Language Arts 1-20 Flashcards
This character creates an artificial family consisting of his wife, Cassy; his daughter, Emmeline; and his sons, Sambo and Quimbo. After living at sea, he returns to a Louisiana plantation, where he attemps to undermine the title character’s faith in god. Who is this cruel slave owner from Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Simon Legree
This man, who demonstrates his knowledge of everything from literature to geology, claims that his current ship has been “[his] Yale College and [his] Harvard.” After meeting Queequeg, at an inn, the two take a ferry to Nantucket, where they win positions aboard the whaling ship Pequod. Identify the narrator of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Ishmael
This author taught at her sister’s school in Cincinnati, where she encountered many escaped slaves from Kentucky. After moving to Maine, she wrote a novel subtitled Life Among The Lowly, featuring Eva St. Clare and Topsy. What abolitionist writer helped spark the Civil War with her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Identify the type of grammatical error present in the following sentence: After reading the novel, the movie is sure to be a blockbuster.
Dangling modifier
Some stories claim that this woman’s husband had to shoot her, while others say that she landed on the moon. After riding a catfish and shooting holes in clouds, she married her true love and briefly roded his horse, Widow-Maker. Name this short-lived wife of Pecos Bill.
Slue-Foot Sue
Identify the following sentence’s direct object: After the case was over, Oscar gsve Betty a gold necklace.
Necklace
What is the following sentece’s grammatical structure? After we won, the other team shook our hands, but they couldn’t hide their dissapointment.
Compound-complex sentence
This character plans to sell one of her household slaves “down the river,” which causes him to run away. Along with her widowed sister, she attemps to educate and civilize the son of St. Petersburg, Missouri’s town drunk. Give the name of the Widow Douglas’s hypocritical sister in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Miss Watson
Informal term required. This kind of verb is used with a main verb tfo express tense and mood. Also known as an auxiliary verb, it is usually a form of be. Will, can, and might are all what type of verb?
Helping verb
This literary element plays a central role in allegories like Animal Farm. An author uses it when he makes a red rose represent love, or a dove stand for peace. What is this literary element in which an object represents something else, usually an abstract idea?
Symbolism
Only action verbs fall into this category. An example appears in the sentence, “We all need somebody to lean on.” Give the word for a verb that needs a direct object to complete its meaning.
Transitive Verb
This literary device is more complex than a simile or metaphor. An example is the sentence, “Just as you can’t have a rainbow without rain, you can’t have success without hard work.” Name this literary device, which establishes a relationship between two ideas based on their similarities.
Analogy
This type of sentence can end with either a period or an exclamation point. An example is, “Don’t even think about trying to sneak out.” What kind of sentence issues a direct command?
Imperative Sentence
This term is the opposite of litotes. An example is, “She must have been ten feet tall.” What is the literary term for extreme exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally?
Hyperbole
This type of sentence ends with a period. An example would be: We shot basketball after school. What kind of sentence simply makes a statement?
Declarative Sentence
