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What is CAESURA?

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A pause in mid-verse

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What is Hegel’s theory of tragedy?

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Tragedy as a dynamic conflict of opposite forces or rights.

Ex. That fighting in wars is morally wrong

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What is first person ?

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Let’s narrators express inner feelings and thoughts.

Ex. I/we

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What is second person?

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a set of words or forms (such as pronouns or verb forms) that refer to the person that the speaker or writer is addressing.

It is least used form of narrative voice in literary.

Ex. You

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What is third person?

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a set of words or forms (such as pronouns or verb forms) that refer to people or things that the speaker or writer is not addressing directly

Ex. He/she/it/ they

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How many types of irony are there?

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  1. Verbal Irony
  2. Situational irony
  3. Dramatic irony
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What is verbal irony?

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Uses words opposite to the meaning.

ex. Sarcasm

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What is situational irony?

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What happens contrast with what was expected

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What is dramatic irony?

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Narrative informs audience of more than its characters know.

Ex. The audience is made aware that Juliet is only asleep, while Romeo believes her to be dead, which then leads to Romeo’s death

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What is a villanelle?

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A 19 line poem composed of five tercets and one quatrain. 2 repeating lines throughout.

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What are Aristotles criteria for tragedy?

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  1. Anagnorisis
  2. Hamartia
  3. Hubris
  4. Nemesis
  5. Peripateia
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What is anagnorisis?

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Meaning tragic insight or recognition, this is a momement of realization by a tragic hero

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What is hamartia?

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Described as a tragic error. Often used as a metaphor for a mistake. Often a single one which results in catastrophe.

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What is hubris?

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Signifies an arrogant overstepping of moral or cultural bounds.

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What is nemesis?

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Represents the cosmic punishment or payback that the tragic hero ultimately receives for committing hunristic acts

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What is peripatiea?

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Is a plot reversal consisting of a tragic hero’s pivotal actions which changes his or her status from safe to endangered.

17
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What are interfixes?

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Create compound words via central affixes: speed and meter become speedometer via the interfix -O-

18
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What is UNESCO?

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

19
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What is modernism ?

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Characterized by an attempt to turn away from the norms and traditions of literature and use new techniques and methods.

20
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What is postmodernism?

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Asserts that since each person creates their own version of reality, fully and accurately defining reality is futile and impossible.

21
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Science process skills

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  1. Observations
  2. Classification
  3. Measurements
  4. Communication
  5. Inference
  6. Predictions
22
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What are liquids?

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Liquids have properties that fall somewhere in between those of solids and gases.

23
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What are solids?

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Maintain their shapes when they are not inside of containers.

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What are gases?

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Does not maintain a defined shape.

25
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Types of rock

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  1. Sedimentary rock
  2. Metamorphic rocks
  3. Igneous rocks.
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What are sedimentary rocks?

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Formed on earths surface and characteristically accumulate in layers.

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What are metamorphic rocks?

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Formed on earths surface by layers of eroded material from mountains that were deposited by water, minerals, and organic materials.

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What are igneous rocks?

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Formed from the magma emitted when a volcano erupts.

29
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What is second-language acquisition?

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learning a second language after a first language is already established.

30
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What is phonological awareness?

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ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words.

Ex. Identifying words that rhyme.

31
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What is alphabetic principle?

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The understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.