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1
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what word means a letter of the alphabet?

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littera

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what is first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing?

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literature

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what is determined by a written work’s ability to stand the test of time, which makes it impossible to determine at the moment of
writing

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permanence

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what is not affected by the passage of time or changes

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timelessness

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what is the fact or quality of being done or occurring at a favorable or useful time

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Timeliness

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what appeals to the hearts and minds of almost any reader

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Universality

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what is aesthetically appealing and reveals or conveys hidden truth and beauty

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Artistry

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what allows the work to inspire and provoke thoughts and understanding beyond the actual words written on the page

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Suggestiveness

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what promotes critical thinking that enhances both abstract and reason-based thought processes and makes readers focus on the
fundamental truths of life and
nature

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Intellectual Value

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what lifts the inner
spirit and soul and has the
power to motivate and inspire
readers

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Spiritual Value

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what refers to the distinct
way the author expresses his
or her thoughts

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Style

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12
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this means to entertain, to delight the audience

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Dulce (Sweetness)

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13
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this means to instruct, to inform the audience

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Utile (Usefulness)

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14
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what are the 4 genres of literature? PFND

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POETRY
FICTIONAL PROSE
NONFICTIONAL PROSE
DRAMA

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what uses metrical language with lots of rhythm and rhyme to create word pictures

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POETRY

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types of poetry: LN

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lyric and narrative

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types of lyric poems: SHOE (EOSH)

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SONNET
HAIKU
ODE
ELEGY

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TYPES OF NARRATIVE POEMS: BEMM

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BALLAD
EPIC
METRICAL TALE
METRICAL ROMANCE

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what is originally sung or recited with a musical instrument, called a lyre

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lyric

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what is story telling developed from ritualistic chanting of myths

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Narrative

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what is a reflective poem to honor the dead?

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elegy

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what is an elevated poem that pays tribute to a person, idea, place, or another concept

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ode

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what is a descriptive fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme

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sonnet

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what is a seventeen-syllable
poem that uses
natural imagery to
express an emotion

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haiku

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what is a narrative poetry set
to music

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ballad

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what is a lengthy poem that
tells a story of heroic
adventures

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epic

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what is a topics vary from romance, the quest for adventure, love, and various place

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metrical tale

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what is also called chivalric poems

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metrical romance

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29
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types of fictional prose: SN

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SHORT STORY
NOVEL

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what is marked by relative shortness and density, organized into a plot and with dénouement at the end

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short story

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31
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what is an extended work of prose fiction and denotes a prose narrative about characters and their actions in what is
recognizably everyday life

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novel

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32
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what is written in ordinary,
non-metrical language, but it
is the product of the writer’s
imagination

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fictional prose

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what is written in ordinary, non-metrical language and
communicates facts or
opinions about reality

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nonfictional prose

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what are the types of nonfictional prose: BADLE

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-BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES
-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES
-DIARIES
-LITERARY REPORTS OR JOURNALS
-ESSAYS

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What is an account of someone’s life written by someone

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Biographical Narratives

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what is an account of someone’s life written by that person

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Autobiographical Narratives

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what combines elements of prose and poetry into plays that are usually intended to be

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drama

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38
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what are the types of drama: CFMMTT

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COMEDY
FARCE
MUSICAL
MELODRAMA
TRAGEDY
TRAGICOMEDY

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39
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→ Lighthearted tone
→ Clever wordplay or turns
of phrase
→ Serious topics
addressed in a
humorous way

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Comedy

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40
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→ Exaggerated humor
→ Slapstick gags
→ Nonsensical storyline
→ Improbable events

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Farce

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41
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→ Originally referred to as opera
→ Dramas in which the
characters sing and dance while performing

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Musical

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42
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→ Periods of standard
storyline interrupted by
songs
→ Dramatic or comedic
storylines
→ A sensational dramatic
piece with exaggerated
characters and exciting
events intended to appeal
to the emotions

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Melodrama

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43
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→ A protagonist with a tragic
flaw
→ Circumstances that quickly
get out of control – and not in
a funny way
→ Darker themes than a
melodrama, such as human
suffering, hatred, or poverty

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Tragedy

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44
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→ A serious storyline told in a
humorous, sardonic, or snide way
→ Tragically flawed characters
whose actions don’t result in death
→ An ambiguous theme

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Tragicomedy

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TYPE OF 21ST CENTURY THEME: Search for identity (including LGBT topics)
→ Life’s meaning/meaninglessness
→ Redefining one’s identity

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identity

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TYPE OF 21ST CENTURY THEME: this includes postcolonial viewpoints

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History and memory

47
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TYPE OF 21ST CENTURY THEME: this includes war, terrorism, racism, religious conflicts

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Social Evils

48
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TYPE OF 21ST CENTURY THEME: natural and man-made

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catastrophe

49
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TYPE OF 21ST CENTURY THEME: these are advantages and disadvantages of technology

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Merits and/or perils of technology

50
Q

what is retelling from another angle/history

A

Fracturing

51
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what is the application of both manufacturing and consumption towards personal usage, or the practices, methods, aims, and distribution of products in a free market geared toward generating a profit

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Effects of commercialism

52
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what refers to a population that shares a common heritage who is scattered in different parts of the world

A

diaspora

53
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what refers to people moving to different areas in search of a settlement

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migration

54
Q

who wrote why lit?

A

Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa

55
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when and where was mario vargas llosa born

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March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru

56
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when was llosa given a nobel prize in lit

A

2010

57
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Literature according to ***, reading is seen as entertaining and to delight– Dulce (sweetness).

A

horace

58
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who wants to argue that that reading is not just an indispensable activity, that it is not just for past time

A

mario vargas llosa

59
Q

t or f

Literature has a big role in society’s freedom

A

true

60
Q

how did llosa start his essay?

A

talking about the stereotypical perspective when it comes to reading. That it is just an indispensable activity.

61
Q

T OR F

Llosa threatens that a society can lose its sanity or freedom if it does not read

A

true

62
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what can reading offer or improve according to llosa?

A

critical thinking skills

63
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does llosa discredit the contribution of science and technology or its advantages?

A

no

64
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* leads to a lack of social understanding, to the division of human beings into ghettos of technicians and specialists. The ** of knowledge requires specialized languages and increasingly arcane codes, as information becomes more and more specific and compartmentalized

A

specialization

65
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according to the essay, what pisses off llosa?

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when people ask the meaning of literature

66
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what does llosa compare people who dont read to?

A

aphasics

67
Q

what are people who do not express their thoughts and have the ability to read but do not read called?

A

aphasics

68
Q

llosa claimed that if u do not read your taste in ** & ** is low.

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love and pleasure

69
Q

what are the 6 types of literature: FSDMFP

A

FORMALISM
STRUCTURALISM
DECONSTRUCTION
MARXISM
FEMINISM
POST COLONIALISM

70
Q

this is the Study of language
and Science of language

A

LINGUISTIC

71
Q

FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

A

Father of linguistic

72
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what are different perspectives we consider when looking at a piece of literature, they seek to give us answers to these questions, in addition to aiding us in interpreting literature?

A

critical approaches

73
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it is sometimes called critical theory. it is body of ideas and methods used in the practical reading of literature

A

literary theory

74
Q

what are tools by which one attempts to understand literature

A

literary theory

75
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what is an informed, written analysis and evaluation of a work of literature

It is the method used to interpret any given work of literature.

A

literary criticism

76
Q

who said “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”

A

socrates

77
Q

An interpretative approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of the literary devices within the text

A

formalism

78
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  • equating the meaning of a poem with the author’s intentions.
A

Intentional Fallacy

79
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  • confusing the meaning of a text with how it makes the reader feel.
A

Affective Fallacy

80
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  • assuming that an interpretation of a literary work could consist of a detailed summary or paraphrase
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Heresy of Paraphrase

81
Q

a close and detailed analysis of the text itself to arrive at an interpretation without referring to historical, authorial, or cultural concerns

A

close reading

82
Q

Literary language, partly by calling attention to itself as language, estranged the reader from the familiar and made fresh the experience of daily life

A

Defamiliarization

83
Q

what is a science that seeks to understand how systems work.
it look for patterns that underlie human behavior, experience and creation, not just structures in a physical sense.

A

structuralism

84
Q

This approach employs more of a reading strategy rather than a philosophy.

A

deconstruction

85
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This relates literary texts to a larger structure, which may be genre, intertextual connections, narrative structure, or recurrent patterns (like how the structures of a text are resolved).

A

structuralism

86
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While structuralism is more focused on language, deconstruction is more focused on what?

A

meaning

87
Q

type of approach where texts are static and unchanging

A

STRUCTURALISM

88
Q

The texts are fluid, dynamic
entities that are given new life
with repeated reading through
interactions with other texts

A

deconstruction

89
Q

asshole who created deconstruction (THE BANE OF ME EXISTENCE)

A

Jacques Derrida

90
Q

the goal of this approach is to achieve a worldwide classless society by exposing the oppressive ideologies (belief systems) that keep the nations of this planet bound within socioeconomic systems

A

marxism

91
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what is the belief that our value as human beings is directly related to the class to which we belong: the higher our social class, the higher our natural, or inborn superiority?

A

classism

92
Q

what is a system in which everything, every object, every activity, every person can be defined in terms of its worth in money, it’s “going rate” on a specific market

A

Capitalism

93
Q

*** among individuals is the best way to promote a strong society because this ensures that the most capable, most intelligent people will rise to the top

A

competition

94
Q

it is relating things and people in terms of how much money it is worth and what social status it gives to the owner of that object

A

commodification

95
Q

what is an ideology in which an individual strikes out alone in pursuit of a goal not easily achieved, putting self interest above the needs of the community

A

Rugged Individualism

96
Q

this theory asks us to examine the ways in which our personal identity is formed by our culture’s definition of what it means to be a man and a woman

A

feminsim

97
Q

it is is any society in which men hold all or most of the power.

A

patriarchy

98
Q

what define men as naturally rational, strong, protective, and decisive. While women are defined as emotional (irrational for patriarchy), weak, nurturing, and submissive

A

Traditional Gender Roles

99
Q

it is when women are not viewed as independent human beings with their own goals, needs, and desires; they are valued only in terms of their usefulness to patriarchal men

A

The Objectification of Women

100
Q

what is the belief that women are innately, or by nature, inferior to men: less intelligent, less rational, less courageous, and so forth

A

Sexism

101
Q

what theory emerged in an attempt to understand people from different cultures in terms of an important experience they had in common: colonial domination by a superior European military force.

A

Postcolonialism

102
Q

what is the practice of judging those who are different as inferior, as somehow less human

A

othering

103
Q

this is when colonialist ideologies create social hierarchies and subalterns are those who occupy the bottom of the social ladder whether their inferior status is based on race, class, gender,religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or any other cultural factors

A

subaltern

104
Q

these are subalterns who internalize or “buy into ‘’ the colonialist belief that those different from a society’s dominant culture are inferior — they have a colonized consciousness

A

the colonial subjects

105
Q

what is imitation by a subaltern of the dress, speech, behavior, or lifestyle of members of the dominant culture

A

mimicry

106
Q

what is the feeling of having no stable cultural identity — no real home in any culture — that occurs to people who do not belong to the dominant culture and have rejected their own culture as inferior

A

Unhomeliness

107
Q

what is the effort to rid one’s land and/or one’s culture of colonial domination

A

Anticolanist Resistance

108
Q

it is when colonized peoples have been completely subjugated to a foreign power over the course of many generations and no longer have access to their own language or their own cultural past

A

Psychological resistance

109
Q

people who are powerful and have the control of production of the society

A

bourgeoise

110
Q

they are the working class

A

proletariat

111
Q

Proposed the idea of State Apparatus

A

altuser

112
Q

it is when the state uses it to control the working class

A

State Apparatus

113
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