English Final Review

Question 1

what is an allegory?

Answer 1

The device of using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction

Question 2

What is alliteration?

Answer 2

The repetition of sounds

Question 3

Whats an allusion?

Answer 3

a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

Question 4

Who is the antagonist?

Answer 4

A character who opposes the hero

Question 5

Whats a blank verse?

Answer 5

unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length

Question 6

whats Caesura?

Answer 6

a pause or break within a line of poetry

Question 7

Whats a climax?

Answer 7

The height of tension or turning point in a story

Question 8

Whats the conflict?

Answer 8

Tension or difficulties faced by the characters in the story

Question 9

Whats an epic poem?

Answer 9

a long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds

Question 10

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 10

The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

Question 11

Whats a framework story?

Answer 11

story within a story

Question 12

Whats a free verse?

Answer 12

Poetry that lacks regular meter and, often, rhyme as well.

Question 13

Whats irony?

Answer 13

An event, situation, action, or statement that reveals inconsistency

Question 14

What is limited perspective?

Answer 14

the narrator tells only what one character sees, thinks, hears, and feels

Question 15

Whats a metaphor?

Answer 15

An comparison between two things, or between a character or event

Question 16

Whats motif?

Answer 16

recurring structures, and literary devices that help inform the text’s major themes

Question 17

Whats a narrator?

Answer 17

The voice telling the story

Question 18

Whats a plot?

Answer 18

events or course of action that moves the story along

Question 19

Whats a protagonist?

Answer 19

Te hero of the story

Question 20

Whats rhyme?

Answer 20

Two words that sound the same

Question 21

Whats Satire?

Answer 21

the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections

Question 22

Whats a similie?

Answer 22

An explicit comparison between two things, signified by the words like or as.

Question 23

Whats a stanza?

Answer 23

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Question 24

Whats symbolizm?

Answer 24

The use of objects or characters to represent ideas.

Question 25

Whats theme?

Answer 25

a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work

Question 26

Whats a passive voice?

Answer 26

The subject recieves the action

Question 27

Whats an action voice

Answer 27

The subject performs the action

Question 28

What are the four purposes of a sentence

Answer 28

Declarative- Makes a statement Exclamatory- Expresses strong emotion Imperative- Makes a command Interrogative- Asks a question

Question 29

What are the 5 parts of a sentence?

Answer 29

Subject, Verb, Complete Sense, Capital Letter and end mark

Question 30

Whats a phrase?

Answer 30

group of words that does not contain both a subject AND a verb

Question 31

Whats a clause?

Answer 31

group of words that contains a subject AND a verb.

Question 32

What are the 2 components of a sentence?

Answer 32

Independent clause and Dependent clause

Question 33

Whats an independent clause?

Answer 33

has a verb and a subject – makes complete sense by itself.

Question 34

Whats a dependent clause?

Answer 34

not a complete thought; cannot stand alone

Question 35

What are linking verbs?

Answer 35

used with Predicate Nouns or Predicate Adjectives. Linking verbs have no action.

Question 36

What are the 5 principle parts of verbs?

Answer 36

Infinitive, Present, Past, Present participle, Past participle

Question 37

What are the three verb time tenses?

Answer 37

Present, Past, Future

Question 38

What are the 4 verb form tenses?

Answer 38

Simple, Perfect, Progressive, Perfect Progressive

Question 39

What are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person verbs

Answer 39

1st- I/WE 2nd- You/you 3rd- He/She/It/They

Question 40

What are the 8 types of speech?

Answer 40

Noun, Verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, Interjunction, Conjuction

Question 41

Whats a noun?

Answer 41

Person, Place or Thing

Question 42

Whats a verb

Answer 42

asserts action

Question 43

Whats an adverb?

Answer 43

modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs

Question 44

Whats an adjective?

Answer 44

modifies nouns or pronouns

Question 45

What are pronouns?

Answer 45

used instead of a noun in order to avoid repetition

Question 46

Whats a preposition?

Answer 46

connects noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence

Question 47

Whats an interjection?

Answer 47

sudden, emotional expressions

Question 48

Whats a conjunction?

Answer 48

connects words, phrases, clauses.

Question 49

What are the four verb types?

Answer 49

Intransative, Transative, Helping, and linking verbs

Question 50

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 50

transfers action from subject to object

Question 51

Whats an intransative verb?

Answer 51

verbs that are not followed by objects; no action transferred from subject to object

Question 52

Whats a helping verb?

Answer 52

helping another verb assert action, being, existence

Question 53

What are three verb moods?

Answer 53

Indicative, Imperative, and Subjunctive

Question 54

Whats a proper noun?

Answer 54

specific person, place, thing – must be capitalized

Question 55

Whats a common noun?

Answer 55

non-specific person, place, thing; not capitalized

Question 56

Whats a concrete noun?

Answer 56

A physical Substance

Question 57

Whats an abstract noun?

Answer 57

An idea or concept

Question 58

Whats a collective noun?

Answer 58

Grouping nouns

Question 59

What are the correlative conjunctions?

Answer 59

``` Either/Or Neither/Nor Both/And Whether/Or Not/But Not only/But Also ```

Question 60

Which literature Time Period was Mythological?

Answer 60

Native American

Question 61

Which literature Time Period consisted of histories, journals, personal poems, sermons, and diaries, focused on moral attitudes, and was written by Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Ann Bradstreet

Answer 61

Puritan

Question 62

Which literature Time Period consisted of political documents, speeches, and letters. The writings were often meant to explore the ideas of liberty, patriotism, government, nationalism, and American character. They were written by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Paine

Answer 62

Enlightenment/Revolutionary

Question 63

Which literature Time Period consisted of Neoclassicism and was written by Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Answer 63

Romanticism

Question 64

Which literature Time Period consisted of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W.H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Peabody.

Answer 64

Transcendentalism

Question 65

Which literature Time Period consisted of horror stories written by Poe and Hawthorne

Answer 65

Gothic

Question 66

Which literature Time Period consisted of The late 1800's being a new generation to writing. written by Mark Twain and Henry James

Answer 66

Realism

Question 67

Which literature Time Period consisted of another outgrowth of Realism, Regionalism in literature is the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas.

Answer 67

Regionalism

Question 68

Which literature Time Period was led by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell

Answer 68

Imagism

Question 69

What are similies?

Answer 69

use the words like or as to connect two | unlike things.

Question 70

What are metaphors?

Answer 70

harder to create, also compare but | without the like or as.

Question 71

What are the capatalization rules?

Answer 71

first word of a sentence Proper Nouns and names The word ''I"