Grammar & Comp
Name the 8 parts of speech.
[Group 4]
Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections.
Tools that an author uses to create meaning, suspense, and tension within a text.
[Group 5]
Literary Devices
A story connected with a particular culture that deals with that culture's traditions, beliefs, and experiences.
[Group 5]
Myth
Animal Farm is an allegory for what historical event?
The rise of the USSR.
[Group 4]
Histories, Tragedies, Comedies
The verb that an idea or sentence is about.
[Group 3]
Predicate
Informal language NOT specific to a group or region.
[Group 7]
Colloquial Language
The Hero's Journey is split between two "locations" - what are they?
[Group 2]
The Ordinary World & The Regular World
A story that reads on two different levels.
[Group 2]
Allegory
The Lost Years, or the period of time where Shakespeare cannot be located within historical records, lasted how long?
[Group 6]
7 years
What is the difference between an action verb and a linking verb?
An action verb shows action, while a linking verb holds a noun to a state of being.
A literary device that plays on the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.
[Group 3]
Situational Irony
The area or concept that a deity is in charge/in control of.
[Group 1]
Domain
How does the gradual changing of commandments represent the theme of control and corruption in Animal Farm?
The pigs slowly change the meanings/interpretations of the commandments to benefit themselves and oppress the animals on the farm, but it's subtle enough that the animals don't notice or fight back until it is too late.
How many plays did Shakespeare write TOTAL?
[Group 7]
37
An ellipses (...) is used for what?
[Group 6]
To omit (leave out) words in writing.
The positioning of two concepts next to each other to highlight their differences.
Juxtaposition
What is an epic hero meant to reflect?
The values of the society from which they come.
Old Major, Napoleon, and Snowball represent which historical figures?
Old Major - Lenin
Napoleon - Stalin
Snowball - Trotsky
What is the difference between blank verse and prose?
[Group 1]
Blank Verse - structured like poetry but without a set rhythm/rhyme scheme.
Prose - regular writing (like a novel).
Nouns can be divided into 4 categories - what are they?
Concrete, Abstract, Common, Proper
What is the difference between anthropomorphism and personification?
Anthropomorphism is literally giving non-human things human abilities. Personification is not literal.
Epics typically begin with an invocation to this particular set of deities.
Muses
What is Boxer and his fate supposed to represent in the novel?
Boxer worked harder than anyone else on the farm and fully supported the pigs' regime, but when he was no longer useful, he was discarded and sent to the glue factory. This represents how the working class is viewed as disposable under a totalitarian regime.
Define Iambic Pentameter COMPLETELY.
A rhythmic pattern in poetry that consists of 5 sets of 2 syllables each following a stressed/unstressed pattern.