Praxis II 5038
Existentialism; when, what
occurred in the 19th and 20th century. Individual existence, freedom, and choice. Believes moral choice involves objective judgement of right and wrong.
In Petrarchan Sonnet, the octave represents ______ while the sestet ________
octave presents a narrator, states a proposition or ask a question sestet drives home the narrative, applies the proposition or answers the question
In a holistic evaluation of student essays, evaluations are made on the basis of the
overall quality of each student's essay in relation to the topic
Rising Action
part of the plot in which a complication creates some sort of conflict for the protagonist often taking up the majority of the story.
"A shuttle car darted in its crablike arms, sweeping up the coal thrown out" is an example of
personification
Attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects
personification
Freewriting, brainstorming, clustering, and idea mapping are most important during which stage of the writing process?
prewriting
Colloquial Language
refers to diction that is presented in a conversational manner and may include slang.
"He's got more money than Carter's got little liver pills" is an example of
simile
Description that uses like, than or as to draw comparison between two dissimilar things
simile
What happens v.s. what readers expect
situational irony
Conflict
struggle within the plot between opposing forces
A writer's characteristic choices with regard to sentence lengths, diction, and irony can all be distinctive aspects of his or her:
style
A _____ in a literary work can usually be identified by a single word or short phrase, such as 'love,' 'betrayal,' 'gender roles,' innocence,' emotional dependency,' etc.:
subject
A line of iambic pentameter contains how many total syllables?
ten
Common characteristics of British Romantic poetry include all the following expect: a revolutionary spirit the belief that humans are all just players on the stage of life nature individualism
the belief that humans are all just players on the stage of life
In order to understand what the main theme or themes in a literary work might be, it is helpful first to examine:
the significance of the setting, point of view and functions of any symbols
ambiguity
two or more interpretations of the word
Grammar may be taught in two main ways- by experience with discourse that entails the varieties of word forms and sentence construction, or by analyzing dummy sentences and diagramming parts. Plentiful discursive experience is what really teaches grammar, for it exercises judgement and provides language intake, whereas formal grammar study has been proved irrelevant. Politics more than pedagogy retards the changing of the curriculum to fit this truth. The author of this passage argues
using language in a wide variety of situations improve grammar
Saying "This is my lively car" when the cat sleeps 23 hours a day is an example of
verbal irony
contrast between what is said v.s. what is meant
verbal irony
Alliteration
words that begin with the same initial consonance sound
"The people all saw her come because it was sundown. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment. " The description of the sun in the second sentence contains what literary devices?
Personification
Author's selection and arrangement of events in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus
Plot
Central character/s who engages the readers interest and empathy. Example: Homer Simpson
Protagonist
Slant Rhyme
rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme
Connotation
the associations and implications that go beyond a word's literal meanings
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
Known as the Dark Ages (455-799) occur when Rome falls and barbarian tribes move into Europe. Franks Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain. Poems such as Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer originated during this time period. Within this period, Carolingian Renaissance (800-850) also emerged in Europe. Texts included early medieval grammars, encyclopedias, and other alike.
Stories that are usually exaggerated about real people, places, and things.
Legends
Symbolism; when, what, why
Literary movement that reached its peak in the last two decades of the 19th century. Its purpose was to evoke, indirectly and symbolically an order of being beyond the material world of 5 senses.
From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl got readers to see through the eyes of Charlie and his desire for candy becomes over powering. This type of literature allows readers to see through the eyes of the character. What type of literature is this?
Menippean Satire
Climax
Moment in the story with the greatest emotional tension.
Re account of realistic stories that either happened or could have happened. Characters are realistic and the location can be any city, country, or planet as long as the author can make the reader believe the setting is real.
Novel
Medieval Period (455 CE - 1485 CE) contains three sub groups.
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period Middle English Period Late or High Medieval Period
All knowing god-like narrator that is able to move from place to place and pass back and forth throughout time. Slips in and out of characters as no human being even good in real life.
Omniscient narrator
Middle English Period
1066-1450. Norman French armies conquer England under William I. French chivalric romance (troyes) and fables (Marie de France and Jean de Meun) spread in popularity. Peter Abelard and other humanists produce great scholastic and theological works
This piece of work depicts a dystopian world where people's every action is monitored by totalitarian government calls "Big Brother."
1985, George Orwell
Realism; when, what, type
19th century reaction to romanticism. It emphasized true life subject matter and rejected classical themes such as mythology and ballads. Example is a novel which gained much popularity.
Modernism
1rst decades of the 20th century. Experimentation and realization that knowledge is not absolute. Loss of sense of tradition and dominance of technology.
Surrealism; when, what
20th century and contains elements of surprise, unexpected juxtaposition and non sequitur.Purpose was to free people from what they saw as false rationality and restrictive customs, and structures.
In Shakespearean Sonnet, contains _____ quatrains and ____ couplet
4 quatrains 1 couplet
Patristic Period
70 CE-455 CE Early Christian writings appear (ie Saint Augustine, Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Jerome). Jerome first compiles the Bible, Christianity spreads across Europe, Roman Empire dies.
Villanelle
A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
Haiku
A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur.
Metonymy Example: "The White House issued a statement"
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Oxymoron is _______. An example would be pious rape and amorphous shape.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Epic
A long narrative that starts in the middle, goes back to explain, and then finally reaches the present. Characteristics include in medias res, chronic's heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation and focuses on a serious subject.
dactyl
A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
Free Verse
A poem "free" of regular meter and rhyme. The poem may have irregular line lengths or fragments, and non-conventional uses of grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. It is "free" of conventions, yet very deliberate in its use of words and form
Ballad Stanza
A quatrain consisting of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines rhyming (abcb)
In Medias res
A story that starts in the middle. Example: The Odyssey
Epithet
A term used to point out a characteristic of a person. Homeric epithets are often compound adjectives ("swift-footed Achilles") that become an almost formulaic part of a name. Epithets can be abusive or offensive but are not so by definition. For example, athletes may be proud of given epithets ("The Rocket").
Pun
A verbal joke that depends on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Authors of Modernism
Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Sigmund Freud
A reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
Allusion
Trochee
Also known as Foot, is metrical units by which a line of poetry is measured
A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
Analogy
Traditional Literature
Ancient stories with a set form. Stories are typically given through word of mouth. (Folk Tale, Fable, Parable, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends)
Author of Surrealism
Andre Breton
The character, force, or collection of forces that cause conflict for the central character. Example: Mr. Bern
Antagonist
Authors of Existentialism
Blaise Pascal, Fredrich Nietzche, Martin Heidegger, Jeal-Paul Sartre.
Robert Herrick's "Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breasts" is an excellent example of what famous school of English poetry?
Cavalier Poetry
Define title and author `I am tired,' said Miss Havisham. `I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play.' I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances. `I sometimes have sick fancies,' she went on, `and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. There, there! ' with an impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand; `play, play, play!'
Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" Came from Victorian Era Novel Dickens was the masters of memorable flat characters
Define author and title "This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine. There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing an describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out. Mr. Rochester was Mr Rochester in her eyes, a gentleman, a landed proprietor- nothing more; she inquired and searched no further, and evidently wondered at my wish to gain a more definite notion of his identity."
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Weeks before they decided on their destination, the seniors had already begun a massive fundraising project to help finance their class trip. When they were offered the choice between Rome and London, an overwhelming majority chose Rome. Then preparations began in earnest. In the months that followed the students' enthusiasm escalated until the day the plane finally took off, carrying them towards an experience they would remember forever. What type of order best describes the paragraph?
Chronological Order
The phrases "Have a good day" or "Look on the brighter side" is an example of
Cliche
Talks down to reader. Believe reader is beneath him or her in age, knowledge, and/or class.
Condescension
Name 6 fundamental aspects of tone
Condescension, Didacticism, Sentimentality, Parody, Humor, and Irony.
In this type of literature, the character, which is known as the round character, usually reveals his thoughts or ideas.
Confession
The last three lines suggest that "cotton country" (line 9) is a place where _______ "When I was a child I knew red miners dressed raggedly and wearing carbide lamps. I saw them come down red hills to their camps dyed with red dust from old Ishkooda mines. Night after night I met them on the roads, or on the streets in town I caught their glance; the swing of dinner buckets in their hands, and grumbling undermining all their words. I also lived in low cotton country where moonlight hovered over ripe haystacks, or stumps of trees and croppers' rotting shacks, with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by, where sentiment and hatred still held sway and only bitter land was washed away.
Only the land washes away; the hatred, terror, flood, and plague remain.
Selecting a new car requires each buyer a weigh a number of factors. First to be considered is the car's appearance. Next, and even more critical, are the car's performance and safety rating. Most significant to any prospective buyer, however, is the car's price. What type of order best describes the paragraph?
Order of importance
Refers specifically to a writers choice of words simplicities refined
Diction
Embodies a teaching tone
Didacticism
Explain the difference between a dynamic character and a static character.
Dynamic characters change due to what happened within the story, while a static character stays the same.
The Renaissance and the Reformation Period (1485-1660) consists of 5 sub periods
Early Tudor Period Elizabethan Period Jacobean Period Caroline Age Commonwealth Period or Puritan Interregnum
Define title and Author My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - And now We roam in Sovereign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him - The Mountains straight reply - And do I smile, such cordial light Upon the Valley glow - It is as a Vesuvian face Had let its pleasure through - And when at Night - Our good Day done - I guard My Master's Head - 'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's Deep Pillow - to have shared -
Emily Dickson - My life had stood a loaded gun She never titled her works, therefore the title usually is the first line Things to look for -Random Capitalization -Lots of Dashes -Short Cryptic lines -Unconventional spelling and grammar
The key component to this type of literature is magic. Stories often reflect what the 'proper' or 'ideal' women is; beautiful, kind and long suffering (ex: Cinderella). Magic comes in 3's
Fairy Tales
A character that reveals by contrast the distinctive qualities of another character is a/an:
Foil
Often referred to as "language of the people," this type of literature is often used for entertainment purposes. During the 1600's and 1700's it took many different stories and changed it to humorous stories.Another name for this type of literature is noddlehead stories.
Folk Tales
Define title and author "The book announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all-powerful elite. Its key phrase - Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, The Ministry of Peace (devoted to war), the Ministry of Truth (devoted to lies), the Ministry of Love (devoted to torture) - burned their way at once into the modern consciousness.
George Orwell 1984
Homeric or Heroic Period
Greek legends are passed along orally, including Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. This is a chaotic period of warrior princes, wandering sea traders, and fierce pirates.
Classical Greek Period
Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers such as Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles all make their mark during this time period. Also known as Golden Age of Greece.
Identify this passage: Poor Queequeg! When the ship was about half disemboweled, yous houd have stooped over the hatchway, and peered down upon him there; where, stripped to his woolen drawers, the tattooed savage was crawling about amid that dampness and slime, like a green spotter lizard at the bottom of a well. And a well, or an ice-house, it somehow roved to him , poor pagan; where, strange to say, for all the heat of his sweatings, he caught a terrible chill which lapsed into a fever; and at last, after some day's suffering, laid him in his hammock, close to the very sill of the door of death.
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
The Classical Period(1200 BCE - 455 CE) consists of four sub periods.
Homeric or Heroic period Classical Greek period Classical Roman Period Patristic Period
Authors of Realism
Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy
Conveys precise fun and/or joking
Humor
Romanticism; when, where, and what
In 18th and 19th century. Began in Germany and England. Eventually spreading throughout Europe. Happened in Western hemisphere throughout music. Emphasized fancy, imagination, freedom, and emotion.
What is tone?
In literature, it reveals the author's attitude towards the writing, the reader, the subject and/or the people, places, and events in a work.
Assonance
Internal vowel sound Example: AslEEp under a trEE
Incongruity between what one expects and what actually happens. Appears in 3 forms; language (verbal), incident (situational) and point of view (dramatic)
Irony
What is Figurative language
Is a way of adding information and description to the writing to make reader think about the text.
Define author and title "Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it. That she should receive an offer of marriage from Mr. Darcy! That he should have been in love with her for so many months! so much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister, and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case, was almost incredible!"
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
I. Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris. II. Americas, who do not speak French, are at a disadvantage in Paris. The sentences can best serve as illustrations of which of the following
The semantics of punctuation.(How the slight use of punctuation can change the meaning of the entire sentence.)
The people all saw her come because it was sundown. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment. What is the best way to describe the last three sentences?
They are vivid way of describing the ease and authority the sitters feel during the evening.
What pattern of stanzas and rhymes describe a typical Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet?
abbaabba cdecde
The line "beaded bubbles winking at the bring" exemplifies
alliteration
Science Fiction: readers claim to either love it or loathe it: either they avoid it like poison or they devour favorite works and authors like chocolate addicts gulping down fudge truffles. The author of the passage compares certain readers with 'chocolate addicts' primarily in order to
indicate the depth of certain readers' feelings abut science fiction
Classical Roman Period
(200 BCE-455 CE) Rome conquers Greece in 146 CE. Playwrights Plautus and Terence. Roman Imperial period begins with Caesar Augustus in 27 CE: Ovid, Horace, Virgil, Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius, Cicero and Quintilian.
Chronological Order
(Time Order) Events are arranged in the order in which they happened. Words commonly associated with chronological order in literature includes "Weeks before," "When," Then," and "in the months that followed."
"This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine. There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing an describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out. Mr. Rochester was Mr Rochester in her eyes, a gentleman, a landed proprietor- nothing more; she inquired and searched no further, and evidently wondered at my wish to gain a more definite notion of his identity." Mrs. Fairfax differs from the speaker in that Mrs. Fairfax
is willing to take people at face value
A French term for the unknotting or resolution of the plot
Denouement
Non realistic story with a moral that often as an animal as a main character. Scholars classify the story with animals as characters as beast tales. What type of literature is this?
Fable
Stanza
Grouping lines, set off by spacing, usually contains a set meter and rhyme.
All the following is true of a literary symbol expect: it can be a person, object, or event it suggest more than its literal meaning it is hidden by the author for the reader to find and decode it can contribute to the development of a theme
it is hidden by the author for the reader to find and decode
This type of literature is used to explain things the teller does not understand. Greek and Romans use heroes and heroines to explain thunder, fires, and the movement of the sun.
Myth
This type of story is realistic and contains a moral. It tends to be didactic (teaching a lesson) and can possibly be true. Jesus taught "The Prodigal Son," and "The Good Samaritan."
Parable
Humorous or ridiculing imitation of something else
Parody
Blank Verse
Poetry that is written in unrhymed but has a strict rhythm like iambic pentameter
In the octave, the poet recalls what? "When I was a child I knew red miners dressed raggedly and wearing carbide lamps. I saw them come down red hills to their camps dyed with red dust from old Ishkooda mines. Night after night I met them on the roads, or on the streets in town I caught their glance; the swing of dinner buckets in their hands, and grumbling undermining all their words. I also lived in low cotton country where moonlight hovered over ripe haystacks, or stumps of trees and croppers' rotting shacks, with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by, where sentiment and hatred still held sway and only bitter land was washed away."
The discontent of miners
anapest
a foot consisting of three syllables in which the first two are short or unstressed and the final one is long or stressed.
An ode could be best defined as
a lyric poem characterized by its serious topic
Exposition
background information the reader needs to make sense of situations
This is an example of ______. There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea.
ballad stanza
denotation
dictionary meaning of the word
Characteristic of fairy tales. Example - Woods convey fear, doom, or evil
stereotyping or connotation
Which of the following is not an element of setting? the time when a story takes place the social environment that frames the characters the point of view of the narrator the place where a story occurs
the point of view of the narrator
Another name for this kind of narrator who uses he, she, they and tells a story as if looking over the shoulder of a single character is a/an
limited omniscient narrator
Figure of speech containing an implied comparison in a word or phrase without using 'like' or 'as'
metaphor
Homer calls the rocket fuel 'rocket candy' because of its sweet odor. This is an example of
metaphor
Modern Literature
Recent stories with categories of traditional literature and can include other forms of literature. (Novel, Romance, Confession, Menippean Satire)
Define author and title She thanked men, -good! but thanked Somehow - I known not how - as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name With anybody's gift Who'd stoop to blame This sort of trifling?
Robert Browning "My Last Duchesses"
Define title and author "Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast"
Robert Herrick "Not So Suddenly Upon Juliet's Breast" Cavalier Poets (England, 17th Century) --> spoke about love, beauty, sensuality, nostalgia, and Carpe Diem philosophy
Type of literature that presents idealized view of a life where characters, settings, actions are better than what one can have in real life. Usually this type of literature is very formulated.
Romance
Explain the difference between a round character and a flat character.
Round characters have many struggles, almost like a real person in society would. Flat characters on the other hand is able to be summed up really quickly.
Define the title and the author "Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath, nor motion. Idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" From the British Romantic Poetry (1785-1830)
Uses You in the story - extremely rare
Second person narrator
Excessive use of feeling or emotion
Sentimentality
Meter
Set number of syllables that are stressed and unstressed
Define the title and the author "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow"
Shakespeare "Macbeth" uses iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gg)
What are 5 fundamental aspects of figurative language
Simile, Metaphor, Analogy, Personification, and Cliche
Macbeth's famous speech beginning, "Tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow" is a good example of ______, also known as a dramatic convention which a character, alone onstage, utters his or her thoughts aloud.
Soliloquy
On a dark, secluded street stood three abandoned house. The first had broken shutters and shattered windows. Net to it stood a dilapidated structure badly in need of paint. Adjacent, amid debris, stood a shack with graffiti scrawled across the door. What type of order best describes the paragraph?
Spatial Order
Paradox
Statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory, but after closely looking at it, it makes sense. Example: The pen is mightier than the sword.
Flat characters who exist as the embodiment of particular type rather than an individual
Stock Character
Which of the following is the best description of traditional phonics instruction? -Students study lists of high frequency words in order to increase reading speed and comprehension -Students are taught individual letter sounds first, followed by letter combination sounds, and the rules of putting these combinations together to make words -Students are immersed in written language and encouraged to decode entire words using context clues -Students analyze patterns of organization and syntax as a way of learning to recognize common structures
Students are taught individual letter sounds first, followed by letter combination sounds, and the rules of putting these combinations together to make words
Define title and author Unreal City. Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: "Stetson! You were with me in the ships at Mylae! The corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land"-- one of the most important works of Modernism! Modernism (1900-1945) where literary works are self consciously different or obscure. Contains Free Verse Forms reflect fragmentation and chaos Alienation, homelessness, and loss Use of myth as an organization framework
A larger argument of literary work make about one or more of its subject, typically expressed in a sentence, is a:
Theme
Uses He or She or They in the story and typically does not participant in the action. This is also the most common.
Third person narrator
Late or High Medieval Period (1200 - 1485)
Tumultuous period is marked by the Middle English writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Gawain" or "Pearl" Poet, the Wakefield Master, and WIlliam Langland. Other writers include Italian and French authors like Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, and Christine de Pisan.
dramatic monologue
Type of poem in which a character (speaker) addresses a silent audience (or reader) in such a way as to reveal unintentionally their temperament and personality
Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into That Good Night" is an example of what famous poetic form?
Villanelle
Authors of Symbolism
William Butler Yeats, James Jocye, T.s. Eliot
Authors of Romanticism
William Wordswarth, Lord Bryon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo
Define author, title and era most associated with "The people all saw her come because it was sundown. The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment."
Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes were Watching God." Most associated with Harlem Renanissance
Spatial Order
a means of organizing information by showing where things are located. The words "next to," "adjacent" are typical of the kind of words used in descriptions.
Parody
a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim or comic effect and/or ridicule
I. Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris. II. Americas, who do not speak French, are at a disadvantage in Paris. Which of the following describes the meanings of sentence II? a. All Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris. b. Only those Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris. c. Some French-speaking Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris. d. Only French-speaking Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris.
a. All Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris.
What pattern of stanzas and rhymes describe a Shakespearean (or English) sonnet?
abab cdcd efef gg
The title of Ann Lauinger's Poem "Marvell Noir" contains two ______, or brief cultural references to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature.
allusion
Iambs
an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
The saying "The world is a stage," and "A heart is a pump" is an example of
analogy
A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
anaphora
Langston Hughes's lines "I bathed in Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it." best exemplify s what poetic term?
anaphora
I. Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris. II. Americas, who do not speak French, are at a disadvantage in Paris. Which of the following describes the meanings of sentence I? a. All Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris. b. Only those Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris. c. Some French-speaking Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris. d. Only French-speaking Americans are at a disadvantage in Paris.
b. Only those Americans who do not speak French are at a disadvantage in Paris.
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. I would work without a net and without the noise of the crowd to disturb me. The view from on high is dizzying, instructive. I do not record the world exactly as it comes to me but transform it by making it pass through a prism of fabulous stories. I have collected on the way. I gather stories the way a lepidopterist hoards his chloroformed specimens of rare moths, or Costa Rican beetles. Stories are like vessels I use to interpret the world to myself. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage? a. The author provides several explanations for taking a certain course of action. b. The author uses analogies to explain his experience of a particular action. c. The author makes a comparison between his own experiences and that of others in his profession. d. The author chronicles the various phases of his work in a particular discipline.
b. The author uses analogies to explain his experience of a particular action.
An expression such as "time will tell" or "love is a blessing from heaven above" that has become tired and trite from overuse is known as a/an
cliche
Phrases that have become meaningless because of their frequent uses. Makes listener question the characters sincerity.
cliche
Which of the following is not a common characteristic of an epic? a. begins in medias res b. chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation c. focuses on a serious subject d.is told in an informal, down to earth style
d. is told in an informal, down to earth style
The following passage suggests that the speaker would describe the "account" mentioned in the first sentence as ________. "This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine. There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing an describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out. Mr. Rochester was Mr Rochester in her eyes, a gentleman, a landed proprietor- nothing more; she inquired and searched no further, and evidently wondered at my wish to gain a more definite notion of his identity."
deficient -this is because the speaker states "no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, with in person or things." hence giving the reader a deficient description
What a character believes or says to be true v.s. what readers understand to be true
dramatic irony
This is an example of ________. She thanked men, -good! but thanked Somehow - I known not how - as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name With anybody's gift Who'd stoop to blame This sort of trifling?
dramatic monologue
When a line ends without pause and continues to the next line is called
enjambment
Which element of the plot does this passage "Killings," by Dubus exemplify? Richard Strout was twenty-six years old, a high school athlete, football scholarship to the University of Massachusetts where he lasted for almost two semesters before quitting in advance of the final grades that would have forced him to return. People then said: Dickie can do the work; he just doesn't want to. He came home and did construction work for his father but refused his father's offer to learn the business; his two older brother had learned it, so that Strout and Sons trucks going about town, and signs on construction sites, now slashed would into Matt Fowler's life.
exposition
E.E. Cummings's poem "she being Brand" could best be described as a/an ________ comparing sex with a woman to driving a brand new car.
extended metaphor
Uses I or We in the story and can be either a major or minor participant in the action.
first person narrator
This passage in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" best exemplifies the narrative technique of: "She carried her head high enough- even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say "Poor Emily," and while the two female cousin were visiting her. "I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eye-sockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper's face out to look. "I want some poison," she said.
foreshadowing
mettle....metal nun....none The pair above are examples of
homophones - They sound alike despite different spellings and meanings.
Andrew Marvell's lines "An hundred year should go to praise Thine eyes and on they forehead gaze, Two hundred to adore each breast But thirty thousand to the rest" provides excellent examples of?
hyperbole