AMERICAN LITERATURE
ENGLISH LITERATURE
THEMES IN LITERATURE
GRAMMAR III
GRAMMAR V/VI
100

The first poet to write verse in America 

Who is Anne Bradstreet? 

100

three adversaries of Beowulf

Who are Grendel, Grendel's mother and the dragon? 

100

What war did Captain Sullivan Ballou serve in? 

What is the Civil War? 

100

books magazines newspapers

What is underlining? 

100

verbs that have a receiver for the action 

What are transitive verbs?

200
America's most well known playwright

Who was Thornton Wilder? 

200
father of English prose 

Who was John Wycliffe?

200

Who reported on the Buchenwald concentration camp? 

Who is Edward Murrow? 

200

poems, songs, short stories

What are quotation marks? 

200

a verb form used as an adjective

What is a participle?

300

first American author to become world famous

Who was Washington Irving? 

300

Chaucer's masterpiece

What is the Canterbury Tales? 

300

saved the baker and his wife

Who is Eva? 

300

introduces adverb clauses

What are subordinating conjunctions? 

300

a substantive followed by a participle, no grammatical function 

What is a nominative absolute?

400
slept for twenty years

Who was Rip Van Winkle? 

400

wrote the first essays in English lieterature

Who is Francis Bacon

400

wrote "The King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards" 

Who is Alexander Dumas? 
400
2 independent clauses and 1 or more dependent 
What is a compound complex sentence? 
400

I have been seeing 

What is present perfect progressive?

500

Mark Twain's real name

Who was Samuel Clemens? 

500

wrote the Fairie Queene

Who is Edmund Spenser?

500

characters in "The Finger of God" 

Who are Benson and Strickland? 

500

introduces dependent clauses

What are relative pronouns? 

500

used to express a condition that is contrary to fact 

What is the subjunctive mood?

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