ENGL 1100 Final Flashcards
Politics and the English Lanugage by_______
George Orwell
Dying Metaphors
A metaphor that has lost all power and are merely used to save people the trouble of inventing new phrases
Verbal False Limbs
An expression that is artifically inflated to be longer and more important-sounding than it actually is
Pretentious Diction
Words that are used to give culture and elegance
Parody
An imitation or a version of something that falls far short of the real thing
What are the four questions that every writer should ask themselves?
What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to make an effect?
What are the extra questions a writer will ask him/herself?
Could I have put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
Who gave 6 rules for all writers, and what are they?
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- Never Use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print
- Never use a long word where a short one will do
- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
- Never use the passive where you can use the active
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent
- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous
Who received the 1949 Nobel prize for Literature?
William Faulkner
Who said this and where?
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
William Faulkner in his 1949 Nobel prize for Literature banquet speech
Universal Truth
Something that is true across all cultures and lands
Summary
A brief statement or account of the main points of something
Analysis
The extraction of finer details, and the discussion of them in relation to the content
What is Philosophy of Education? by _______?
D.C. Phillips
“…the second, more technical usage of ‘philosophy’ (and relatedly of course ‘philosophy of education’); this is the sense of the term that would apply to work sone in university departments of philosophy or programs in philosophy of education.”
Who said this, and where?
D.C. Phillips, What is the Philosophy of Education?
‘Philosophy is what philosophers do’, it might be suggested, ‘so let us take a few examples of philosophers at work and base out account on what we see there’. The problem with this approach is easy to detect: How does one go about selecting whom to study? How will you decide who counts as being a philosopher?’
Who said this, and where?
D.C. Phillips, What is the Philosophy of Education?
Epistimology
Theory of knowledge, with regards to its methods, validity, and scope.
Where can you find these two different processes of the way humans construct their own knowledge:
- The individual learner or knower constructing his or her cognitive understandings of the material being learned or of the stimuli being received; for the purposes of discussion, this has been labeled the ‘individual psychology’ focus of constructivism
- The construction of the publicly available disciplines or bodies of knowledge - such things as physics, biology, history, and economics; these are human constructions to the development of which many individuals have contributed throughout the course of human intellectual history. This has been labeled the ‘public disciplines’ focus
What is the Philosophy of Education by D.C. Phillips
Constructivism
A theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas.
Discourse
Written or spoken communication and debate
Hegemony
Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others
Meta
(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
Paratext
The elements that surround or are added to a text.
What are the main topics of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
Dead metaphors
The decline of the English language
The rules we can use to save the English Language
What are the main topics of William Faulkner’s 1949 Nobel Prize banquet speech?
The decline of the English Language
The use of universal truths
Matters of the heart and the effect it has on the English Language
What are the main topics of D.C. Phillips’ What is the Philosophy of Education?
Understanding disciplinary vs. technicality
Individual knowledge vs social knowledge
The way that knowledge circulates
Engaged Pedagogy by ____?
bell hooks
Who said the following and where?
To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
“That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect of our vocation that is sacred; to believe that our work is not merely to share information, but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students.”
Who said it? D.C Phillips (What is the Philosophy of Education?) or bell hooks (Engaged Pedagogy)
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Who said it? George Orwell, or William Faulkner?
George Orwell
What are the three types of reading?
One way reading
Two way reading
Three way reading
One way reading
Reading to understand content, language, and diction
Two way reading
Reading critically and to associate with the text and the material. Posing critical questions in relation to the reading
Three way reading
Analytical reading; makes the connection between the what and the how of an essay/text
What is the difference between a passive voice and an active voice?
In active voice, the subject is the doer of the action, while in passive voice, the subject is the receiver of the action.
Syntax
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
“Paulo Freire and the Vietnamese Buddist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are two of the ‘teachers’ who have touched me deeply with their work.”
Who said it? bell hooks or K.M. Moran?
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
Engaged Pedagogy
Education that involved a teacher who aims to learn as much from her students as he or she intends to teach.
Education that involves a learning environment that is centered around conversation and discussion.
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.”
Who said it?
bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy
“Engaged pedagogy necessarily values _____ ________.” -bell hooks
Student expression
What is the banking concept of education?
The idea is that the student is the receptor, and will simply contain and absorb information. It is the dominant mode of education
What are the main topics of bell hook’s Engaged Pedagogy?
Student and teacher roles within the academy and the education system
Who is able to learn
When does learning stop?
“Human rights are great for society. We appreciate the work the museum has been doing to bring attention to global issues. Unfortunately, we feel it was necessary to cancel our performance because of the museum’s misrepresentation and downplay of the genocide that was experienced by Indigenous people in Canada by refusing to name it genocide. Until this is rectified, we’ll support the museum from a distance.”
Who said this? (Hint: It wasn’t a reading, but something discussed in lecture)
A Tribe Called Red, in a public statement about their distance from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
In Lecture about Engaged Pedagogy.