English Flashcards

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what are the types of plagiarism?

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SELF- recycling your own work GHOST- someone writes it for you and you give no credit ECHO- disguising a source to make it look like your own PATCHWORK- mixing different sources without proper credit DIRECT- taking a portion from a source and copying it into your paper

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what was the roaring 20s?

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a time where everyone was partying and life was good

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what was the harlem renaissance?

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a burst of creativity from african americans

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what was the jazz age?

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when jazz music started to become really popular

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what is symbolism?

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uses something to represent another thing

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what was prohibition?

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the period of time when alcohol was banned

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what was speakeasies?

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secret illegal bars

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what was science fiction?

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fiction based on future scientific or technological advances, major social or environmental changes

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what is speculative fiction?

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a fiction that includes supernatural things

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what is a utopia?

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everything is perfect

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what is a dystopia?

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control and bad, no perfect

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what is a simile?

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comparison using “like” or “as”

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what is a metaphor?

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a direct comparison

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what is personification?

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human-like characteristics for objects

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what is allusion?

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a reference to something you weren’t expected to know

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what is a paradox?

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opposite things that are true (ex: hands so cold that they’re burning)

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what is alliteration?

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the first letter of multiple, repeating words is the same (ex: walker walks on a wet wednesday)

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what are the 3 different types of irony?

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VERBAL- saying the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm) DRAMATIC- watching/reading something where you know something that the other characters don’t SITUATIONAL- opposite of what you expect happens

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what were the 3 major outcomes that affected germany because of the treaty of versailles?

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lost land, lost their army, and they had to pay for the whole war

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who was kaiser?

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he was the head of the german empire (government) before ww1

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what was valkyrie?

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code name for the plot to kill hitler

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what was another name for the national socialist workers’ party?

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what was the origin of “aryan”?

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it was like Iran

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what was the allusion of the pied piper?

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that hitler was the pied piper and when a pied piper plays music, people follow. hitler got many people to follow him by just speaking against the government

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why was hitler a zealot?
because he didn't even care about his own people and the people that killed for him
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what is bubbles?
dialogue spaces for speech or thought
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what is a caption?
text that may include scene-setting, description, narration, ect. but not dialogue
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what is a layout?
the way the different elements work together on a page
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what is a close-up?
zooming in on a part of the scene to focus on detail or create connection
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what is color?
sometimes used symbolically on the page or in pictures
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what is a gutter?
space between panels, in which some kind of transition takes place
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what is a bleed?
illustration not enclosed by a frame
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what is a splash?
illustration that takes up a full page without an enclosing frame
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what is a panel?
each enclosed section of the graphic novel, containing a piece of the story
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what is a spread?
image that covers both pages
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what is a frame?
line enclosing the panel
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what are the characteristics of a graphic novel?
onomatopoeia, pictures and images, plots that can stand alone (not needing another series or book to go along with it), and dialogue bubbles
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what was "the veldt" about?
the kids were psychopaths and they fed their parents to the lions
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what was the foreshadowing in "the veldt"?
there was a bloody wallet, familiar screams, and his mothers scarf
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what was "there will come soft rains" about?
an atomic bomb hits a town an everyone is killed, but this one house is running by itself and repeating that day before the bomb hit
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who were the characters in "Fahrenheit 451" and what were they in the story?
Montag- main character Beatty- fire chief Mildred- the wife Clarisse- the neighbor who gets hit by a car Granger- in charge of the books Faber- the professor