English lll: Unit Seven

What attitude does Crevecoeur seem to express about America?

A land of opportunity

The Tatler and Spectator papers were produced by:

Addison and Steele

An author's story about himself is an

Autobiography

An Englishman who wrote essays about travel, truth, riches, and other serious subjects was

Bacon

Poe states that the province of a poem is

Beauty

One of the earliest American autobiographies was written by

Benjamin Franklin

A very famous six-volume biography is

Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln

A helpful method for showing the relationships between parts is

Classification

The two English poets who wrote literary essays about poetry were:

Coleridge and Wordsworth

The point-by-point method is suitable for:

Complex and Lengthy essays

Bradford's biography of Robert E. Lee reveals him as a general who felt that war was

Cruel

Cheerfulness, sadness, or nostalgia in descriptive writing is known as

Dominant mood

The types of issues commonly dealt with by editorialists are:

Economic, political, and social

The line "give me liberty or give me death" is an example of

Ethos and Pathos

Analytical papers may not be written about abstract subjects.

False

Argumentative writing uses comparison and contrast.

False

Biography and autobiography are actually a form of fiction since much of the details are not true in fact.

False

Byrd explains the problems he encountered with Powhatan.

False

Coherence literally means analytical.

False

For the remainder of his moments, he would enjoy his few remaining pleasures, the company and conversation of female ephemera and the knowledge that he had meant well in life.

False

Since an editor is giving his opinion, facts are not important.

False

The Diary of Anne Frank is a record kept by an early Dutch settler.

False

The elderly ephemera felt that his struggles in life were worth it because he gained a name for himself.

False

The account of Pocahontas's rescue of John Smith is believed to have been

Fictional

When a writer describes one thing by comparing it to something else, he is using

Figurative Language

Two styles of essays are:

Formal or Informal

What tool can a skillful author use to relieve tension and give the reader a break from heavy emotional material?

Humor

Franklin claimed to have heard and understood the conversation of ephemera, a type of

Insect

The Declaration of Independence was written by

Jefferson

The selection illustrating the idea that "the pen is mightier than the sword" is

Jefferson's letter to Paine

Two of the most popular forms of nonfiction are:

Magazines and Newspapers

The word essai, or essay, was first used by a French man named

Montaigne

At the time that Franklin's brother started his newspaper, how many newspapers were already in circulation?

One

"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" is the name of a speech by

Patrick Henry

The central thesis of biography is the

Personality of the subject

Douglas S. Freeman wrote an account of the life of

Robert E. Lee

he blending of humor with criticism to attain social or political reform is called

Satire

Setting and historical events play a ____ in good biography.

Secondary role

The ephemera's lifespan was so ___ that it measured its life by ___

Short, Minutes

Poe says that the sole arbiter of poetry is

Taste

Biography can be used to reveal a historical period through the examination of one representative person's life.

True

Captain John Smith may have exaggerated or even invented parts of his account, A True Relation.

True

The Diary of Anne Frank describes the life of a Jewish girl during World War I I.

True

The analytical pattern is used in literary criticism.

True

The use of details is commonly used in illustrative writing.

True

Thomas Jefferson's letter applauds Thomas Paine's efforts.

True

William Byrd II wrote an informal, yet informative, account of a trip to Virginia and the Carolinas.

True

The first book to be written in America was Smith's

True Relation

Which is an example of the analytical method?

Walden

Select all questions that any of the three patterns of exposition should answer.

What is it? What are some examples of it? What is it like? What is it not like? What caused it? What did it affect? How can it be classified or divided?

metaphor

a direct comparison between two different things

anti-Semitism

a hatred for Jews and Jewish customs

simile

a statement that one thing is like another

corroborative

able to be proved or demonstrated

Which are major writing patterns of exposition?

analytical, argumentative, illustrative

Reader's Digest and Science Digest are examples of the _____ type of magazine.

anthology

In an effort to be published, Franklin the boy

changed his handwriting on an anonymous paper

Which of the following are characteristics of exposition?

clarity, coherence, completeness, conciseness

Which are methods used in illustrative exposition?

comparison, definition, example, supporting detail

argumentative

debatable; writing that presents various sides of an issue

A type of writing that paints with words is known as

descriptive

An essay type of writing stating the opinions of the publisher is called a(n)

editorial

A good argument should never be controversial.

false

personification

gives human qualities to inanimate objects or ideas

The houses built by Byrd were constructed of

logs, with pine and cypress shingles

Three ways to arrange details are:

order of importance, order of place, order of outstanding feature

The Declaration of Independence states that

people tend to endure hardships, rather than rebel

vignette

short descriptive literary sketch

The block method is suitable for:

shorter essays

Jesse Stuart wrote an autobiography about his life as a

teacher in rural Kentucky

Emerson's essay tells of: ______

the importance of natural resources to man, all of nature works together for man's benefit

figurative language

the use of comparisons to enhance writing; descriptions not to be taken literally

French writings similar to essays were called pensees, or

thoughts

A persuasive argument should be logical and tactful.

true

The purpose of argumentative writing is to change a reader's opinion.

true

The word essay originally meant

try

hyperbole

uses exaggeration for a particular effect

An author combines words, phrases, and clauses to create a

visual image

The questions a newspaper article should answer are

who, what, when, where, how

aphorism

witty, concise sayings, like proverbs