8th Grade Language and Literature

Question 1

wise sayings

Accepted Answer

Gnomes

Question 2

Lines of verse having words beginning with the same initial consonant sounds are considered _____.

Accepted Answer

alliterative

Question 3

a twentieth-century explorer

Accepted Answer

Byrd

Question 4

An adjective clause is usually introduced by a _____.

Accepted Answer

relative pronoun

Question 5

an Anglo-Saxon king

Accepted Answer

Alfred

Question 6

A clause that is less important than the main clause is _____.

Accepted Answer

subordinate

Question 7

The Old English word for modor means _____.

Accepted Answer

mother

Question 8

the fourteenth-century author of The Canterbury Tales

Accepted Answer

Chaucer

Question 9

A story a person writes about his own life is a(n) ______.

Accepted Answer

autobiography

Question 10

Before the year 55 B.C., Britain had been solely occupied by the _____.

Accepted Answer

Celts

Question 11

According to Admiral Byrd's autobiography, the flight to the South Pole began on _____.

Accepted Answer

Thanksgiving Day

Question 12

The earliest epic in Old English is _____.

Accepted Answer

Beowulf

Question 13

a country school teacher

Accepted Answer

Stuart

Question 14

The main idea of the author is generally called the ____ of the story.

Accepted Answer

theme

Question 15

an area of England given to the Danes

Accepted Answer

Danelaw

Question 16

The title, "The Thread That Runs So True," came from _____.

Accepted Answer

a game played by hill children

Question 17

A long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero is called an _____.

Accepted Answer

epic

Question 18

a dangerous area near the South Pole

Accepted Answer

the "Hump"

Question 19

During the seventh and eighth centuries, monasteries were _____.

Accepted Answer

educational and cultural centers

Question 20

The year 1066 is important because it marks the date of the _____.

Accepted Answer

Norman Conquest

Question 21

The literary term for a story or account of someone or something is a narrative.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

the site of a ship burial

Accepted Answer

Sutton Hoo

Question 23

A major rule in using coordination is that a writer must coordinate sentence elements of _____.

Accepted Answer

the same grammatical type

Question 24

the hero of an epic

Accepted Answer

Beowulf

Question 25

a man-eating monster

Accepted Answer

Grendel

Question 26

A clause that is necessary for identification of a word is called _______.

Accepted Answer

restrictive

8th Grade Language and Literature

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8th Grade Language and Literature

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