English Flashcards
(41 cards)
what are the types of plagiarism?
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
what was the roaring 20s?
a time where everyone was partying and life was good
what was the harlem renaissance?
a burst of creativity from african americans
what was the jazz age?
when jazz music started to become really popular
what is symbolism?
uses something to represent another thing
what was prohibition?
the period of time when alcohol was banned
what was speakeasies?
secret illegal bars
what was science fiction?
fiction based on future scientific or technological advances, major social or environmental changes
what is speculative fiction?
a fiction that includes supernatural things
what is a utopia?
everything is perfect
what is a dystopia?
control and bad, no perfect
what is a simile?
comparison using “like” or “as”
what is a metaphor?
a direct comparison
what is personification?
human-like characteristics for objects
what is allusion?
a reference to something you weren’t expected to know
what is a paradox?
opposite things that are true (ex: hands so cold that they’re burning)
what is alliteration?
the first letter of multiple, repeating words is the same (ex: walker walks on a wet wednesday)
what are the 3 different types of irony?
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
what were the 3 major outcomes that affected germany because of the treaty of versailles?
lost land, lost their army, and they had to pay for the whole war
who was kaiser?
he was the head of the german empire (government) before ww1
what was valkyrie?
code name for the plot to kill hitler
what was another name for the national socialist workers’ party?
nazi
what was the origin of “aryan”?
it was like Iran
what was the allusion of the pied piper?
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