Spring Semester Flashcards

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Correct or incorrect?

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I want to be shopping and eat lunch.

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Incorrect or correct?

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I want to shop and to eat lunch.

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Pronouns and their antecedent nouns must agree in number and person.

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Pronoun-antecedent agreement

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Incorrect or correct?

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When a person comes to class, he/she should be prepared.

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Words phrases and clauses within a sentence should follow the same grammatical form

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Parallel structure

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Pronouns should refer to a specific noun? Ex. I don’t think cbs anchors should show violence in their prime time show.

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True

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The verb must match the subject

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Subject/verb agreement.

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What kinds of irony is there?

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Verbal, dramatic, situational.

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What is talking to a dead person or inanimate object?

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Apostrophe

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Character that stands for an abstract (like love or beauty) idea

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Allegory

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Narrative story written in song like form

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Ballad

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Repetition on constant sounds

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Consonance.

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

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Implied meaning of a word

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Connotation

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Harsh sounding words ex. Reek

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Cacophony

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Beautiful sounding words

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Euphony

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No structure.

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Blank verse

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Seems to be untrue but it’s not.

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Paradox.

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noun

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Free verse

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Lang. That can be interpreted in different ways.

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Equivocation.

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Any 2 words that have 2 syllables & rhyme

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Feminine rhyme

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Any words that have 1 syllable & rhyme

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Masculine rhyme

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Something not in its correct historical time.

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Anachronism

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Evil twin

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Doppelgänger

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Slang
Colloquialism
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Inductive reasoning specific to general?
True
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General to specific
Deductive reasoning
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Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
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Polite way of saying something.
Euphemism
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Statement of truth?
Aphorism
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Several coordinating conjunctions in a sentence
Polysyndenton
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No coordinating conj. just commas in a sent.
Asyndenton
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We have ships and men and money and stores. He ran and jumped and laughed for joy.
Polysyndeton.
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He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac. - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Asyndeton
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British literary devices - Renaissance:
William Shakespeare, queen Elizabeth, king James 1
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What is a lambic pentameter?
5 feet of iambs ( I am a pirate with w wooden leg)
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focuses on how plot/structure, character, setting, and many other techniques are used by the author to create meaning.
Literary analysis
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"The key to success in Critical You have to be able to let your mind wander far enough to come up with new and interesting ideas, while at the same time having the discipline to organize those ideas into a structured format.
Critical perspectives
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Romantic period.
Nature, supernatural, revolutionary sympathies, self, archaic language.
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Who wrote the time of the ancient mariner?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A story within a story
Frame narrative
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Four line stanza?
Ballad
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Who wrote about nature and was a friend of Coleridge
William Wordsworth
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Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
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What is modern?
Years between ww1 & ww2 | It was experimental & non traditional
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When was post modern & contemporary?
After ww2 & it was a reaction to 20th century. Anti conventional.
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Who wrote shooting an elephant?
George Orwell
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Conquering nations
Imperialism
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Three parts to a reflective essay?
Event (what happened)? Response, reflection( what he thought about imperialism)
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A thesis statement should...
Prove something. Argument Effective introductions
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Paragraph development
Statement, ex, explanation, ammentary, transition
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What is tangible?
Symbols and motifs
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What is intangible?
Themes
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What is reoccurring
Motifs
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Overall message
Theme
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Tone is an?
Adjective
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Tone vs mood
Tone - writers attitude
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Mood
Readers attitude
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Tone
Writers attitude
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Tp-castt
``` T- title p-paraphrase C- connotation A- attitude S- shifts T-title T- theme ```
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Sound devices are what?
Alliteration, uphheny, cocopheny
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What is rogerian?
Radial issues- persuade
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Rogerian is an...
Argument
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What else is an argument
Classical, Aristotelian, you lemon
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Classical is what
Thesis in intro, details, data
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Bias?
Leaning towards one side
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Rhetorical slant
Words like good, tasty, and vibrant are positive slanters while words such as bad, sour, and dull are negative slanters. Using slanters can inspire emotional responses and perk up the ears of the people who are listening. Consider: “Fresh fruit is a savior to the overweight.” Here the slanter “savior” brings a bit of emotive force to the topic at hand.
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Innuendo
Remark or hint
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What can be bias by?
Selection, omission (something left out), headline, photos, loaded Lang.
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Commercial script writing is...
Clear,concise, has one call to action, hook
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Mla style
In text citations ( author name & page number),
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Plagiarism
Cite all ideas that are not your own.