Erlich' MIDTERM 2018-2019, Ehrlich Study Guide
89. Active
"John drive the car." This sentence is written in _______ voice.
37. Hyperbole
"You could have knocked me over with a feather." This is the use of ______.
81. Quote
"_______" TV episode titles, short story titles, article titles, song titles and poetry titles.
65. Philosopher;
A ____ hero is the adventurer or the mind
62. Personification;
A _____ is a figure of speech that endows inanimate objects or abstract ideas with human characteristics
41. Farce
A ______ often involves stock characters or stereotypes engaged in slapstick, bawdiness, etc.
39. Dynamic
A _________ character goes through permanent change.
16. Confidant, Confidante
A ____________ (male) or a _____________ (female) is a character, often a friend or relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in.
29. Narrator
A _____________ is the person telling the story. This often determines what details are included in the story and how they are arranged
93. Conventional
A _____________ symbol, such as the stars and stripes of the American flag or the Union Jack or the maple leaf, can evoke feelings of pride and patriotism who share certain cultural assumptions.
10. Trouble
A failed meal may mean _______ between the characters.
56. Historical
A particular ______ setting can establish a story's social, cultural and political environment.
54. Life
A watch or a clock often denotes time but it can also serve as a symbol for a character who is watching time - and ____ - passing him or her by.
96. Nomenclature
A zombie noun, or Engfish, is also known as a(n) ________ I. e. The automobile decelerated, at an alarming rate, adjacent to the solid structure of a family domicile.
100. Static
A(n) ______ character does not change
27. Antagonist
A(n) ____________ can be a situation (war, poverty, etc.) or an event (a natural disaster, etc.) (def. the opposing force that brings conflict and is instrumental in the development of the protagonist, or main character)
67. Monomyth, Inciting incident;
According to the ______, the _____ ____ or call is when the hero is compelled to take action.
49. Topic
Another name for the main idea is the _____ sentence.
12. Hasty Generalization
Avoid a(n) ________________ (coming to conclusion based on insufficient evidence.)
3. Original
Be _________. Answer the prompt with creativity! Everyone else is likely answering the prompt with the same approach. Take a risk and be original! Most AP scores will reward you for not putting them to sleep with a boring yet "safe" essay.
5. Specific
Be ____________. Which literary devices did the author use? Why did he use these particular literary devices? The more specific you are, the more credibility you'll get from the AP scorer.
53.conventional
Both universal and _________ symbols can function as literary symbols, symbols that take on additional meaning in particular works.
84. Figures of speech
By using metaphors and similes -that compare to dissimilar items- writers can indicate a particular attitude towards characters and events.
64. Fabliaux;
Chaucer used the ____, short and rude comical tales (12th, 13th centuries).
72. Dinner
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims tell stories to win _______
36. Conclusion
Connect the purpose (thesis) of your essay to the "big picture." This technique can be especially useful in the _____________ of your essay.
35. Answer
Critic Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the _____________"
57. Formal
Diction that is ______ does not generally include contractions, shortened word forms (such as phone), regional expressions, and/or slang. Tends to use the pronoun we or one for I.
47.Formal
Diction that is _______ is often used to make a character seem socially superior but also often old-fashioned and even stuffy, Can make the character seem condescending or pompous.
85. Simile
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." uses a(n) ____________ as a women's face is "as broad and innocent as a cabbage" to dehumanize her characters.
66. Dime Novels;
Formula fiction type books are often called ____ or escape fiction.
77. Papyrus
From what was Egyptian paper made? ___________
55. Literary; waist
In "A Rose for Emily", Faulkner uses a ______ symbol to describe Emily's inability to move on with time when he describes Emily's visitors that "could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain." The chain was earlier described as wrapped around her ____ but vanishes into her belt.
94. Indirect
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses an _______ characterization, the author literally tells the audience what the character is like, when he has Amanda state, "I understood the art of conversation!"
18. Transformation
In the monomyth, the ______________ is when a hero experiences a new way of being
74. Dames Doyce, Stream of Consciousness
Irish writer _____ ______ revolutionized the use of structure and utilized a variety of innovative techniques, such as ______ __ ____________
13. Inductive
It is a(n) ______________ leap that Sammy made the right or wrong decision to quit his job at the end of Updike's "A&P"
59. South
Knowing that "A Rose for Emily" is set in the _____ explains why the people, perhaps, are so protective of Emily.
69. Epics;
Long narrative poems, known as ____, were about heroic figures whose actions determine the fate of a nation or of an entire race.
48.First; Third
One of the advantages of a ______-person narrator is that a reader is more likely to accept "My sister changed a lot that day" rather than an impersonal observation of a _______-person.
45.New, transition, amplify
Paragraphs signal ____ ideas, ________ between ideas, and ________ideas.
19. Metaphor
Personification is a form of ________
68. Cave;
Plato wrote the allegory of the ___ in The Republic
25. Journeys, voyages
Poems and stories are not "____________" or "____________" or any "imagine yourself" scenarios of any type
8. Rebirth
Spring is often used as a conventional symbol for ________ or promise.
87. Carl Jurg
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jurg named the building blocks of the unconscious minds: "archetypes", which are part of the Collective Unconscious.
73. Frame
The Canterbury Tales are stories within stories. This is called a ______ story.
79. Ramses II, Nubia
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial was perhaps inspired by which four-seated statues of _________ at Abu Simbel in ________ (near Egypt)
60. Anti hero;
The ____ is an ineffectual or petty character that often elicits laughter
91. Grim Reaper
The _____ _______ is often used as an archetypal or universal symbol for death.
20. Mentor
The _________ counsels or gives power
95. Destroyer
The __________ is the ultimate guardian character, often trying to kill the protagonist.
92. Conventional
The ____________symbol is a commonly used symbol, such as using a rose to suggest love.
21. Scornful
The black or dark or ________ comedy is often morbid and absurd
17. Collective Consciousness
The concept of the ________ _____________ came from the work of Dr. Carl Jung. Think: Borg
44. Society, human condition
The purpose of literature is to a) chronicle the decisions of a _______ and b) explores the ______ _______
11. Micro/Flash Fiction
The short short story, of less than 1000 words is also known as _______ fiction or ________ fiction
9. Story's Point of View
The vantage point from which events of a story is presented is called the ________
31. Persona
The word _____________ literally means "mask" (def. the person who is understood to be speaking (or thinking or writing) a particular work; the main character)
63. Dramatic;
The____ irony occurs when a narrator (or a character) perceives less than the readers do
61. Physical;
The____ setting of "the cask of Amontillado" is considered appropriate because it is not just underground but in the darkness of night
70. Cultural context; .
Through a ____ ____ paper, you may analyze a work by connecting the works cultural setting to the society in which it was "born". For example, you might analyze ROMEO AND JULIET for attitudes of the people in the renaissance
86. Simile
To express sexual awakening, Chopin's "The Storm"use a ______ when describing Calixta's skin as "like a creamy lily" and her passion as "like a white flame." This adds sensuality and lushness to the story.
75. Modernism
Today, the __________ legacy can be seen in high-rise housing estates (skyscrapers) and subways with shopping arcades (malls).
50. Exposition
Typically, the ________ of a(n) story sets the story in motion. In the Monomyth, this is known as the inciting incident.
43. First
Updike's "A&P" is told in the ______-person point-of-view. It is Sammy's story.
7. Active, Passive
Use ________ voice. More direct and powerful than _______ voice.
6. Present
Use __________ tense. LITERATURE IS HAPPENING NOW.
4. Structure
Vary your sentence ___________. Use short sentences. Mix those in with longer sentences to add variety and sophistication to your writing.
88. Pun
When Mercutio is bleeding to death in Romeo and Juliet, he says to his friends, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." This is an example of a ____.
33. Talks about
When writing an AP essay, never say "_________" nor any variation of such
34. Trying to
When writing an AP essay, never say "the writer is ____________" nor any variation of such
2. Interpret, attitudes
When you _________ a literary work, you explore its possible meanings and the _______ of the writer
23. Set
Where a work of literature is ______ in a war, on a tropical island, at a high school, etc.-- can often influence the reader's reactions to a story
40. Iraq
Where can be found the oldest known form of writing?
78. Missionaries
Who destroyed Mayan many codices or books? ______________
32. William the Conqueror
Who invaded England and made French the dominant language? _____________ and the French Normans
99. Style
Writing _____ refers to the way in which a writer uses language, selecting and arranging words to say what he or she wants to say
46.Positionality
Your feelings towards a subject are called you bias or _________.
97. Underline
______ drama, TV show, novel, magazine, CD and collection titles
98. Postmodern
______ literature focuses on the surface instead of delving into depth. Individuals connect to the environment around them.
80. Logos
_______ = logic
51. Autumn
_______ is often used as a conventional symbol for declining years and powers.
14. Commercial
_______ literature is often plot or action orientated.
38. Diction
_______ that is formal is characterized by elaborate, complex sentences and a learned vocabulary.
83. Summer
________ is often used as a conventional symbol for youth and beauty.
58. Commercial
________ literature is often plot or action-oriented
22. Piercy
________ said her poetry is to be "of use" to women: "To find ourselves spoken for in art gives dignity to our pain, our anger, our lust, our losses."
42.Chaucer
________ was considered the Father of English Poetry. A contemporary said that he was the first to "rain the gold dewdrops of speech and eloquence" in English literature.
15. Vonnegut, Monomyth
________ wrote about the "Man in the Hole" Theory, an antithesis to the __________.
1. Imaginative literature
_________ is more likely than other types of writing of writing to include words chosen not only because they communicate the writer's idea, but also because they were mentionable.
82. Perception
__________ is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
24. Allusion
___________ or references often require knowledge of history, mythology, religion, politics, the contemporary, etc.
76. Inferences
____________ are logical guesses by examining details.
52. Extreme weather conditions
____________, as part of a the setting and as a symbol, can make a character(s) act irrationally or uncharacteristically, such as in Chopin's "The Symbol".
30. Venn
_____________ diagrams are graphic organizers (two overlapping circles) often used in math classes to compare and contrast
90. Indoctrination
_____________ is the dictating of cultural values (academic knowledge, popular culture, etc.).
28. Nature, spiritual
______________ was seen as something wild and free, to the Romantic, that could inspire _____________ understanding
71. Romantic;
as presented in shelley's "ozymandias" , the ______ period empowers the individual to escape societys structures