Sos English 3 Quiz: Nonfiction Topics

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Essay comes from the French word essai, which means to attempt, or to try: True or False

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True

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True or False : Diaries, letters, and journals are largely imaginative and therefore unworthy as sources of information on a period of history

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False

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True or False: Two American historians and diarists were Captain John Smith and William Bradford

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True

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Short character sketches are called:

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Vignettes

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The process of dividing into parts to study the whole is called: ___________

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Analytical pattern

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The quality of making writing short and unified is called _______________

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conciseness

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The quality of logic in writing is called:___________

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Coherence

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Formal and informal refer to 2 types of _____________________

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Essay

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The Tatler and Spectator papers were written by ____________________ and ________________

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Addison and Steele

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Essay's about literature were written by ______________________ and ________________

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Wordsworth and Coleridge

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The sarcasm or irony to attack/ridicule and idea considered to be foolish is called ______________

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satire

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Jonathan Edwards wrote about his growing ___________ awareness

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spiritual

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Edwards most enjoyed seeing a _________________

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Thunderstorm

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What tragedies happened to Corrie ten Boom while in prison?

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Her father and sister died

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What were the prison conditions?

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Cold, cruel treatment, forced labor, little food

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The thesis of biography is the ____

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Personality of the subject

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Setting and historical plays a __________ role

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secondary

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Jesse Stuart wrote an autobiography about his life as a _____

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Teacher in rural Kentucky

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Bradford's biography of Robert E. Lee reveals him as a general who felt the war was __________

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cruel

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Douglas Freeman wrote an account of the life of _______________________

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Robert E. Lee

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A very famous six-volume biography is ___________________

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Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln

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What attitude does Crevecoeur seem to express about America?

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A land of opportunity

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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

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Jefferson

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The Declaration of Independence states that people ____________________

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tend to endure hardship, rather than rebel

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Poe says the sole arbiter of poetry is ________

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taste

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Poe says the province of a poem is __________

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beauty

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List the 3 things humor provides in writing

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Entertainment, emotional release, a method of criticism

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The block method is suitable for ____________ _______________

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shorter essays

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The point by point method is suitable for _________________, and _______________

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complex essays, lengthy essays

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3 ways to arrange details are:

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Order of importance, order of place, order of feature

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A helpful method for showing relationship between parts is _________________

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Classification