History of English
Old English is most closely related to this language family.
What is Germanic?
Where is the story said to take place?
Where is Airstrip One?
The lawyer who investigates the mystery of Hyde.
Who is Mr Utterson?
Unable to be avoided or prevented.
What is inevitable?
A word that replaces a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
After 1066, this language became the language of the ruling class in England.
What is French (Anglo-Norman)?
The practice of accepting two contradictory ideas at the same time is called this.
What is doublethink?
A system where countries act mainly in their own self-interest reflects this theory.
What is realism?
Not enough; lacking in quantity or quality.
What is inadequate?
Words like “quickly” or “carefully” belong to this category.
What are adverbs?
Place names ending in “-by” or “-thorpe” show influence from this group.
What are the Vikings (Old Norse influence)?
Room 101 represents this ultimate idea.
What is facing one’s worst fear (or total psychological control)?
Explain the idea of "MAD"?
What is the military doctrine of nuclear deterrence in international relations where the use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
“His argument was weak and lacked ______.”
What is insight?
A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence.
What is a subordinate (dependent) clause?
The line Should I compare thee to a summer day? comes from this type of Shakespearean poem
What is a sonnet?
The Party maintains power not through economic success but through this continuous condition.
What is perpetual conflict (or endless war)?
The novel Dr Jekyll ... suggests that every human has this dual nature.
What is both good and evil (or duality)?
Completely necessary or essential.
What is indispensable?
Changing “The book was written by her” to active voice results in this.
What is “She wrote the book”?
What is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet?
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
O’Brien’s statement that the Party seeks power “entirely for its own sake” challenges this traditional political belief.
What is that governments exist to serve the people (or improve society)?
The novel can be interpreted as a critique of this aspect of Victorian life.
What is hypocrisy (or repression of desires)?
Impossible to satisfy or please.
What is insatiable?
What is “I did my homework, I went to bed.” an example of
What is a comma splice/ comma splicing?