Course Readings
Poetry Terms
Fiction/Drama
MLA Formatting
Literary Terms
100

In this work, the author pleads with his lover to have sexual relations with him.

Identify the title and author's name.

What is "To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell"?

100

a direct comparison between two unlike objects without using the words “like” or “as

What is a metaphor?

100

Time, place and circumstances where a story takes place

What is setting?

100

This is the part of the paper where you provide a list of all of your source material with detailed description of how you will utilize each source.

What is Annotated Bibliography

100

This word can be used to describe both following lists:

Poetry, fiction, and drama

hip-hop, rock, and country.

 

What is genre?

200

In this work, the author sympathizes with prostitutes. 

Identify the title and author's name.

What is "Harlem Shadows" by Claude McKay?

200

pattern of rhymes, usually at the end of lines

What is the rhyme scheme? 

200

When the character in a play addresses the audience to reveal his/her inner thoughts.

What is aside?

200

What's missing from the following citation? 

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. (?), Publication Date.

What is a Publisher?

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

200

defined as a statement that a work/text is making

What is theme?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

In this text, the author analyzes different rivers.

Identify the title and author's name.

What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes?

300

Treating an abstraction or an inanimate object as a person.

What is personification?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

explanation of the past and current dramatic situation

What is exposition?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

MLA stands for this.

What is the Modern Language Association?

300

the way language is used in a text to convey the meaning 

What is tone?

400

In this work, the narrator reminisces about a dead woman.

Identify the title and author's name.

What is "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth?


400

DAILY DOUBLE

the repetition of the beginning sounds in a series of words

What is alliteration?

400

characters designed to highlight qualities in other characters by contrast.

What is a foil character?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Fill in the blank and identify the second error.

Authors: Cassandra Philips and Greg Black

............ “Class Size and First-Year Writing: Exploring the Effects on Pedagogy and Student Perception of Writing Process.” "Teaching English in the Two-Year College," vol. 46, no.1, Sept. 2018, pp. 9-29.

2 Authors: Last name, First name and First name, Last name. 

Books, Periodicals , and other long works are always supposed to be italicized. 

Phillips, Cassandra, and Greg Black. “Class Size and First-Year Writing: Exploring the Effects on Pedagogy and Student Perception of Writing Process.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 46, no.1, Sept. 2018, pp. 9-29.

400

DAILY DOUBLE

a term for poet’s/author's word choice

What is diction? 

500

Name 5 female authors that we read this semester with the title of their works.

Kate Chopin "The Story of an Hour"

Rita Dove "Daystar"

Lady Mary Chudleigh "To the Ladies"

Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for Death"

Sylvia Plath "Daddy"

Judith Cofer "Volar"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Adrienne Rich, “Living in Sin”

500

a form of modern poetry that does not follow a set rhyme scheme and rhythm

What is free verse or blank verse?

500

extended speeches by one character

What is monologue? 

500

List the 6 things needed for an "Online Video" citation (in order). 

Name. "Title." Platform. Uploaded by. Date. URL. 

Swift, Taylor. "Love Story." Uploaded by Taylor Swift. 19 November 2011. URL

500

relying on figures of speech to clarify and make ideas precise as well as to suggest a range of feelings in a text

What is figurative language?

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