NURSING EXAMS AND STUDY MATERIALS

ENG 255 ELABORATED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER-A poetic device where consonant sounds or vowel sounds in words or syllables are repeated Allusion - CORRECT ANSWER-A reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER-The major character in a narrative or drama who works against the hero or protagonist Audience - CORRECT ANSWER-The people for whom a piece of liter...

ENGLISH 255 FINAL EXAM WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Herman Melville - CORRECT ANSWER-The Haitian Revolution, Gothic elements in Benito Cereno Haunting stories: past wrongs are never over and dead Gothic architecture: castles and decaying mansions; monasteries; the importance of small rooms within closed offspaces The presence of Catholic symbolism: a way of signaling the secrecy and hierarchy of an earlier era, medieval era A tale of capture and kidnapping; the virtue of a heroine thre...

ENGL 255 WITH CORRECT ANSWERED QUESTIONS Founding of Jamestown - CORRECT ANSWER-1607 Landing of the Mayflower - CORRECT ANSWER-1620 Delivery of "Model of Christian Charity" by John Winthrop - CORRECT ANSWER-1630 Publication of Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse - CORRECT ANSWER-1650 King Philip's War - CORRECT ANSWER- French and Indian War - CORRECT ANSWER- First edition of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects - CORRECT ANSWER-1773 Revolutionary War - CORRECT ANSWER- Pu...

ENGLISH 255 EXAM 2 STUDY PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Rip Van Winkle - CORRECT ANSWER-Washington Irving (1819) Rip's Themes: historical transformation: From King George to George Washington, monarchy to nation state, imperial subject to national citizen, oral culture to print culture, petticoat government to freedom (especially since he loses his nagging wife and achieves the freedom of bachelor status), youth to old man. But, Rip ~does~ see a "ditto" of himself: his son...

ENGLISH 255 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What do all paragraphs need? - CORRECT ANSWER-a clear beginning (a topic sentence) middle (sentences of support) end (conclusion) Be alert to the need for parallelism in sentence structures with the following: - CORRECT ANSWER-Lists Verbs Prepositions A, "not only...but also" construction An, "either...or" construction What does the semicolon join? - CORRECT ANSWERIndependent clauses What can the colon can introduce? - CORRECT ANSWE...

ENGLISH 255 EXAM STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Invention of the Printing Press - CORRECT ANSWER-1432, Guttenberg Excerpts from "You Are Not A Gadget" - CORRECT ANSWERJaron Lanier, 2010 "Theses on the Philosophy of History" rr - CORRECT ANSWER-Walter Benjamin, 1940 German philosopher The angel, historical materialism The angel cannot get a clear look at history because he is living it. A People's History of the United States rr - CORRECT ANSWER-Howard Zinn, 1980s Place him...

ENGL 255 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS American Exceptionalism - CORRECT ANSWER-The long tradition of describing first the New England colonies and then the United States as exceptional, that is, distinct from and better than other nations, with a divine mission in the world. Examples from previous units: Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill" and Crèvecoeur's claim that America is "the most perfect society now existing in the world" Colonizationist Movement - CORRECT ANSWER-moveme...

ENGLISH 255 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Define summary - CORRECT ANSWER-Concisely re-states the central ideas of a reading, using different words to express the writer's meaning accurately and neutrally What should summaries avoid? - CORRECT ANSWER-Your personal response to the piece How many sentences should be used to summarize a paragraph? - CORRECT ANSWER-One - two How often should quotations be used in summaries? - CORRECT ANSWER-Sparingly What voice should summaries be written i...