Drawing a reasonable conclusion based on the information presented.
What is an inference?
100
Writing that criticizes through humor, exposing the errors of a perceived problem.
What is satire?
100
What are the characteristics of an epic poem? (Name 4)
What is:
-is a lengthy narrative poem,
-ordinarily concerning a serious subject
-containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
-Supernatural forces are involved
-Long lists are used
-The setting spans a large area of the world
100
What are the characteristics of a frame story?
an introductory main story is composed for the purpose of setting the stage another story or a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it.
100
Name three characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet
-14 lines
-3 quatrains
-1 rhyming couplet
-iambic pentameter
-10 syllables per line
-abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme
200
What is a metaphor? Give an example.
A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like “as,” “like,” or “than.”
(Her heart was a stone)
200
A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
What is an anecdote?
200
What kind of English is this:
Hwaet we Gar-Dena in gear-dagum
What is Old English?
200
Write a sentence that shows personification.
Answers will vary
200
What is the name of the last two lines of a sonnet and what is different about them?
Rhyming couplet: They rhyme with each other instead of ABAB
300
A mid-line pause in a poem, often greater than the normal pause.
What is a caesura?
300
identical or similar vowel sounds repeated in a phrase of poetry
What is an assonance?
300
Identify the appositive in the following sentence:
A greedy fiend, the monster came out at night to terrorize the neighborhood.
A greedy fiend
300
Write two lines of poetry that show exact rhyme
Answers will vary
300
Identify they type of English this is written in:
This time of year thou mayest in me behold
What is Modern English?
400
A story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
What is an allegory?
400
The method used by a writer to develop a character. The method includes showing the character’s appearance, actions, thoughts, spoken words, and reactions of others.
What is characterization?
400
Identify the appositive in this sentence:
Dr. Mark, my professor, was sick this morning.
My professor.
400
Write two lines of poetry that show slant rhyme
AWV
400
Explain three reasons why language changes
Language changes through time due to religious influences, wars and other people groups taking over, and combining of cultures. Grammar and word meanings change through time based on common usage.
500
Consonant sounds or similar consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of several words in a phrase.
What is the term for this?
Give a sentence-length example.
What is Alliteration?
500
The repetition of similar consonant sounds of words in a phrase, in the middle or at the end of words.
What is consonance
500
What is a kenning? Give an example.
A creative 2 word description used in place of a single word.
500
What kind of English is this written in?
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
What is Middle English?
500
Explain one example from modern culture that demonstrates language change- but not slang