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