SEM. 2 EXAM SG Flashcards
(127 cards)
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Frantic; agitated
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Frenetic
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To throw into disorder
A state of disorder
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Disarray
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The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; progressive decline
To waste away
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Atrophy
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To gather bit by bit
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Glean
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Complete or perfect
To bring to a state of perfection
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Consummate
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A type of game bird
A complaint; to grumble or complain
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Grouse
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A fort or stronghold
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Bastion
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Urgency; an emergency or pressing need
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Exigency
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Floating debris
Homeless people
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Flotsam
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Harmony
A state of agreement or treaty
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Concord
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In a reclining position
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Recumbent
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To imprison
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Incarcerate
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Ridiculous, absurd
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Ludicrous
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Sharply or bitterly harsh
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Mordant
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Cowardly; mean-spirited
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Pusillanimous
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A prickly plant
To irritate severely
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Nettle
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A scheme to outwit an opponent
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Strategem
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One who holds a specific office currently
Obligatory, required
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Incumbent
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Of or related to money
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Pecuniary
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Humorous, joking, jolly
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Jocular
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To portray or sketch; to describe in detail
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Delineate
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To set apart as holy; to honor
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Hallow
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Fabrication of the mind
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Figment
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A command or mandate
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Fiat
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Private, secret
Esoteric
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Sharpness
Acuity
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To gather and store away
Garner
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Fruitful; intellectually productive
Fecund
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To weaken
Enervate
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Devoid of moral principles
Depraved
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Earthly; ordinary
Mundane
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Strong attraction or inclination
Penchant
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Existing everywhere
Ubiquitous
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Having wide-spread acceptance
Reputed
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Conceited, immoderate, excessive
Overweening
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Reasoning that seems plausible but is unsound
Sophistry
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Subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality)
Nuance
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Costly, magnificent
Sumptuous
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Shame and disgrace
Ignominy
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A peculiarity
Idiosyncrasy
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Involvement in wrongdoing
| The state of being an accomplice
Complicity
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Silly, empty of meaning
Inane
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One who doubts the existence of God
| Skeptical
Agnostic
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A formal accusation
Indictment
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The quality of being just; fair or equal treatment
| The money value of property above its mortgage
Equity
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Degraded, wretched
Abject
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Bitter and prolonged verbal attack; a rant
Diatribe
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Stopping and beginning again, sporadic
Intermittent
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Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected, neglectful of duty
Derelict
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A crude image of a despised person
Effigy
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Certain; without doubt
Indubitable
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Grotesque imitation to ridicule by imitating in a rude fashion
Travesty
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A watch kept over a person, place, or thing
Surveillance
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New convert; a beginner
Neophyte
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Filled with trees
Sylvan
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Open to discussion; unresolved, to bring up for discussion
Moot
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Keenness in understanding
Perspicacity
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Irritable
Testy
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Complete; absolute
Plenary
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A principal idea; a repeated image
Motif
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What was the transcendentalist movement about?
People challenged society and they didn't conform to the social norms
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Who were 3 people from the transcendentalist movement?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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Means "knowledge, understanding", it is a philosophy which questions what knowledge is and how it can be acquired and the extent to which knowledge pertinent to any given subject or entity can be acquired
Epistemology
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What years did the transcendentalist movement take place
1840-1855
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What does transcend mean
To go beyond
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What does transcendentalism call us to
Spiritual greatness
| Search for truth which comes from individual intuition and faith rather than reason alone
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What are the ideas of transcendentalism
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Self reliance
Individualism
Self-knowledge as the purpose of life
Importance of living in the present
Subjectivity of good and evil
Recognition of the relationship between man and nature
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Who is the father of american transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Where did Ralph Waldo Emerson settle
Concord, Massachusetts
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What was Ralph Waldo Emersons first book called and when was it published
NATURE in 1836
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What did Ralph waldo emerson do with his life
Lectured
| Wrote about social causes and reform, such as abolitionism
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What important work did Henry David Thoreau write?
Civil disobedience
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What important work did Sarah Margaret Fuller write and what did it say
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Intuition is important as a way to know something
Everyone has male and females characteristics
We shouldnt be limited to our own gender
Self-reliance
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When did the Anti-transcendentalism movement happen
1840-1855
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What did anti transcendentalism do
Criticized the positive and optimistic philosophy of the transcendentalists
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What did anti transcendentalists believe
The universe is confusing and difficult
Nature is dark and hard to harmonize with
Evil and suffering cannot be negated by the power of positive thinking
Human nature is stubborn and slow to change
Life is a matter of compromises and disappointments
There is a gap between human desires and human possibilities
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Who wrote The Minister's Black Veil
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What time period was the Civil War Era
1850-1880
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What were big ideas of the civil war era
Resistance to slavery
A nation divided
A poetic revolution
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What are spirituals
Sorrow songs created by African Americans enslaved in the South before the outbreak of the civil war
Combined Christian hymns and african music
Sung in both worship and while laboring in the field
Some served as encoded messages of hope for escape
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Who is America's national poet
Walt Whitman
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What work is Walt Whitman best known for
Leaves of Grass
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What is another name for Walt Whitman
The "good gray poet"
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What kind of writing style did walt whitman introduce to poetry
Free verse
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What did walt whitman want to do in his poetry
He wanted to project himself into the identities of Americans from ordinary walks of life and to incorporate their lives into his own
Celebrated the potential of the human spirit
Embraced every aspect of life
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What were features of whitman's poems
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Catalogs
Parallelism
Free verse
Emphasis on the physical body and all of the senses
Repetition
Individuality
Long lines
Strong diction
Sensuality/sexuality
Equality of all humans and the processes of nature
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What were some of walt whitmans famous works
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Song of myself
I hear America Singing
Beat Beat Drums
I heard the learned astronomer
give me the splendid silent sun
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What were some of emily dickinsons famous works
Hope is the thing with feathers
Because i could not stop for death
Some keep the sabbath going to church
I felt a funeral in my brain
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Where was emily Dickinson born
Amherst, Massachusetts
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What do emily dickinsons poems do
Talk abstractions and generalizations and turn them into specific, concrete images
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What are some features of her poetry
Brevity of most of her lines and stanzas
Use of the quatrain (four line stanza)
Unconventional use of punctuation and capitalization
Slant rhyme
Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification)
Synesthesia
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Expressing one sense in terms of another
Synesthesia
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What is the time period of regionalism and realism
1880-1910
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What did realism entail
Writing about the environment one knew
Included details of speech, dress, and behavior
Seeks to portray ordinary life as real people live it
Attempts to show characters and events in a factual way
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What is the job of the realistic writer
To observe, record, and analyze
Be more objective than subjective
Be more descriptive than symbolic
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What did regionalism entail
Aimed to capture the local color of the area and people it portrayed
Deals with lives of ordinary people
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What is regionalism a blend of at some times
Romanticism and realism
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What does good regionalist writing include
Used all elements of the local scene such as accurate descriptions of characters' activities, dialect and accurate descriptions of nature and physical appearance of the environment being portrayed to extend insights to the universal
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What is naturalism an outgrowth of
Realism
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What did naturalism do
Responded to theories in science, psychology, and human behavior
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During what years did naturalism take place
Late 1800s
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What happens in naturalist fiction
People are often caught within forces. Of nature or society that are beyond their understanding or control
Uses a facts-only approach
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What is Kate Chopin's writing noted for
Its louisiana local color
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What does kate chopin's writing explore
It explores the roles of women in society, particularly as wives and mothers
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What do people often identify Kate Chopin as
Master of irony
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What are the three types of irony
Verbal, situational, and dramatic
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What is verbal irony
Saying one thing and meaning another
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What is situational irony
The outcome of a situation or action is quite different from what one expects
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What is dramatic irony
The reader is aware of something that the character(s) is not aware of
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What is Kate Chopin's popular work
The story of an hour
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Who wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
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Who wrote the Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
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What was the time period of modernism
1910-1930
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What are names associated with the modernism era
The Jazz Age
The Age of the Lost Generation
The Roaring Twenties
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What specifically happened during the modernism period
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Rebellion against social patterns
Reaction against war
Recovery from world war
Awakening for African Americans
Women's rights
Consumerism
Disillusionment
A sense of alienation
Drive for success
Importance of youth and unrequited love
Identify conflicts
Search. For happiness
Redefining of the american dream
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What were the three important literary movements of modernist literature
1. Stream of consciousness writing
2. Imagism
3. Harlem Renaissance
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During what years did the Harlem Renaissance happen
1920-1935
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What happened during the harlem renaissance
A group of talented African American writers produced a prolific body of literature in poetry, fiction, drama, and essay
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WHo was W.E.B. DuBois and what did he do
One of the founders of the NAACP
| Introduced the notion of "twoness" - a divided awareness of one's identity as an american and a negro
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What was promoted during the Harlem Renaissance
The idea that blacks could not achieve social equality by emulating white deals; equality could be achieved only by teaching black racial pride with an emphasis on an african cultural heritage
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What were objectives of harlem renaissance writers
Define and renew black heritage
Protest oppression of blacks
Make other americans aware of black life
Prove that black writers could produce literature equal in quality to that of white writers
To capture the general sentiments of the American blacks of the time
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What are examples of subjective pronouns
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I
He
She
They
We
You
Who
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When do you use a subjective pronoun
When it is the subject of a sentence or clause
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What are examples of objective pronouns
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Me
Her
Him
Them
Us
Whom
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What are examples of linking verbs
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Is
Are
Was
Where
Has
Will
Shall
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When are subjective pronouns used
When they follow linking verbs
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When are objective pronouns used
When they follow a verb or preposition
