English final Flashcards
(46 cards)
Lens: gender/feminist
What does this lens focus on in a given text?
A gender/feminist lens focuses on the roles that genders play or how they are portrayed. This lens also focuses on the roles that women play in this story and if they are depicted stereotypically or not.
Cultural lens:
What does it focus on:
A cultural lens focuses on how traditions from cultures are depicted and the role that culture plays in the characters life that is from a culture. It would also focus on beliefs and values from a culture.
Historical lens:
What does this lens focus on
A historical lens focuses on the aspects from a time period. This lens would also focus on how events that occurred in a time period are depicted or contribute to the book. Lastly, it would focus on the time period that the author lives in.
Critical disability lens:
What does this lens focus on
A critical disability lens would focus on a disability that a character has and how it is viewed in society. It would also focus on how beliefs about a disability can affect the life of someone who has the disability.
Socioeconomic:
What does this lens focus on
A socioeconomic lens would focus on how people from high social class’s lives are as someone from that social class. It would also focus on the advantages that their social status can give them.
Psychological:
What does this lens focus on
A psychological lens would center on how we function impacts the way that a character acts.
Ecocritical lens: what would it focus on:
Would pay attention to how humans affect on the environment and the relationship between society and the environment.
Racial/ethnic lens:
What does It focus on
Would center on the relationship that a character has with their ethnicity and the way people of an ethnicity are treated and viewed.
Metaphor:
Saying one thing is another and the things that are being compared are unlike
Example: her smile is sunshine
Simile:
Using like or as to compare two things that aren’t alike.
Example: the baby slept as soundly as a log.
Personification:
When you give objects (things that are alive) human characteristics.
Example: the sun smiles happily down at us.
Imagery:
Writing that uses the five senses in order to be vivid.
Example: it was a sunny day with birds chirping and Layla smelled the cinnamons
Symbolism:
When something is used to represent a meaning or idea.
Example: a dove symbolizes peace
Hyperbole:
Using exaggeration in order to portray strong feelings.
Example: I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse
Alliteration:
When words (or most words) in a sentence make the same noise or have the same first letter.
Example: she sells seashells by the seashore
Connotation:
When a word makes you feel strong emotions or have an idea.
Example: red roses make people think about love.
Motif:
An idea that keeps on occuring or coming back.
Example: careful what you wish for is a constant idea in Aladdin
Enjabment:
When a sentence is continued.
Example: though as for that, the passing there/had work then really just about the same
Parallel structure:
When a grammatical structure is accommodated in order to make the sentence more grammatically accurate.
Ray Bradbury begins his book Farenhiet 451 with the line it was a pleasure to burn
Grammar corrections:
Ray Bradbury begins his book Farenhiet 451 with the line, “it was a pleasure to burn.” (Bradbury pg. #)
By the end of Night Elie Wiesel sees only a corpse
Grammar corrections:
By the end of Night, Elie Wiesel sees “only a corpse.” (Wiesel #)
Christopher gains confidence with his goal to become a scientist by the end of Curious.
Christopher gains confidence with his goal to become a scientist by the end of Curious. “I’m going to go to university in another town…. and become a scientist.” (Haddon 220)
Run on sentence add punctuation to the following sentence to avoid a run on sentence:
To be fair the student should have studied harder then they might have passed the test.
To be fair,the student should have studied harder. Then they might have passed the test.
Run on sentence
Add punctuation to the following sentence to avoid a run on sentence:
When I do my reading homework it makes school easier I get better grades.
When I do my reading homework, it makes school easier. I get better grades.
