English Flashcards
(208 cards)
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Computer-mediated communication tool for language learning.
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video conferencing platforms
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Intended meaning that is not explicitly stated
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implicature
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Most effective for developing student’s note taking skills
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listening to lecture and outlining the key ideas
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Mythological bird is known for its ability to rise from its ashes
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phoenix
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Typically depicted as female winged beings with the upper body of a woman and the lower body and wings of a bird
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harpy
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Enormous bird of prey, typically with the ability to carry off and devour elephants
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roc
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Legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle
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griffin
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Act of identifying the sources of information or quotes used in an article
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attribution
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Instructional strategies that make up the art of science of knowledge
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pedagogy
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Herald and messenger of the Olympian Gods
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hermes
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God of War
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Aries/Mars
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Utterance that performs an action or that has an impact in a situation merely by its utterance is known as
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Illocutionary act
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The effect of saying something
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perlocutionary act
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Five pairs of syllables, where each pair consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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Iambic pentameter
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Act of saying something
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locutionary act
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Speech act that is performed successfully, meaning that it achieves its intended purpose
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felicitous act
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Language influences the way we think and perceive the world
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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Main cause is the spread of global languages
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language death
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Had they arrived earlier, they would have caught the train
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conditional perfect tense
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Emphasizes the role of communities and grassroots initiative in language revitalization
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bottom-up
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Development and standardization of a language
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corpus
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Used to promote the use of the language in different domains, such as education, government and the media
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status
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Consists of four trochees per line with stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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trochaic
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shakespeare’s shortest play
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the comedy of errors
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how do i love thee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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george elliot
mary ann evans
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william sydney porter
o henry
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gift of the magi
o henry
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the metamorphosis
franz kafka
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jane eyre
charlotte bronte
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weathering heights
emily bronte
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george orwell
eric blaire
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animal farm
george orwell
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stream of consciousness
virgina wolf
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father of english literature
chaucer
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father of english poetry
chaucer
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father of essay
montaigne
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a christmas carol
charles dickens
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first asian to receive the nobel prize for literature
Rabindranath Tagore
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plot development of ramayana
linear
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Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.
confucian
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ethical concept that suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the japanese
giri
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The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
nadine gordimer
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This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts
Journey to the West
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Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
Tang
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The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is ___
maya
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leading figure of negritude movement
leopold senghor
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What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Tale of Horror'?
Frankenstein
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Pride and Prejudice
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In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear? What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!
Hamlet
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Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is affirmed by Mario's statement? Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost a
job you needed so much -
Mario: I wouln't mind losing a thousand jobs for an apple for my daughter!
Parental sacrifice for children
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Who did Abraham Lincoln call "the little woman who started the Civil War"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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first science fiction novel
frankenstein
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What was the first book in the Harry Potter series?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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On what novel is the film Slumdog Millionaire based?
Q&A
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mrs. dalloway
virgina wolf
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The pilgrims progress
john bunyan
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Where was Victor Hugo buried?
Pantheon
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What is common among the places mentioned in the poem "GRASS" by Carl Sandburg ?
they used to be war zones
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paradise lost
john milton
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Who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature?
toni morrison
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Minister's Black Veil, what does the minster refer to as "an hour come. . . When all of us shall cast aside our veils"?
judgement day
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What does Sanburg's "The Grass" clear suggest?
deaths in war are often forgotten
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In wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, whom does Heathcliff marry ?
Isabella
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Whitman's "When I heard the Learn' d Astronomer,'' shows the science is -
limited
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What main point does Macleish make about poetry in "Ars Poetica"?
" A poem should be palpable and mute
Silent as a globe fruit "
Poetry should be concrete or tangible
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In " because I Could not Stop for Death," Dickinson compares death to -
a patient gentleman
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What doea the speaker mean in the ff. lines?
" Let's so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live l ever"
From to My Dear and loving husband
By Anne Bradstreet.
Let's be true to our love, and we will be joined in eternity.
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In "From Sinners in the hands of an Angry God," what will unrepentant singers experience?
God's wrath
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Qualities or values does longfellow's "A Psalm of life" promote?
optimism
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What does the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London strongly suggest about nature?
Nature is a dangerous force that humans should respect.
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Phoenix Jackson's journey in "A worn Path" symbolizes.?
the habits of love
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The persona in the ff. Lines could be characterize as
" Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
strong
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mending wall
robert frost
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In which poems did percy Bysshe Shelley blame the critics for John keats' early death?
adonais
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What does the speaker celebrate in " The Soul Selects her own Society"?
" The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door
On her devine majority
Obtrude no more.
self imposed isolation
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What Novel is summarized in the passage below?
The story begins with a doctor who books a passge aboard a ship that leaves from Bristol for the south Seas. Northwest of Van Diemen's Land, the ship is wrecked in a sudden storm.
The hero manages to swim ashore where he falls asleep on the beach. Here he is taken prisoner by the natives - short people all of them.
guilliver's travel by jonatahan swift
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Will thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark
The period the fearful hollow of thine ear:
Nightly she sings on your pomegranate tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale
Romeo and Juliet
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After vowing to avoid women, the King and three of his friends have to host a princess and her three ladies. The four men fall in love and decide to court the women. In the end, the women must return to their kingdom for a year after which they will marry the king and his friends, providing they remain true to them.
Love Labour's Lost by Shakespeare
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What is the artificial language used in George orwell's 1984.
newspeak
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Who among the ff. Fun writer admitted, "Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober."
james thurber
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What figure of speech is exemplified in the ff. Lines from Shakepeare's As You Like it'?
" Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou are not so unkind as man's ingratitude"
apostrophe
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something misleading or deceitful
Illusive
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In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what friendly animal is senselessly killed?
an albatross
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What do the ff. Lines reveal about the world ?
" All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.
people have different roles to play in life
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In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?
henry david thoreau
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Iago is furious about being overlooked for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General: Othello, the Moor of Venice. Iago manipulates Othello into believing his wife Desdemona is unfaithful, stirring Othello's jealousy. Othello allows jealousy to consume him, murders Desdemona, and then kills himself.
Othello by Shakespeare
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Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with me
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for the wine
Song to Celia
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Song to Celia
Ben Johnson
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Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tenyson
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a poem in which a speaker confronts the reality of imminent death—and finds a kind of peace in the thought of dying.
Crossing the Bar
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Ode to the West Wind
Percy Shelley
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Have a glimpse that would make me less forlorn
Have a sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow is wreathed horn
The World is Too much With Us by William Wordsworth
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Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
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contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption.
Auguries of Innocence
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a Christian hymn, written in 1773 by the 18th-century English poet William Cowper.
God Moves in a Mysterious Way
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God Moves in a Mysterious Way
William Cowper.
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
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O is she rosely loved
is she lovely rosed
O is she lovely sung as sea-shells?
Jose Garcia Villa
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To a Youth
Fernando Maramag
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Death the over reaching is its main theme
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Moonlight on Manila Bay
Fernando Maramag
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The Aetheist
Fernando Maramag
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founding father of united states
benjamin franklin
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3rd US president
Thomas Jefferson
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Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest and find Orlando, Rosalind's love. Disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind has Orlando woo her under the guise of "curing" him of his love for Rosalind. Rosalind reveals she is a girl and marries Orlando during a group wedding at the end of the play
As you like it by Shakespeare
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34th US President
Dwight Eisenhower
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36th US President
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Psalm of Life
Henry Longfellow
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All that glitters is not gold;
Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold;
Glided tombs do norms enfold
Merchant of Venice
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The Sea
Natividad Marquez
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Cross of Show
Longfellow
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Hymns to the Night
Longfellow
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My Lost Youth
Longfellow
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Which theory claims that readers have difficulty in comprehension because they are focused on Word Identification
Automaticity
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Zip the Lip
William Norris
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artisan who forged cannons for the use of Spaniards
Panday Pira
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Panday Pira
Jose M. Hernandez
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Wings
Victor Hugo
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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower
Robert Browning
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novel written by Kerima-Tuvera that tells the story of Emma Mercene who struggles for consummation of purse and clean love
The Hand of the Enemy
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"These are the time that try men's souls"
Thomas Paine
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Hesperides
Robert Herrick
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The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's poem An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread". The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1966 as a Play of the Month.
Where Angels Fear to Tread by Foster
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sonnet that enumerates the reason for loving Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43
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psalam of joy and reverence
psalm 8
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novel by E.M. Foster that satirizes the manners of the middle class English folk with their provincial class clannishness and prejudices
Howards End
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poem by William Ernest Henley that answers the question: Do humans control their own lives?
Invictus
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To Lucasta
Richard Lovelace
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A Room With A View
Foster
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The Longest Journey
Foster
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On His Blindness
John Milton
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Song of Roland
Turold
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epic about the exploits of early muslim warriors who fought in defense of islam
darangan
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the greek alphabet is adapted from the consonantal writing developed by the
phoenicians
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Carlos Bulosan's celebrated autobiography
America is in the Heart
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Footnote to Youth
Jose Garcia Villa
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Tale of Genjie
Lady Murasaka
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Madame Bovary is considered as the best example of French ____
realism
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Father and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
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using local colors in his stories
Manuel Arguilla
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used to express social protest during the early days of American regime
zarsuela
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a complete negation of Christian doctrine
Boccaccio's Decameron
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form of Filipino poetic joust where two individuals or groups engage in a verbal showdown using improvised verses.
duplo
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like duplo but participants were amateur
karagatan
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the poetry of Ezia Pound is best described as
imagist
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male participants, they are the heads of the games
bellacos
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who kept Odysseus on her island for 7 years
calypso
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two groups who are at war in the Iliad
trojans and achaens
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May Day Eve
Nick Joaquin
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alienation effect
august strendberg
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The Visitation of the Gods is a ________
satire
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Bread of Salt
NVM Gonzales
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Love in the Cornhusks
Aida Rivera
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permissible combination of sounds in a language and the rules governing the occurence
phonotactics
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interaction between morphemes and their phonological realization
morphophonemics
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semantic change:
positive - negative (e.g. attitude)
pejoration/deterioration
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semantic change:
negative - positive (e.g. nice)
amelioration/elevation
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semantic change:
general-specific (e.g. meat)
narrowing/restriction
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semantic change:
special - general (e.g. business)
broadening/generalization
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lead- metal
lead- guide
homographs
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know - no
too- two
their - there
homophones
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when sound is completely omitted from the word during the pronunciation
elision
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lexical acces and syntactic parsing
psycholinguistics
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handbag - hambag
assimilation
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hamster - hampster
epenthesis
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formed by blending parts of two or more words (e.g. break+fast)
portmanteau
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newly developed word that has started to fall into mainstream usage (e.g. influencer)
neologism
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newly developed word that has started to fall into mainstream usage (e.g. influencer)
neologism
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commands, requests, challenges, invitations, order, summon entreaties, dares
directive
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promise, oaths, pledge, bows, threats
commissive
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promise, oaths, pledge, bows, threats
commissive
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assertion, statement, claims, hypothesis, description, suggestions
representative
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assertion, statement, claims, hypothesis, description, suggestions
representative
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greetings, apologies, congratulations, condolences, thanksgiving
expressive
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greetings, apologies, congratulations, condolences, thanksgiving
expressive
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blessings, baptisms, arrest, marrying
declarations
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transposition of sounds (e.g. ruler-luler)
metathesis
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precedes the word it refers
e.g. Despite her difficulty, Wilma came to understand the point
cataphora
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follows the word it refers
e.g. The tsunami killed thousands of people. It was devastating.
anaphora
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Campus Journalism
little boxes on the other side of nameplate
ears
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one independent clause
simple sentence
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two independent clauses joined with conjunctions
compound sentence
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1 independent and 1 dependent clause
complex sentence
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2 independent and 1 or more dependent clause
compound complex sentence
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2 pairs
Neither-nor / Either-or
Correlative conjunctions
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FANBOYS
coordinating conjunctions
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connects independent clause to dependent clause
subordinating conjunctions
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connects 2 independent clauses to each other with punctualities
conjunctive adverbs
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something that is hard to find/capture
Elusive
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A little knowledge is a dangerous _____, according to Ralph Waldo Emerson
thing
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leading proponent of transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Wedding Dance
Amador Daguio
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theme of The Wedding Dance
culture goes beyond love
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theme of The Wedding Dance
culture goes beyond love
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combining of words that sound pleasant together or are easy to pronounce (L,M,N,R)
Euphony
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
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Charlotte's Web
EB White
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anagnorisis
recognition
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peripeteia
ironic twist in a tragedy that projects the fall of the hero
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hamartia
error in judgement
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purgation
catharsis
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story about the boy who was born and gets younger every day
The Curious Case of Benjamin
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Tolstoy's short story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder
God Sees The Truth But Waits
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chinese poem sung to the tunes of popular melodies
Tzu
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Chinese Poetry
parallelism, use couplets
Shih
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working by suggestions rather than explicit mention
Allusive
