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12/10/2010

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Term
There are several different classifications of pronouns. Pronouns such as this, that, these, and those are all classified as _________ pronouns.
Definition
demonstrative pronouns
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Identify the type of phrase used in the following sentence:

She has been running four laps each morning.

 

Definition
verb
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A couplet is ________ lines of verse usually of the same lenghth and rhymed.

Definition
two
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A foot is a unit metrical pattern in poetry. _________ has two stressed syllables.

Definition

 

Spondee

Term
Adding black pigment to a pure hue is...?
Definition
Shade
Term

The sentence,"She jumped over the high bar with the grace and strength of a powerful deer,"is an example of a ____

sentence.

Definition
Simple
Term
One skill in writing is to vary the normal pattern of sentences. Which of the following is an example of an object-subject-verb pattern?
Definition
That I never said
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Lemeul Gulliver visits 4 fictitious lands in Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels. Name the land of horses with reasoning powers.
Definition
Houyhnhnmland
Term
This Russian composer died the same day as Josef Stalin in 1953. Who composed Peter and the Wolf?
Definition
Sergei Prokofiev
Term

What is illustrated by this passage?

His body was green, the tips of his wings were pink, and his breast golden. He had a mania for biting his perch and pulling out his feathers.

Definition
characterization
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What is the setting for Camille Saint-Saens' "Danese Macabre"?
Definition
Graveyard
Term

In Italy, if you are dining "al fresco," where are you dining?

Definition
In the outdoors
Term

This illustrates what literart device?

 The summer night is a dark blue hammock slung between the white pillars of day.

 

Definition
metaphor
Term

Which of the following words are spelled  incorectly?

A.accommodate

B.beleive

C.conscioud

D.definitely

Definition
B.beleive
Term

In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" the mother tells the son that her life hasn't been easy. What metaphor did she use to portray this idea?

A."Life for me has not been a bed of roses."

B."Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

C."Life for me stinks like a pig pen."

D."Life for me has been a mud pit."

Definition
B. "Life for me ain't beem no crystal stair."
Term

Which Pharse includes a descriptive rather than a limiting adjective?

A. red peril

B. third snort

C. which module

D. that promontory

E. her apprehension

 

Definition
A. red peril
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What type of error has been made in the following sentence? The choice of a camera is diffucult, there are good ones on the market.

Definition
comma splice
Term
Shirley Jackson's story, 'The Lottery," ends with a ...
Definition
stoning
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