Match the author with the regional dialect. Not all authors
will be used.
A. Ambrose Bierce
B. Mark Twain
C. Charles Waddell Chesnutt
D. Cedric Yamanaka
E. Emily Dickinson
F. Sarah Orne Jewett
20. "One day, when I was one kid, I was climbing
some rocks looking out at da ocean. Down
Malaekahana side. All of a sudden, my bruddah
start screaming, 'Get down from deah. No good.
Da rocks sacred."
(1 point)
21. "Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing at her
low gate; unmoved, an emperor is kneeling upon
her mat."
(1 point)
"The feller took the money and started away; and
when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked
his thumb over his shoulder--so--at Dan'l, and says
again, very deliberate, 'Well,' he says, 'I don't see
no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any
other frog.'
(1 point)
'Scuse me, suh, I's lookin' for my husban'. I
heerd you wuz a big man an' had libbed heah a
long time, an' I 'lowed you wouldn't min' ef I'd
come roun' an' ax you ef you'd eber heerd of a
merlatter man by de name er Sam Taylor quirin
roun' in de chu'ches ermongs' de people fer his
wife "Liza Jane?"
(1 point)
What is a word's denotation? (I point)
Oits synonym
Oits antonym
its literal meaning
O the attitudes associated the word
Since words have multiple meanings, the context of a
word often clues its meaning better than the dictionary's
definition. In the following lines from Anne Bradstreet's
poem, "To Her Father with Some Verses," what is the
best definition for principal?
"Most truly honored, and as truly dear,
If worth in me or ought I do appear,
Who can of right better demand the same
Than may your worthy self from whom it came?
The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;
My stock's so small I know not how to pay,
My bond remains in force unto this day."
(1 point)
O the head of a school
Oa primary reason
Oa belief
Oan amount of money
26.
and on every side of him towered the glaring
affirmation of omnipotence and wealth."
(1 point)
Opower
Ogreed
Obeauty
Ohumanity
27.
Some were known to assail it violently as an example of
prejudice.
(1 point)
Oresist
Oattack
Oembrace
Odismiss
"It will have a tremendous negative economic impact on
their organization and, we hope, will convince them that
it is not worth it to keep a pejorative name for their
team."
(I point)
Ounknown
Odebatable
Vethnic
Onegative
29.
Which of the following authors is a transcendentalist?
(1 point)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
OOlauduh Equiano
Phillis Wheatley
Sarah Orne Jewett
Which of the following authors is a transcendentalist?
(I point)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
OOlauduh Equiano
Phillis Wheatley
Sarah Orne Jewett
30.
The suffix ly, as in the word pretentiously, means
which of the following?
(1 point)
O pretentiously is an adjective
O pretentiously is an adverb
O pretentiously is a verb
O pretentiously is a gerund
2 answers
1 answer