Test 1 for english 2
"This book was written in good faith, reader. I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, for it is myself that I portray"
Michel De Montaigne
The theme of a story may be like the Cheshire Cat in that it
May be just as elusive: present, but not entirely visible
The author who says that a frequent theme in her work is that women have the power to direct their own lives
Sandra Ciserno
A synonyms for indirect learning
head fake
The person who introduced Randy Pausch to others this way: "He's a doctor, but not the kind that helps people"
his mom
When Pausch admits "I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that," he means
his wife and kids
The high quality to which writing rises when it reveals new information, gives a new perspective on a topic or information that the audience knows, or provides entertainment value equal to, or exceeding, the worth of the time it takes to read it
informativeness
One "huge" concept that Pausch says "we should not lose sight of" is how important
inspiration and the permission to dream are
Which statements below are true about the process of complete, polished, well-formed pieces of writing? The process of writing itself
involves launching a poor first draft that the writer nevertheless adds to, cuts into, revises, rewords, sharpens and smoothes out into a successfully argued and naturally flowing essay.
Pausch says, "We cannot change the cards we are dealt,
just how we play them
Read this question from a quiz in an introductory fine arts college class which includes a unit on the basic elements of an orchestra: "List all of the instruments in the percussion section of an orchestra." Identify the highest level at which the question works.
knowledge
Read this research task: Learn about the contemporary and later critics' comments and judgments. At which level does it work, knowledge or analytical level and above?
knowledge
Read this research task: Learn facts about a work and about the period in which it was written. At which level does it work, knowledge or analytical level and above?
knowledge
The learning level that consists of being able to state previously learned facts and details about a topic on demand
knowledge
A successful essay about literature is a brief but thorough (not exhaustive) examination of a literary work in light of what?
symbolism, character, point of view (one, some or all)
Essays in this class call for bringing in the voices of others who have studied each topic to work along with yours in setting forth an original perspective. Therefore, which is the highest level at which writing the essays for this class works?
synthesis
Read this question from the quiz in a college class in the education department: "Compose a poem which expresses your understanding of the effect of group work (collaborative or cooperative learning) on learning." Identify the highest level at which the question works.
synthesis
The level of learning at which the process of weaving found information from different sources with one's own ideas to create something new that performs as a whole works
synthesis
in order to get help, people have to
tell the truth
Take a look at this list. To show that things which appear similar are really different To show that things which appear different are really similar To evaluate To explain the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar These four items constitute what?
the accepted purposes for an academic comparison
Which statement below is true about the knowledge level?
The majority of the world's population operates at that level most of the time
In the parenthetical reference, a student writer identifies a passage from a film, TV show, radio program or interview by
The student identifies the author and medium in the sentence so no parenthetical reference is needed.
What elements go in the top, right corner of a student essay done in MLA style?
The student writer's last name, a space and the page number
An institution of higher learning in which students and faculty participate in the making of knowledge
university
Which example quoted shows the lines of poetry divided correctly? In the poem, "If" (1889-1896, Rudyard Kipling says that when both enemies and friends attack a person,
victory and manhood belong to the one who can "hold on when there is nothing in you / Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on'."
The slang term originally applied to a female rock star's followers who tried to imitate her. Like them, Wangero Leeewanika Kemanjo attempts to emulate members of a different group.
wanna be
Which verb, if inserted in the blanks in the next sentence, is correct for discussing events in the author's life? Guy de Maupassant's short story, ''The Necklace,'' _____ a hit as soon as it ____ published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois on February 17, 1884.
was
When inserted in the blank in the sentence below, which verb is the correct tense for academic literary analysis? The plot, setting, and characters in this story ________ to support the idea that war is unthinkable.
work
The MLA-style heading for the list of references at the end of a research essay which uses only print sources is
work cited
The heading that the MLA prescribes for the list at the end of a research essay that includes the books, articles, and electronic sources a student has actually taken paraphrases or quotes from and used in the body
work cited
The sharpened, focused expression of thought and study
writing
Which of the parenthetical references below is correct for a direct quotation from a print source?
(Corbett 37)
Which answer below lists the types of analysis?
-Relationship of implication and relationship of an inductive generalization to supporting evidence -Comparison, classification/division, and cause and effect relationship -Numerical relationship and relationship of a value, skill, or definition to an example of its use
For what is growth a metaphor?
-the disclosure of ideas that were not at first noticeable -the expression of original interpretations
How many readers are in the primary audience for the essays written in this class?
1 - the person whom the writer targets and respects, an intelligent person who takes an active interest in a wide variety of topics and whose respect the writer wants to earn
The century in which essays flourished
1500s
When writing in MLA style, a writer should block and indent each line of poetry when the quotation reaches
3 typed lines or more
When writing in MLA style, a writer should block and indent each line of a passage of prose when the quotation reaches
4 typed lines or more
With what does each entry in the bibliography end?
A period
Which statement is true about the three stages of writing?
A writer may go back to a previous stage when a new idea occurs or something different is needed.
The project that Pausch works on as an Imagineer
Aladdin attraction
The author whose main character says: "She wrote me once that no matter where we 'choose' to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends"
Alice Walker
Which of the sources in the bibliography of an essay are supposed to be mentioned in the body of the essay?
All of them
Which sentence demonstrates correct agreement in number?
All people have their own opinions
This saying appears on one author's word processor: "Those who tell the _____ rule the world"
stories
Read this definition and select what its term below: The type of comparison in which objects come from different classes and uses the familiar to explain the unfamiliar.
Analogy
Read this question from a quiz in a college political science class: "Draw a flowchart illustrating change in the flow of power when Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords' resigned from the Republican party in May of 2001." Identify the highest level at which the question works.
Analysis???
In the parenthetical reference, a student writer identifies a passage from a play by
Arabic numbers indicating act, scene and line separated by periods
Host Fran Dorn opens Video 10 on meaning with a math question from Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Its purpose is to show that the elements of the story such as character, plot, language, setting, conflict, and point of view
Are to finding the main idea in a story as adding the numbers is to figuring out the sum in an addition problem
Why do many writers compose the introduction last? Because
As a writer works, s/he may learn s/he has been wrong, and change the thesis and content totally from what s/he thought it would be when s/he started out
About which dream does Pausch say, "I guess you can tell the nerds early?"
Authoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia
What does Pausch do that convinces cynics in the audience that he really has won a lot of stuffed animals? He
Brings them out to show them
Anything one person asks another to do
Can be classified in one or another of the categories
Assume that each sentence below is the first time an author is mentioned in a student essay. Which sentence uses the author's name correctly?
Charles Dickens' 1850 novel, David Copperfield, lays out many of the consequences that follow for those who do and do not follow "the first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart."
Theme is like this character, "Sometimes visible, most times not, perched on the branch of plot or the twig of character, ready to bring us to the heart of the story"
Cheshire cat
A state of internal conflict that comes when the facts contradict what a person believes to be true
Cognitive dissonance
The database listing the references for all types of poetry
Columbia Grangers World of Poetry
Read this definition and select its term below: The method of development in which the writer examines the similarities and/or differences between persons, objects, or ideas to support a point.
Comparison/contrast
Which statement below is true about the synthesis level?
It is the skill level most likely to yield effective solutions to life's biggest problems.
Pausch's relative who also won stuffed animals at the circus
Dad
Knowing the levels can help a student when taking a test in any class or doing anything else if s/he
Decides what kind of task it is and responds to it at that learning level
What does a reader who has read the work expect the student writer to do in the essay?
Demonstrate thinking
Assume that each sentence below is the second time an author is mentioned in a student essay. Which sentence uses the author's name correctly?
Dickens' David Copperfield, lays out many of the consequences that ensue for those who do and do not follow "the first mistaken impulse of an undisciplined heart."
Dorn's discussion of possible themes in the Crane, O'Connor, Olson, and Walker stories shows that
Different literary elements can dominate to develop themes in different stories
The stages of the writing task include
Discovering ideas, creating an early rough draft, and preparing a finished, final draft
When a paragraph types up as a whole page, double-spaced, what should a student do?
Divide it into paragraphs that are about nine double-spaced lines long or so.
The multidisciplinary database that includes Magill's and "Book Index with Reviews"
EBSCOhost
Read this example from a sample essay: "He is not totally bad (Campbell 126), but he urges Hamlet to commit murder, something that no ghost trying to reach heaven would ever do (Prosser 136; McFarland 36)." What does the information in parentheses mean?
Each source owns the idea before his name, and Prosser and McFarland arrived at the thought and published it separately - great minds sometimes think alike.
According to the front cover, who wrote the textbook for this course?
Edgar V. Roberts and Robert Zweig
The MLA rule is that to document a text book with two editors in the body of an essay, one must use the full names of both authors in the order listed on the cover the first time that they appear. Which statement below shows the correct pattern for the first time and when the names are part of the sentence?
Edgar V. Roberts and Robert Zweig describe human beings as mythopoeic, that is, creatures who live in stories that they invent (1502).
Pausch recommends that when one of these is in the room, a person should always introduce it
Elephant
The American essayist who writes, "A political victory, the rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits. And you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles"
Emerson
Pausch divides his speech into several major parts. Which one has been "even more fun" as he gets older?
Enabling the dreams of others
The French word that means "attempt"
Essay
The type of fact-based writing that does not rely on an invented plot, yet still uses the techniques of fiction to create prose with a point
Essay
What Pausch got when he didn't get what he wanted
Experience
The type of essay that explains a subject in an effort to inform the reader
Expository
The British essayist who writes, "Reading maketh a full man, confidence, a ready man, and writing, an exact man"
Francis Bacon
The first British essay writer
Francis Bacon
The author who creates the character who says, "Someone will go for her with a bread-knife one day, and he won't miss her"
Frank O'conner
Pausch says that the brick walls are there to
Give people a chance to show how badly they want something and to keep out those who don't want it badly enough to work for it
People who write with the whole person to captivate, inform, entertain, or persuade readers
Good Essayists
The research source currently gathering the pages of thousands of scholarly works
Google scholar
The main idea in a story is often so powerful that it seems
Greater than the sum of its parts
Randy Pausch speaks before the college students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, but his primary audience consists of
His Children
Which pronouns should never appear in an essay which analyzes literature unless they're in a direct quotation?
I, me, my, mine, we, our, us, you, your
When a question is an evaluation, what should a student do if neither the question nor the instructor provide the criteria for making the judgment?
Identify the criteria s/he has applied clearly and explicitly
Which sentence offers an idea, not a fact, about the story?
Maupassant's surprise ending symbolizes the need for always being truthful.
Assume that the example below is the first time this short story written in 1950 by Franklin Reck is mentioned in this sentence from an essay. Which example is correct?
In "The Diving Fool," (1950), Franklin Reck demonstrates how a joy in performance can elevate a capable diver into a champion.
Which sentence below is the best example of a specific, analytical central idea, one that combines a topic with an outcome? Remember, in all multiple choice questions, choose the BEST answer.
In "The Necklace," Mathilde Loisel's strengths and weaknesses are connected to the real and imaginary places in the story.
How should the list of sources be organized -- how does a student writer decide which source comes first, second, and so on in the bibliography?
In alphabetical order by author's last name or for unsigned works, the first word (but not A, An, or The) in the title
Which words or phrases below, used to stress the relationship of the examples to the topic of the paragraph, fit in any essay regardless of topic?
In keeping with the idea...
Where does the second and every subsequent line of each entry in a list of sources start?
Indented one tab space from the first line -- 1.5 inches from the left edge of the paper
What is an additional means of What is an additional means of trying to make the essay easy to follow?
Introducing transitional phrases and words such as these: one of the major conflicts, like those and similarly.
All of the reasons below are good ones for memorizing facts. Which one represents the idea of there being "inherent value" in memorizing facts?
It's good in and of itself to be able to know facts.
In the body of an essay and in the list of sources, the title of a book should be set off by
Italicizing it -- Book Title
The archive that includes complete sets of more than 600 different scholarly journals in the arts and sciences
JSTOR
Pausch's co-author on the book, titled, The Last Lecture
Jeff Zaslow
vWhich pattern below shows the correct MLA pattern for numbering pages in a parenthetical reference?
Jones 3
The title that was originally applied to the series of talks at Carnegie Mellon University at which a professor would answer this question: If you had one last lecture to give before you died, what would it be?
Last lecture
The only skill that Captain Kirk, Pausch's childhood role model, really has is
Leadership
When "Preparation meets opportunity," they create this
Luck
The American civil rights leader who writes, "I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly"
MLK jr
The database that archives the plot summaries and analysis of fictional works
MagillOnLiteraturePlus
The editors maintain that printing out and revising from several marked-up drafts permits a student writer to do what?
Make improvements
Which sentence is more exact?
Mathilde Loisel's dreams of luxury prevent her from appreciating her own possessions, so she borrows a necklace to dress well for the party.
Which of the parenthetical references below is correct for a paraphrase from a print source?
Name #
Toward the end of Video 10, Sandra Cisneros reads from her 1983 book, The House on Mango Street: "One day I will go away. Friends and neighbors will say, 'What happened to that Esperanza? Where did she go with all those books and paper?" . . . . They will not know I have gone away to come back for the ones I left behind, for the ones who cannot get out." This selection is an example of which of her favorite themes?
One always has a responsibility to one's community
The geometric shape that describes the flight trajectory of NASA's vomit comet, which rises in a curved line to the highest point in its ascent and then drops in a similar curved path of descent
Parabolic Arc
Of the two major reference systems for use in a research paper, which one has the MLA preferred since 1984?
Parenthetical references or in-text citations
vThe textbook for this course is what type of source?
This invention in the 15th century took books out of the hands of church and state and made them available to the public
Printing press
Imaginative short stories and novels that focus on one or a few characters who undergo a change or development as they interact with other characters
Prose fiction
An electronic depository of full-text books and articles
Questia
The title of Randy Pausch's last lecture
Really Achieving Your childhood dreams
The time of artistic awakening stimulated by the study of classical art and literature from the 1300s through about 1650
Renaissance
The college English class activity that helps Pausch get on the vomit comet after he first gets turned down
Research
vWhich statement below shows the correct pattern for the second time two editors are mentioned and when the names are part of the sentence?
Roberts and Zweig describe human beings as mythopoeic, that is, creatures who live in stories that they invent (1502).
One of Pausch's favorite moments during student presentations
Roller-skating ninja
The first segment in Video 10 comes from Stephen Crane's 1899 short story, "The Blue Hotel." It illustrates, among other things, the idea that collective inaction, rather than a specific act, really killed the Swede. This idea arises mostly from Crane's use of:
Setting, character, and plot
In the lessons learned toward the end of the lecture, Pausch recommends that people
Show gratitude, find the best in everybody, be prepared, choose to work harder instead of complaining, and never give up.
All of his childhood photos show Pausch with one of these
Smile
(No insensitivity or offense is intended with this question. Mental illness is a very serious problem. The question is asked because it indicates mastery.) Which phrase below if placed in the blank at the end finishes the rhyme as a person with dual personalities would? Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, And _______________.
So am I
Which statement reflects what Dorn teaches about the way readers arrive at themes? The act of presenting other people's work as one's own by not making it absolutely clear that the paraphrase or copied text or idea was originally discovered by another, not the writer, grounds for firing in many jobs and expulsion in school
Sometimes a reader absorbs theme without realizing it.
Read this definition and select what its term below: The type of comparison that focuses mainly on similarities.
Straight comparison
A beginning, middle, and end form the parts of an essay's
Structure
This sentence, "So today's talk was about my childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and some lessons learned," forecasts the speech's overall
Structure
During the the "Hello World!" class project video, the story takes on a life of its own unexpectedly, the characters do not want to leave because theirs "is the best world!", and the audience feels
Surprised
The learning level that consists of drawing information from relevant sources and arriving at a well-formed, coherent whole that includes parts of others, yet forms something entirely new
Synthesis
Pausch and his wife don't want their kids to learn football. What do they want their kids to learn when they play little league football?
Teamwork perseverance sportsmanship
To identify the writer of a quotation or paraphrase from a signed work, a student writer inserts parentheses with what in them after the quote or paraphrase?
The author's last name and the page number
A series of vague impressions may come together in a short story and lead the reader to it
Theme
How do main ideas support the conclusions?
They show that the bulk of material leads to the conclusion.
When a writer exercises the right to develop a counterintuitive view, one that departs from the one to which the author of a literary text seems to want a reader to go, s/he is cultivating the habit of
Thinking for him- or herself
The American revolutionary patriot who writes, "These are the times that try men's souls. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph"
Thomas Paine
The author whose story ends, "Only help her to know -- help make it so there is cause for her to know -- that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron"
Tillie Olson
An essay is a product of its
Time
Why is the list of sources for an essay formatted in its special way?
To make it easy for the reader to find each one
Which sentence below uses the verb tense that is correct for discussing events in a work of literature?
When she meets her friend on the street, they talk about former times.
The multidisciplinary database that includes "Book Review Digest Plus" and the "Short Story Index"
WilsonWeb
The British author who wrote the 1928 novel, Orlando, and asserts, "We write not with the fingers, but with the whole person"
Woolf
The process of following a work, responding to the words, capturing the details, ideas, implications, and assumptions behind what is happening, verifying the accuracy and truth in it, then articulating an emotional response
active reading
The learning level that consists of seeing not only how parts make up a whole, but also how each part relates to each of the other parts with an awareness of the rules and dynamics of the relationship
analysis
The learning level that consists of transferring training by independently selecting the behaviors appropriate to a concrete task
application
The type of essay that attempts to win the reader over to the writer's position
argumentative
The characteristic of correct and coherent writing that develops when the interaction of facts develops a convincing, illuminating, logically sound idea through the accurate reading of a literary text
argumentative edge
The kind of observations which come from minimal first responses and do little more than record details about the action
assimilative
What becomes of the kind of reader who grows both personally and intellectually in imagination and understanding and connects with the cultural, philosophic, and religious world of which s/he is a part? S/he:
become more human
Items that seem so sacred, magical, valuable, and powerful to one author that they could be dispensed only by the state
books
Which verb, if inserted in the blank in the next sentence, is correct for discussing events in a work of literature? Mathilde ____ a diamond necklace for the ball.
borrows
The principle that helps Pausch board the vomit comet as a journalist is:
bring something to the table
When Pausch refers to "his deathbead conversion," he means
buying an apple computer
Two professors and Dorn comment on Alice Walker's 1973 short story, "Everyday Use." They see these themes: Art that remains within one's culture is appreciated best; a disfigured, but real identity is to be preferred over an artificially assumed one; and those families whose members are rooted in reality will prevail. The most influential literary element in developing these views is
characters only
The learning level that consists of understanding the significance and purpose of a set of information that one knows
comprehension
Which learning level includes translation and interpretation?
comprehension
Read this definition and select its match below: The type of comparison that focuses mainly on differences.
contrast
Words in a sentence that indicate the source of a quotation, paraphrase, or summary
credit tag
The practice of examining the thinking process carefully to clarify and improve understanding by appraising alternative courses of action realistically, discussing them in an organized way, implementing one, monitoring the result for effectiveness, and making changes until one achieves the desired outcome or changes the goal
critical thinking
Pausch says that people like this are "telling you they still love you and care"
critics
An organized, connected, and fully developed set of paragraphs that expand on a central idea or argument
essay
Writers tell stories with themes in order to make sense of their
experience
As a child, Pausch goes on the "Alice in Wonderland" ride at Disneyland. As a college professor, he and his colleagues develop a virtual reality teaching program called "Alice." When such a thing happens in a novel, the literary device is called
foreshadowing
The main purpose of Pausch's last lecture is to
leave a legacy for his children
In the parenthetical reference, a student writer identifies a passage from a poem by
line numbers
The systematic use of primary and secondary sources in studying a literary problem
literary research
Written or oral compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas
literature
By encouraging students to use examples that increase in order of importance, the editor influences them toward
meeting the primary standards of organization and growth in writing
The essayist featured in the video whose style is informal, personal, concrete, and bears touches of humor
montaigne
According to one of the assistant football coaches, how can Pausch know that people have given up on him?
no one says anything when he messes up
The category of writing that includes self-help books, travel guides, college-student papers, autobiographies, newspapers, magazines, and essays
non-fiction
The restatement of information in one's own words
paraphrase
The type of essay that concentrates on the writer's thoughts and experiences to entertain the reader
personal
The act of presenting other people's work as one's own by not making it absolutely clear that the paraphrase or copied text or idea was originally discovered by another, not the writer, grounds for firing in many jobs and expulsion in school
plagiarism
Which childhood dream teaches Pausch about critics and that one does not have to achieve a goal to learn from pursuing it?
playing in the NFL
A student writer should avoid A student writer should avoid
preferring a self-evident and obvious approach to a topic because it is safe -- passing is more important than thinking or trying to interest or surprise a reader.
Which verb tense should a student writer use when writing about characters and/or events literature?
present
The original texts of literature or art that a researcher studies for him- or herself, firsthand and hands-on
primary source
The act of systematic investigation, examination, and experimentation that is the basic tool of intellectual inquiry
research
Texts which provide someone else's assessment of a literary work with information that sheds light upon and interprets the original
secondary sources
According to the textbook editors, good sentences in serious writing should be
so strong, forceful, exact, and comprehensive that a reader needing to make a decision based on what the writer says has as much of the information as the author can provide in a good faith effort.
The references one can consult when doing research - people, original surveys, media such as television programs or motion pictures, and print or electronic books and articles
sources
To avoid becoming a slave to the order in the literature one writes about, with what can the student writer start? With
the conclusion or the middle of the literary work
Bloom's taxonomy is a synonym for
the levels of learning
An organizing sentence that plans or forecasts the major topics treated in an essay
thesis sentence
With what should a student writer never be satisfied?
to leave the idea exactly where s/he found it
An assertion about how a paragraph supports the thesis
topic sentence
