Sentence Structure
Identify the following sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex:
The lights came on, and Ahmed saw the audience for the first time.
Compound
Define Modern Gothic
Stories marked by fear, horror, and dread, produced by writers today
In The Raven, who does our narrator long for?
His lost love, Lenore
Is this a sentence or a fragment?:
Check this out!
Sentence, because there is a subject and a verb
What did the main character see on Usher's house, upon his arrival?
A fissure on the facade of it
Identify the following sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex:
When the lights came on, Ahmed saw the audience for the first time.
Complex
Define omniscient third-person point of view
A point of view where the narrator is not a character in the story; he stands "outside" of the story and is "all-knowing"
They were siblings
Identify the prepositional phrase(s).
Eloise entered through the front door quickly, because she was freezing in the frigid December air.
through the front door; in the frigid December air
In beware: do not read this poem, what happened to each tenant of the woman's old house?
They each lost a loved one to the woman in the mirror.
Identify the following sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex:
When the lights came on, Ahmed saw the audience for the first time, and he waved to his parents, who were sitting in the front row.
Compound-Complex
Define gregarious
What year does "House Taken Over" take place, and in what country?
It takes place in 1946, right after WWII, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Which literary device is being used in the following sentence:
The sun smiled happily down at us.
Personification
Identify the object of the preposition:
Uriah sits on the couch.
The object of the preposition is couch, which modifies where -- or upon what -- Uriah is sitting (on).
Identify the following sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex:
Because Ben was busy, he forgot to study for the exam, but he cheated from Lucy's test, which she did a poor job keeping covered.
Compound-Complex
Define Gothic literature.
A literary genre characterized by elements of horror, romance, and mystery, often set in bleak settings
In "Where is Here?," how does the stranger react when the father tells him, "The visit is over" ?
The stranger cries and begs to see the basement.
Is this an independent or dependent clause:
While I was
Dependent clause, because it cannot stand alone as a complete thought and begins with a subordinating conjunction
Finish the sentence with the appropriate vocabulary term from the unit:
Assertions of a position or truth that must be supported with credible evidence are called ______.Claims
Identify the independent and dependent clauses within this sentence:
When the lights came on, Joan saw the audience for the first time.
Indep. - Joan saw the audience for the first time
Dep. - When the lights came on
Define magical realism.
A genre that combines two seemingly contrasting elements: reality and fantasy
The Windigo (creature) is drawn from what Native American tribe's folklore?
The Chippewa tribe
What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence? Does it serve as an adverb phrase, or an adjective phrase?
Jamil has a meeting at noon
The prepositional phrase is "at noon," and it's an adverb phrase, because it's answering where Jamil has a meeting.
In "Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear," what happened to Baby Albert?
He was made to fear white rabbits.