Comp II Semester Test Review

Comp II Semester Test Review

Jessica Seat, M.A.

Section I

Grammar & Punctuation

Multiple Choice

Which type of title should be italicized?

• Long works (novels, magazine titles, television series, movies, etc.)

• Short Works (short stories, articles, episodes of a series, song titles, etc.)

Open Ended

What are quotation marks used for? There will be multiple answers.

Open Ended

What is the difference between a colon and a semicolon?

Multiple Select

Check all the reasons you might use a comma.

• Between a city and state

• After an introductory word or phrase

• To separate two independent clauses

• To separate a dependent clause from an independent clause

Open Ended

What is it called when a comma is used to separate two independent clauses?

Open Ended

What is it called when two independent clauses are joined with no punctuation?

Open Ended

What is it called when a clause without a subject or verb is used in place of a sentence?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a generic noun?

• Arkansas

• doctor

• Jane

• McDonald's

Multiple Choice

Which part of speech takes the place of a noun?

• Appositive

• Adjective

• Pronoun

• Adverb

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of a coordinating conjunction?

• Identifying location

• Clarifying information

• Connecting words, phrases, and clauses

• Fixing fragments

Open Ended

a word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies / describes is . . .

Open Ended

a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence is . . .

Rhetoric

Open Ended

The rhetorical appeal that focuses on logic?

Open Ended

The rhetorical appeal that focuses on ethics.

Open Ended

The rhetorical appeal that focuses on emotions.

Open Ended

Name a logical fallacy and explain what it is.

Citations

MLA & APA

Open Ended

List differences between APA and MLA writing styles.

Multiple Choice

If you are writing a paper for an English class, which format will you most likely be required to write in?

• APA

• MLA

Multiple Choice

If you are writing a paper for a psychology class, which format will you most likely be asked to write in?

• APA

• MLA

Reading Selections

Multiple Choice

Writer of "The Waste Land"

• T.S. Eliot

• Ernest Hemingway

• Katherine Anne Porter

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

Open Ended

Term coined by Ernest Hemingway to describe his writing style

Multiple Choice

Writer of The Souls of Black Folks

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• Malcolm X

Multiple Choice

Former slave who wrote Up From Slavery

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Olaudah Equiano

Multiple Choice

Journalist who covered racially motivated lynchings in the American south and wrote Lynch Law in America.

• Ernest Hemmingway

• Dan Rathers

• Ida B. Wells

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Multiple Choice

In which city did MLK deliver his speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop?"

• Atlanta

• Birmingham

• Montgomery

• Memphis

Multiple Choice

Flannery O'Conner's work is most often described as . . .

• Southern Gothic

• Romantic

• Postmodern

• Satirical

Multiple Choice

Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," explores which historical event?

• World War II

• The Civil War

• The Montgomery Bus Boycots

• The Spanish or 1918 Flu

Open Ended

What brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to Tennessee when he was assassinated?

Multiple Choice

Which short story explores the late 19th century "rest cure?"

• "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"

• "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

• "The Yellow Wallpaper"

• "Hills Like White Elephants"

Open Ended

Which story by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Stephen King name as the inspiration for his short story "The Man in the Black Suit?"

Multiple Choice

This writer is responsible for "Button, Button" and several episodes of The Twilight Zone.

• Gene Rodenberry

• Richard Matheson

• Stephen King

• Mick Jagger

Open Ended

Tim O'Brien is a veteran of which American War?