6 week Flashcards

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God Himself used the spoken word but never the written word

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false

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2
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God cause foreign languages to come into existence at the Tower of Babel

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true

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3
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The Bible has many types of literature, such as poetry, history, parables, letters, and written visions

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true

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The Bible teaches tht words are powerful, and they can do great good or great harm

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true

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5
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the bible has had little influence on american literature

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false

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6
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studying American literature can help Americans to understand their cultural heritage

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true

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7
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studying american literature can help readers to learn about themselves and about how to express ideas

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true

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American writers like to write to share their experiences, to offer wisdom, and to improve situations

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true

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9
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American writers like to write to describe their society and to create their own worlds for profit

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true

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10
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THe first American literature course was started at the college level at Yale in 1928

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false

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11
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American literature courses at the high school level became popular in the 1930s

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false

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12
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American literature is taught junior year because it goes well with american history

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true

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13
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american students read less today because there is less variety of types of literature available

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false

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14
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periods of american literature have been based on significant events, or authors, or philosophies

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true

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15
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the correct order for labels of American literature is rationalism, transcendentalism, realism, romanticism, modernism, and post-modernism

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false

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16
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Children enjoy playing make-believe

playing is what

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a gerund

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17
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her goal is to become a doctor

to become

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an infinitive

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18
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we saw the truck approaching the intersection

approaching

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participle

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19
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nancy was working as fast as possible

working

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none of the above-verb

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20
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14 tools

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Opening Adjective
Delayed Adjective
Opening Adverb
Delayed Adverb
absolute phrase
appositive phrase
prepositional phrase
participial phrase
gerund phrase
infinitive phrase
independent clause
adjective clause
adverb clause
noun clause
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21
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open adjective

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OADJ

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22
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what is an opening adjective

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start the sentence with an adjective

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23
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structure of opening adjective

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comma will follow word or phrase

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24
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delayed adjective

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dadj

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what is a delayed adjective
adjective or adjective phrase in the middle or at the end of the sentence
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opening adverb
oadv
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what is the opening adverb
adverb used to begin a sentence
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key words to adverbs
how, when, where
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structure of opening adverbs
comma will follow
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delayed adverb
dadv
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what is the delayed adverb
adverb placed in the middle or end
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absolute phrase
ab
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what is the absolute phrase
noun and participle
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key to absolute phrase
inserts was or were makes it sound complete | begins with a possessive pronoun
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appositive
ap
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what is appositive
noun or noun phrase that renames a noun right beside it
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key to appositves
a, an, the
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prepositional phrase
prep
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what was the prepositional phrase
position
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key to prepositional phrase
could be removed and sentence would remain
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participial phrase
PPH
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what is a participial phrase
function like adjectives
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key to participles
can be removed and do not harm the sentence
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gerund
GPH
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what is a gerund
functions like a noun
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what can a gerund function as
subject, direct object, object of the preposition, predicate noun, appositive
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what happens when you remove a gerund
brings disaster
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infinitve
INF
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what is the infinitive
to and verb
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what can the infinitive function as
noun adjective adverb
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what is a clause
has subject and verb
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what is an independent clause
can stand alone
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three dependent clauses
adverb adjective noun
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what leads an adjective clause
who, whose, which
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what leads adverb clause
after, as, before, when, while, until, because, since, as if, as though, although, if
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what begins a noun clause
that, what, how, why, where
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what is multiplying
two or more of the same kind of tool next to each other, separated by commas
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three types of punctuation
semi-colon, colon, dashes
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what does the semi-colon do
join two independent clauses whose ideas are closely related
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what does the colon do
list, explanation
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what is the dash
interruption interesting detail abrupt change of thought afterthought
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The Bible has very little do say about language arts
false