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1
What is the best sentence?
Because good writers edit carefully. They rarely have comma splices.
Because good writers edit carefully, they rarely have comma splices.
Good writers edit carefully they rarely have comma splices.
Because good writers edit carefully; they rarely have comma splices.
2
Which sentence uses diction (wording) most appropriate for formal college paper?
She plays pretty good but can't regain her composure.
The young girl stands up to play the piano, sounding beautiful.
For sure she wants to marry the man
She totally want to marry the man.
3
What is an example of a PRIMARY source?
Google article
Textbook authors' background chapter
A play
College library database article
4
What would be the best way to research for good supporting quotes from a source about a work of literature?
Literature Resource Center database from WS library and use title of work
Google author & pick 1st long article
Library Expanded Academic ASAP since it has lots of articles
Cite from Cliff Notes or SparkNotes
5
Which Irish poet wrote "When You Are Old" about woman who does not realize man's love for her now?
Yeats
Shakespeare
Poe
Frost
6
Poet Blake uses fire imagery to make a tiger seem more dangerous. This is
seems an opinion but could not be a fact
belief
fact
opinion
7
Which is
NOT
an example of a
PRIMARY
source?
A poem by William Wordsworth
A short story by Flannery O'Connor
An article from a college library database
A play by Tennessee Williams
8
What elements would you include in an introduction?
All choices are correct
Name author & work
Thesis statement
Short overview of ideas coming up in body paragraphs
9
What would be inappropriate for constructing an outline for a lit analysis?
parallel grammar
plot summary
support for thesis
balanced development
10
What is correct way to cite poem lines 1st time quoted & author not mentioned yet?
(Star Wars 1-2)
(Lines 1-2 page 500)
(Kenobi lines 1-2 pg 500)".
(Kenobi lines 1-2)
11
Make this a stronger thesis statement that is more debatable: Mathilde Loisel likes nice things.
Mathilde likes fancy clothes.
Mathilde's greed for things causes her to lose all she values.
Mathilde hates her apartment.
Mathilde likes expensive-looking jewelry.
12
What is an example of imagery? (touches your senses)
All have imagery
"For sorrow near I did not look back" by Bradstreet
"The scent of apples / I got from looking through a pane glass" by Frost
"I wish it was us" by Carver
13
Which of the following is a formal outline? (think full sentence outline)
Same as informal or scratch outline plan
Does not have a thesis statement
Includes fragments
None of these
14
Which has the correct pronoun use?
Forcing people to make a decision against his wishes is not right.
Forcing a person to make a decision against your wishes is not right.
Forcing a person to make a decision against their wishes is not right.
Forcing people to make a decision against their wishes is not right.
15
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Emily finds creativity in her mother's & her adversity; her mom has not.
Emily finds creativity in her mothers' & her adversity; her mom has not.
Emily finds creativity in her mothers' & her adversity, her mom has not.
Emily finds creativity in her mother's & her adversity her mom has not.
16
Bret Harte wrote about real people as he traveled to goldfields and mining camps in his 1870 publication. This is a
fact
inference
anguish
opinion
17
What makes a good thesis?
Debatable claim
Describes author's motivation
Summary of plot
Summarizes view of secondary source
18
Which makes the best thesis idea Wordsworth's poem "The World Is Too Much with Us"?
theme of humanity's alienation from nature
written by Wordsworth
interesting research about poem
interesting poem
19
Over 400 million people speak English worldwide. What is this statement?
fact
could not be a fact
opinion
belief
20
Which of the following is NOT a good rhetorical pattern (outline plan) for a lit analysis?
expedition
compare/contrast
cause & effect
definition
21
What error is in this sentence? Andy finished his draft he will have time to make corrections.
Comma splice
Capitalization error
Fused (run-on) sentence
Subject-verb agreement error
22
If a short story & poem express same idea, they share the same what?
characterization
narrative point of view
chronology
theme
23
Which of the following is NOT a step in
planning
a literary argument about 2 short stories?
Reading 2 stories to compare or contrast
Listing all similarities & differences between plots & characters
Choosing an outline format like a point-by-point or subject-by-subject
Revising essay to include 2 secondary sources, 1 for each story
