EXAM 1 Flashcards

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What is analysis?

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Analysis involves identifying and thinking about what’s going on in a piece of literature

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2
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What are three things an interpretation is NOT?

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1) One word (Theme)
2) A definition
3) About the story or characters specifically

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3
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What is an interpretation?

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A translation of the story’s larger message

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4
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What is symbolism?

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When a writer uses one thing to represent another thing

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What is personification?

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Non-human things are described as having human characteristics or qualities or abilities.

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What is a synecdoche?

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When a part is used to stand in for the whole.

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What is a Metonymy

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Kind of like synecdoche, except instead of part substituting for the whole, we use something closely related to the thing we’re referring to as a substitute for it.

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What is an Oxymoron

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Oxymoron pairs two contradictory words in order to communicate something the nuance or complexity of which goes beyond the literal capacities of language as we normally use it.

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9
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What is a Hyperbole

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An exaggeration

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10
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What is a Metaphor

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Comparison of two things without “like” or “as”

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What is a Simile

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Comparison of two things with “like” or “as”

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What is an Indirect metaphor

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Metaphors that do not explicitly say that one thing is another, but they hint at the comparison in an indirect way

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13
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What is an Extended metaphor

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A metaphor that goes on for several sentences

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14
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What is the Tenor

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The thing in a metaphor being described

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15
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What is the Vehicle?

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The comparison to the described thing in a metaphor

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What is the ground?

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What the vehicle and tenor have in common

17
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What is the tension?

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What the vehicle and tenor do not have in common

18
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What is direct characterization?

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When a character is described directly and explicitly

19
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What is indirect characterization?

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When no direct descriptions of a character, or a character’s characteristics, is offered, but we discover things about the character and might draw conclusions about the character from one combination or another of two intersecting sources of information

20
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What is verbal irony?

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Afigure of speech in which the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean.

21
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What is dramatic irony?

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When the reader knows something a character does not.

22
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What is situational irony?

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When a situation creates an unexpected, paradoxical, or perverse turn of events.

23
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Who wrote “The Landing”?

A

Lydia Davis

24
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What story did Lydia Davis write?

A

The Landing

25
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Who wrote “Inventory”?

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Carmen Maria Machado

26
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What story did Carmen Maria Machado write?

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Inventory

27
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Who wrote “Exhortation”?

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George Saunders

28
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What story did George Saunders write?

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Exhortation