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Who are the proletariat?

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Lower-class workers/ social structure.

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Stories are affected by _____.

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History

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Literature is _____ by the _____ it comes from.

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Shaped-Time Period

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Define Euphemism

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a word that makes something sound better than it is.

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Define Utopia

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A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respects of politics, religion, customs and traditions.

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Many dystopias start out as someone else’s _____ society.

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Utopian

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The Judeo-Christian concept of the _____ and _____.

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After life- Heaven

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The Buddhist concept of _____.

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Nirvana

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Advanced science and technology will abolish _____ and _____.

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Suffering-Death

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The _____ represented the creation of a political utopia on a larger scale than had ever been attempted before.

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Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin forced peasants to work on the land, forced intellectuals into _____, burned _____, and contributed to the death of _____.

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Workcamps- Books-Millions

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He used mass media to create a _____ image of himself, and any opponents were executed or deported.

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All-powerful

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Define Dystopia

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A futuristic imagined universe in which total societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, philosophical/religious or totalitarian control.

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Dystopias, though exaggerated, make _____ about current trends, social norms, and politics.

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Criticisms

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The society is promoted to the citizens as being a _____, _____ world.

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Perfect, Ideal

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_____ is used to control citizens.

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Fear

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_____, freedom, and _____ thought are restricted.

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Information-Independent

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A _____ and/or concept is _____ by society.

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Figurehead- Worshipped

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_____ is expected. Individuality and dissent is _____.

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Conformity-Bad

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The _____ world is banished and distrusted.

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Natural

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Citizens have a fear of the _____.

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Outside World

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Citizens are perceived to be under constant _____.

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Surveillance

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Citizens live in a _____ state.

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Dehumanized.

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What are the forms of dystopian control?

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Corporate-Bureaucratic-Technological-Philosophical CBTP

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Define Corporate Control
One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Propaganda is the way they do this.
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Define Bureaucratic Control.
Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials.
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Define Technological Control
Society is controlled by technology through computers, robots, and/or scientific means.
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Define Philosophical Control
Society is controlled by philosophy or religious ideals often times through a dictatorship or theocratic government.
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Feels _____ and is trying to escape society's oppressive forces.
Trapped
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_____ social and political rules.
Questions
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Believes and feels something is _____ with their society.
Terribly wrong
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_____ to see what is wrong with society through their experiences.
Helps the audience
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A character, often protagonist, who unwittingly ______ those in power.
Criticizes
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Starts off as a typical, _____ member of society.
Normal
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Struggles to _____ and questions his society.
Conform
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May find other ______ with whom to share his concerns.
Rebels
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Orwell is warning against _____. Communism is an example of this.
Totalitarianism
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Totalitarianism is a government that has total control. Orwell had been in _____ & seen the dangerous effects of it. He also lived through WWIII and watched _____ and later Stalin.
Spain-Hitler
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List the Definition and the Purpose of Hate Week and Two Minutes Hate
Definition: The video of Goldstein, the scapegoat. People are worked up into a hatred/frenzy- emotionally crazed. Purpose: philosophical/ ideological control of the government.
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List the Definition and the Purpose of the Telescreen
Definition: TV w/ security camera/mic to monitor the citizens' every move. Purpose: Warns about tech/ surveillance/ gov. control
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List the Definition and the Purpose of Newspeak
Definition: heavily modified version of English. It's government mandated. It's ineffective and individuals cannot express themselves. Purpose: power of language.
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List the Definition and Purpose of all of the Ministries.
Definition: subdivisions of the govt that exert total control. Purpose: warn about govt. control.
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List the Definition and Purpose of the Thought Police.
Definition: secret police force who punish people with "thoughts" against the govt. Purpose: Warning against your freedom of thought.
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List the Definition and Purpose of Doublethink
Definition: the ability to believe in 2 contradictory things, even when you're fully aware. Purpose: warns about being critical thinkers.
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List the Definition and Purpose of Thoughtcrime.
Definition: crime of anti-government thoughts. Purpose: warning against govt. control.
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List the Definition and Purpose of the Memory Hole.
Definition: in the ministry of truth, the "hole" that puts the documents down where they are incinerated. Purpose: warning against the re-wiring of history. Faulty "memories" in society.
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What are the steps in analyzing poetry?
1) Read it multiple times. 2) Find the definition of the words you don't know. 3) Annotate (look for poetic devices). 4) Interpret poetic devices. 5) Theme
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Define Satire.
Often using humor to expose and criticize people's foolishness and stupidity.
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Define Allusion.
a literary reference to another story.
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Define Literary Criticism.
Literary criticism is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of literature CAIE
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Define Paradox.
a contradictory statement; sometimes, with some truth in it.
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What are the types of irony?
Verbal-Dramatic-Situational VDS
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Define Verbal Irony.
the opposite meaning to what is said.
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Define Dramatic Irony.
where you know more than the characters do.
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Define Situational Irony.
the opposite of what you expected.
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Define Conflict.
the struggles within the story (internal-external).
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Define Imagery.
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
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Define Archetype.
a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. LAM
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Define Alliteration.
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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Define foreshadowing.
when the author gives clues at to what will happen.
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Define Tone.
an author's attitude towards the story/subject.
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Define Mood.
the feeling the story gives you by its description.
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Who do tone and mood apply to respectively?
MRTA (Mood--->Reader/Tone--->Author).
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Define Internal Characterization
a character's personality- thoughts, feelings, desires, plans, and motivations. PTFD
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Define External Characterization
a character's outward description; their physical traits.
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Define Diction
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
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Define Metaphor
a comparison between two things.
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Define Dialect
a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
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Define Figurative Language
It uses an ordinary sentence to refer to something without directly stating it.
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Define Hyperbole
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
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Define Parallelism
the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. GSMM
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Define Theme
what the author would have you believe or consider.
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Define Motif
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
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Define Apostrophe
an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).
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Define Thesis Statement
a sentence that sums up the central point of your paper or essay.
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Define Argumentative Writing.
a piece of writing that takes a stance on an issue.
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Define Claim
the main argument of an essay.
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Define Counterclaim
a claim made to rebut a previous claim.
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Define Palette
range of colors and shades used by an illustrator.
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Define Composition.
arrangement of the parts of an image, whether drawn or recorded in some other visual format.
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Define Perspective.
point of view of an image, which may be close up, middle distance, or long distance.
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Define Panel.
individual scene in graphic novel, often framed by a border.
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Define Angle.
measurement of how much space, horizontal and vertical, is included in a single visual.
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Define Lighting/Color
use of light and dark shades; dark and high-contrast images draw the eye more than light and low-contrast images.
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Know the quota of 2 sentences of _____ to 1 sentence _____.
Analysis-Quote
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Know that you should write the analysis of literature in _____ tense.
Present.
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MLA format requires that a paper be _____ and that the _____ is double spaced in the top left corner of the paper.
Double-Spaced; Heading
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The top right corner of each page should have _____ and _____.
Last Name-Page Number
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What point of view do you use to write an analytical essay?
3rd person
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Know that you _____ the title of a play or a major work and put _____ around the title of a minor work.
Underline- Quotations.

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