FINAL ENGLISH EXAM

Question 1

Modernism

Answer 1

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a literary movement formed in contention to the traditional philosophy of producing art and literature (WESTERN PILLARS). Writers began to defy earlier cultural trends through poems and prose that portrayed characters in an unorthodox way and rejected conventional ways of narrating stories. Readers needed to take an active role of interpretation.

Question 2

Stream of Consciousness

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a narrative mode used by Modernist authors to describe the unbroken flow of perceptions, memories, thoughts, and feelings in the waking mind; used to violate traditional coherence of narrative language. Originally used by psychologist William James.

Question 3

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 3

a type of lyric poem that includes a single person, who is not the poet, utters a speech that is the whole poem. The person addresses and interacts with other people…and the speaker’s words give us clues. The poem’s point is to reveal the character, secrets, of the speaker.

Question 4

Simile

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comparison between two distinctly different things that is explicitly indicated by the word “like” / “as”.
Eliot uses this to describe the night as “a patient etherized on the table”

Question 5

Gothic

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a prototype of science fiction literature that originated in the 19th century. Writing with a gloomy setting: castles mysterious disappearance and ghosts, or secret passages; to evoke chilling terror by explicit mystery. Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven.”

Question 6

Play

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A literary form designed for performance in the theatre, in which actors take notes of characters, and perform the indicated actions and utter the written dialogue. type: Drama. The Tempest

Question 7

Eurocentrism

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conscious or unconscious assumption that European culture are the natural culture of the universe. European colonized the globe and establishes systems like schools to enforce that their values are superior to indigenous ones.

Question 8

Imaginary Indian

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The disparity between images in circulation n popular media about Indigenous people and the reality of Indigenous culture. (Curtis’s picture in the beginning of the 20th century vs. Thomas King’s reality).

Question 9

The Indigenous voice

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creation of expression of culture by Indigenous Peoples through any traditional/contemporary medium. Draws from Oral traditions, Traditional Storytelling and Characters that are from Indigenous history or contemporary perspectives.

Question 10

Indigenous Literature

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not a subgroup of Canadian literature. They are their own canon! They are an extension of Traditional Knowledge systems, Indigenous histories, histories of colonization, and contemporary realities.; framed for for Indigenous readers and provide non-Indigenous readers with context for these realities, connected to traditions that predates Canadian literature.

Question 11

Primtive

Answer 11

anthropological context to refer to people who belong to the early and ancient period

Question 12

Savage

Answer 12

living in a wild/uncivilized state

Question 13

Native

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possible confusion with its wider definition of a “local inhabitant or life form,” and does not show indigenous diversity

Question 14

Eskimo

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describe the Indigenous People who traditionally inhabit the Arctic regions.

Question 15

FMNI

Answer 15

First Nations, Metis and Inuit

Question 16

Realism/Victorian literature

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a literary movement that of the 19th century that presents an accurate imitation of life as it is: common social world middle class characters, and illustrates actual and ordinary experiences. Jane Eyre