AMERICAN LITERATURE
The first poet to write verse in America
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
three adversaries of Beowulf
Who are Grendel, Grendel's mother and the dragon?
What war did Captain Sullivan Ballou serve in?
What is the Civil War?
books magazines newspapers
What is underlining?
verbs that have a receiver for the action
What are transitive verbs?
Who was Thornton Wilder?
Who was John Wycliffe?
Who reported on the Buchenwald concentration camp?
Who is Edward Murrow?
poems, songs, short stories
What are quotation marks?
a verb form used as an adjective
What is a participle?
first American author to become world famous
Who was Washington Irving?
Chaucer's masterpiece
What is the Canterbury Tales?
saved the baker and his wife
Who is Eva?
introduces adverb clauses
What are subordinating conjunctions?
a substantive followed by a participle, no grammatical function
What is a nominative absolute?
Who was Rip Van Winkle?
wrote the first essays in English lieterature
Who is Francis Bacon
wrote "The King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards"
I have been seeing
What is present perfect progressive?
Mark Twain's real name
Who was Samuel Clemens?
wrote the Fairie Queene
Who is Edmund Spenser?
characters in "The Finger of God"
Who are Benson and Strickland?
introduces dependent clauses
What are relative pronouns?
used to express a condition that is contrary to fact
What is the subjunctive mood?