English IV Unit 1 Review

A method of looking for, analyzing, and sharing information. 

Artistic tools that a writer uses to give readers a great understanding of the story.

What is the Epic Hero's quest or challenge and can be represented in nine steps?

Shows action or a state of being.

Themain thought or idea of research. It is the subject of a speech or paper. 

If you have a singular subject, then you need a singular or plural verb?

The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together.  

Used after a direct question or when a sentence is half statement and half question.

Grendel's mother overpower's Beowulf when he grabs a magical sword and kills her.

Beowulf faces Grendel alone and unarmed.  He tears off the monster's arm, killing him.

Comparing two unlike things by using "like" or "as".  Example: He is like a clever, old fox.

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickles" is an example of... 

A story in which characters, settings, and actions stand for something beyond themselves.

How a group of people without a written language pass down history, beliefs, and traditions.

A persuasive appeal based on trust, usually featuring a celebrity or professional.

What culture has strong leaders whose warriors protect their people from other tribes?

A complete sentence contains a subject and a....

The series of actions and events that take place in a story.

Used when showing importance or surprise.

King Hrothgar and the Danes shower Beowulf with honor and treasure.

Used to separate listed words or items, city and states, and days from years.

Used in place of a period for two sentences where the conjunction has been left out.

Expresses strong emotion or feeling.

Used at the end of a complete sentence that is a statement.

Comparing two unlike things without using a connecting word such as "like" or "as".

A persuasive appeal to one's sense of logic, using factual information to make an argument.

A literary technique using symbols to express ideas or qualities in writing, art, or music.

A mnemonic device used to remember the most common conjunctions.

In Unit 1, Lesson 1, you learned that there are two kinds of Literary Devices.  What are they?

A persuasive appeal that brings out emotion.

A strategy used to help people remember something.

Names a person, place, thing, or idea.  

Shows relationship between noun and another word in sentence.

He did all of his homework last night.  Point of View?

The central idea, concern, or message in a text.  Example: Good planning is important.

A long narrative in a story or poem about a hero who symbolizes the values of a cultural group.

Replaces a noun.

This is the second step in the research process created by what you need to know.

The sentence, "The grass grows green in the graveyard" is an example of...

I witnessed a car accident on my way to work this morning.  Point of View?

"Johnny went here and there and everywhere" is an example of....

The celebration is interrupted by Grendel's mother, who kills the king's best-loved warriors.

Beowulf returns home, a stronger and wiser man, in time becoming the king of Geatland.

A character who causes conflict for the main character in a story.  Usually a major character.

The repetition of beginning sounds in words in a sentence or line of poetry.

The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in words that are close together.

The main character in a story.  Takes part in most actions or events in story.

Despite his honor in Denmark, Beowulf longs to return to Geatland.

Using the five senses in writing.  For example, "The river roared in the mountains." 

A device used by writers to develop a piece of writing. They must be present to tell a story.

The bravest of Geatland's warriors volunteers to help Beowulf.

Written in Anglo-Saxon, the oldest known literature that would become English.

The time and place in which a story occurs.

A literary element that can be fiction or nonfiction and written in the 1st or 3rd person POV.

Joins words or phrases.

A struggle between opposing forces and/or characters.

"The quiet, beautiful girl went" is an example of ...

Describes a noun.  

The perspective from which a story is told.

You are not the kind of person who can tell a lie.  Point of View?

Beowulf is determined to help the Danes who have been driven from their homes by a monster. 

Describes a verb, an adjective, or adverb.