressed (UU/).
Answer:
Anapest
Q: A beat with one stressed syllable, and then two non-stressed (/UU)
Answer:
Dactyl
Q: A beat with two stressed syllables (//)
Answer:
Spondee
Q: A beat with two non-stressed syllables.
Answer:
Pyrrhic
Q: A break in a line of verse.
Answer:
Caesura
Q: Un-rhymed iambic pentameter lines.
Answer:
Blank verse
Q: _ wrote the famous epic poem “Paradise Lost”, which he wrote in blank verse.
Answer:
John Milton
Q: No fixed meter with some rhyming lines.