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| There are several different classifications of pronouns. Pronouns such as this, that, these, and those are all classified as _________ pronouns. |
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Identify the type of phrase used in the following sentence:
She has been running four laps each morning.
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A couplet is ________ lines of verse usually of the same lenghth and rhymed. |
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A foot is a unit metrical pattern in poetry. _________ has two stressed syllables. |
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| Adding black pigment to a pure hue is...? |
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The sentence,"She jumped over the high bar with the grace and strength of a powerful deer,"is an example of a ____
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| One skill in writing is to vary the normal pattern of sentences. Which of the following is an example of an object-subject-verb pattern? |
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| Lemeul Gulliver visits 4 fictitious lands in Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels. Name the land of horses with reasoning powers. |
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| This Russian composer died the same day as Josef Stalin in 1953. Who composed Peter and the Wolf? |
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What is illustrated by this passage?
His body was green, the tips of his wings were pink, and his breast golden. He had a mania for biting his perch and pulling out his feathers. |
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| What is the setting for Camille Saint-Saens' "Danese Macabre"? |
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In Italy, if you are dining "al fresco," where are you dining? |
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This illustrates what literart device?
The summer night is a dark blue hammock slung between the white pillars of day.
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Which of the following words are spelled incorectly?
A.accommodate
B.beleive
C.conscioud
D.definitely |
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In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" the mother tells the son that her life hasn't been easy. What metaphor did she use to portray this idea?
A."Life for me has not been a bed of roses."
B."Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
C."Life for me stinks like a pig pen."
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| B. "Life for me ain't beem no crystal stair." |
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Which Pharse includes a descriptive rather than a limiting adjective?
A. red peril
B. third snort
C. which module
D. that promontory
E. her apprehension
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What type of error has been made in the following sentence? The choice of a camera is diffucult, there are good ones on the market. |
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| Shirley Jackson's story, 'The Lottery," ends with a ... |
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