
American Lit.: Unit 1 Terms and Topics
Quiz by Courtney Fetters
Track each student's skills and progress in your Mastery dashboards
Which term means "taking one aspect of a culture that is not your own and using it for your own personal interest, profit, or as an out-of-context fashion statement"?

Which terms means "a Puritan way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression"?

What word means "an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning"?

This word means "a short story or example to illustrate the point that an author is trying to make".

"A two-way process where cultures meet and exchange ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices."

"Do your homework" is an example of which type of sentence?

What is "a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, sports, politics, science, or some other branch of culture"?

Mood is "the overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text created by the author's use of imagery and word choice".

"A one-way process, where the minority culture adopts the practices, beliefs, and values of the dominant culture."

What is "an account or text created by someone with firsthand knowledge of events"?

In the sentence "I was in the pool most of the summer," what part of speech is the word "in"?

"The literal (dictionary) definition of a word."

Which term means "a story that the author is telling about a personal experience they had"?

"When someone seeks to understand and learn about another culture in an effort to broaden their perspective and connect with others cross-culturally."

Using this sentence, identify the parts of speech in the correct order: "They ate well on vacation."

"Stories, songs, poems, speeches, and traditions that are passed down between generations verbally rather than being written down or published."

"A mixture of vocabulary, tone, point of view, and syntax that makes phrases, sentences, and paragraphs flow in a particular manner."

What is the subject in the sentence "Make sure to take out the trash"?

The __________ of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is cautionary.

"A wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath" is an example of ________________.
