Literature Terminology
Background Notes
Grammar
Vocab
Miscellaneous
100
This type of literature is connected to oral tradition
What is Native American folkore
100
Writers were optimistic about possibilities of individual people
What is American Romanticism
100
The following is an example of what: "When it starts to rain."
What is a fragment
100
Bene
What is well, good
100
What part of speech is the noun at the end of a prepositional phrase?
What is object of the preposition
200
The following is an example of what: "The plea which I mainly adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of using my young white playmates, with whom I met in the street, as teachers."
What is slave narrative
200
Slaves begin being brought to the new world and enduring horrors during their passage
What is Civil War Era
200
small is what part of speech in the following sentence: the house at the top of the hill was too small for its owners.
What is predicate adjective
200
loqui
What is speak
200
Identify "basketball" in the following sentence: Chuck bass can bounce a basketball.
What is direct object
300
The following is an example of what: "Approaching the desk, the little, but confident, boy rang the bell to get the attention of the distracted, desk clerk."
What is characterization
300
Many felt the spread of industry and new technology threatened the natural world and isolated people from it
What is American Romanticism
300
What part of speech is 'had been sitting' in the following sentence: My child had been sitting on my lap.
What is verb phrase
300
clam
What is to cry out
300
in spirituals, what terms referred to the land of freedom or heaven?
What is promised land or heaven
400
"No gains without pains" is an example of a (an).
What is aphorism.
400
Writers produced documents to further the American road to independence
What is Early American
400
What part of speech is brother in the following sentence: I gave my little brother a cookie this afternoon.
What is indirect object
400
greg
What is flock or herd
400
What is an example of a prepositional phrase?
What is to the mall, at the mall, for the student, etc.
500
The following is an example of what: "Of thirty-seven persons who were in this one house, none escaped either present death, or a bitter captivity, save only one, who might say as he, "And I only am escaped alone to tell the News" (Job 1.15).
What is allusion
500
Stories were told about the creation of the sacred earth and origins of natural aspects of the earth.
What is Early American
500
What part of speech is the "the crazy cat lady" in the following: Jill, the crazy cat lady, sat in her checkered chair as her cats surrounded around her perimeter.
What is appositive
500
sept
What is seven
500
In the following sentence, what is the predicate nominative: The boys in the band Kings of Lion are singers and musicians.
What is singers and musicians
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