Final Flashcards
(105 cards)
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romanticism
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refers to a moment in art literature and music during the 19th century
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5 I’s
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Imagination intuition idealism inspiration individuality
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Imagination
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emphasized over reason, felt science destroyed truth, backlash against age of reason
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intuition
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feelings and instincts over reason, emotions very important
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idealism
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the concept that we can make the world a better place
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inspiration
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inspired creator rather than technical master
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individuality
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during this time women’s rights were coming to the fore front
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romantic hero
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young, innocent, intuitive, close to nature, uneasy with women
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transcendentalists
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write about nature, believe god was in nature
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Gothic movement
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saw human nature as dark and pessimistic
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similarities between transcendentalists and Gothic movement
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valued intuition over reason, found facts were found beyond, looked for symbols in events, emphasized bizarre events and settings
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ethos
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appeals to ethnics
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logos
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appeals to logic
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pathos
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appeals to emotions
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modern era background
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wwi roaring 20's womens rights great migration pop culture great depression
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metaphysical poem
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uses far fetched or unusual similes or metaphors to connect with everyday concrete ideas
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syllogism
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logical argument (logos) ex: cease the day
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Example of an allusion in “to his coy mistress”
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The flood, Conversion of the Jews
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What is the tone of the speaker in to the virgins, to make much of time
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abrasive, arrogant, pushy,
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there are three mythological allusions in Miniver Chevey. What are they and why does robingson use them?
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Thebes, Camelot, Priam’s Neighbors
They are all tragedies so it points out just how much he wants to live in a different age
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what is an example of an oxymoron in TYger
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could frame thy fearful symmetry
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example of an allusion in Tyger
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on what wings dare he aspire? icarus
what the hand dare seize the fire? prometheus
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Green light in Gatsby
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american dream, gatsbys hope
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weather in gatsby
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its raining before gatsby and daisy meet and sunny once they see each other
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byronic hero
larger than life character, flawed and rebellious, hypersensitive loner, obsessively on a quest
common traits-exhibit excessive moodiness, operates largely within his own set of rules, troubled and mysterious past, exhibits self destructive traits and behaviors
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pink suit in gatsby
ironic because he's trying to blend in but hes wearing a bright suit
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time in gatsby
nicks birthday passes and ends a decade of happiness
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old money vs new money in gatsby
the wife invites gatsby to the party but husband does not, irish good bye, snoobish when not at parties
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20s influence in gatsby
how daisy cant do men things and tom restricts her, partying and alcohol bc of roaring 20s
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narative style of catcher
first person stream of conscientiousness
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bildungsroman
is a novel that traces the psychological and moral development and maturation of the main character or characters, coming of age story
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plot of bildungsroman
1. emotional loss of youth
2. youth leaves home a journey
3. encounters many conflicts
4. climax- youth learns and matures
5. young adult accepts and values of society, society accepts him
6. adult returns home with new knowledge
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poem from catcher
its about sex but holden thinks its about saving the children from falling off the cliff,
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why is catcher named after the poem
bc it shows holdens innocence, hes the catcher but can't be because who going to catch him
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baseball mitt in catcher
it symbolizes his love for allie/how much he holds on to him
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MacBeth background
blend of fact and fiction, lady macbeeth made up, scotland- setting; 11th century a tribute to king james, banquo-character in pay ancestor of king james, curse of macbeth
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paradox
a seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true
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what is ironic about duncan describing macbeths castle
he says its really nice but its the place of his death
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symbols in macbeth owls call
supposed to predict death
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symbols in macbeth bell man
bells were rang outside a prisoners cell that was about to die
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symbolism in macbeth dagger
sees it during his soliloquy and it is what he is going to kill duncan with
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symbolism in macbeth sleep
macbeth killed sleep, he murdered the king
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Hands in macbeth
they are covered in duncans blood, macbeths hands are stained with murder while lady macbeths are only stained with blood
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owls kills falcon, ponies eat each other
symbolizes disruption in the chain of being
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Theme of Macbeth
destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints
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tragic hero
a tragic flaw that causes the downfall of a hero.
excessive pride and disrespect for the natural order of things.
The reversal of fate that the hero experiences.
a moment in time when hero makes an important discovery in the story.
a punishment that the protagonist cannot avoid, usually occurring as a result of his hubris.
feelings of pity and fear felt by the audience, for the inevitable downfall of the protagonist.
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metafiction
fiction that deals with the writing of fiction or its conversions
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style of tttc
story telling, stream of conscientiousness
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how to tell a true war story
no point or a point 20 years later, it never seems to end, never moral, cannot be believed, never about war, does not uplift
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theme of DOAS
American dream, he believes whole heartily in the fact that a good professional well liked man with get the goal
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How does DOAS handle the american dream?
willy tries too hard and fails because he tried to do it the wrong way, and when they were close he cheated and failed biff, and gave up his job
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style of THe Road
he doesnt uses grammatical items
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carrying the fire in the road
keep hoping
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the coast in the road
its their goal, the end, as far as they can go
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monomyth
hero's journey
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steps of a monomyth
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1 ordinary world
2 the call to adventure
3 refusal of the call
4 meeting with the mentor
5 crossing the threshold
6 test, allies and enemies
7 approach of the inmost cave
8 the ordeal near death experience
9 the reward
10 the road back
11 resurrection
12 return with the elixir
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the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence
syntax
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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
hyperbole
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a love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of dawn, as dawn will separate the lovers
aubade
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in simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality
irony
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the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
consonance
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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression
denotation
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to use figuartive language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeas to our physical senses
imagery
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unit of measure that usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
foot
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a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party
apostrophe
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a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with the thing or concept
metonymy
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a short poem of song like quality
lyric poem
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the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
assonance
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poetic form names after the fourteenth century italian poet Petrarch featuring the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE
ITALIAN SONNET
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poetry that is irregular in rhythm nad in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect
doggerel
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the associated or suggested meaning of a word
connotation
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an expressing designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
allusion
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style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer
diction
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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
allegory
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a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of beats
meter
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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vise versa
synecdoche
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poetic form with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Shakespearean sonnet
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theme in gatsby living in the past
wishes he could go back to when he and daisy knew each other when they were young
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theme in gatsby american dream
gatsby getting the chance to be well off, rags to riches, lottery type story, dan could have introduced him to people
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great chain of being
god- angels- demons- stars- moons- kings- princes-
| nobles- men- wild animals- domestic animals- trees- other plants- precious stones- precious metals- other minerals
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stream of conscientiousness
first person, lack of conventional sentence structure or grammar, interior monologue
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anti-hero
conflict characters engulfed by indecision, lacks classic hero traits
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traits of a modern story
understatement, irony, stream of conscientiousness, anti-hero, everyday setting, themes of instability and loss, plots without clear climax or resolution
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soldier's home
lost generation-lack of purpose,
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why was the main character of soldiers home not at home?
bc he felt they felt they needed to provide him a home, also everyone knew his story and it gave him the creeps
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what metaphor is used to describe emily in the beginning?
she is a fallen monument
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what is the rose for emily
the room, bc its rose colored and special to her
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sorrowful woman
focuses on the woman with post pardum depression, the husband takes over the role of dad and mom for the child
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yellow wall paper
she lives in the attic, the wall paper is up there, the woman walks behind the wall paper she believes it is her, and at the end she escapes, the pattern is the husband holding her in and the lady is her
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feminist notes for short stories
wifehood and motherhood were women's most significant jobs, women have always been looked at as inferior to men, weaker less intellectual and evil temptations,
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why is it appropriate that the children discover The most handsome drowned man in the world
bc children are innocent and imaginative, they accept people
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how does esteban's presence change the relationships between men and women
women want to nerture him while the men want to sed him away
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in what ways does the community become estebans village
they build higher and larger door ways and buildings, they decorate the fronts of their houses
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when i heard the learn'd astronomer
| how does the speaker feel about science
he hates it bc he become tired and sick
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when i heard the learn'd astronomer
| was walt whitman a transcendentalist
yes, he just wanted to go outside and look at the starts and science behind
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how does 'the devil and tom walker' fit in romanticism
it has gothic under tones, the trees symbolize the dead and dying, tom follows his intuition instead of what his wife says, tom is a romantic hero bc he is uneasy with his wife,
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emerson self reliance
| how is trust a part of self reliance
we must trust in others that they wont mess up or plan
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emerson self reliance
| what does he want everyone to realize about themselves
they should be themself, if god had not done his work wed all be cowards
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Thoreau issues that led him into the woods
| who owned the woods
wanted to live deliberately and he felt rejected from society; emerson
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Bells diction what types of bells 1,2,3,4,
1-silver bells, twinkle, merriment, that so musically
2-wedding bells, mellow, golden bells, world of happiness, harmony, rapture, voluminous,
3-brazen bells, alarum bells, terror, out of tune, palpitating, turbulency
4-iron bells, melancholy, monotone, alone, ghouls
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o captain my captain
bells, celebrating, the captains dead, inspired by abe lincoln
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personal narrative
written in first person about something in the narrators life, limited to one event
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memoir
an account of a real persons life, reflects on life, how the individual remembers his life,
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personal essay
combine person narrative and memoir
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three f's of resume' writing
function, form, eFfectiveness
