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Engaging Lit Final Exam Flashcards

1
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reading with an assumption of being edified and enlightened

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Expect the best

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2
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Reading with an awareness of the threefold task that a literary author performs for us

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Read on a continuum

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Reading as a Christian with an awareness of how the work responds to Christian assertions

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Be aware

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4
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Reading to weigh the truth claims of the literature that is being read

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Evaluate

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5
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Freytag’s Pyramid is a diagram that helps us in the analysis of poetry

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False

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6
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Jacob borrows the term “temporal bandwidth” from what novel ?

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Gravity’s Rainbow

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Jacob states that there is a close relationship between the current situational model of existence and …

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Anxiety/Depression

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Jacob argues that one of the best actions to take when faced with the feeling of being at a “frenetic standstill” is to…

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Break bread with the dead

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Jacobs argues that we should always read old books as a way to escape technology and social media

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False

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9
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Alan Jacobs argues that reading decreases a person’s “temporal bandwidth”

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True

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10
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Active reading involves [[1]] with the text, that is, critically [[2]] with the [[3]].

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1: dialoguing
2: engaging
3: material

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11
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Passive reading is reading for fun and [[1]]. It has [[2]] but isn’t rigorous enough for doing [[3]] assessment.

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1: relaxation
2: merit
3: critical

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12
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Anton Chekov stated, “You are right in demanding that an [[1]] should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: [[2]] a problem and [[3]] a problem correctly. It is only the second that is [[4]] for an artist.”

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1: artist
2: stating
3: solving
4: obligatory

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13
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As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for “a sequence of events” in a story/

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Plot

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As one of the basic elements of fiction, what do we call the “time frame and physical location” of a story?

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Setting

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15
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The most important character in a story is called the __________

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Protagonist

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As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for the narrator’s perspective on the story’s action?

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Point of view

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17
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As one of the basic elements of fiction, what is the term for a dominant idea that runs the entire length of the story?

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Theme

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18
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As it concerns the use of symbols in literature, the term of the literal, definitional meaning of a word is…

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Denotation

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19
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Literature is a form of creative writing that tells a compelling story about what?

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Themes

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20
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All the best literature ever written is put into a list called what?

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The Literary Canon

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21
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Which of the following is the correct plot sequence for the Comic-U?

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Prosperity, obstacles, tragic threat, happiness

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22
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According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” ___ of the Bible consists of narrative.

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43%

23
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According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” ___ of the Bible consists of poetry.

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33%

24
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According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” ___ of the Bible consists of prose discourse.

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24%

25
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According to the video “Literary Styles of the Bible,” you don’t need to be concerned about the different literary styles that are present in the Bible.

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False

26
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Prose discourse in the Bible forces you to think logically and consistently but it does not necessarily expect you to do anything about it.

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False

27
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What are the three types of narratives mentioned in “Literary Styles in the Bible”?

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History, Parable, Biography

28
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“What is the Bible?”, technically, the Bible is…

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A small library of books that all emerged out of the history of the people of ancient Israel

29
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What is the Bible?, The Hebrew scriptures are referred to as…

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TaNaK

30
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According to the lecture slides, the Gothic Mode represents fiction that was first popularized in which eighteenth-century country?

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England

31
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Gothic stories include what three elements?

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Medieval setting, macabre subject matter, the supernatural

32
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What are the two principal aims of Gothic stories?

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Evoke terror, examine what lies beneath the orderly mind

33
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In fiction, Bildungsroman refers to what kind of story?

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Coming-of-age

34
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A Bildungsroman story deals with a character’s [[1]] years or [[2]] education

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1: formative
2: spiritual

35
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Select three features of a Bildungsroman story.

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Goal is maturity, self-discovery, grand struggle

36
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A Kunstlerroman story is the story of [[1]] development wherein the [[2]] moves from [[3]] to [[4]].

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1: artistic
2: protagonist
3: juvenilia
4: maturation

37
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In a Kunstlerroman story, the protagonist must overcome obstacles, deal with rites of passage, and eventually arrive at a ________

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Artistic identity

38
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According to the lecture slides, narrative nonfiction tells a real-life about real people and ______ .

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Events

39
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According to Abrams, the novel is the extended prose narrative that “permits a greater variety of [[1]], greater complication of [[2]], ampler development of [[3]], and more sustained and subtle [[4]] of character.

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1: characters
2: plot
3: milieu
4: exploration

40
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As a mode, Magic Realism gives us a language for talking about ________________ occurrences

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Natural/supernatural

41
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Select three elements that are a part of the “magic” portion of Magic Realism.

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Myth, fairytale, dream

42
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Select three elements that are a part of the “realism” portion of Magic Realism.

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Measurable, quantifiable, replicatable

43
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In Magic Realism, “magic” is concerned with veritas, which means _________.

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Truth

44
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In Magic Realism, “realism” is concerned with scientia, which means ___________ .

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Knowledge

45
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As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot [[1]] between [[2]] and [[3]], so long, that is, as the only possible [[4]] we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don’t like.

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1: distinguish
2: taste
3: judgement
4: verdicts

46
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As it concerns the use of symbols in literature, the term for “the implied, suggestive, and associational meaning of a word” is…

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Connotation

47
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The best poetry seeks to make [[1]] concrete by creating vivid [[2]] appealing directly to the [[3]].

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1: abstract
2: imagery
3: senses

48
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In poetry, the term “assonance” means repeated _____ sounds

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vowel

49
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In poetry, the term “consonance” means repeated _________ sounds

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consonant

50
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According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” poetry in the Bible forces you off your familiar path into new territory

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True

51
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According to “Literary Styles in the Bible,” good stories always have a character who wants something.

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True

52
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Patterns of syllable and accent

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meter

53
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a template in which poets arrange and explore challenging emotional and intellectual materials

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form

54
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a grouping of lines

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stanza

55
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how line breaks are used

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lineation

56
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A

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