Semester Review English 3
vignette
(n.) a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter
Monologue
(n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
What are the novels in Cooper's Littlepage trilogy
. Satanstoe Redskins Chainbearer
Realism
A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
The first book to be written in America was Smith's _____.
A True Relation
Simile
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
Symbolism
A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Bessie
A horse
Satire
A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
Coherence
A principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible.
romancer
A story teller
fiction
A story that is not true or is made up
Miss Foster
A teacher
Comedy often
Amuses the audience, allows the protagonist to overcome forces opposing him, focuses on lighter subjects
informal essay
An essay that does not follow the restrictions of a formal paper. Personal pronouns and casual, spoken language are acceptable.
formal essay
An essay that uses academic language, logical organization, and serious purpose.
Dr.Gibbs
An expert of civil war
Which are major writing patterns of exposition ?
Analytical, argumentative, & illustrative
A witty, concise proverb-like saying is called
Aphorism
George changing his mind about
Attending college
An englishman who wrote essays about travel,truth, riches and other serious subjects was
Bacon
One of the earliest American autobiographies was written by
Benjamin Franklin
Growth
Booth Tarkington
Moby-Dick
Captain Ahab
A very famous six-volume biography is
Carl Sandburgs biography of Abraham Lincoln
Theme
Central idea of a work of literature
In an effort to be published, Franklin the boy
Changed his handwriting on an anonymous paper
Wilder spent much of his childhood in _____.
China
Which of the following are characteristics of exposition?
Clarity, completeness, conciseness, coherence
The two English poets who wrote literary essays about poetry were
Coleridge and Wordsworth
George
Complains everyone is pushing him
Dialogue
Conversation between two or more characters
Mrs.webb
Cries
Argumentive
Debatable
A common theme in Wilders major works is his belief that man has
Dignity and destiny
George
Dr.Gibbs son
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Sinclar Lewis resembled
Edith Wharton and Booth Tankington
Queechy
Elizabeth Wetherell
They Stooped to Folly
Ellen Glasgow
Mr.Webb
Emily's father and the publisher and editor of the Grover's Corners Sentinel. Mr. Webb's report to the audience in Act I is both informative and interactive, as his question-and-answer session draws the audience physically into the action of the play.
Resolution
End of the story where loose ends are tied up
The line "give me liberty or give me death " is an example of
Ethos and pathos
The first major American playwright of literacy merit was
Eugene o'Neil
Vernacular
Everyday language of ordinary people
action
Everything that happens in a story
Which methods are used in illustrative exposition?
Example,comparison,supporting detail, and definition
Drama can achieve its purpose in several ways, including
Extending the human experience so that confirms can be resolved without direct consequences
Argumentative writing uses comparison and contrast
False
Bryce explains the problems he encountered with Powhatan
False
Charlotte temple was not popular
False
Coherence means analytical
False
For the remainder of his moments, he would enjoy his few remaining pleasures, the company, and conversation of female ephemera and the knowledge that he had meant well in life
False
Nonfiction writing depends heavily upon the writers imagination to develop a formal style
False
Nonfiction writing is of little importance today because of the widespread use of computers
False
Persuasive writers try to broaden the readers outlook so that he will accept all viewpoints about a subject
False
Propaganda is an unacceptable type of writing that promotes only problems and encourages a narrow viewpoint
False
The diary of Anne Frank is a record kept by and early Dutch settler
False
The elderly ephemera felt that his struggles in life were worth it because he gained a name for himself
False
Truth can never be "stranger than fiction" because fiction involves the fantastic and unusual
False
Writing that distorts the truth for evil purposes is referred to as fictional
False
Two fears/doubts George and Emily has
Fear of making mistakes and never being perfect Fear of growing up
Mrs.Gibbs
Fears the couple is too young
Who was the first person that wrote essays?
Francis Bacon
Mcteague
Frank Norris
What does Mr.Gibbs serve her husband for breakfast?
French toast
The emigrants was written by
Gilbert Imlay
Charles Brocken might be called a
Gothic novelist
Boy Life on the Prairie
Hamlin Garlin
Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews
Why was William Gilmore Simms a good story teller?
He thought carefully about fiction He studied the difference between romance and novel studied the relationship's of fiction to morals and life
The female review and Maria little are examples of the early american
Historical novel
Two styles of essays are
Informal and formal
Wilder may be called a
Innovator
Exposition/Introduction
Introduces the characters, settings, and opening situations of a story
The selection illustrating the idea that "the pen is mightier than the sword" is
Jefferson's letter to Paine
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
People most frequently write about things they ___
Know or have experienced
Four reasons why america drama had a slow start
Lack of finances No audiences Puritans outlawed drama in some colonies Prejudice against dramas association with court life and monarchy
figurative language
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
chicanery
Low trickery/ unfair practice
Thornton Wilder was born in 1897 In the town of
Madison, Wisconsin
. What three Melville novels drew on his life at sea?
Mardi Moby-Dick Billy Budd
Essay
May be humorous, descriptive or persuasive, original word is try or Attempt
The word essai, or essay, was first used by a French man named _____.
Montaigne
Where do George and Emily discover their feelings for each other ?
Morgan's drugstore
The three trends in America drama during 1865 and 1914
Movement towards realism Treatment of serious subjects Use of symbolism
Th person who talks so much in the service is
Mrs. soames
Three types of drama from the Middle Ages
Mystery, morality, and miracle
Secular
Non-religious
Franklins brother started newspaper
One
Wilder second Pulitzer Prize
Our town
"Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" is the name of a speech by
Patrick Henry
Modern chivalry is an example of an early American
Picaesque novel
The Real World
Robert Herrick
Mark Twain's real name
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Emily
Says she has never felt so alone says she hates George wishes she were dead
Plot
Sequence of events in a story
Tragedy deals with
Serious subjects and defeat of the protagonist
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
The contemporary issue dealt with in Aimens adaption if Uncles Toms Cabin was
Slavery
The Tatler and Spectator papers were produced by
Steele and Addison
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Four modern playwrights
Stowe, Shakespeare, Albee, Miller
Wilder made his living as a
Teacher
Jesse Stuart wrote an autobiography about his life as a
Teacher in rural Kentucky
During the Middle Ages, drama was used by the church as a method of
Teaching people about the Bible, saints, and morality
Drama become established as an acceptable and valuable literacy genre during
The Renaissance
Emily
The Webb's daughter
Universality
The ability to be applied to everyone in every situation
Wilders first Pulitzer Prize
The bridge of San Luis Rey
Conflict
The problem the main character must struggle to solve during the play
Setting
The time and place of a story
White Jacket
The world in a Man-of War
Drama after the revolution
Theater became established
The American Tradegy
Theodore Dreiser
Of time and river
Thomas Wolfe
The Bridge of San Luis Ray
Thornton Wilder
Dr.Gibbs
Thought he was marrying a stranger
The time that has elapsed between act 1 and act 2 in our town is
Three years
drama today
Trend toward psychological concerns
A Propaganda writer hopes to convince the reader of his particular viewpoint by using argumentive prose
True
Both the novel and the short story are genres of fiction
True
Captin John Smith May have exaggerated or even invented parts of his account. A True Relation
True
Eighty six per cent of the population of Grovers corners are Republicans and 85 per cent, protestants
True
Emily and George has a farm with a new barn
True
Formal writing is usually more serious tone
True
George gave Emily a post card for her 12th bday
True
Many early american novels dealt with sentimental domestic situations
True
Our town act 3 is described as rainy
True
Population of Grovers corners is 2,642
True
The Power of Sympathy was an epistolary novel form
True
The analytical pattern is used in literay criticism
True
The diary of Anne Frank describes the life of a Jewish during world war 2
True
The use of details is commonly used in illustrative writing.
True
Wilders "dead" are aware of life on earth but have gradually lost interest as they await eternity
True
Willam Byrd 2 wrote an informal, yet informative, account of a trip to Virginia and the Caroline's
True
What are Melville's first two novels?
Typee and Omoo
Harriet Beecher Stowes most famous novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Allusive
Used many allusions
Colonial drama
Very few theaters existed
What is an example of the analytical method?
Walden
What are three of Cooper's sea novels?
Wing and Wing, Red Rover, and Miles Wallingford
The theme for our town
You don't know what you have until it's gone
play
a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
primitive
a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
Expressionism
a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
drama between 1865 and 1914
age of depression for American drama
Completeness
all the information that is necessary for faithful representation is provided
Dred
an antislavery novel
stage directions
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
Readers digest and science digest are examples of the ____ type of magazine
anthology
Early twentieth century drama
associated with emotional domestic plays, symbolic plays, boulevard comedy, and many genres
An author's story about himself is _____.
autobiography
conciseness
brevity and compactness in expression resulting from the avoidance ("cutting out") of needless words and elaborate detail
dominant mood
cheerfulness, sadness, or nostalgia
Simon Stimson
choir master, alcoholic, hung himself
Clarity
clearness
A type of writing that paints with words is known as
descriptive
The types of issues commonly dealt with by editorialists are
economic, political, social
An essay type of writing stating the opinions of the publisher is called
editorial
Hyperbole
exaggeration
Professor Willard
gives "scientific account" of Grover's Corner
Agnes of Sorrento
historical novel
Three purposes of drama are to provide a reflection, criticism and ____ of life
interpretation
Howie Newsom
local milkman. This characters reappearance during every morning scene—once each in Acts I, II, and III—highlights the continuity of life in Grover's Corners and in the general human experience.
The houses built by Byrd were constructed of _____.
logs, with pine and cypress shingles
Two of the most popular forms of nonfiction are
magazines and newspapers
Protagonist
main character
joe cowell jr.
newspaper man, went to MIT, died in France during WW1
Gothic novel
novel containing elements of magic, mystery, horror, ghosts, strange houses, and other strange occurrences
picaresque novel
novel that presents a chronicle or life of a person of low degree who lives by his wits; usually contains satirical comments on society
religious rituals
practices required or expected of members of a faith
What Cooper novels are included in the Leatherstocking Tales?
praire, pioneers,deerslayer,pathfinder, and Last of the Mochians
morality plays
present allegorical stories in which virtues and vices are personified to teach humanity how to achieve salvation
Miracle plays were ___.
re-enactments of Bible scenes and told a story from the Bible or prayer book
Edith WHarton was interested in writing about
realistic dramatic fiction of the soul
mystery plays (miracle plays)
retold stories from the Bible or dealt with the lives of saints
Burlesqued
satirized; treated a serious subject ridiculously or a trivial subject as important
biography
story of a person's life written by another person
corroborative
support with evidence or authority; make more certain
structure
the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work
Climax
the turning point of the story
Ephemera
things that are important or used for only a short period of time
French writings similar to essays were called pensees, or ______.
thoughts
The word essay originally meant
to try
Uncle Tom's Cabin
translated into thirty-seven languages
The questions a newspaper article should answer are
who, what, when, where, how
expository writing
writing that explains or informs
descriptive writing
writing that paints a picture of a person, place, thing, or idea
Nonfiction
writing that tells about real people, places, and events