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English Flashcards

1
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what are the types of plagiarism?

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SELF- recycling your own work GHOST- someone writes it for you and you give no credit ECHO- disguising a source to make it look like your own PATCHWORK- mixing different sources without proper credit DIRECT- taking a portion from a source and copying it into your paper

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what was the roaring 20s?

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a time where everyone was partying and life was good

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what was the harlem renaissance?

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a burst of creativity from african americans

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what was the jazz age?

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when jazz music started to become really popular

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what is symbolism?

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uses something to represent another thing

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what was prohibition?

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the period of time when alcohol was banned

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what was speakeasies?

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secret illegal bars

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what was science fiction?

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fiction based on future scientific or technological advances, major social or environmental changes

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what is speculative fiction?

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a fiction that includes supernatural things

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what is a utopia?

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everything is perfect

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what is a dystopia?

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control and bad, no perfect

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what is a simile?

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comparison using “like” or “as”

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what is a metaphor?

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a direct comparison

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what is personification?

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human-like characteristics for objects

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what is allusion?

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a reference to something you weren’t expected to know

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what is a paradox?

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opposite things that are true (ex: hands so cold that they’re burning)

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what is alliteration?

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the first letter of multiple, repeating words is the same (ex: walker walks on a wet wednesday)

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what are the 3 different types of irony?

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VERBAL- saying the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm) DRAMATIC- watching/reading something where you know something that the other characters don’t SITUATIONAL- opposite of what you expect happens

19
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what were the 3 major outcomes that affected germany because of the treaty of versailles?

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lost land, lost their army, and they had to pay for the whole war

20
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who was kaiser?

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he was the head of the german empire (government) before ww1

21
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what was valkyrie?

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code name for the plot to kill hitler

22
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what was another name for the national socialist workers’ party?

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nazi

23
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what was the origin of “aryan”?

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it was like Iran

24
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what was the allusion of the pied piper?

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that hitler was the pied piper and when a pied piper plays music, people follow. hitler got many people to follow him by just speaking against the government

25
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why was hitler a zealot?

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because he didn’t even care about his own people and the people that killed for him

26
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what is bubbles?

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dialogue spaces for speech or thought

27
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what is a caption?

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text that may include scene-setting, description, narration, ect. but not dialogue

28
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what is a layout?

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the way the different elements work together on a page

29
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what is a close-up?

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zooming in on a part of the scene to focus on detail or create connection

30
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what is color?

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sometimes used symbolically on the page or in pictures

31
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what is a gutter?

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space between panels, in which some kind of transition takes place

32
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what is a bleed?

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illustration not enclosed by a frame

33
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what is a splash?

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illustration that takes up a full page without an enclosing frame

34
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what is a panel?

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each enclosed section of the graphic novel, containing a piece of the story

35
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what is a spread?

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image that covers both pages

36
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what is a frame?

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line enclosing the panel

37
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what are the characteristics of a graphic novel?

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onomatopoeia, pictures and images, plots that can stand alone (not needing another series or book to go along with it), and dialogue bubbles

38
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what was “the veldt” about?

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the kids were psychopaths and they fed their parents to the lions

39
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what was the foreshadowing in “the veldt”?

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there was a bloody wallet, familiar screams, and his mothers scarf

40
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what was “there will come soft rains” about?

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an atomic bomb hits a town an everyone is killed, but this one house is running by itself and repeating that day before the bomb hit

41
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who were the characters in “Fahrenheit 451” and what were they in the story?

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Montag- main character
Beatty- fire chief
Mildred- the wife
Clarisse- the neighbor who gets hit by a car
Granger- in charge of the books
Faber- the professor

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