ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL

Samuel Johnson wrote periodical essays in numerous newspapers.
a. True
b. False

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Answer 1
Answer: False, he was a writer but he is known because he wrote the dictionary of English literature

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A structural linguist is more interested in the language people speak in a given speech community today than on general, historical patterns of speech.   True or False

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Well, this is not true, but the opposite is also not true.

Structural linguists look for structure in language, so they would look at how words are composed of phonemes and morphemes. They are mostly working on current languages, but that's because they have access to them easily. When they can, they also study how those patterns evolved historically. De Saussure, the founder of Structural Linguistics is for example and important figure in historical linguistics.

True

Well, this is not true, but the opposite is also not true.

Although in reality this question should not be in a true or false format as structural linguists study the structures of languages and tend to look at the development of the language throughout history, they will mainly focus on current day language since it is continuously developing and changing, therefore the answer would be true despite being incomplete

Which sentence uses an action verb? a. Our local park is near my house.
b. The fireworks were a display of bright colors.
c. I watched a fireworks display this summer.
d. My dog was afraid of the loud noises.

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Action verbs are like verbs that does a certain action. Ex. jump, run, swim etc. 
 The answer is c.
"Watched" is the action in that sentence.   

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The answer is C i am literly on that test right now

In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone is aware of the deadly consequences of burying her brother Polyneices against the king’s order. Yet she goes forward with it anyway because she can’t bear to let her brother's corpse rot and serve as food for scavenging birds. What theme of the play does her action reflect?

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This reflects the theme of internal struggles as well a theme of an individual fighting against the society.

Answer:

C. civil law versus morality

The time and place in which a story occurs is called the __________. setting context stage historical backdrop

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It is called an anachronism.

What does drive mean in psychology ?

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Answer:

Drive, in psychology, an urgent basic need pressing for satisfaction, usually rooted in some physiological tension, deficiency, or imbalance (e.g., hunger and thirst) and impelling the organism to action

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What do the following lines from Antigone by Sophocles show about Creon?

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Although you did not provide the lines, Creon is as seen in the tragedy a man who cares about Law and is only interested in political and social order. He is a practical man and nothing other than what was mentioned before interests him, not even his family.
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