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