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Vocabulary
Grammar
Unit 1
Unit 2
Miscellaneous
100
A pang of conscience, uneasiness, or doubt
What is qualm?
100
Correct the sentence: One reason the statues are so valuable are that few survived from ancient times.
What is One reason the statues are so valuable IS that few survived from ancient times.
100
This is the author's attitude towards a subject.
What is tone?
100
This is a recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail that becomes a unifying element in an artistic work
What is motif?
100
A rope or chain used to fasten something to a fixed object
What is tether?
200
Complete the sentence: Her public statements became so embarrassing that club members tried to (BLANK) her from the presidency.
What is oust?
200
Correct the sentence: the impresive statues were exhibited in florence and rome in the early 1980s.
What is (T)he IMPRESSIVE statutes were exhibited in (F)lorence and (R)ome in the early 1980s.
200
This is a writer's distinctive use of language created by diction, syntax, and imagery
What is voice?
200
This is the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action
What is foreshadow?
200
This idiom means to have an accurate assessment of a person's true character, motives, weaknesses
What is "got your number"?
300
This idiom means to make an apology and accept humiliation.
What is eat humble pie?
300
Correct the sentence: He said that woman belonged at home cooking sewing and to raise children.
What is He said that wom(e)n belonged at home cooking(,) sewing(,) and (raising) children.
300
This sentence uses what type of figurative language: It's maybe a thousand years old, and even if it belonged to me I wouldn't say so.
What is hyperbole?
300
This type of irony occurs when an event contradicts the expectations of the characters or the reader.
What is situational irony?
300
This cinematic technique cuts into action that is happening simultaneously
What is cross cutting?
400
This is the connotation of the word addendum.
What is neutral?
400
Correct the sentence: Madden knew he had to hired her as a full time reporter
What is Madden knew he had to HIRE her as a full(-)time reporter(.)
400
This is the arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison
What is juxtaposition?
400
The perspective from which a narrative is told
What is point of view?
400
In a film, imagery may be established by these three things
What is symbolism, costuming, and setting?
500
Complete the sentence: The way the child (BLANK) around Rex gave me the impression that he had a fear of dogs.
What is cowered?
500
Correct the sentence: Today, they are on display in the temperature controlled basement of the National museum of reggio calabria.
What is Today, they are on display in the temperature(-)controlled basement of the National (M)useum of (R)eggio (C)alabria.
500
An interview narrator captures the voice of the speaker through the use of which Q and A formats?
What is direct and indirect quotations?
500
This is when a character struggles against an outside force. This force may be another character, a societal expectation, or something in the physical world.
What is external conflict?
500
This is the author who used the pseudonym "Richard Bachman"
Who is Stephen King?