Final Exam 2 Flashcards
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Sir ector
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Foster father of Arthur
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King Arthur unit
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Sir Kay
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A knight whose gruff manners present a special challenge to young Arthur whom he calls Wart. A foster brother
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Lady of the lake
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A fairy who gives Arthur the magic sword Excalibur
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Morgan le Fay
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Arthur’s half sister who constantly uses we magic to challenge him. She gives Lancelot the ultimatum to choose one of the four queens as his lover or die
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Guinevere
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Wife of Arthur whose love for Lancelot eventually leads to the kingdoms doom
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Tarquine
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This knight is challenged by striking a cauldron outside his castle. He hangs the shields of his defeated opponents I a nearby tree
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Lancelot
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The knight who slays Tarquine, best friends with Arthur, Guinevere’s lover
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Gawain
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Challenged by the green knight at the Christmas feast, this knight must return a year later to receive a blow from the green knights axe
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Galahad
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Son of sir Lancelot whose purity finally allows him to succeed in quest for the holy grail
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Sir bedivere
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The one who returns the Excalibur sword back to lake when Arthur dies
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Merlyn
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The magician
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Green knight
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=the old year, come full circle, why seasons change allegory, the test of initiation
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Illuminations
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Illustration in medieval manuscript, not meant to be realistic, colorful depictions
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Chivalry
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Honor code of the knights: defend the defenseless
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Medieval romance
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Genre of tragedy and comedy together, has hero superior to nature and people, hero has magic powers not subject to nature
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Pre-Raphaelites painters
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Victorian England in late 19 the century
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The lady of shalott
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Identity in isolation: writes name on boat, many paintings of her
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John William Waterhouse
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Influenced by pre-Raphaelites, this artist painted two famous depictions of lady of shalott- realistic style with symbolism/half sick of shadows
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Isolde of the White Hands
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She tells Tristan that an approaching ship has a black sail when it really has a white one
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Princess Isolde or Isolde the fair
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Daughter of the king and queen of Ireland. Through a love potion she falls madly in love with Tristan
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Author of don Quixote
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Early 7th century monk, names Arthur the hero at badon hills
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Nennius
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Made Arthur a descendant of Aeneas, first shaper of Arthur legend, first to mention Merlin the magician
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Introduced the Round Table
Wace
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High Middle Ages, features love triangle, single hero adventure story, dies before answering holy grail
Chretien de Troyes
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Le morte d'arthur, wrote while in prison, William Caxton published off gutenburgs printing press, wrote during end of Middle Ages and knighthood
Sir Thomas Malory
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Idylls of the king, made Arthur a moral leader
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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20th century, the once and future king, humorous and modern
T. H. White
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a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
| "the book is a perfect archetype of the genre"
Archetype
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Fallacies
False or illogical reasoning
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Fallacy of composition
Applying an attribute of the parts to the whole
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Fallacy of division
Applying an attribute of the whole to one of its parts
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Fallacy of accident
Applying a general rule to every case-Marcia at shg and service
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Post hoc fallacy
Because 2 events follow each other in time, one concludes that the first event caused the second
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Begging the question
An argument in which the conclusion is used as one of the premises
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False analogy
Because 2 things are alike in some respect, they aren't necessarily alike in all respects
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Ad Hominem
Attacking the person rather than the issue
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Non sequitur
Argument with a missing claim, or untrue premise
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Appeal to force
Ad baculum-
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Appeal to pity
As misericordian
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Argument from ignorance
One can't argue something true simply because it hasn't been proven false
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Complex question
A question that assumes a prior question has already been asked and answered
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Bandwagon appeal
Reasoning that something is true because everyone accepts it as true- ad populum
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Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.
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English sonnet
A lyric poem arranged as three quatrains and a couplet
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Go over poetry notecards
In a different deck
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"A marriage Proposal"
Anton Chekhov- farce and realism
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"The Bet"
Anton Chekhov- short story, realism
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"Two Friends"
Guy de Maupassant - short story, realism
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"How Much Land Does A Man Need"
Leo Tolstoy- didactic lit/allegory
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"An Honest Thief"
Fyodor Dostoevsky - supplemental book
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"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- short story and magical realism
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Describe characteristics of works made during these times
Classicism, Romanticism (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Realism, Magical Realism
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This period wanted to use the scientists objectivity to describe the world.
Realism
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Rousseau's insistence that he is a unique individual unlike any other is representative of what period?
Romanticism
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The bizarre and fantastic are treated as if they are ordinary and common
Magical Realism
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The customs and laws of society are good for the individual
Classicism
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Defined by balance, order, and symmetry.
Classicism
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The state of nature makes the individual better, society destroys the individual.
Romanticism
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Maupassant, Chekhov, and Tolstoy
Realism
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This period judges the art of antiquity to be the foundation of creative activity, the rules of the past should continue to guide the artist
Classicism
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Uses emotional, flowery language that describes a subjective experience.
Romanticism
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Describes the world as it is rather than as we would like it to be
Realism
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Classicism
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Revival of Greek and roman forms
Reason
Balance, form, order
Convention (rules for society, art)
Society
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Romanticism
New forms
Nature over convention
Individual over society
Imagination and subjectivity
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Realism
Objective presentation of life as it is, not as we would like it to be
A slice of life
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Chekhov is a
Realist
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Literary timeline
Timeline
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Golden age of Greece
5th century bc. 500-400
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Fall of Roman Empire
476 ad
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Middle Ages
Between 476 ad to 1500
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Renaissance
1500-1600
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Entering modern era
1600s
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Classicism
Age of Enlightenment (18th cent)
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Romanticism
18th/19th century- 1800
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Realism
1900- 19th century
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Author boigraphies
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Chekhov
Taganrog, Russia
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Maupassant
Normandie, France
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Tolstoy
Yasnaya Pollyanna, Russia
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Dostoevsky
Moscow, Russia
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Marquez
Aractaca, Columbia
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He was a medical doctor who treated patients throughout his literary career
Anton Chekhov
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He fought in the Crimean war
Leo Tolstoy
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He fought in the Franco Prussian war
Guy de Maupassant
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Though he was never in the army himself, his grandfather had served as a colonel in the was of a 1000 days
Marquez
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A recipient of the Nobel peace prize in literature
Marquez
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The author of War and Peace later repudiated it.
Tolstoy
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He had been born into a life of privilege at his family's estate. Yasnaya polyana. He would be buried there later after attempting to give away all his possessions
Tolstoy
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Undertaking a journey across Siberia, he visited the penal colony at Sakhalin in order to interview all of its inmates
Chekhov
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His "boule de suif" demonstrated that individuals are trapped by society
Maupassant
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His short stories from the 1840s are centered in the city of st Petersburg
Dostoevsky
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He finished One Hundred Years of Solitude after 18 months of intensive work.
Marquez
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Franz Kafka
The metamorphosis
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Born July 3, 1883 in Prague
Died June 3, 1924 in Vienna of tuberculosis
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Born into a...
Middle class, German speaking, Jewish family
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Educatin
Elite German high school
Law degree in 1906 from university of Prague
Worked for workers accident insurance agency
Wrote on side
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Health
Chronic illness- migraines, insomnia, boils
| Tuberculosis- spent a lot of time in sanatorium for treatment, retired in 1922
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Literary works
Instructed by max brod to destroy all writings
| Published a few short stories
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Surrealism
A literary artistic movement that originated in the 1920s. Reveal unconscious mind.
Works according to nonlogical model
Expression of thought exercised in absence of control of reason
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Characteristics of surrealism
Juxtaposition
Irrational
Dreams
Unconscious- free association
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Psychoanalytic theory
Repression and the unconscious
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"Before the Law"
And surrealism connections essay
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Night
Elie Wiesel
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Moishe the Beadle
Jewish mystic and master of the Kabbalah. His warnings to the people of Sighet go unheeded.
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Idea, the Kapo
The Kapo of Elie's work block at Buna who forces 100 men to work on Sunday so he can meet with a polish girl
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Auschwitz
Concentration camp where Elie arrives after leaving Sighet
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Buchenwald
Place at which Elie's father dies.
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Sighet
Where Elie lives, in the Jewish ghetto
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Franek
Work foreman who forces Elie to surrender his gold crown
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Juliek
A violinist who plays the most beautiful music Elie has ever heard.
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Buna
Concentration camp at which Elie has his foot surgery
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The Dutch oberkapos pipel
The young boy who was hung for following orders- was innocent. A death parallel to Jesus's. Compare this hanging to old man hanging and religion
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Development of the Modern Novel
Notes
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What is a novel?
extended piece of prose fiction about characters and their actions in everyday life
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Traditional elements of a novel include:
many characters, strong plot, and unity of theme
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The Thousand and One Nights
aka Arabian Nights, a collection of stories of unknown origin which recount the tales of Scheherazade to her husband, king Shahryar.
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TTAON dates to
1000 BC; collected by an Egyptian story teller between 14-16th centuries. known in Europe in 18th century. "Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor"
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
emergence of English novel 1605,1615
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Pamela by Samuel Richardson
1740- first novels, Virtue Rewarded
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Robinson Cruesoe by Daniel Defoe
one of the first novels 1719
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Things Fall Apart
Notes
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Chinua Achebe
the author
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Life of Achebe
1930-2013; Born of Ibo and Christian parents
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Father was teacher at Christian missionary school
His Education-Govt college in Umuchia, university college, Nigerian Broadcasting Corp (1954-1966), Biafran ministry of Info, Professor at Univ. of Nigeria, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
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Major Characters in
TFA
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Okonkwo
main character, huge, big, severe, fear of failure and weakness
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Ikmefuna
the sacrificed virgin son of another village, Okonkwo's "adopted son" that he kills in fear of being seen as weak
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Ani
the earth goddess, source of all fertility, ultimate judge of morality
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Ezinma
Only child of O's second wife, Ekwefi bc she survived infancy. Beautiful and O wishes she were a boy
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Uchendu
Okonkwo's wise old uncle in Mbanta
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Rev. James Smith
Missionary who is unconcerned about the number of converts achieved; he is more concerned about their strict understanding of doctrine
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Enoch
Christian convert who was believed to have killed the sacred python, and he wants a holy war against the tribe
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Akunna
He debates religion with Mr. Brown without converting to Christianity, yet he still sends his son to the missionary school
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Unoka
Okonkwo's father, a drunken debtor, weak and left with nothing
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Nwoye
Isaac is his Christian name, O's oldest son who is seen as weak just like Unoka
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Ekwefi
O's second wife, Ezinma's mom, good friends with Chielo, suffered ogbange
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Obierika
O's friend who questions tradition, does not believe they can fight in war, has daughters wedding
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Mr. Brown
Missionary whose policies are marked by compromise and accommodation with the people of Umuofia
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District Commissioner
"One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words." In this quote the narrator is assuming the perspective of whom?
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Ajofia
Leader of the egwugwu who bears no ill will against Rev. Smith but leads the other egwugwu in burning down the church
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people of Abame
the clan is no more due to the "white man"
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egwugwu
spirits of the ancestors of Nigerian clans
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osu
Outcasts who are forever taboo, they may never use a razor or cut their long hair
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ogbange
a changeling, child spirit born, dies young, and is reborn again, must find iwiyuwa or the stone that connects the ogbange to the spirit world to end it
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Vocab
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The Holocaust is an ATROCITY like no other. The sheer brutality like no other.
A cruel act or brutal act
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You might call Sarah's neighbor truly ECCENTRIC. He has a fully automated bowling alley.
strange, peculiar
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Professors often live in an ivory tower, their ETHEREAL ideas seem remote and abstract to most.
heavenly, spiritual, extremely delicate- light or stars
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Overwhelmed by the news that his bff is moving, Robert's PENSIVE mood continued all day.
thoughtful in a sad, wistful way
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A king who has taken control of another kingdom by force might be called an USURPER
one who takes something illegally
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We lost the game, there was nothing to do but walk DEJECTEDLY off the court and into the locker room.
in a dishearted, depressed way
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Not having any food for 3 years, the prisoner of war was utterly EMACIATED.
abnormally thin or weak
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Chris is a big fan of Harry Potter. To his friends he seemed like a FANATIC.
extremely enthusiastic
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Despite the impatient, long line of people, the cashier remained UNPERTURBED and waited efficiently on each person asap.
calm and serene, untroubled
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The student METICULOUSLY went over every detail of his paper.
showing great attention to detail, very careful and precise
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principal
an original sum invested or lent
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The first __ of logic is that a thing cannot be...
Principle
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The ___ reason I have gathered you here is to explain our new insurance coverage.
Principal
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The ___ of the loan was $5,000.
Principal
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a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something
Blandishments
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A rapid movement in a circle or spiral
gyration
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annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
obtuseness
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requiring considerable time and effort
laboriously
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sealed air tight
hermetically
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a forgetting or having forgotten
oblivion
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dried up or shriveled
wizened
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the belief that God can best be known through direct personal experience
mysticism
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a person moving in a mechanical manner
automaton
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the quality of being clear and readily understood
lucidity
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to address with angry speech or tirade
harangued
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expressing sorrow, mournful
plaintive
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like ashes, pale or pallid in color
ashen
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extreme poverty like Moishe
penury
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often fluctuating pain in the abdomen
colic
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The growing violence between the 2 ethnic groups was a sign of INCIPIENT racial tension.
in an initial stage, beginning to happen, appear or develop
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She set for herself an ARDUOUS goal of becoming the President of the USA.
involving strenuous, difficult effort
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During interrogation, the suspect refused acknowledgement of the crime and FEIGNED ignorance.
to give a false appearance, to pretend
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No one except the Cardinals knows the exact procedures of electing a pope, making the whole event rather ESOTERIC.
intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
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Chicago is well known for talkative politicians. I just met a VOLUBLE politician on my last visit there.
talkative, rotating, turning
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a person who behaves badly or breaks the law
miscreant
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unneccessary
superfluous
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THe gods of ancient myth seem to be CAPRICIOUS.
given to sudden and accountable changes of mood or behavior on a whim. not good for leaders
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Lincoln's farewell address at the train station was a VALEDICTION given without any preparation.
action of saying farewell. goodbye speech
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The separated twins were POIGNANTLY reunited at an unexpected time, leaving them in tears.
deeply effective, keen sense, brings tears to eyes
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Despite best efforts, the class could not convince the sub that they dont have homework. She did not believe their SPECIOUS convincing.
having a false look of truth, deceptive attraction
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The President had no intention of granting his APPROBATION to renegotiate a plan approved by both sides.
approval or praise
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not showing due respect for another person, impertinent
impudent
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quality of sound, rich, deep voice
sonorous
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showing willingness, boldness
audacious
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Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
odious
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Remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation):
redress
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Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy:
cumbrous
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Public shame or disgrace:
ignominy
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deeply rooted hatred
enmity
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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language:
invective
