english final
What was the Great Awakening?
A religious revival in the American colonies created by Puritan ministers in the 1700's as a response to the Age of Enlightenment.
What is an aphorism?
A short, witty statement about life.
Traditionally, the oral storyteller has been associated with:
All of the answers are correct
Which of the following is an option for correct capitalization in a poem?
All of these options can be used in poetry.
Which of the following statements is a fact?
Bats are nocturnal mammals.
Which of the following BEST describes the Transcendentalists?
Nonconformist
To American Romantics, the western frontier represented what?
Possibility
Which rule is true for classical poetry but not for prose?
The first word of each line is capitalized.
Which Transcendentalist is considered the father of free verse poetry?
Walt Whitman
Which of the following could be written as poetry rather than prose?
A description of a grandmother's love
What is a captivity narrative?
A nonfiction account of someone's experiences in captivity.
Which of the following statements is an example of a thesis statement?
A tired driver can be just as dangerous as a drunk driver.
Which of the following was a right held by Puritan women?
All Puritan widows could own land
What is an example of an archetype?
All answers are correct
Why are human beings drawn to story?
All answers are correct
A novel is historical if it is:
All of the answers are correct
Which of the following statements is an opinion?
Alligators are scary-looking animals.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the statesman's most famous works; it includes all of the following except
An account of Washington's second term as president.
Why is an informed opinion more trustworthy than an opinion?
An informed opinion is based on all information from both sides of an argument.
Where are topic sentences generally found in writing? Why?
At the beginning of an opening paragraph to summarize the main point of the written piece for the reader
Which of the following is important to a historical novel?
Authenticity
How does a follower of intuitive thought guide his/her life?
By what they feel to be true.
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry, that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material: While computers are very good at certain tasks, such as diagnosing equipment malfunctions or performing mathematical functions, they are morons at doing things your dog or cat can do, such as recognizing you and acknowledging your presence. Computers lack qualitative intelligence, that is, the ability to identify those features that make each of us unique and different. Source: Frick, T. (1991). Restructuring education through technology. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
Computers can do some things and not others. Frick (1991) explains that "While computers are very good at certain tasks, such as diagnosing equipment malfunctions or performing mathematical functions .... [they] lack qualitative intelligence, that is, the ability to identify those features that make each of us unique and different" (p. 30). Reference: Frick, T. (1991). Restructuring education through technology. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
When must a student give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness whenever: (Select ALL that apply.)
Directly quoting another person's actual words, whether oral or written Using another person's ideas, opinions, or theories Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written (all of these are correct)
Which of these strongly influenced the development of transcendentalism in America?
Eastern religious texts and rituals
Which characteristics of the Romantic movement were expressed through a focus on nature?
Escapism & spirituality
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material: In the traditional behavioral paradigm, feedback is the consequence of a response, typically reinforcement for an appropriate behavior. Source: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Feedback is not conceived identically among the various schools of thought in instruction. "In the traditional behavioral paradigm, feedback is the consequence of a response, typically reinforcement for an appropriate behavior" (Driscoll, 2000, p. 65). Reference: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
All of these genres of writing were characteristic of Puritan authors EXCEPT:
Fiction
Why is Washington Irving known as the father of American literature?
His writing helped shape the American identity.
Why would an author use ethos to appeal to his audience?
If he or she wants to emphasize their credentials
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not beenplagiarized.Original Source Material:LCD [Learner-Centered Design] thus extends existing design by (a) facing comprehensive cognitive complexity as a central concern, (b) extending design to the system's information content, and (c) visualizing all users (students, workers, consumers young and old) as distributed learners seekingunderstanding. Source: Reeves, W. (1999). Learner-centered design: A cognitive view of managing complexity in product, information, and environmental design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not beenplagiarized.Original Source Material:LCD [Learner-Centered Design] thus extends existing design by (a) facing comprehensive cognitive complexity as a central concern, (b) extending design to the system's information content, and (c) visualizing all users (students, workers, consumers young and old) as distributed learners seekingunderstanding. Source:
In explaining how he proposes to extend the current view of design, Reeves (1999) adds three primary components to design, including fundamental emphasis on human cognition, designing content equally with interface, and considering everyone who will use the design to be a learner. Reference: Reeves, W. (1999). Learner-centered design: A cognitive view of managing complexity in product, information, and environmental design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Unless otherwise noted, the definitions, examples, and additional content presented in the lesson are quoted from and credited to:
Indiana University, School of Education
Which of the following is a cultural development associated with rise of Realism and Naturalism in literature?
Industrialization
How did changes in the country give rise to the literary movement described asRealism?
Industrialization led to a large literate working-class population and there was a need for literature that reflected their lives.
Why is a thesis statement so important in writing?
It clearly explains the main idea and helps readers to better understand what the piece of writing is all about.
How did immigration affect the development of Romanticism in the United States?
It contributed to the growth of a uniquely American identity.
Which of the following is true about the Iroquois story of the Owl?
It includes both natural and supernatural forces.
Which of the following statements best defines the main idea of an essay?
It is the key concept being expressed or examined.
Why is Ben Franklin's autobiography important from a historical perspective?
It offers a glimpse of life in 18th century America.
How was religious teaching involved in Puritan literature?
It was central to each writing.
How did the writing style of Puritan literature reflect the lifestyles of its authors?
It was simplistic.
Which of these novels was influenced by Native American culture and storytelling?
James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
MLA stands for the
Modern Language Association
What was the most important role for a Puritan woman?
Mother
The main difference between literary Realism and Naturalism is:
Naturalism's emphasis on determinism.
A trustworthy online source for MLA formatting is
OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material:A naïve mental model in the context of computer programming is that a computer is an intelligent system, and that giving directions to a computer is like giving directions to a human being. Source:Merriënboer, J. J. van. (1997). Training complex cognitive skills. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
One kind of mental model for the computer is the naïve model. According to van Merriënboer (1997), "A naïve mental model in the context of computer programming is that a computer is an intelligent system, and that giving directions to a computer is like giving directions to a human being" (p. 145). Reference: Merriënboer, J. J. van. (1997). Training complex cognitive skills. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Read the following passage from Emerson's "Self-Reliance." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. What is the topic of this passage?
People should rely on their own capabilities and instincts.
Which of the following is NOT a type of persuasion?
Questioning
Which American Romantic wrote the essay ''Self-Reliance?''
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How did Realism differ from Romanticism?
Realism focused on an authentic representation of middle-class life and did not rely on literary devices whereas Romanticism focused on imaginative plots and elevated language.
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of realism?
Realistic characters are more important than complicated plots.
How did the viewpoint of secular and religious political writers differ in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Secular writers believed that religion should not interfere with state law, while religious writers believed there should be no other laws besides Christian laws.
Which of the following statements is true?
Storytellers often traveled and collected the stories of the people in order to disseminate them.
Which of the following books is NOT an example of Realism?
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material:At this stage the reading strategy adopted by the reader depends on the particulars of the task. The tendency to 'get on with it' seems firmly established in users of manuals and the present sample reported moving freely from manual to system in order to achieve their goal. Only three readers manifested any tendency to read around an area or fully read a section before moving on and even these admitted that they would be tempted to skim, and tend to get bored if they felt that they were not resolving their problems and only read complete sections if all else failed.Source: Dillon, A. (1994). Designing usable electronic text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage. London: Taylor & Francis.
The advantages claimed for verbal reports as a form of data gathering are that "an investigator [can] swing his attention into so many different areas of substantive content, often simultaneously, and also gather intelligence on the extent to which his findings are hampered by population restrictions" (Webb, Campbell, Schwartz & Sechrest, 1966, pp. 172-173). Reference: Webb, E., Campbell, D., Schwartz, R. & Sechrest, L. (1966). Unobtrusive measures: Nonreactive research in the social sciences. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally.
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material:If one were going to be limited to a single method, then certainly the verbal report from a respondent would be the choice. With no other device can an investigator swing his attention into so many different areas of substantive content, often simultaneously, and also gather intelligence on the extent to which his findings are hampered by population restrictions. Source: Webb, E., Campbell, D., Schwartz, R. & Sechrest, L. (1966). Unobtrusive measures: Nonreactive research in the social sciences. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally.
The advantages claimed for verbal reports as a form of data gathering are that "an investigator [can] swing his attention into so many different areas of substantive content, often simultaneously, and also gather intelligence on the extent to which his findings are hampered by population restrictions" (Webb, Campbell, Schwartz & Sechrest, 1966, pp. 172-173). Reference: Webb, E., Campbell, D., Schwartz, R. & Sechrest, L. (1966). Unobtrusive measures: Nonreactive research in the social sciences. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally.
What is predestination?
The belief that God predetermines who is destined with salvation and who is destined to go to hell.
According to Thomas Paine's personal philosophy, what would be the ideal form of government?
The ideal government was one where people directly ran it or they elected people to run it.
Which of the following stories would NOT be considered historical fiction?
The imagined secret affair of Hitler and the U.S. First Lady
Why might a poet use punctuation in the middle of a line in a poem but not at the end?
The punctuation mark tells a reader that a pause is needed.
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material:By instruction I mean any deliberate arrangement of events to facilitate a learner's acquisition of some goal. The goal can range from knowledge to skills to strategies to attitudes, and so on. The learners can be adults or children of any age, background, or prior experience. The setting in which learning takes place can be formal, school-based, on-the-job, or in the community - wherever programs for learning are being designed and implemented. Source: Driscoll, M. P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.The definition of instruction is broad, including any deliberate arrangement of events to facilitate a learner's acquisition of some goal, including the learning of:
The readers of technical documentation manuals do not read those manuals in linear order. They are impatient to be about their work, jump from the text to the task and back, and only stop to read in-depth if they have no other choice. Reference: Dillon, A. (1994). Designing usable electronic text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage. London: Taylor & Francis.
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material: Media experiences equal human experiences .... People's responses show that media are more than just tools. Media are treated politely, they can invade our body space, they can have personalities to match our own, they can be a teammate, and the can elicit gender stereotypes. Media can invoke emotional responses, demand attention, threaten us, influence memories, and change ideas of what is natural. Media are full participants in our social and natural world. Source: Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
The readers of technical documentation manuals do not read those manuals in linear order. They are impatient to be about their work, jump from the text to the task and back, and only stop to read in-depth if they have no other choice. Reference: Dillon, A. (1994). Designing usable electronic text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage. London: Taylor & Francis.
Why should you refrain from using automatic bibliography makers found on the internet?
The rules of MLA formatting changed in the spring of 2016, and many of these programs have not been updated to match.
According to the Transcendentalists, what is the 'eternal ONE'?
The universal soul
The American Romantics were similar to the British Romantics in which of the following ways?
Their interest in nature
How do the works of Dark Romantic writers differ from others during the American Renaissance?
There is no sense of universal justice in Dark Romantic works.
Which of the following is a characteristic of lyric poems?
They have musical properties.
Why did early American authors adopt some of their style from that of the Native American oral tradition?
They wished to create a new voice apart from the European way of storytelling, so they blended the style with the Native American traditions.
Which of the following is an example of persuasion through the use of logos ('logos' as in philosophy, not trademarks)?
This supplement will improve your dog's mobility by 65% in under two weeks.
Read the following passage from Emerson's "Self-Reliance." The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day.—"Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day.—"Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoraswas misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Which sentence best summarizes the central idea of this part of the essay?
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Why might a poet choose to bend the rules and use poetic license?
To express a certain feeling or meaning
Which plagiarism software do we use at Andover eCademy?
Turnitin
Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry that you think has not been plagiarized. Original Source Material: Instructional design theory requires at least two components: methods for facilitating human learning and development (which are also called methods of instruction), and indications as to when and when not to use these methods (which I call situations). Although the term "context" has a similar meaning in lay language and is often used in education, not all aspects of the context influence which methods should be used. Therefore, I use the term "situation" to refer to those aspects of the context that do influence selection of methods. Source: Reigeluth, C. M. (1999). What is instructional design theory and how is it changing? In C. M. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional-design theories and models volume II: A new paradigm of instructional theory. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Two components must be present in an instructional design theory. The first component (methods) describes how human learning will be supported, and the second component (situation) describes when certain methods ought to be used (Reigeluth, 1999). Reference: Reigeluth, C. M. (1999). What is instructional design theory and how is it changing? In C. M. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional-design theories and models volume II: A new paradigm of instructional theory. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Which of the following statements is not true?
We can easily pinpoint the history of oral tradition.
Two types of plagiarism are presented in this lesson. What are they?
Word-for-Word and Paraphrasing
Which of the choices below would most likely be used as a symbol in a Dark Romantic piece of writing?
a corpse
What themes are common in Native American storytelling?
a hero's journey and the link between land and people
What is a common theme that runs through many different American Indian literature pieces?
a hero's journey to overcome adversity
What is Regionalism?
a type of storytelling that includes aspects of local color and the unique personality of a geographical area
Plagiarism is defined as (select ALL that apply)
any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use that is NOT fully acknowledged presenting someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own (both are the answers)
How did Native Americans use stories passed down through the oral tradition?
as a way to record the history, culture, and beliefs of each nation
Why are characters in Dark Romantic literature often mad or deranged?
as the result of guilt and sin
A review of Puritan writing would consistently reveal which of the following themes?
dedication to God and the Bible
Which of the following is NOT an example of Academic Dishonesty?
documentation
To avoid plagiarism, you must
give the author credit
In the following stanza from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride, which of the following words are an example of end rhyme? He said to his friend, If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
march and arch
An almanac is a yearly publication that includes all of the of the following information except
philosophical essays
What issues influenced the literature in 17th century America?
politics and the struggle for food and shelter
When you write, always begin by
stating your ideas; then go back to the author's original work
Need additional help with documenting sources on an assignment in a non-English course? Who should you contact first?
the course teacher
Various Native American tribes had stories that explained how mountains were created or why spring occurs. How would these stories have been documented?
through oral storytelling passed down through the generations
Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the works written by Dark Romantic authors?
whimsical storylines
