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Phrases such as "physical persuasion" and "downsizing" are known as:
A) Personification B) Metaphors C) Similes D) Doublespeak |
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Which of the following sentences contains the correct use of the word whom?
A) When lifesaving gear is scarce, the fishermen must give the resources to whomever has the best chance of surviving B) Matthew was a young man whom knew his goal and future plans C) Whom will be invited? D) You will student teach with our finest English teacher, whom you will meet later in the day |
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Language minority students who experience academic difficulties because of lack of proficiency in English are more likely to experience which of the following?
I. Assignment in special education II. Single-parent families III. Inclusing in a "tracked" program of bilingual learners IV. Low intelligence scores on tests A) I, II, IV B) I, III, IV C) I, III D) II, III, IV |
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Each of the following phrases is an example of onomatopoeia EXCEPT
A) kicking and screaming B) mooing and baaing C) beep, beep D) drip, drop, drip, drop |
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Which of the following is NOT an appropraite activity in the prewriting stage of writing?
A) Reading for background information B) Listing ideas C) Brainstorming D) Editing grammar |
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Allegory
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A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Allegories usually have a strong lesson or moral
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Alliteration
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The repition of inital consonat sounds in words, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
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Allusion
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A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event- for example, Don Juan, brave new world, Everyman, Machiavellian, utopia
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Analogy
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A comparision of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important ways
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Anapestic meter
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Meter that is composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented, usually used in light or whimsical poetrym such as a limerick
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Anecdote
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A brief story that illustrates or makes a point
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Antagonist
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A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist)
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Aphorisim
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A wise saying, usually short and written
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Apostrophy
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A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present or absent.
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Assonance
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A repition of the same sound in words close to one another- for example, white stripes
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed verse, often occurring in iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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A break in the rhythm of language, particularly a natural pause in a line of verse, marked in prosody by a double vertical line ('').
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Characterization
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A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits
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Cliche
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An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
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Consonance
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Repition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels- for example "stroke of luck"
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Couplet
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A stanza made up of two rhyming lines
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Diction
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An author's choice of words based on their clearness, consciseness, effectiveness, and authenticity
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Archaic
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Old fassioned words that are no longer used in common speech, such as thee, thy, thou
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Colloquialisim
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Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situation or regions
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Dialect
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A variety of a language used by people from a particular field or content area
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Jargon
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specialized language used by people from a particular geographic area
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Profanity
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Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred
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Slang
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Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves
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Vulgarity
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Language widely considered crude, disgusting, and oftentimes offensive
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End rhyme
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rhyming of the ends of lines of verse
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Enjambment
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Also known as run on line in poetry, enjambment occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning
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Existentialism
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A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility
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Flashback
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A literary device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of a narrative
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Foot
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A metrical foot is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables
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Iambic
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unstressed, stressed
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Trochaic
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stressed, unstressed
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Anapestic
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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Dactylic
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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Monometer
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one foot
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Dimeter
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two feet
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Trimeter
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three feet
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Tetrameter
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four feet
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Pentameter
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five feet
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Hexameter
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six feet
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Septameter
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seven feet
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Octameter
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eight feet
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Foreshadowing
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A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story
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Free verse
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Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre
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Genre
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A category of literature defined by its style, form, and content
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Heroic couplet
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A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter
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Hubris
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The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero
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Hyperbole
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An exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect
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Imagery
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The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind
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Interal rhyme
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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Irony
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The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning.
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Dramatic irony
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The reader sees a character's errors, but the character does nont
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Verbal irony
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The writer says one thing and means another
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Situational irony
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The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
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Malapropism
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A type of pun, or play on words, that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind- for example "Dont put the horse before the cart"
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Metaphore
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A figure of speech in which a comparision is implied but not stated, such as "This winter is a bear"
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Meter
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A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Mood
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the feeling a text evokes in the reader, such as sadness, tranquility, or elation
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Moral
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a lesson a work of literature is teaching
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Narration
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The telling of a story
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of sound words to suggest meaning, as in buzz, click, or vroom
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Oxymoron
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A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms- for example "deafening silence"
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Paradox
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A contradictory statement that makes sense- for example "Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history"
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Personification
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A literary device in which animal, ideas, and things are represented as having human traits
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Point of view
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The perspective from which a story is told
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First person
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The story is told from the point of view of one character
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Third person
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The story is told by someone outside of the story
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Omniscient
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The narrator of the story shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters
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Limited omniscient
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The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one character
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Camera view
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The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view, unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings.
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Refrain
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The repition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, particularly at the end of each stanza
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Repetition
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The multiple use of a word, phrase, or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect
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Rhetoric
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Persuasive writing
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Rhythm
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The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry
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Setting
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The time and place in which the action of a story takes place
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Similie
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A comparision of two unlike things, usually including the word like or as
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Style
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How the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form ideas
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Symbol
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A person, place, thing, or evnet used to represent something else, such as the white flag that represents surrender
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Tone
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the overall feeling created by an author's use of words
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Transcendentalism
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During the 19th centure in New England, several writers and intellectuals worked together to write, translate words, and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism.
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Verse
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A metric line of poetry
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Voice
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Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns
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Ballad
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A short poem, often written by an anonymous author, comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited
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Canto
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The main section of a long poem
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Elegy
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A poem that is a mornful lament for the dead.
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Epic
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A long narriative poem detailing a hero's deeds
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Haiku
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A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively
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Limerick
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A humerous verse form of five anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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Lyric
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A short poem about personal feelings and emotion
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Sonnet
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A fourteen line poem usually written in iambic pentameter with a varied rhyme scheme
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Fludrocortisone ("Flu" = "Fluid")
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Couplet
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Two line stanza
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Triplet
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Three line stanza
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Quatrain
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Four line stanza
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Quintet
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Five line stanza
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Sestet
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Six line stanza
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Septet
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Seven line stanza
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Octave
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Eight line stanza
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Fable
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A short story or folktaile that contains a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim
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Fairy tale
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A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures, such as witches, goblins, and faries, and usually begins with "Once upon a time"
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Fantasy
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A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting
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Folktale
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A narrative form, such as an epic, legend, myth, song, poem, or fable, that has been retold within a culture for generations
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Frame tale
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A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the pourpose of organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story
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Historical fiction
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Narrative fiction tha tis set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people, places, or events
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Horror
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Fiction that is intended to frighten, unsettle, or scare readers.
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Legend
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A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the talke the appearence of truth or reality
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Mystery
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A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime
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Myth
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Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology.
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Novel
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An extended fictional prose narrative
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Novella
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A short narrative, usually between 50 and 100 pages long
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Parody
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A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work
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Romance
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A novel comprised of idealized events far removed form every day life.
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Satife
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Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions, usually to evoke change
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Science fiction
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Fiction that deals with current or future development of technological advances
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Short story
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A brief fictional prose narrative
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Tragedy
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Literature, often dram, ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist after he or she faces several problems or conflicts
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Western
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A novel set in the western United States featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen
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Autobiography
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A person's account of his or her own life
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Biography
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A story about a person's life written by another person
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Document
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An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an eral
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Essay
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A document oragnized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can by in the form of a letter, dialogue, or discussion
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Blooms Taxonomy
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Knowledge
Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation |
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Scaffolding
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Providing structural supports to a student in a learning situation. The more capable the studnet becomes with a certain skill or concept, the less instructional scaffolding the adult or peer needs to provide.
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Activating prior knowledge
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Also know as set induction, creating an anticipatory set is an activity at the start of a lesson that is used to set the stage for learning in order to motivate students and activate prior knowledge.
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Metacognition
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Persons ability to think about his or her own thinking and regulate his or her own thinking
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Antagonist
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A person who opposes or competes with the main character; often the villain in the story
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Character
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A person or being in a narrative
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Conflict
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Opposing elements or characters in a plot
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Person verses Person
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A character has a problem with one or more of the characters
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Person verses Society
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A character has a problem with an element of society: the school, an accepted way of doing things, the law, etc
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Person verses Self
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A character has a proble determining what to do in a situation
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Person verses Nature
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A character has a problem with nature: natural disasters, extreme heat, or freezing temperatures
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Person verses Fate
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A character has to battle what appears to be an uncontrollable problem that is attributed to fate or God
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Denouement
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The outcome or resolution of plot in a story
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Plot
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The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events
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Protagonist
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The main character or hero of a writen work
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Setting
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The time and place in which a story occurs
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Skimming
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A way to read a text to get a general sense of it
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SQ3R
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Survey, Question,Read, Recite, Review
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Anticipation guides
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Provides students with an opportunity to respond to and discuss a series of open-ended questions or opinion questions that address various themes, vocabulary words, and concepts that will appear in an upcoming text
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Linquistics
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The formal study of the structures and processes of a language
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Phonetics
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The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
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Phonolgy
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The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect
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Morphology
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The study of the strucutre of words
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Semantics
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The study of the meaning in language
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Syntax
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The study of the strucutre of sentences
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Pragmatics
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The role of context in the intepretation of meaning
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Sociolinguist
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The study of language as it relateds to society; including race, class, gender, and age
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Ethnolinguistics
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The study of language as it relates to culture
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Psycholinguistics
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The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
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Dialect
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A variation of a langauge used by people who live in a particular geographical area
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Standard Dialects
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Dialect supported by institutions, such as governments and schools
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Etymology
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The study of the history and origin of words
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Declarative sentence
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Makes a statement and tells about a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Interrogative sentence
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Asks a question
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Imperative sentence
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Gives a command
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Exclamatory sentence
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Communicates strong ideas or feelings
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Conditional sentence
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Expresses wishes or conditions contrary to the fact
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Simple sentence
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One independent clause and no dependent clause
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Compound sentence
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Two independent clauses
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Complex sentence
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One independent clause and one or more dependent clause
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Compound complex sentence
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Sentence has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
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Common noun
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Do not name specific people, places, or things
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Proper noun
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name particular people, places, or things
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Concrete noun
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name a thing that is tangible
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Abstrat noun
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name an idea, condition, or feeling
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Collective noun
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name a group or unit
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Singular noun
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one person place or thing
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Plural noun
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sever people places or things
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Masculine noun
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names a man's position (father, brother, son)
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Feminine noun
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names a woman's poeition (mother, sister, daughter)
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Neuter noun
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names a noun that is neither a man or a woman (window, shrub, door)
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Indefinite
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names a position that can belong to either a man or a woman (chair person, doctor, flight attendent)
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Nomitave case noun
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Subject of a clause or the predicate noun when it follows the verb be
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Possessive case noun
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Shows possession or ownership
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Objective case noun
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Can be a diect object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition
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Transitive verbs
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words or word groups that complete the meaning of a verb by naming a receiver of the action
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Intransitive verb
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takes no objects or complements
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Linking or connecting verbs
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connects the subject and the subject complement
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Auxiliary or helping verb
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comes before another verb
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Present tense
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describes situations that exist in the present tense
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Past Tense
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used to tell about what happened in the past
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Future tense
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is used to express actions that will talke place in the future
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Present perfect tense
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is used when actions began in the past but continues into the present
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Past perfect tense
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is used when actions began in the past and happened prior to another past action
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Future perfect tense
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is used ot epxress actions that will begin in the future and will be completed in the future
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Infinitive phrase
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usually made up of "to" and the base form of a verb
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Participle
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a verb that usaully ends in ing or ed
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Gerund phrase
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made up of a present participle and always fucntions as a noun
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Antecedent
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the noun to which a pronoun refers
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Personal pronoun
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takes the place of nouns
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Relative pronouns
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relate adjectives clauses to the nouns or pronous they modify
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Indefinite pronouns
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usually refer to unnamed or unknown people or things
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Interrogative pronouns
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ask questions
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Demonstative pronouns
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point out people, places, or things without naming them
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Adjectives
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describe or modify nouns or pronouns
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Adverbs
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describe time, place, manner, degree
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Phrases
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are groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech, such as a verb, verbal, prepositional, appositve, or absolute
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Clauses
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are groups of related words that have both a subject and a predicate
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Ambiguity
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occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase
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Euphemism
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a socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language, such as expressions ofr bodily funtions or body parts.
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Doublespeak
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language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal
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Jargon
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the specialized language of a particular group or culture
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The literary works below were written during which of the following periods in British literature?
Isabella by Keats Prometheus Unbound by Shelley Don Juan by Byron A) Renaissance B) Romantic C) Modern D) Harlem |
B
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Which of the following names the "legend" of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
A) Satchmo B) Rip van Winkle C) Tam O'Shanter D) The Headless Horseman |
D
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Each of the following novels is paired with its author EXCEPT
A) Peyton Place, Hawthorne B) Pride and Prejudice, Austen C) Waiting for Godot, Becket D) The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger |
A
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Of the following lines, which contains alliteration?
I. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; II. Or all the riches that the East doth hold III. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere IV. That when we live no more, we may live ever A) I B) I, II C) I, II, III D) All of the above |
D
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Which of the following lines from Sylvia Plath poem do NOT contain an example of onomatopoeia?
I. sharded in black, like beetles II. Is stuck in a barb wire snare. Ich, ich, ich, ich III. Chuffing me off like a Jew, IV. oozing the glue drops A) II, III, IV B) All of the above C) I, II D) I |
D
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Each of the following pairs are homophones, EXCEPT
A) sell/cell B) read/read C) waist/waste D) witch/which |
B
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Which of the following is the best example of a rhetorical question?
A) Can you help me locate the main office? B) Do you need anything else to help make your lesson more effective? C) Do we really expect that schools will be funded by property taxes alone? D) Do you think you will pass the praxis II exam? |
C
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One phonological feature of African American Vernacular English is________.
A) The use of sporting expressions such as "bowled over" to mean "taken by suprise" and football to mean soccer B) The pronunciation of the final -ng in on syllable words: sing becomes sin or ring becomes rin C) The realization of the final -ng in two syllable words: wedding becomes wedding or nothing becomes nufin D) The use of the word ja in place of the word yes, as in "You're right, ja?" |
C
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In the quote "To err is human; to forgive is divine," whihc of the following rhetorical devices is used?
A) Persuasion B) Rhetoical question C) Parallel structure D) Emotive language |
C
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Abraham Lincoln is attributed as having said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Which of the following rhetocial devices was president Lincoln using?
A) Simile B) Hyperbole C) Metaphor D) Repition |
D
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During which period did the British Romantics such as Keats, Shelly, and Byron write?
A) 1880-1930 B) 1780-1840 C) 1660-1700 D) 1900-2000` |
B
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Which of the following is best described as a cliche?
A) You can't teach an old dog new tricks B) My grandmother passed awy last April C) The Holocaust victims were executed in a concentation camp D) Agent Orange was a chemical used during the Vietnam War |
A
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Which of the following lines contain an allusion?
A) "Men are April when the woo, December when they wed." B) "Knaves and robbers cna obtain only what was before possessed by others" C) Town Manager Kern is a "man for all seasons" D) The couple had a bliss-filled marriage |
C
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The author for Beowulf is_______.
A) Racine B) Socrates C) Ulysses D) Unknown |
D
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Which of the following terms can be defined as using language persuasively or pleasingly?
A) Personification B) Rhetoric C) Tone D) Point of View |
B
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Which of the lines contains a simile?
A) "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:" B) "Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough!" C) "Away to window I felw like a flash" D) "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night;" |
C
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Which of the following authors wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
A) Alex Haley B) John Updike C) J.D. Salinger D) Sylvia Plath |
C
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In which of the following periods was The Catche in the Rye written?
A) 20th century British literature B) Contemporary U.S literature C) American Renaissance period D) British Victorian period |
B
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A high school English teacher wants to effectively open a lesson on Hamlet. Which of the following is most likely to motivate adolescent readers?
A) An analysis of the play by a famous English author B) A homework assignment to read Act I C) A round-robin read-aloud in which studnets take turns reading the play without time to practive D) A discussion about seeking the truth in students' lives and personal experiences |
D
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Which of the following cognates is most Different in meaning and usage from its original Latin root?
A) Facile B) Facilitate C) Faction D) Facility |
C
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Which of the following are examples of correlative conjunctions?
A) and/but B) not only/ but C) after/ before D) since/ then |
B
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Which of the following is an appropraite revision-stage activity during the writing process?
A) peer conferencing B) peer editing C) teacher editing D) prewriting |
A
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Which of the following is the best definition of a writing rubric?
A) frame story B) writing scoring guide C) a description of a writing assignment D) A part of a manuscript or book |
B
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Which of the following plays by Harold Pinter is seen as an extended metaphor for society in the 1950's, with Stanley representing "angry young men" and his antagonists representing repressive conformists?
A) The Birthday Party B) The Iceman Cometh C) A Doll's House D)Wating for Godot |
A
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Which of the following works represents the Colonial period of literature?
A) The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America B) Winter Words C) Rip van Winkle D) The Contrast |
A
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Which of the following characters is the protagonist of the work cited?
A) Claudius in Hamlet B) Nanny in Their Eyes Were Watching God C) Chillingsworth in The Scarlet Letter D) Odysseus in The Odyssey |
D
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Which of the following is the definition of the denouement in a literary work?
A) The conflict or problem B) The solution or outcome C) The setting, such as time and place D) The plot or events in the story |
B
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When a story is writtne from an omniscient point of view, which of the following statements is true?
A) The narrator compares two unlike things B) The story is told from the point of view of one of the characters C) The story is told by someone outside of the story D) The narrator is free to tell the stor from any and all characters' points of view |
D
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A poem written in a quintet contains
A) A five line stanza B) five stanzas C) five syllables D) parts for five actors |
A
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In which of the following literary periods was Le Morte d'Arthur written?
A) Middle English Period B) Elizabethan Period C) Romantic Period D) Victorian Period |
A
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