English Final Review
English 303 Semester Final Review
Answer the questions or complete the sentences. There is an answer for every number.
Unit 1
1. List the three core values Puritan literature in Unit 1 share:
a. Piety
b. Courage
c. Industry
2. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, why did Jonathan Edwards fiery sermon use imagery, such as being held in God’s hand over a lake of fire and brimstone? Jonathan Edwards wanted to create a mental picture for the audience. The imagery emphasizes the intensity of Hell's flames and the fragility of humanity's condition. The imagery also creates the mood of the sermon.
Unit 2
3. What was the purpose of Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (think about the 13 virtues!)?
4. Thomas Paine thought people could improve society in the colonies by doing what?
5. Thomas Jefferson described life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as __unalienable___ rights because they could not be taken away.
6. Phyllis Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America" explains that she feels slavery was a blessing to her because she became Christian. The second message of the poem protests people’s views of slaves by explaining what idea?
7. Equiano used what type of literary device to bring the horrors of the slave ship to the attention of the reader?
Unit 3
To test the skills from Unit 3, you will similar questions over grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension from new reading passages.
8. Write a sentence correctly using each of the following vocabulary words: acute ebullient inept malevolence furtive larceny inhibit induce moderate mercurial turgid timorous incessant stridently rancid superfluously
9. Highlight or bold what should be fixed in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence with the correction. My dogs or my cat is chewing the slippers my mother received from my brother and me, but I don’t know which pet is guilty.
10. Highlight or bold what should be fixed in
Answer the questions or complete the sentences. There is an answer for every number.
Unit 1
1. List the three core values Puritan literature in Unit 1 share:
a. Piety
b. Courage
c. Industry
2. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, why did Jonathan Edwards fiery sermon use imagery, such as being held in God’s hand over a lake of fire and brimstone? Jonathan Edwards wanted to create a mental picture for the audience. The imagery emphasizes the intensity of Hell's flames and the fragility of humanity's condition. The imagery also creates the mood of the sermon.
Unit 2
3. What was the purpose of Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (think about the 13 virtues!)?
4. Thomas Paine thought people could improve society in the colonies by doing what?
5. Thomas Jefferson described life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as __unalienable___ rights because they could not be taken away.
6. Phyllis Wheatley’s poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America" explains that she feels slavery was a blessing to her because she became Christian. The second message of the poem protests people’s views of slaves by explaining what idea?
7. Equiano used what type of literary device to bring the horrors of the slave ship to the attention of the reader?
Unit 3
To test the skills from Unit 3, you will similar questions over grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension from new reading passages.
8. Write a sentence correctly using each of the following vocabulary words: acute ebullient inept malevolence furtive larceny inhibit induce moderate mercurial turgid timorous incessant stridently rancid superfluously
9. Highlight or bold what should be fixed in the following sentence. Then rewrite the sentence with the correction. My dogs or my cat is chewing the slippers my mother received from my brother and me, but I don’t know which pet is guilty.
10. Highlight or bold what should be fixed in