Flashback 1-30 and 1-31: Conventions

Word Choice: Choose the best word in each sentence.

1. Neither the coach nor the players (a. agree, b. agrees) with the referee’s call.

2. Neither the players nor the coach (a. agree, b. agrees) with the referee’s call.

3. Either the battery or the starter (a. needs, b. need) replacement.

4. Neither Whitney Houston nor Angela Bassett (a. appear, b. appears) in this movie.

Flashback #2: Structure

Sentences – Identifying FragmentsIf the subject is missing, write SIf the verb is missing, write VIf both a subject and a verb are present

but no complete thought is expressed, write I for incomplete.

Write C if the words form a complete sentence.

1. If a student attends one of these schools.

2. When the school instituted a yearly poll of students’ career choices.

3. Was designed to meet students’ needs.

4. Some courses internship programs to give students hands-on experience.

Flashback #3: Content - Constructing an Argument

1. Should a thesis statement contain the writer’s opinion?

A. yesB. no

2. In the context of an argumentative paper, which one of these terms is the broad concept or field of study?

A. thesis statementB. topicC. subject

3. In the context of an argumentative paper, which one of these terms is a specific, narrow aspect of the paper’s larger concept?

A. thesis statementB. topicC. subject

4. In the context of an argumentative paper, which one of these terms presents the writer’s approach, or insight?

A. thesis statementB. topicC. subject

Flashback #4: Conventions – Spelling

Choose the best spelling for each word.

1. A) Accelerate B) Accelarate

2. A) Accessable B) Accessible

3) A) Pitiful B) Pityful

4) A) Changable B) Changeable

Flashback #5: Structure – Sentences

Choose the best sentence.

1. a) Scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans, which are realistically depicted in the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner.b) The paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner realistically depict scenes from the everyday lives of African Americans.

2. a) Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book and she was sixty-five years old then. b) Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book when she was sixty-five.

3. a) Looking up from the base of the mountain, the trail seemed more treacherous than it really was.b) Viewed from the base of the mountain, the trail seemed more treacherous than it really was.

4. a) The other delegates and he immediately accepted the resolution drafted by the neutral states.

b) The other delegates and him immediately accepted the resolution drafted by the neutral states.

Flashback #1

Which term best fits the definition?

1. a casual reference in a written work (music and movies will work here, too) to something from history, art, religion, myth, or another work.

a. allegoryb. allusionc. characterizationd. flashback

2. a novel written in lettersa. characterizationb. allusionc. epistolary noveld. frame story

3. the feeling in a literary worka. moodb. settingc. allusiond. epistolary novel

5. the time or place of a literary worka. settingb. moodc. frame storyd. characterization

Flashback #1

Choose the term that best fits the definition.

1. portrayal; descriptiona. analogyb. settingc. characterizationd. conflict

2. the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas

a. imageryb. metaphorc. oxymorond. mood

3. incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another

a. oxymoronb. conflictc. styled. theme

4. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word such as like, as, than or resembles

a. metaphorb. similec. analogyd. oxymoron

Flashback #3: 3-1 and 3-2

Choose the term that best fits the definition.

1. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

a. allegoryb. dialectc. foreshadowingd. analogy

2. a narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales

a. allegoryb. frame storyc. epistolary noveld. proverb

3. the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature

a. allegory

b. proverbc. themed. personification

4. a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or had life

a. allegoryb. personificationc. parable

Flashback #2

Choose the term that best fits the definition.

1. the vantage point from which a writer tells a storya. point of viewb. settingc. allusiond. dialect

2. representing beforehanda. point of viewb. imageryc. allusiond. foreshadowing

3. a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas

a. conflictb. oxymoronc. point of viewd. symbolism

4. the use of highly personal representations to suggest ideas, emotions, and moods

a. themeb. personificationc. symbolismd. allegory

Flashback #5: 3-7 and 3-8

Choose the best word for each definition.

1. a short saying that expresses a common truth or experience, usually about human failings and the ways that people interact with one another

a. allusionb. settingc. moodd. proverb

2. a short story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life

a. parableb. analogyc. frame storyd. flashback

3. an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

a. allusionb. allegoryc. conflict

d. point of view

4. interruption of chronological sequence (as in a film or literary work) by interjection of events of earlier occurrence

a. frame storyb. flashbackc. allegoryd. proverb

Flashback #3

Match the letter with the correct number.

1. Like most young scholars, the quality of my writing was always just a few steps behind that of my reading through elementary, middle, and high school. As the difficulty of my reading progressed, my writing ability improved proportionally.

2. Through elementary school, my writing was bland, my stories like faded chalk drawings made with only a few pale pastels.

3. There was reason behind the choice and placement of each word, phrase, clause, and paragraph.

4. Dear Reader,

Flashback #4

1. If you do not use a __________ your writing is unlikely to demonstrate a clear purpose.

2. Your __________ is an example of who you want to read your writing.

3. Analysis in your writing demonstrates __________.

5. In writing a paragraph, you must __________ your topic sentence.

a. transition sentenceb. thesis statementc. supporting

sentenced. audience awareness

Writing Review: Flashback #5

1. What is the definition of analysis?a. to put togetherb. to break downc. to bring upd. to push apart

2. What is the main purpose of quoting sources?a. to include quotesb. to make the paper easier

a.supportb.thesis statementc. audienced.idea development

c. to support your thesisd. to support good authors

3. How should sentences almost always be arranged in your writing? a. varied from simple and complex b. all simplec. all complexd. mostly simple, but complex at the end

of each paragraph

Writing Review Flashback #1

Is this plagiarism? Write out the full word “true” if it is or “false” if it is not

1. You quote an author directly in your writing without using quotation marks.

2. You give an author credit within your paper, but not at the end.

3. You do not mention an author’s name within the paper, but you do list them in your works cited.

4. You list all of the authors you cited at the end and cite their information in parenthesis in your paper as well.

Flashback #5 3-22 (A) and 3-23 (B)

Write the letter of the correct word next to the definition.

a. dialectb. frame storyc. allusiond. literacy

1. using language to communicate ideas

2. a casual reference in a written work

3. narrative structure containing or connecting a series of tales

4. a special variety of language

Flashback #1 3-26 (A) and 3-27 (B)

Choose the best literary term for the definition.

1. a brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting incident or event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson

a. animismb. archetypec. anectoded. symbolism

2. a quality of speech or writing that combines verbal cleverness with keen perception

a. romanticismb. settingc. moodd. wit

3. a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform

a. satireb. archetypec. suspensed. oxymoron

4. a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotionsa. consonanceb. analogyc. climaxd. conflict

Flashback #2: 3-28 (A) and 3-29 (B)

1. a pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages – can be a character, plot, image, or settinga. denotationb. autobiographyc. archetyped. sonnet

2. the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot

a. climaxb. haikuc. conflictd. foreshadowing

3. a term used to describe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elementsa. gothicb. easternc. westernd. classical

4. language that appeals to the sensesa. witb. haikuc. foreshadowing

Flashback #2

1. a song or songlike poem that tells a storya. autobiographyb. industrial revolutionc. balladd. oxymoron

2. saying less than what is really meanta. witb. balladc. understatementd. speech

3. the manner in which writers or speakers say what they wish to say

a. styleb. stanzac. understatementd. ballad

4. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things WITHOUT using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles

a. simileb. metaphorc. balladd. understatement

Flashback #4: 4-12 (A) and 4-13 (B)

1. a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that developed as a reaction to neoclassicism in the late eighteenth century a. classicismb. post-modernismc. sarcasmd. romanticism

2. a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itselfa. speakerb. symbol

c. rhythmd. meter

3. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, than, or resemblesa. metaphorb. similec. symbold. sarcasm

4. a brief work of fiction a. novel b. renaissance c. short story d. poem

Flashback #5: 4-16 (A) and 4-17 (B)

1. the atmosphere or feeling in a literary worka. moodb. settingc. archetyped. autobiography

2. a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of peoplea. moodb. coupletc. epiphanyd. dialect

3. a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to “flash backward” and tell what happened at an earlier timea. settingb. flashbackc. personificationd. parable

4. a short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about lifea. parodyb. sarcasmc. parabled. irony

Flashback #1: 4-18 (A) 4-19 (B)You must write the date at the top of your flashback!

1. the period of social and economic change following the replacement of hand tools by machines and power toolsa. Romantic Periodb. Gothicismc. Industrial Revolutiond. Neoclassicism

2. the vantage point from which a writer tells a storya. point of viewb. flashback

c. oxymorond. personification

3. a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideasa. parableb. parodyc. allegoryd. oxymoron

4. a short saying that expresses a common truth or experience, usually about human failings and the ways that people interact with one anothera. punb. metaphorc. alliterationd. proverb

Flashback # 2: 4-20 (A) and 4-23 (B)

1. the point of greatest emotional intensity of suspense in a plot when the outcome of the conflict becomes knowna. settingb. characterc. climaxd. verse

2. a reference to a statement , person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture

a. metaphorb. mythologyc. allusiond. analogy

3. an extended metaphora. alliterationb. allusionc. analogyd. allegory

4. a narrative in which one or more of the characters tell individual stories

a. frame story b. figure of speech c. personification d. epistolary novel