Grammar
This connects a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
Which figure vividly describes water?
What is Hydrographia?
Macbeth murders him seeking the crown of Scotland in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Who is Duncan?
This author wrote "The Passing of King Arthur" in his work Le Morte D'Arthur.
Who is Thomas Malory?
This poet known for his horror tales studied at the University of Virginia but was expelled
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
What is the purpose of human language?
What is "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding." (Proverbs 1:2)
Which figure vividly describes a particular time?
What is Chronographia?
This protagonist in The Odyssey was swept by storm to the land of the Cyclops.
Who is Ulysses?
This author tells us of the account of Caedman from his book, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Who is Bede?
This poet gave us Psalm 23 and may had inspiration from his early life as a shepherd.
Who is King David?
What is a narrative?
Which figure vividly describes the wind?
What is Anemographia?
Caedmon was blessed with this gift and used it to tell the story of creation and give glory to God.
What is the divine gift of song?
This author wrote Canterbury tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This poet wrote "Light Shining out of Darkness."
Who is William Cowper?
Define poetry.
Technically, "a poem is a metrical composition, with an aim to please by addressing the imagination and sensibilities." (Harvey) Poetically, "Poetry is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight." (Shelley)
Define Astrothesia.
What is vividly describes stars or the night sky?
In this year, in the Boston Harbor, 342 chests of tea were thrown overboard giving the colonists a step toward independence from England.
What is 1773?
This author gave us the story of "Bruce and the Spider" and one of the novels you read assigned in humanities.
Who is Sir Walter Scott?
This English poet wrote of the Battle of Balaclava from the Crimean War, honoring the British cavalry who bravely charged the enemy.
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
This figure of speech adds extra conjunctions?
What is Polysyndeton?
Define Topographia.
What is vividly describes a place?
This king of Scotland after losing six battles was inspired by a spider and continued with a seventh and victorious battle against the King of England.
Who is Robert Bruce?
This author of a poem gives us the first lines, "There is no Frigate like a Book, To take us Lands away..."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This is one of America's "best-known and best-loved" poets. We studied two of his poems in Chronicle & Verse this year.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
"Daybreak" and "The Song of Hiawatha"