Applied English

Identify the compound noun: I put on my headphones to listen to music.

A poetic narrative- focuses on courtly life knightly code of chivalry, involves knightly quests and magical elements.

What king was responsible for inititating the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

In paragraph organization, this is a presentation of events in order of their occurrence.

What is meant by the Anglo-Saxon term, wyrd?

What did the pentagle symoblize about Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

Who is England's greatest legend?

Identify the personal pronouns: We visited my parents over winter break.

In paragraph organization, it is a an explanation of a cause and its effects.

Something in a story that carries meaning or significance in addition to itself.

Identify the compound noun: My great-aunt came to visit over Christmas vacation.

A biography of a saint.

Identify the proper nouns: Temple Academy is in the state of Maine.

Who put on and produced many of the medieval plays?

The oldest surviving English poem.

In paragraph organization, a move from least important to most important and vice versa.

Identify the reciprocal pronoun: The Bible tells us to love one another.

Identify the type of verb: Bryan read.

THe type of medieval drama that dramatized stories from church saints' lives.

Identify the indefinite pronoun: Some students do not take the time to study, however.

Identify the correlative conjunction: We will meet either in Atlanta or in Chicago.

What genre is Beowulf?

This type of writing informs about a topic, explains or analyzes a process, ord defines or classifies a topic.

In paragraph organization, a description of two or more persons or things that emphasizes similarities and differences.

Who wrote most medieval plays?

What is the season that "The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales begins in?

This type of writing focuses on an academic skill.

The three types of medieval dramas.

Identify the helping verb (auxiliary): The opportunities have increased over the years at my place of employment.

The oldest known English poet.

Identify the indefinite pronoun: Everyone has the opportunity to do well on the test if they study.

A type of broad, exaggerated comedy.

Who recorded one of the oldest existing Old English poems?

A record of a place's or group's history, organized by time and woven into a unified narrative.

The type of writing that persuades readers to take action or change their positions on a topic.

Identify the type of verb: Bryan read a book.

Identify the interrogative pronoun: Who can answer my question?

This type of medieval play was a cycle of short plays depicting biblical stories meant to be performed together.

Father of English Poetry.

Identify the type of verb: The alliance was unstable.

Identify the prepostion: Children were playing in the sand.

The ridiculing of a person, group etc. to provoke change in beliefs or behaviors.

Identify the coordinating conjunction: Jason and Amanda are missionaries in Africa.

Identify what type of pronoun in italics: Carl himself lied when he said he said he had returned all the money.

What is a scop?

Who were most medieval plays written for?

What is King Arthur's sword called in Le Morte d'Arthur?

Identify the adjectives: The jacket had black metal grommets on it.

Identify the interjection: Sure, I can help you in the morning.

The subject of "Ceadmon's Hymn."

This type of writing tells an individual's own thoughts or feelings.

Identify the nouns: A passenger boarded the ship.

Identify the demonstrative pronoun: This is my favorite time of year.

The two greatest satirical works of the Middle Ages produced in England.

The Father of English History.

Identify the proper adjective: My favorite food to eat when I go to a restaurant is Mexican food.

Old English literary works were usually written in one of these two languages.

During whose reign did learning, literacy, and literature advance during Anglo-Saxon times?

A fanciful tale in which animals act like humans and which has a moral.

This is a long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero or legend.

What major event marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule in England?

A line, or parts of a line, repeated througout a song.

How was Grendel in Beowulf mortally wounded?