Study Guide English
American Literature Test 1 Study Guide
Know the following vocabulary (including parts of speech) and how to use it in a sentence: 1. Approbation: (N) Commendation or praise 2. Assuage: (v) to Ease or appease 3. Coalition: (v) combination of body or mass 4. Decadence: (n) period of decline 5. Elicit: (v) to call forth or draw out 6. Expostulate: (v) to reason with earnestly 7. Hackneyed: (adj) lack of originality 8. Hiatus: (n) a break or gap 9. Innuendo: (n) hint 10. Intercede: (v) mediate 11. Jaded: (adj) scared worn out 12. Lurid: (adj) gruesome shoking 13. Meritorious: (adj) deserving of honor 14. Petulant: (adj) insolet or rude 15. Prerogative: (n) special right 16. Provincial: (adj) lacking in refinement 17. Simulate: (v) imitate 18. Transcend: (v) to rise above 19. Umbrage: (N) offence 20. Unctuous: (adj) fatty, oily , slimy
Study your notes on: 1. Native American Literature 2. Puritan Literature 3. Anne Bradstreet 4. Jonathan Edwards
Know the following stories: 1. “The Sky Tree” (p. 20) 2. “Earth Only” (p. 21) 3. “Coyote Finishes his Work” (pp. 22-23) 4. “Blackfeet Genesis” (pp. 24-26) 5. From A Narrative in Captivity (pp. 64-69) 6. “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” (pp. 96-97) 7. From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (pp. 106-111)
Know the following literary terms and give an example: 1. Archetype: A pattern in cultures or a symbol that does not change meaning * Cross: life * Turtle: wisdom * Infinity sign: never ending 2. Personification: giving human characteristics to an animal or object * The sun smiled at us * The dog was sad 3. Figurative language: describing something by comparing it to something else * Busy as a bee 4. Allusion: is the figure of speech based on resemblance which as a reference of work of literature to
Know the following vocabulary (including parts of speech) and how to use it in a sentence: 1. Approbation: (N) Commendation or praise 2. Assuage: (v) to Ease or appease 3. Coalition: (v) combination of body or mass 4. Decadence: (n) period of decline 5. Elicit: (v) to call forth or draw out 6. Expostulate: (v) to reason with earnestly 7. Hackneyed: (adj) lack of originality 8. Hiatus: (n) a break or gap 9. Innuendo: (n) hint 10. Intercede: (v) mediate 11. Jaded: (adj) scared worn out 12. Lurid: (adj) gruesome shoking 13. Meritorious: (adj) deserving of honor 14. Petulant: (adj) insolet or rude 15. Prerogative: (n) special right 16. Provincial: (adj) lacking in refinement 17. Simulate: (v) imitate 18. Transcend: (v) to rise above 19. Umbrage: (N) offence 20. Unctuous: (adj) fatty, oily , slimy
Study your notes on: 1. Native American Literature 2. Puritan Literature 3. Anne Bradstreet 4. Jonathan Edwards
Know the following stories: 1. “The Sky Tree” (p. 20) 2. “Earth Only” (p. 21) 3. “Coyote Finishes his Work” (pp. 22-23) 4. “Blackfeet Genesis” (pp. 24-26) 5. From A Narrative in Captivity (pp. 64-69) 6. “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” (pp. 96-97) 7. From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (pp. 106-111)
Know the following literary terms and give an example: 1. Archetype: A pattern in cultures or a symbol that does not change meaning * Cross: life * Turtle: wisdom * Infinity sign: never ending 2. Personification: giving human characteristics to an animal or object * The sun smiled at us * The dog was sad 3. Figurative language: describing something by comparing it to something else * Busy as a bee 4. Allusion: is the figure of speech based on resemblance which as a reference of work of literature to