1st Semest Test AL

Question 1

Narrative or description which can reveal hidden descriptions or morals about a character

Answer 1

Allegory

Question 2

Repeating sound at the beginning of a word (I like the gardens of Versailles with Flashing Fountains Filled)

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 3

A verb that shows action

Answer 3

The main word in the complete subject that tells who or what the sentence is about

Question 4

A word that modifies a noun or pronoun and answers the questions: Which one what kind

Answer 4

Adjective

Question 5

An extra noun, adjective or adverb that follows the direct object and renames it

Answer 5

Objective compliment

Question 6

A phrase consisting of an action verb and all of its helping verbs

Answer 6

Verb phrase

Question 7

Pronouns which come after the verb isn’t he predicate of the sentence (me, you, him, her, it, us, them)

Answer 7

Personal

Question 8

A word that takes the place of a noun

Answer 8

Pronoun

Question 9

A verb that does not show action: but it connects the subject with a word that takes the place of a noun

Answer 9

Linking verb

Question 10

Means more than one

Answer 10

Plural

Question 11

Names a special person, place, or thing and always begins with a capital letter

Answer 11

Proper noun

Question 12

A rhetorical device beginning with words like it, here and there, which does not contribute to the meaning of a sentence

Answer 12

Expliciv

Question 13

An action verb that does not require a direct object to complete it meansing

Answer 13

Transitive

Question 14

The part of the sentence that who or what the sentence is about

Answer 14

Subject

Question 15

A grammatically independent construction consisting of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun followed by a predicate without a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence and typically placed at the beginning or end of the sentence

Answer 15

Nominative absolute

Question 16

Two or more nouns joined together to make one name

Answer 16

Compound

Question 17

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun after it (its object) and some other word in the sentence

Answer 17

Preposition

Question 18

The name of the person to whom the sentence is directed

Answer 18

Direct address

Question 19

The name of a person, place, thing, or idea

Answer 19

Noun

Question 20

Pronouns which are used as subjects (I you he she it we they)

Answer 20

Subject pronoun

Question 21

A verb that is used with an action verb to form a verb phrase

Answer 21

Helping verb

Question 22

A noun that is affected by the action of a transitive verb but is not the primary object

Answer 22

indirect object

Question 23

A word that modifies a verb adjective or adverb and answer the question where when how

Answer 23

Adverb

Question 24

The noun that receives the action of a transitive verb

Answer 24

Receiver

Question 25

The part of the sentence that comes after the subject and tells something about it

Answer 25

Complement

Question 26

Two or more connected subjects that have the same verb

Answer 26

Compound subject

Question 27

Means one

Answer 27

Singular

Question 28

A verb that can be linking or helping, and is a form of the verb to be

Answer 28

Being verb

Question 29

A word used to express strong or sudden feeling

Answer 29

Interjection

Question 30

A verbal that is always used as an adjective

Answer 30

Participle

Question 31

Who is the governor in the scarlet letter

Answer 31

Bellingham

Question 32

What are two things the scarlet letter symbolized in the book

Answer 32

Adulterer and able

Question 33

How many times did Hester pearl and Dimmesdale stand on the scaffold

Answer 33

H- 3 P-3 D-2

Question 34

What was dimmesdale’s reaction in the forest to Hester’s news

Answer 34

Disappointed

Question 35

When Dimmesdale was dying who did he request a kiss from

Answer 35

Pearl

Question 36

What is the name of the captain

Answer 36

Captain ahab

Question 37

Who is the narrator of moby dick

Answer 37

Ishmael

Question 38

Who is the first mate

Answer 38

Starbuck

Question 39

Who was tossed overboard on the first day

Answer 39

Captain ahab

Question 40

Who became entangled in the ship’s lines and drowned not the second day

Answer 40

Fedallah

Question 41

How did the men realize that the whale was nearby

Answer 41

Moby dick’s odor

Question 42

Moby dick has been called America’s only______

Answer 42

Epic

Question 43

In the beginning of the story who does the captain speak longingly

Answer 43

His family

Question 44

Who was the line survivor of the Pequod

Answer 44

Ishmael

Question 45

What is the theme of moby dick

Answer 45

Actions with wrong motives lead to destruction

Question 46

Truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction

Answer 46

Paradox

Question 47

Correspondence of sound

Answer 47

Rhyme

Question 48

The character that does not change throughout the story

Answer 48

Static character

Question 49

With thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest

Answer 49

Mistress Hibbins

Question 50

What are the two themes of the scarlet letter

Answer 50

Sin and isolation

Question 51

Why did Hester call her daughter Pearl

Answer 51

Because she cost her a great price

Question 52

What does dimmesdale’s name symbolize

Answer 52

His light is fading

Question 53

Two or more verbs in a single sentence indicating separate actions

Answer 53

Compound verb

Question 54

A word used to connect words or groups of words

Answer 54

Conjunction

Question 55

A verbal beginning with to/ used as noun adj or adv

Answer 55

Infinitive

Question 56

A verbal ending in ing and always used as a noun

Answer 56

Gerund

Question 57

Not and n’t always function as an _____describing the verb

Answer 57

Adverb

Question 58

A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun

Answer 58

Prepositional phrase

Question 59

An adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject

Answer 59

Predicate adjective

Question 60

An action verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning

Answer 60

Transitive

Question 61

A verb form used as a noun, adjective or adverb

Answer 61

Verbal

Question 62

Always the subject of an imperative sentence

Answer 62

You

Question 63

A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb

Answer 63

Predicate nominative

Question 64

The noun after the preposition

Answer 64

Object of preposition

Question 65

The noun for which a pronoun stands

Answer 65

Antecedent

Question 66

The adjectives a, an, and the

Answer 66

Articles

Question 67

Pronouns which show ownership (my, mine, your, yours, etc)

Answer 67

Personal