Grammar: Parts of Sentence
Identify the dependent and independent clauses in the following sentence:
Even if the child is hungry, he will never eat oatmeal, but he will always eat ice cream.
Independent clauses: "[…] he will never eat oatmeal, buy he will always eat ice cream." Dependent clause: "Even if the child is hungry […]"
Which type of English poem uses 5 iambic feet and how many syllables does it contain in each line?
Shakespearean Sonnet, 10 syllables
Fill in the blank: --------is a way in which a literary work is written by the author. -------- is an emotional or mental state that the audience can feel from reading the text.
Tone ; Mood
True or False: Rhetorical questions are meant to persuade someone of a certain concept or dieaology so they don't need answers.
a) Ture,
b) False
a) True
Fill in the blank:
_______________ is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.
Antithesis
What is the function of the relative clause?
My mother, who is an excellent cook, is thinking of opening a restaurant. (Select all that applies.)
a) Object of Preposition,
b) Adverb,
c) Subject Complement,
d) Adjective
c) Subject Complement,
d) Adjective
What poem uses the ABBA ABBA CDE CDE rhyme scheme?
Italian Sonnet
Name literary and rhetorical device(s) used in the extract:
“In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half, hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below." ― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
a) Allusion, b) Hyperbole, c) Imagery, d) Paradox
c) Imagery
Which of the options match with the definition? A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
a) Allusion, b) Apostrophe, c) Oxymoron, d) Paradox
d) Paradox
What is the purpose of repetition?
a) to make a speech more dramatic and effective by speeding up its rhythm and pace,
b) allows a writer or speaker to place emphasis on things they choose as significant,
c)to strengthen an argument by using either exact opposites or simply contrasting ideas,
b) allows a writer or speaker to place emphasis on things they choose as significant,
Identify the type of clause used in the following sentence and fill in the blank: I don't like children ----- eat ice cream with their hands.
Essential Adjective Clause, who
Which type of sonnet contains three quatrains and one couplet?
Shakespearean Sonnet
Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:
Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel.
Allusion
Which figurative language does the sentence use? It’s easy to like musicians because they are very upbeat.
Pun
What syntactic device can be found in the following sentence?
“We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people.”
Asyndeton
Which form/forms of clause is included? List all that applies. You must decide when you're facing a challenge, though others can tell you what you should do.
Adverb Clause & Noun Clause
List the characteristics of free verse poems.
Does not use consistent meter, rhyme or any other pattern.
Which of the following is an anology?
a) Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. b) The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. c) They fought like cats and dogs. d) Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through female Anopheles mosquitoes.
a) Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
List all figurative language used in the following sentence:
"Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" ― Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Apostrophe, Oxymoron
Identify the syntactic device used in the following paragraph:
"Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where-wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there… An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build-why, I'll be there."
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Epistrophe
Complete the sentence with a noun clause and adjective clause: The angry crowd attacked.
No fixed answers
Adjective clause can be used to describe "crowd" and place noun clause after" attacked"
Which type of poem is the following extract?
John Milton, Paradise Lost Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit. Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos…
Blank Verse
Analyze diction used in the fllowing text. Name all that applies:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (By S. T. Coleridge)
“It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
He holds him with his skinny hand,
‘There was a ship,’ quoth he.
‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’
Eftsoons his hand dropt he
‘I fear thy skinny hand! …
I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.’—
Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
This body dropt not down …”
Archaic
What are common features (figurative language) in both extract?
“What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?”
– Ice and Fire by Edmund Spenser
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Might and dreadful…
…One short sleep past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
– The Holy Sonnets – Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
Both uses paradox.
What are the differences between antithesis and chiasmus?
In chiasmus, the order or relation of the ideas is inverted; in antithesis, the ideas are replaced with their opposites, contrasting proposition.