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English Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blank Verse | Poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by differing vowel sounds |
| Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually followed by different consonant sounds |
| Free Verse | Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, length, or stanza arrangement |
| Lyric Poem | Expresses speakers personal thoughts and feelings |
| Rhythm | Pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Prose | Regular writing in sentence and paragraph format |
| Oxymoron | Figure of speech where opposite ideas are combined; two contradictory terms used together |
| Paradox | a situation or statement that seems impossible but is nevertheless true |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern that end rhymes form in a poem |
| Countenance | A persons face or facial expression |
| Mien | A persons look or manner |
| Where was the raven perched in "The Raven"? | The Bust of Pallas |
| What was the name of the speakers lost love in "The Raven"? | Lenore |
| What does the repetition of "Nevermore" do the the speaker in "The Raven"? | Plunges him into despair |
| 1/2 through the poem the speakers mood shifts from... | Curiosity to melancholy |
| Melancholy means | Feeling of great sadness |
| The raven at first seems to be | Entertaining and ungainly creature |
| What bird did Poe consider making the Raven | A Parrot |
| Because, after, although, as much as, when(ever), in order, if are all what kind of conjunctions? | Subordinating |
| and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet are all what kind of conjunctions? | Coordinating |
| What are the correlative conjunctions in the sentence? He is such a smart boy that he passes his exams easily. | Such...that |
| Correlative conjunction in the sentence? I would rather go out than stay home today. | Rather....than |
| Appositive Phrases are | a group of words that renames the noun next to it |
| What type of phrase is..(A winning class track runner), Ellie grabs her spikes. | Appositive |
| What period were ghost stories made? | Romantic Period |
| Deism | the universe is orderly and good (apart of the revolutionary Period) |
| Poetry is superior to science | Romantic period |
| Leaving the city behind in search of true nature | Romantic Period |
| Cities are fully of opportunity and potential success | Revolutionary Period |
| Thinking about nature is a way to discover truth | Romantic period |
| Reason | Revolutionary Period |
| Olaudah Equiano | Colonial Period |
| God is actively present in all things at all times | Colonial Period |
| Cotton Mather | Both revolutionary and colonial periods |
| Profane means | irreverent |
| Sundry means | Some |
| Relent means | To soften |
| Reproved means | Reprimanded |
| Who is the real author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| Mankind is evil | Colonial Period |
| Who is the fictional author of Rip Van Winkle | Diedrich Knickerbocker |
| Termagant means | An overbearing women with a harsh temper |
| What historical event took place while Rip slept? | The Revolutionary War |
| How long was Rip asleep for? What caused him to fall asleep? | 20 years, he drank to much |
| What is the name of Rip's dog? | Wolf |
| Satire | Type of writing that ridicules or mocks the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change |
| Purple symbolizes what? | Royalty |
| Values feeling and tuition over reason | Romanticism |
| What do Rip and his wife represent? | He reps the Colonies she reps Britain |
| Where was Gottfried Wolfgang send by his friend? | Paris, during the revolution |
| Where does he meet the women now and before? | Place De Greve, and in his dreams |
| What color is her choker and her dress? Adventure of the German Student | Black |
| Before being kidnapped what had never seen what prior to being kidnapped? | The Ocean |
| What was he scared his captors were going to do? | Eat him |
| What did Equiano believe the sailors used to make the ship move? | Magic |
| Who was the main character in LOSH? | Ichabod Crane |
| Pedagogue means | Teacher |
| Who does Ichabod want? | Katrina Van Tassel |
| Hints in story that gives clues to what will later happen | Foreshadowing |
| What was the name of Ichabod and Brom's horses...who loaned Ichabod a horse? | Gunpowder and Daredevil...Hans Van Ripper |
| Who was Ichabod's competitor | Brom Van Brunt |
| Night is symbolic of what | Death |
| Autumn and sunset is symbolic of what | Decay/old age |
| 3 symbolizes what | Reserection |
| Cherokee were forced to march a thousand miles from their home to Oklahoma | Trail of Tears |
| A story used to explain a natural phenomenon, a human behavior, or a mystery of the universe | Myth |
| Explains how humans and the world came to exist | Creation Myth |
| Rebellious Character | Trickster |
| Belief as to why society has certain customs and beliefs | Origin Myths |
| 3 parts of speech that modify and describe | verbs, adjectives, & adverbs |
| Patrick Henry was apart of what period | Revolutionary Period |
| What act did Patrick Henry impose | Stamp Act |
| Jonathan Edwards, what was his famous sermon? | Over lapped the Colonial and Revolutionary period as well as Cotton Mather, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Reference to a well known person, character, place, or situation | Allusion |
| Where'd the Puritans go before they came to America? | Holland |
| These are all examples of what: hiking, learning, singing | Gerunds |
| Red symbolizes | love, blood, anger, sin |
| 4 symbolizes | Somethings complete |
| 6 symbolizes | Devil |
| 12 symbolizes | Time, moths in a year, disciples |
| 13 symbolizes | Bad luck |
| Blue symbolizes | Serenity and calmness |
| Green | new life, envy |
| Noon goes with what | Youth and summer |
| Subordinate clauses mean what? | dependent |
| Noun phrase that renames nouns or pronouns | Appositive |
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